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Southern Sudan education Project

Location:

Camps in southern sudan

Number of children who will benefit annually:

2,400 in 10 schools

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

save the children uk

This project is designed to improve education for children by supporting 10 pilot schools and helping them to ensure that teachers are properly trained and motivated and that pupils are encouraged to continue schooling. This will involve elements such as improved budgeting and efficiency

This is a new project, but is part of an ongoing Save the Children UK programme called Rewrite the Future, which aims to improve access to quality education for children affected by conflict. The new initiative will complement other projects and activities working towards the same goal.

Family reunification programme

Location:

TANZANIA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

409+

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

AMANI CHILDREN'S HOME (TANZANIA)

Amani rescues homeless children from a life of abuse and hunger on the streets and gives them a hopeful future. It provides them with healthy food, medicine, a safe home, counselling and individualised education. Its trained social workers make every effort to locate an extended family member who can become a loving guardian and raise the child in a family context.

After such a reuniting, Amani provides the family with the necessary resources to create a healthy environment for the child and to become self-sustainable. These include counselling, payment of school fees and/or provision of loans for starting a small business.

Protecting the Right to Early Child Development

Location:

Angola

Number of children who will benefit annually:

1,200

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

care international (Uk)

This aims to provide child care and protection in an area where the huge majority have no access to child care and pre-school education, only 56 per cent of children attend basic school and 33 per cent are street sellers, beggars or caregivers to younger children.

The organisers plan to build 10 crèches and pre-schools. They also seek to establish and support existing women’s savings groups and self-help groups and to engage with local government to access support for community childcare and pre-schools. In addition, they aim to establish a revolving fund to give loans to the poorest families to pay for child care.

WOLA NANI

Location:

CAPE TOWNSHIPS, SOUTH AFRICA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

3,000+

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

CHRISTIAN AID (UK)

LOCAL PARTNER:

WOLA NANI

This project works with those with HIV/AIDS - primarily women and their children in under-resourced and impoverished communities - providing developmental and caring support services.

Local partner Wola Nani, which is Xhosa for "we embrace", offers holistic community and family support. This includes lay counselling and home-based care, as well as skills training and income-generating opportunities for unemployed clients through craft work. Every aspect is complemented by education and awareness-raising around HIV and AIDS.

The income-generating aspect allows women and older children to provide food, clothing and an education for themselves and for younger family members.

MOBILE CLINICS AND SURGERY FOR CHILDREN

Location:

kenya

Number of children who will benefit annually:

156 from surgery in hospital and 1,000 in clinics

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

Cure International (USA)

LOCAL PARTNER:

CURE KENYA

This project will help disabled children in remote areas who cannot afford to travel to such limited facilities as are currently available. Instead staff will be able to travel to the children's own areas to identify those in need of help, treat those who can be cared for at the clinic location, and transport others to the Cure hospital for major surgery.

The children are also provided with follow-up care via mobile clinics. Real recovery takes place in the home village where Cure trains local health workers and the children's own families. Cure is currently looking to establish an appropriate database for this.

REMOTE CLINICS AND SURGERY FOR DISABLED CHILDREN

Location:

Malawi

Number of children who will benefit annually:

1,000+

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

cure international (USA)

LOCAL PARTNER:

CURE MALAWI

Cure International's programme provides for children with physical disabilities from Malawi and Mozambique to be located at remote clinics and then referred for corrective surgery at Cure's specialist orthopaedic hospital in Blantyre - the only one like it in Malawi.

The programme needs to expand to set up more remote clinics and requires a new vehicle to transport medical teams around the country along with supplies. And the hospital, which currently has two operating theatres, needs another so the programme can continue to increase the number of children operated on each year.

SHELTERS AND DROP-IN CENTRES IN SOUTH AFRICA

Location:

South Africa

Number of children who will benefit annually:

1,000

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

NELSON MANDELA FOUNDATION (SOUTH AFRICA)

The foundation operates nine shelters and drop-in centres for homeless children around South Africa. It aims to provide a healthy environment for the children where their basic physical, emotional and developmental needs are met and where they can develop a healthy positive relationship with adult role models who care about them. Longer term, it seeks to enable the children to complete their education and to equip each one of them with the skills they need to function as responsible, independent and balanced members of society, preferably in the context of their own families and communities.

MUHABBA STREET BOYS' CENTRES

Location:

Khartoum, Nyala and DaRfur in Sudan

Number of children who will benefit annually:

3,000+

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

Red International (UK)

LOCAL PARTNER:

OPERATION MERCY (SWEDEN)

The drop-in centres in Khartoum, Nyala and Darfur provide daily food and activities for street boys, who are orphaned or separated from families, often due to the conflict in southern Sudan. The centres, run by Operation Mercy, provide stability and security for these children, sometimes as young as four years old. They also offer basic medical care along with educational and sports activities.

About 30,000 children, mostly boys, live on the streets of Khartoum and struggle to survive. Aside from a lack of basic necessities, they face threats of police round-ups, beatings from older boys and forced military recruitment.

PROGRAMME FOR ADVANCED TREATMENT OF HYDROCEPHALUS

Location:

UGANDA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

1,000+

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

Cure International (USA)

LOCAL PARTNER:

CURE UGANDA

This programme helps children who suffer from hydrocephalus and other conditions of the brain but lack access to highly-skilled treatment. It involves the first paediatric neurosurgical facility to serve Africa. The programme trains doctors throughout the developing world on a unique surgical technique, Endoscopic Third Ventriclostomy (ETV), which prevents death and permanent brain damage in children suffering from hydrocephalus. It also provides the trained surgeons with the equipment needed to perform ETVs in their home hospitals.

Uganda experiences more than 3,500 new cases of hydrocephalus a year, illustrating the need to train more doctors to handle this problem Africa wide.

