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MUHABBA STREET BOYS' CENTRES
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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) |
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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.
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REDUCING THE THREAT TO TWA CHILDREN
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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 |
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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.
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OPERATION FRESH START
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Location:
GHANA
Number of children who will benefit annually:
150
PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:
AFRIKIDS (GHANA)
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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.
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MAMA LAADI'S PROGRAMME
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Location:
GHANA
Number of
children who will benefit annually:
200
PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:
AFRIKIDS (GHANA)
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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. |
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THE SCHOOL OF NIGHT RABBITS |
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Location:
GHANA
Number of
children who will benefit annually:
100
PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:
AFRIKIDS (GHANA)
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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.
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COMMUNITY-BASED HIV/AIDS PREVENTION AND CARE PROJECT
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Location:
ETHIOPIA
Number of
children who will benefit annually:
300+
PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:
CHILDREN AID ETHIOPIA
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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.
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ORPHANS OF AIDS IN LIBERIA
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Location:
LIBERIA
Number of children who will benefit annually:
1,000
PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:
LIBERIA ORPHANS OF AIDS FOUNDATION (LIBERIA) |
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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.
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MEDICAL FACILITIES AT THE WEILL BUGANDO COMPLEX
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Location:
WEILL BUGANDO, MWANZA, TANZANIA
Number of
children who will benefit annually:
10,000
PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:
TOUCH FOUNDATION, INC. (USA)
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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.
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AGAHOZO SHALOM YOUTH VILLAGE
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Location:
RWAMAGANA, RWANDA
Number of
children who will benefit annually:
500
PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE (USA)
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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.
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CLEAN WATER PROJECT IN VAKINANKARATRA
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Location:
VAKINANKARATRA REGION OF MADAGASCAR
Number of
children who will benefit annually:
2,560
PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:
WATERAID (UK)
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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.
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STAREHE GIRLS' CENTRE
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Location:
NAIROBI, KENYA
Number of children who will benefit annually:
50-60
Proposing and Reporting Agency:
KINDERNOTHILFE (GERMANY)
local partner :
starehe girls' centre |
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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.
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REHABILITATION OF STREET CHILDREN IN LAGOS
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Location:
LAGOS, NIGERIA
Number of children who will benefit annually:
100
PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:
Y CARE INTERNATIONAL (UK)
local partner:
nigeria ymca
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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.
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TAIRIO DAY CARE CENTRE
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Location:
ZIMBABWE
Number of children who will benefit annually:
100
PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:
RED INTERNATIONAL (UK)
local partner:
om zimbabwe
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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.
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THANDANANI'S ORPHANS AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN PROJECT
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Location:
SOUTH AFRICA
Number of children who will benefit annually:
1,300
Proposing and Reporting Agency:
CHRISTIAN AID (UK)
LOCAL PARTNER:
THANDANANI
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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.
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NEW NATION SCHOOL
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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
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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.
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INCREASING THE RESILIENCE OF CHILDREN TO HIV/AIDS
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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 |
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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.
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SUPPORT TO STREET CHILDREN
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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
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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.
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EMPOWERING CHILDREN AND YOUNG IN CONFLICT WITH THE LAW
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Location:
SOUTH AFRICA
Number of children who will benefit annually:
3,353
Proposing and Reporting Agency:
Y CARE INTERNATIONAL (UK)
LOCAL PARTNER:
AMANZIMTOTI YMCA
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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.
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THE north MERU DISABILITY COMMUNITY CENTRE
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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) |
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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.
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JUSTICE FOR WAR-AFFECTED CHILDREN
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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
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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.
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THE CHILD RIGHTS, ADVISORY, DOCUMENTATION AND LEGAL CENTRE (CRADLE)
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Location:
KENYA
Number of children who will benefit annually:
950
Proposing and Reporting Agency:
KINDERNOTHILFE (GERMANY)
local partner:
the cradle - the children foundation
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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.
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CT SCANNER APPEAL FOR CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
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Location:
Zambia
Number of children who will benefit annually:
600
Proposing and Reporting Agency:
Cure International (USA)
LOCAL PARTNER:
CURE ZAMBIA
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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.
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EXPANDING GIRLS' ACCESS TO UNIVERSAL BASIC EDUCATION
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Location:
NIGERIA
Number of children who will benefit annually:
2,500
Proposing and Reporting Agency:
ActionAid (UK)
local partner:
Girls' Education Advocacy Group (GEAG)
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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.
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JOHN WILSON VOCATIONAL TRAINING CENTRE
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Location:
MASAKA, UGANDA
Number of children who will benefit annually:
65-120+
Proposing and Reporting Agency:
KINDERNOTHILFE (GERMANY)
local partner:
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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.
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THINK TWICE
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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
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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.
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Cedar Family and Orphan Care Project
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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
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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
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Children Learn About Environment and Sustainable
Agro-Forestry
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Location:
Arabuke-Sokoke-Forest,
Kenya
Number
of children who will benefit annually:
2,640
Proposing
and Reporting Agency:
Kindernothilfe
(Germany)
Local
Partner:
Nature
Kenya
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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. |
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Carl Sithole Centre
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Location:
Soweto,
Guateng, South Africa
Number
of children who will benefit annually:
150
Proposing
and Reporting Agency:
Nelson
Mandela Children's Fund (South Africa)
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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. |
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Guateng Children with HIV/AIDS
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Location:
Guateng,
South Africa
Number
of children who will benefit annually:
3,000+
Proposing
and Reporting Agency:
Cotlands
(South Africa)
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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). |
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Vulnerable Children in South African Townships
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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)
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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. |
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Village Banking Campaign
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Location:
Malawi
Number of children who will benefit annually:
6,000
PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:
Finca International (Uganda)
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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. |
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