REDUCING THE THREAT TO TWA CHILDREN

Location:

KIVU REGION, EASTERN PROVINCE, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

Number of children who will benefit annually:

2,500

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

ActionAid (UK)

LOCAL PARTNERs:

sherika ya wambuti and alpha ujuvi

This project will benefit Twa children by enhancing the survival mechanisms of their communities, which are under serious threat. It will provide greater access to education, water, livelihoods and food.

Gaining knowledge and experience will help children acquire competitive skills and the ability to stand for leadership positions, attain employment and improve living standards.

Access to water will improve hygiene and reduce disease. Children will no longer have to travel long distances to collect water, leaving more time for reading, playing or simply resting.

Greater availability of food will release children from traditional tasks of hunting and gathering and help them concentrate on education.

OPERATION FRESH START

Location:

GHANA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

150

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

AFRIKIDS (GHANA)

This is a rural programme which runs a centre for 400+ children offering primary education, vocational training, medical care and counselling as well as support to their families through the provision of micro-finance, goats for rearing where appropriate and national health insurance. The majority of these children are particularly vulnerable in some way. Many are victims of a traditional practice called 'Sister in Bed' where in order to maintain patrilineage young girls are forced by their parents to sleep with men from the village in order to produce a male child.

MAMA LAADI'S PROGRAMME

Location:

GHANA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

200

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

AFRIKIDS (GHANA)

This is a children's foster home managed by the inspirational Mama Laadi - a former street child herself - for her ever-growing family. Mama Laadi has dedicated her life to caring for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children in her society, be they street kids, children with disabilities, orphans or those accused of witchcraft by their families. The project was formerly known as Operation Mango Tree.

THE SCHOOL OF NIGHT RABBITS

Location:

GHANA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

100

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

AFRIKIDS (GHANA)

This is a night school for children living and begging on the street, which offers high-quality primary education as well as washing, feeding and basic medical facilities.

COMMUNITY-BASED HIV/AIDS PREVENTION AND CARE PROJECT

Location:

ETHIOPIA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

300+

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

CHILDREN AID ETHIOPIA

This project will provide community-based HIV/AIDS prevention and care for orphans and vulnerable children, along with life-skill training and education.

The initiative will also offer material and technical support to local partners (through training and material provision) to enable them to actively participate in the provision of care and support to orphans of HIV/AIDS and other vulnerable children.

The communities in the target areas are actively participating in the identification of children at risk as well as in the service delivery process.

ORPHANS OF AIDS IN LIBERIA

Location:

LIBERIA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

1,000

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

LIBERIA ORPHANS OF AIDS FOUNDATION (LIBERIA)

The foundation aims to improve the lives of AIDS orphans by providing educational services, feeding programmes, healthcare, housing and counselling. It also helps child-headed households and extended families. In addition, it supplies caregivers with nutritional and psycho-social support, as well as helping them in skill development and empowering them into income generation, encouraging them to fend for themselves.

MEDICAL FACILITIES AT THE WEILL BUGANDO COMPLEX

Location:

WEILL BUGANDO, MWANZA, TANZANIA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

10,000

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

TOUCH FOUNDATION, INC. (USA)

This project is designed to improve medical services, notably for children and expectant mothers. The organisers of the complex are seeking to upgrade its medical facilities in order to provide a higher level of care to a greater number of patients, and to support a suitable environment for the creation and retention of highly-trained medical professionals. They are in urgent need of a new outpatient clinic facility since the current one, which serves more than 7,100 patients a month, has inadequate space. They also need to redevelop the medical centre.

AGAHOZO SHALOM YOUTH VILLAGE

Location:

RWAMAGANA, RWANDA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

500

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE (USA)

The goal of this project is the creation of the Agahozo Shalom Youth Village, a residential village for 500 orphan children which will include a full high school, health clinic, sports fields and computer lab.

The AJJDC has acquired the land and begun the construction of the buildings and recruitment of staff for the high school. It is developing a pedagogical curriculum, based on reconciliation and advanced studies, adapted to the Rwandan context. Israelis, including those of Ethiopian origin, will serve as mentors and role models.

The project will provide children with a full community support system and integration within Rwandan life. They will have access to the development of life skills that will enable them to grow to become productive members of the community.

CLEAN WATER PROJECT IN VAKINANKARATRA

Location:

VAKINANKARATRA REGION OF MADAGASCAR

Number of children who will benefit annually:

2,560

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

WATERAID (UK)

Water-related disease is the second biggest killer of children worldwide, after acute respiratory infections such as tuberculosis. This project is designed to serve the poor quarters of two communes in the Vakinankaratra region of Madagascar. The main aim is to increase from 20 per cent to 80 per cent the proportion of people in the area who have sustainable access to safe clean water, sanitation and hygiene education. The focus is on children, women and the most vulnerable. A total of 4,273 people will gain such access, including 2,560 children.

PRIMARY EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN IN RURAL GAMBIA

Location:

GAMBIA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

900

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Voluntary Service Overseas (UK)

VSO is planning a training scheme for primary school teachers in the Upper River Division, based on the success of a similar project in the Central River Division. The VSO primary teachers will work with Gambian teachers (often untrained) in the classroom. Access to higher quality primary education will lead to an increased transition rate to secondary education and ultimately to more educated children who will be able to reverse the cycle of poverty.

VSO works with ministries of education in some of the world's poorest countries, sharing skills and passing on knowledge to local people.

COMMUNITY CARE OF ORPHANS AND OTHER VULNERABLE CHILDREN IN BURUNDI

Location:

BURUNDI

Number of children who will benefit annually:

484

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

SOLIDARITE POUR AIDER LES SINISTRES BURUNDAIS (BURUNDI)

This project seeks to improve children's lives by ensuring the supply of food, clothes, and accommodation, as well as healthcare, education and training. It focuses on taking care of orphans and other vulnerable children in their extended family environment and fostering families.

CHILDREN'S VILLAGE IN SEROWE

Location:

SEROWE, BOTSWANA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

120

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

SOS VILLAGES D'ENFANTS (FRANCE)

This new village is intended to accommodate 120 more SOS children. The organisers have raised enough to build the first third of the project, comprising three family houses and one kindergarten. The aim is to build a total of 12 to 16 family houses and to provide care, shelter, education and support to 120 children.

A VISION FOR CHILDREN IN SIERRA LEONE

Location:

SIERRA LEONE

Number of children who will benefit annually:

500

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Vision Aid Overseas (UK)

The project will provide eye tests and spectacles for children with poor vision, some of whom are currently in blind schools being taught Braille. It has been estimated that up to 50 per cent of all children in blind schools in developing countries could be helped to attend mainstream schools and lead normal lives (including returning home in some cases) if they were given spectacles. And all children helped will have better access to education and a higher quality of life. Ordinary spectacles are likely to help the majority of patients, but some have extreme conditions of the eye which require special help and special spectacles.

STAREHE GIRLS' CENTRE

Location:

NAIROBI, KENYA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

50-60

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

KINDERNOTHILFE (GERMANY)

local partner :

starehe girls' centre

The centre enables some of the poorest of Kenyan girls to attend secondary school. This would not be possible without financial aid and donations. In addition to a free education, the girls receive accommodation, clothes, regular meals and affectionate care. Thus, they stand a chance to get a well-paid job and to avoid living their lives in poverty.

The aim is to extend Starehe's facilities. The centre can currently accommodate 75 girls, selected from among the best of their age-groups at primary school, but there are many more who would like to join the project.

STREETS AHEAD

Location:

HARARE, ZIMBABWE

Number of children who will benefit annually:

180

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

STREET CHILD AFRICA (UK)

This project offers street-based support to street children by providing trusted adults that will listen to them and offer care and guidance. Streets Ahead also operates a foster home for children who have nowhere else to go but wish to escape the deprivations of the street.

Work has continued despite the challenges of the harsh political and economic environment, including hyper-inflation in excess of 1,000 per cent a year and the politically-led "Operation Clean Up" which forcibly removed many street children to camps outside Harare. The outreach programme is vital to children in the city who are stigmatised, discriminated against, and subject to violence from the police, community and peers.

LISTENING TO STREET CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS IN GHANA

Location:

ACCRA, GHANA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

100

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

STREET CHILD AFRICA (UK)

This project addresses disadvantaged street children, many of whom have learning difficulties. It aims to create an environment that responds to their particular needs and to create awareness about children who develop at a slower rate than their peers and get left behind in the state education system. It also seeks to reduce the stigma in wider society around such children and to develop tool kits for educators and care workers.

Since 1995, Street Child Africa has supported more than 700 street children with apprenticeships and educational support. But there are some for whom these programmes do not work - including second-generation street children who have lost touch with family and community.

REHABILITATION OF STREET CHILDREN IN LAGOS

Location:

LAGOS, NIGERIA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

100

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

Y CARE INTERNATIONAL (UK)

local partner:

nigeria ymca

This initiative will provide street-living children and young people (aged approximately 9-17) with a home environment as well as support services such as nutrition, clothing, healthcare, life skills, education and vocational and informal training, thereby significantly improving their quality of life and life chances. At least 30 per cent of the children will be female (a high percentage given that the majority of street children are male).

Many children in Lagos leave their homes to live on the streets for a variety of reasons. There they are exposed to the dangers and violence of street life and are particularly vulnerable to physical and psychological abuse, drugs, sexual exploitation and preventable health conditions.

TAIRIO DAY CARE CENTRE

Location:

ZIMBABWE

Number of children who will benefit annually:

100

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

RED INTERNATIONAL (UK)

local partner:

om zimbabwe

The Tairio Day Care Centre provides a safe place for orphans and vulnerable children whose parents are dead or dying, usually from HIV/AIDS. Some of these children are from child-headed households, and the fact that they are cared for during the day means that their older siblings can attend school. These older children can thus get a good education to make them employable when they leave school. This will give both older and younger siblings the opportunity to get out of the poverty trap. Other children are looked after by ageing grandparents, who just cannot cope with them all day.

THANDANANI'S ORPHANS AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN PROJECT

Location:

SOUTH AFRICA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

1,300

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

CHRISTIAN AID (UK)

LOCAL PARTNER:

THANDANANI

The Thandanani organisation seeks to develop self-sustaining community-based child care and support systems, using volunteer teams, in order to meet the basic material, physical, cognitive and emotional needs of orphans and vulnerable children, particularly those affected by HIV/AIDS. This will reduce their vulnerability to poverty and exploitation, and increase their future livelihood prospects.

Activities include: conducting home and school visits; providing emergency assistance for households; facilitating the development of food gardens, food kitchens and income-generating projects; providing direct access to individual and family counselling; and facilitating child placements, access to foster-care grants and other forms of child support.

MOSES SIHLANGU COMMUNITY CARE CENTRE

Location:

MPUMALANGA, SOUTH AFRICA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

211

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

NELSON MANDELA CHILDREN'S FUND (SOUTH AFRICA)

The centre was established in 1994 to help street children (mainly boys). It remains the only organisation in the Mpumalanga province that provides such children with temporary shelter, counselling, educational opportunities and aftercare services, with the aim of reunifying them with their families and communities. The target beneficiaries are children and youth aged 7-22 who are homeless and living in the streets.

The centre targets boys (there are fewer girls) through active searches for homeless youth on the streets of the surrounding Kabokweni areas. It has a comprehensive adult basic and education programme that is run in-house through the Independent Examination Board.

NAZARETH CHILDREN'S HOME

Location:

YEOVILLE, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

NAZARETH CHILDREN'S HOME (SOUTH AFRICA)

This project aids children who are HIV-positive and are either orphaned or abandoned. They are normally placed by the Welfare Department.

The organisers strive to give the children as normal a life as possible and are proud of the fact that they often defy the odds and exceed their medically expected life span.

They believe this is due to the nutritious food and medication which the home provides, along with a clean and healthy environment. The children go to school and crèche, but also receive lessons in art, horse riding and swimming lessons, go on outings and help with chores around the house.

NEW NATION SCHOOL

Location:

GHANA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

400+

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

CARE AND RELIEF OF THE YOUNG (UK)

LOCAL PARTNER:

NEW NATION SCHOOL

This school, founded in 2004, provides good-quality education for the poorest children from any tribe. It started with 34 pupils but now has about 400 in three departments: nursery, primary, and secondary. The secondary department has recently been relocated to an 11-acre plot of land on which is being constructed a six-roomed block to include four classrooms and two science and computer laboratories. Each classroom will accommodate up to 30 children. This is the maximum at this establishment, whereas other schools in the area typically have an average class size of 75. Resources are non-existent and physical abuse of children is common, creating an environment of fear.

FOSTER CHILDREN'S PROJECT

Location:

NORTH WEST PROVINCE, CAMEROON

Number of children who will benefit annually:

1,600

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

ORGANISATION FOR LIFE (CAMEROON)

This multi-approach project would improve the lives of children in the North West Province of Cameroon in several different ways. It would reduce the prevalence rate of HIV/AIDS amongst children by preventing transmission from mother to child as an integrated part of a reproductive health component. It would lead to more children in school due to an accelerated schooling component, especially for young girls. It would also produce an improved lifestyle and standards of life for orphans of HIV/AIDS through a needs and psycho-social care component. And children would be freed from trafficking, child labour, exploitation and child prostitution through the special protection component.

OTHANDWENI STREET CHILDREN PROJECT

Location:

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

400

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

NELSON MANDELA CHILDREN'S FUND (SOUTH AFRICA)

Othandweni is a registered non-profit organisation aimed at empowering street children and youth within the inner city of Johannesburg through four projects - Basic Care and Human Rights, Health Care, Sport and Recreation, and Entrepreneurial Training.

It focuses on approximately 400 street children and youth aged 7-24, male and female, mainly black and coloured but not excluding white or Asian children. They are mostly from impoverished backgrounds with a very low standard of education. They live in very unhygienic conditions that increase the risks of TB, HIV/AIDS and other diseases. They are often victims of crime syndicates and sexual exploitation.

ORPHANS AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN IN KENYA

Location:

MUMIAS AND KAKAMEGA, WESTERN KENYA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

2,050

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

INTERNATIONAL CHILDCARE TRUST (UK)

The project will promote and protect the rights of 2,050 orphans and vulnerable children in the Mumias and Kakamega districts in Western Kenya.

There are 800,000 orphans and vulnerable children in the region, most of whom do not have access to education, family care and emotional support and who tend to migrate to the streets or move from place to place looking for work, food and shelter.

The vulnerability and poverty of these target groups puts them at extremely high risk of HIV infection and transmission and their opportunities for healthy socio-economic development are extremely limited.

COMMUNITY- BASED CARE FOR ORPHANS IN NIGERIA

Location:

NIGERIA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

500

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

CHRISTIAN AID (UK)

This project aims to strengthen, develop and expand effective community-based approaches to ensure that orphans and vulnerable children have sustained access to essential services that lead to improved quality of life - including education, psycho-social support, food and nutrition, healthcare, income generation support, housing and basic material needs.

The project is also carrying out advocacy on stigma and discrimination, promoting the rights of children and their protection from exploitation and abuse. But it has found that a key issue facing the poorest older children is being able to afford to attend secondary school. Currently, the project does not have the financial resources to provide this.

ORPHANS AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN IN TANZANIA

Location:

TANZANIA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

100

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

INTERNATIONAL CHILDCARE TRUST (UK)

The project aims to improve the lives of orphans and vulnerable children by providing material and psycho-social support in order build self esteem. It seeks to reintegrate most of the homeless orphans to their homes of origin or other safer environments, to achieve empowerment through formal, informal and vocational skills training for self-reliance, and to mobilise community participation and involvement in health care and sexual reproductive health information and HIV/AIDS awareness.

The target groups are AIDS orphans, children living with HIV/AIDS, grandparents who care for orphaned children, child-headed households, vulnerable children living in streets and young mothers.

COMMUNITy-bASED CARE FOR ORPHANS IN UGANDA

Location:

UGANDA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

530

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

CHRISTIAN AID (UK)

ORPHANS AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN IN ZIMBABWE

Location:

ZIMBABWE

Number of children who will benefit annually:

4,000

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

CHRISTIAN AID (UK)

This project primarily provides assistance to orphans and vulnerable children. Two outreach teams make weekly visits to their homes and facilitate group meetings for psycho-social support activities. Direct material support is provided through community volunteers. The teams deal with a wide range of issues such as conflict resolution in families, advocacy for children whose relatives try to dispossess them of their inherited property and procuring legal counsel for children who have been physically and/or sexually abused.

Given that grandmothers are most often the people caring for orphans, the teams find themselves serving as advocates for them too.

INCREASING THE RESILIENCE OF CHILDREN TO HIV/AIDS

Location:

MADAGASCAR

Number of children who will benefit annually:

2,300

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Y CARE INTERNATIONAL (UK)

local partner:

the ymca of madagascar

This is a project to improve the sexual and reproductive health of marginalised and vulnerable young people and to increase their resilience to HIV/AIDS in order to improve their chances of sustainable growth and development. It operates in two areas where there is particularly high vulnerability to HIV/AIDS and other sexually-transmitted diseases.

The project aims to improve access to health information and services in order to increase understanding of HIV/AIDS; to establish youth-friendly drop-in centres providing educational, feeding, cultural, psycho-social, sports and recreational activities to increase creativity, health and well-being; and to build the programme and institutional capacity of the project and project partners.

SUPPORT TO STREET CHILDREN

Location:

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

Number of children who will benefit annually:

5,720

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

CHRISTIAN AID (UK)

LOCAL PARTNER:

HUMANITE NOUVELLE

The organisation Humanité Nouvelle was set up to help street children by organising "informal schools" where they will learn how to read and write and receive human and civic education as well as awareness building literacy. They will also receive vocational training, training in computer, internet and other life skills, and training in the creative spirit, life education and reproductive health and the fight against HIV/AIDS, drugs and violence.

Trainers will initially meet the children on the street so that they can build up trust and establish a constructive dialogue. At the end of this dialogue, trainers will invite the children to come to the dialogue centres and to the informal schools.

WENTWORTH AIDS ACTION GROUP (WAAG)

Location:

SOUTH AFRICA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

300

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

KEEP A CHILD ALIVE (USA)

WAAG provides care and treatment for children and other victims of AIDS. The group was formed by community members who recognised the need to raise AIDS awareness, to advocate for education and prevention, and to care for dying people. It is currently staffed by volunteers who provide home-based palliative care as well as voluntary counselling and testing. They support this through activities such as cake and jumble sales.

KCA and WAAG are working with local businesses and with the Kwazulu-Natal Department of Housing and the Department of Health to transform WAAG's current building into a centre of comprehensive AIDS treatment.

FRIENDS OF THE STREET CHILDREN (FSC)

Location:

KITWE, ZAMBIA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

250

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Street Child Africa (UK)

FSC and its founders have been supporting children on the streets of Kitwe for more than 10 years. They now provide support through four core programmes of street work, refuge homes, child reintegration and community sensitisation.

Their original street work provides children with a trusted adult to listen to, care for and guide them. This is the pillar on which all the other interventions are built. All of the programmes are led by the voices of the children they work with and their needs are addressed through FSC's presence on the streets.

LA MAISON DES ENFANTS

Location:

OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO

Number of children who will benefit annually:

100-200

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

ANTONIANO DI BOLOGNA (ITALY)

This project aims to build a reception centre for road children near Ouagadougou that will provide care, education and vocational training. This will address the increasing problem of children who are unwanted or who run away from their villages to go to big cities. It may also work to reinsert children into their families of origin

This structure will accommodate up to about 100 children. It will provide them with three meals a day and will organise activities according to their age. The structure is designed as an open place in which space will be managed as it would be at home.

EMPOWERING CHILDREN AND YOUNG IN CONFLICT WITH THE LAW

Location:

SOUTH AFRICA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

3,353

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Y CARE INTERNATIONAL (UK)

LOCAL PARTNER:

AMANZIMTOTI YMCA

This project aims to support disaffected children and young people in conflict with the law (those involved with crime or at risk of offending or re-offending). It will help them to develop, gain increased access to social services and exercise their civil and political rights. Over the course of the three-year project, at least 60 young offenders will be rehabilitated and reintegrated into their communities and a further 10,000 will be deterred from offending or re-offending via outreach and campaigning activities. This is a three-year initiative to be implemented in partnership with the Amanzimtoti YMCA.

MALAWI INTEGRATED EDUCATION PROGRAMME

Location:

MALAWI

Number of children who will benefit annually:

812

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

SIGHTSAVERS INTERNATIONAL (UK)

Sightsavers supports inclusive education for children who are blind or visually impaired. Children who are identified as being in need (through screening and door-to-door surveys) are incorporated into supported mainstream education and receive training in daily living skills (personal hygiene, navigation) and in the use of Braille. The appropriate number of specialist teachers are trained in skills to support these pupils.

Sightsavers is planning to build and equip a modern and accessible resource room (for use by 812 children in Chikwawa and Blantyre Districts) for both teacher training and the support of pupils who have visual impairment.

PREVENTION OF CHILD ABANDONMENT

Location:

MAURITIUS

Number of children who will benefit annually:

400

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Y Care International (UK)

The project aids children at risk of abandonment in two deprived areas of the country - Mangalkhan (where it currently serves 122) and Bambous (152). It improves their lives by providing food support to address survival and development needs, as well as quality pre-primary education.

The programme is offering several services that support access to appropriate education through strengthening of families. In addition, the children and their families are provided with food assistance, medical support, psychological counselling, and referral for specialised education.

THE north MERU DISABILITY COMMUNITY CENTRE

Location:

MERU, KENYA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

150+

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

KINDERNOTHILFE (GERMANY)

local partner:

the north meru disability community centre (DCC)

This project aims to improve the living conditions of disabled children in Meru. The children receive therapeutic aid and assistance for their daily lives. By educating and encouraging their families and their social environment, the centre makes an effort to avoid discrimination against the children. The parents are included actively in the rehabilitation of their children. The centre also lobbies for the boys and girls in order to enable them to attend regular schools. Thus, the centre enables disabled children in Meru to become more accepted and less discriminated against and to live more independently.

MOBILE HEALTH AND SURGICAL UNIT FOR ORPHANS AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN

Location:

NKHOTAKOTA, MALAWI

Number of children who will benefit annually:

26,000

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

World Medical Fund (UK)

This project provides access to medical care for children in the remote villages of Nkhotakota, one of the least known and least developed regions of Malawi, who previously would suffer and die unnecessarily for want of prompt medical intervention and lack of inexpensive drugs.

The mobile clinic delivers essential diagnostic skills and medicines to where they are most needed. Each day that it operates, several young lives are saved. One example is the successful treatment of thousands of malaria cases each year.

The clinic delivers real, urgently-needed, immediately-quantifiable results to the most vulnerable - the children who will form the nation's future.

JUSTICE FOR WAR-AFFECTED CHILDREN

Location:

SIERRA LEONE

Number of children who will benefit annually:

2,175

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Y Care International (UK)

LOCAL PARTNER:

SIERRA LEONE YMCA

This project will create a learning environment for 1,000 children and young people in five districts of Sierra Leone to enable them to engage in human rights and peace advocacy. It will also support 2,500 children and young people and political, religious and traditional leaders to take action in promoting child and human rights and youth justice.

This is a new two-year initiative which YCI will implement in conjunction with the Sierra Leone YMCA starting in autumn 2007.

During the brutal decade-long civil war in Sierra Leone, 15,000-20,000 children were the target of forced recruitment, abduction, mutilation, displacement, torture, sexual slavery and rape.

THE CHILD RIGHTS, ADVISORY, DOCUMENTATION AND LEGAL CENTRE (CRADLE)

Location:

KENYA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

950

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

KINDERNOTHILFE (GERMANY)

local partner:

the cradle - the children foundation

This is a legal advice organisation for children, which seeks to protect them against violence and strengthen their rights. It works with other institutions to provide psychological support for abused and traumatised children. Legal assistance is rendered by a nationwide network of lawyers who voluntarily appear in court for the children.

The Cradle, founded in 1997, also aims to raise public awareness of the problem in order to strengthen children's rights and thus to reduce the number of cases of abuse and violence. The organisation was instrumental in creating a law in 2004 to protect children against sexual abuse.

CT SCANNER APPEAL FOR CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL

Location:

Zambia

Number of children who will benefit annually:

600

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Cure International (USA)

LOCAL PARTNER:

CURE ZAMBIA

Cure Zambia is the country's only specialist surgical hospital for children suffering from orthopaedic and neurological disabilities that severely limit their lives. But it does not have a CT scanner (indeed there are no scanners in the country) and this limits the amount of care that can be given. Although conditions that are potentially treatable are provisionally identified, it is not safe to proceed without a scan. This will provide the surgeons with the capacity for diagnostic imaging critical for successful patient outcomes.

DROP-IN CENTRES AND SHELTERS IN SOUTH AFRICA

Location:

South Africa

Number of children who will benefit annually:

100

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Nelson Mandela Children's Fund (South Africa)

The project provides nine shelters and drop-in centres for homeless children around South Africa. The aim is to provide a healthy environment for the children where their basic physical, emotional and developmental needs are met and where they can develop a healthy and positive relationship with adult role models who care about them. Longer term, it seeks to enable the children to complete their education and to equip them with the skills they need to function as responsible, independent and balanced members of society, preferably in the context of their own families and communities.

FIVE AND ALIVE - PNEUMONIA TREATMENT

Location:

Ethiopia

Number of children who will benefit annually:

120,000

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

POPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL (USA)

This provides children with treatment for pneumonia, a severe form of Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) which accounts for almost one in five deaths among children under five worldwide - more than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.

The Ethiopia project is designed to demonstrate the viability of social marketing to create life-saving access to pneumonia treatment for children. Effective interventions to reduce pneumonia deaths are in place, but reach too few children. Drugs are generally available, but not in the appropriate dosage, and not in convenient packaging arrangements or with suitable instructions for mothers.

Ethiopia reported 400,000 childhood cases in 2005 - the eighth largest figure in the world.

FRIENDS FOR LIFE

Location:

ALEXANDRA, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

1,500

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

NELSON MANDELA CHILDREN'S FUND (SOUTH AFRICA)

Friends for Life provides support for orphans and vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDS and other sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs). It also provides voluntary counselling and testing, prevention of mother-to-child transmission and palliative home-based care.

The township of Alexandra has a constantly shifting population, estimated at between 200,000 and 440,000, living under extreme environmental and socio-economic conditions. It is thought that 20 per cent of the population over the age of 15 years are treated at least once a year for an STD, and that 18 per cent of STD patients and 13 per cent of ante-natal clinic attendees have been infected with HIV.

EXPANDING GIRLS' ACCESS TO UNIVERSAL BASIC EDUCATION

Location:

NIGERIA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

2,500

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

ActionAid (UK)

local partner:

Girls' Education Advocacy Group (GEAG)

The project will focus on increasing girls' access to education through increased enrolment at the primary level thereby guaranteeing their right to education. This in turn will assist in ensuring that hawking by girls is significantly reduced or eliminated. It will thus indirectly reduce girls' exposure to sexual abuse and the risk of HIV/AIDS infection. In the long run, girls' education is expected to have a positive impact in reducing maternal and infant mortality among the participating communities. GEAG is a coalition of civil society organisations and individuals promoting girls' education which has been established under the Actionaid Nigeria project for Enhancing Girls Basic Education in Northern Nigeria (EGBENN). This project is being implemented in the states of Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara in partnership with local organisations.

WATER SUPPLY AND SCHOOL EDUCATION IN BURKINO FASO

Location:

VILLAGE OF GOALA, DEPARTMENT OF BOUSSÈ, PROVINCE OF KOURWEOGO, BURKINA FASO

Number of children who will benefit annually:

2,000

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

ANTONIANO DI BOLOGNA (ITALY)

This project is designed to enable school-age children to benefit from a better school system that will ensure the universal right to school education. The school will be built using appropriate criteria (space available, toilets and kitchen indoor). A water supply location will be constructed nearby to reduce the time the children spend on looking for and fetching water and to improve health conditions.

CELEBRATE HERITAGE CHILDREN PROJECT

Location:

VLIBERIA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

950

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

HINDS FEET MINISTRIES, INC. (LIBERIA)

This project provides orphans and vulnerable children with constructive education, meals, life skills and healthcare, as well as a safe environment in which they can live, learn and play. For many of them, this will be the first step out of poverty.

The organisers are currently teaching and caring for 300 children in three locations in the environs of Monrovia in Montserrado County.

JOHN WILSON VOCATIONAL TRAINING CENTRE

Location:

MASAKA, UGANDA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

65-120+

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

KINDERNOTHILFE (GERMANY)

local partner:

african evangelistic enterprise (AEE)

The centre offers children and adolescents in this troubled area the opportunity of learning a profession. Within one year, the teenagers are trained as kindergarten teachers, tailors, plumbers or electricians. The centre can thus help them break through the spiral of poverty and get a job with a secure income.

Up to 120 adolescents can join the vocational programme provided they have finished primary school or are at least 14 years old.

People living in Masaka struggle with extreme poverty, inadequate health care and diseases, often caused by unbalanced diets. Many families do not have a regular income.

THINK TWICE

Location:

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

10,000+

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

CARE AND RELIEF OF THE YOUNG (UK)

LOCAL PARTNER:

THINK TWICE

The Think Twice organisation aims to empower children and young people to make responsible decisions regarding sex and relationships. It seeks to address a situation in which one in three young females has been sexually abused and one in four young people is HIV-positive and likely to die of AIDS. It develops educational programmes geared towards the prevention of HIV/AIDS. These programmes are compatible with the South African National Curriculum. They are now reaching thousands of children and young people a year.

The project requires more resources to develop new materials. These include additional creative and administrative personnel, more office equipment and resources to cover greater production costs.

YAMBIO ORPHANS AND STREET CHILDREN PROJECT

Location:

SOUTH SUDAN

Number of children who will benefit annually:

500

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Y Care International (UK)

This project aims to improve the lives of orphans as well as other vulnerable and war-affected children and young people through the provision of education, basic healthcare and community-based social welfare, including nutritional, cultural, trauma counselling, sports and recreational services. Participants will also receive support to acquire birth certificates, the lack of which impedes access to education and health services.

The work will be based in Yambio County, a farming region in Southern Sudan where there is exceptionally poor access to education and health services and a large population of returning refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).

A VISION FOR CHILDREN IN ZAMBIA

Location:

Zambia

Number of children who will benefit annually:

2,000

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Vision Aid Overseas (UK)

Cedar Family and Orphan Care Project

Location:

Zimbabwe

Number of children who will benefit annually:

2,000+

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Care and Relief of the Young (UK)

Local Partner:

Cedar Family Care

The project aims to equip children and others in rural communities to cope better with the HIV/AIDS crisis. It provides holistic support, including medical, psycho-social and facilitation training, as well as basic education. Camps are held for children and care givers. Volunteers visit with basic medicines. There are an increasing number of child-headed households in the rural areas.

Further resources are needed to support these increasing needs, to ensure that supplies of foodstuffs, bedding and general household supplies reach those most in need.

The Cedar home-based care project has been operating in the community of Westgate in Harare for the last four years.

Change of Life Style

Location:

Namibia

Number of children who will benefit annually:

5,650

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Change of Life Style (Namibia)

This project aims to help vulnerable children, such as street kind and child offenders, by providing them with care, better nutrition, heath support, access to education and the opportunity to dream.

Projects include Operation COLS Care (nutritional support in the Erongo and Khomas regions), Child Justice Centre (starting with the 2007 intakes of child offenders), Municipality Project (also starting in 2007 and aiming to reach 500 kids) and the CFLE HIV Prevention Programme (in 2006 this reached more than 3,000 children).

Children Learn About Environment and Sustainable Agro-Forestry

Location:

Arabuke-Sokoke-Forest, Kenya

Number of children who will benefit annually:

2,640

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Kindernothilfe (Germany)

Local Partner:

Nature Kenya

The project aims to combat the poverty of children and families and to protect the environment. The nature protection area of the tropical Arabuke-Sokoke-Forest, with its unique diversity of flora and fauna, is being more and more exploited by the neighbouring population. Poverty forces them to use the forest as an illegal source of food, water and wood. They secure their daily survival by selling the wood of chopped trees and eating hunted animals.

The project implements measures to improve the drinking water supply and provide health care, nutrition and education, thus giving the children the chance to get a regularly paid job.

Carl Sithole Centre

Location:

Soweto, Guateng, South Africa

Number of children who will benefit annually:

150

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Nelson Mandela Children's Fund (South Africa)

The centre runs a home for orphaned, abused and abandoned children which provides emotional, physical and spiritual care. It also runs a reunification programme, a community care and support service and a day-care centre.

The aim of the centre, which is run by the Salvation Army, is to integrate the children with their families and their communities, and at the same time to improve the quality of life of children and families affected and infected by HIV/AIDS.

Core activities include household visits, family support, facilitation of access to services, skills training and medical care.

Guateng Children with HIV/AIDS

Location:

Guateng, South Africa

Number of children who will benefit annually:

3,000+

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Cotlands (South Africa)

The project provides care and support for more than 3,000 children each year. This includes quality residential care for children up to the age of six who have been abused, abandoned, orphaned and/or who are HIV-positive (42 children), home-based care for children with HIV/AIDS (2,520 children), a children's hospice for children suffering from AIDS (240 children), and a nutritional support programme for children at risk of and suffering from HIV/AIDS (2,400 children).

Bwindi Community Health Centre

Location:

Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, South West Uganda

Number of children who will benefit annually:

1,000

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Bwindi Community Health Centre (Uganda)

The centre cares mainly for young children and pregnant women from the Batwa pygmy population, which before its creation had an infant mortality rate of about 50 per cent. Uganda is described as the "youngest country in the world" since half the population is under the age of 14.

The project's main aims are to reduce the infant mortality rate, prevent mother-to-child transfer of HIV through drug treatment and provide treatment and care for those with HIV.

Since the centre was created in 2003 the facilities have grown from a clinic under a tree to a building with two wards and an outpatient clinic. But more are needed.

Secondary School in Democratic Republic of Congo

Location:

Tete-Ngomba, Sankuru district, East Kasai, DRC

Number of children who will benefit annually:

2,000

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Antoniano di Bologna (Italy)

This would provide secondary education to children in the village of Tete-Ngomba and the surrounding area for the first time, helping to free them from the slavery of ignorance and illiteracy. At the moment they end their studies at primary school level because the nearest secondary schools are too far away. There is no public transport and it would be too time-consuming and dangerous to make the journeys on foot.

Locals estimate that about 85 per cent of local children would make use of the new school and that 75 per cent of parents are in favour of construction.

Cameroon Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Centre

Location:

Shisong/Kumbo (North-West Province) - Cameroon

Number of children who will benefit annually:

5,000

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Antoniano di Bologna (Italy)

The aim of the project is to create the first Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Hospital in central West Africa. The region has a large number of children (more than 150,000) affected by congenital heart disease who cannot be operated on because of the absence of any cardiac surgery centre.

Work has been completed on building structures, roofs, frames and installations for the new centre. It is now necessary to provide and set up medical equipment for various departments, two operating theatres, one haemodynamics laboratory, one intensive care room and one analysis laboratory.

Beautiful Gate Katutura

Location:

Katutura, Namibia

Number of children who will benefit annually:

141-240

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Beautiful Gate (Namibia)

This project seeks to improve the lives of children in Katutura. The aim is to help young people succeed in their education and give them hope in the face of HIV/AIDS, demonstrating that HIV-positive people can expect a good quality of life and can make plans for the future.

The organisers currently have a pre-school of 62 vulnerable children and youth clubs reaching about 200 vulnerable young people each week (not always the same children). They arrange adventure camps for 50 children at a time. Their community work provides contact with 200+ families who they visit as regularly as possible to encourage and take food.

Youth and Conflict Project

Location:

West Africa - Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Ghana

Number of children who will benefit annually:

800

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

ActionAid (UK)

The project targets youth and youth groups from conflict-impacted communities and areas. The ultimate aim is to get youths, particularly children, to talk about the conflict affecting them; facilitate their understanding of the underlying causes and dynamics; encourage and build their capacity to organise and mobilise to engage with relevant state and non-state actors around issues of conflict transformation and peace building through establishing peace clubs; and promote skills acquisition to provide alternative or enhance existing livelihoods.

The project takes place at a regional level to account for religious and tribal loyalties and allegiances which cross national borders.

Support to Children Infested and Affected by HIV/AIDS

Location:

Wakiso District, Kampala, Uganda

Number of children who will benefit annually:

640

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

AIDS Widows Orphans Family Support (Uganda)

AWOFS aims to help children and families living with HIV/AIDS to retain hope, dignity and quality of life by supporting their efforts to live productively and self-reliantly and to safeguard their futures.

It provides basic needs and small grants to child/granny headed households to be able to meet their basic needs.

It also offers legal education and support which has enabled families living with HIV/AIDS to secure inheritance and property rights for their children.

And it provides primary and secondary education and vocational training to orphans and young people, as well as giving them information to reduce their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS and develop health lifestyles.

Vulnerable Children in South African Townships

Location:

Diepsloot, Alexandra, Delft and Orange Farm, South Africa

Number of children who will benefit annually:

4,000 aged one to six; 13,000 aged seven to 18

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

MaAfrika Tikkun (South Africa)

The vulnerable children project was started to address community needs identified whilst undertaking and providing home-based care for people dying of AIDS in townships around South Africa.

It became increasingly evident that main victims of the pandemic were vulnerable and/or orphaned children. It was equally evident that a holistic approach was needed to provide comprehensive care.

This led to the start of the ANGELS programme, which provides educational support, recreational activities, nutritional support, guardianship, psycho-social support, life-skills training and medical support). This needs to be expanded to bring more children into the circle of care.

Village Banking Campaign

Location:

Malawi

Number of children who will benefit annually:

6,000

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

Finca International (Uganda)

This project directly impacts children's lives through better nutrition, healthcare and access to education. It provides loans to the women who care for them, allowing them to create their own businesses and earn additional income. This makes it possible for them not only to feed, clothe and educate their own children, but also to open their homes to children who would otherwise be placed in orphanages or left to manage on the streets. There they would, in all likelihood, fall victim to becoming sex workers or petty criminals or be forced into child labour.

Finca's Village Banking programme currently provides small loans, averaging $155, to more than 19,000 poor entrepreneurs, 90 per cent of whom are women.

AwaaWaa2

Location:

Ghana

Number of children who will benefit annually:

850

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

AwaaWaa2 (Ghana)

AwaaWaa2 works with children with communication disabilities and their families. It offers education and health services, works with other organisations to raise awareness about this issue and provides opportunities for research into language development and language disorders in children in Ghana and Africa.

It is estimated that at least one million of the disabled people in Ghana have communication disabilities. This would be in addition to an estimated 1 in 10 of all pre-school children that experience a communication disability at some point in their early years. Yet only about eight per cent of children have access to any form of day care or pre-school provision at all.



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