+ Kivuli, Kenya
The Kivuli Project's is "committed to following Jesus Christ’s example by showing practical love to the people of Ndaragwa in Central Kenya". Kivuli has a holistic approach, partnering with people in their locality and empowering them to use their gifts and talents to the full.
In 2019, with ACCIR's support, The Kivuli Project began and successfully completed the process of reintegrating all 21 children and young people in their care back into families and communities. Kinnected provided intensive and indepth support us Kivuli undertook the transition process, including assistance to navigate organisational buy-in and establish family tracing, assessments and preparation procedures.
All children are now supported and monitored in their families. The Kivuli project are great advocates for the importance of family based care and are working to establish family preservation and strengthening activities.
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+ Help Kids, Sri Lanka
At the HelpKids Education Centre our mission is to focus on the whole child by providing a secure, nurturing, and educational environment for children; a place for children to bloom into responsible, considerate and contributing members of society.
The responsibility for the care of a child lies with the family and community, and as such we work with the goal of empowering communities and families to provide the best environment for their children to be raised.
Helpkids understands that to provide holistic care for a child, their family needs to be supported and strengthened. By building strong relationships with parents, they support, educate and encourage families as they face the challenges of poverty.
The HelpKids Education Centre provides early education and after school tuition classes to assist children from low income families in a community in Colombo.
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+ Mother's Heart, Cambodia
Mother’s Heart is the first and only crisis pregnancy counselling service available in Cambodia. Their vision is to provide unconditional love, medical care and support to women facing crisis pregnancies and to see women empowered with choices, so that they can make the best decision for their future and that of their babies.
Cambodia has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the South-East Asia region, with 5 women dying every day during childbirth. While more than a third of Cambodian women who die from pregnancy related causes die from unsafe abortions.
Through Mother’s Heart, every woman is able to make an informed decision on what is best for her and the future of her baby. It also gives single women access to pre-natal, delivery and post-natal medical care, housing, an allowance, vocational training and job placements, access to day care, parenting classes and counselling.
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+ Global Child Advocates, Thailand
Due to 60 years of violence and oppression of ethnic minorities in Burma, millions of people have fled into Thailand seeking refuge and survival. Children within the migrant population are often stateless and without citizenship or official identity. Lack of documentation puts these children at high-risk of exploitation, chronic poverty, abuse and human trafficking.
Global Child Advocates works along the Thailand-Burma border with the most vulnerable among this population. Their mission is to strengthen the layers of protection around children to prevent abuse, trafficking and institutionalisation and to empower through education and advocacy.
Their projects takes a holistic approach to child protection which not only involves working with victims of abuse and trafficking, but also their families and communities. Strengthening families to be the best defense for children is central to each of their community-based programs.
Global Child Advocates' projects include community-based education centres, a crisis hotline, assistance and support for at-risk families as well as family-based alternative care for children. In collaboration with the Thai government, they also provide temporary, family-style, emergency care for victims of abuse and trafficking with the goal of seeing every survivor reintegrated back into safe families and communities as soon as possible.
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+ Free To Be, Kolkata
In India, vulnerable children are at risk of child labour, child marriage, and child abuse and exploitation. Free to Be exists to protect children by strengthening and equipping communities where they live.
Free to Be works to address root causes to these vulnerabilities that put children at risk and separate families. These include economic challenges, a lack of access to education, limited food security and gender inequalities. Free to Be works with both children and their families, for in order to provide holistic care for a child, their family needs to be supported and strengthened.
Currently it provides Residential Care for Children in Need, Education and Nutrition Programs for children living in slum communities and Empowerment programs for women and children.
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+ Chab Dai, Cambodia
Human trafficking is undoubtedly one of the gravest violations of human rights. With more than 40 million people exploited by human trafficking and other forms of modern slavery, this issue is widespread, pervasive and demands for collective action. Chab Dai is working to bring an end to end trafficking and sexual exploitation through coalition building, community prevention, advocacy and research.
The Advocacy Project aims to strengthen the understanding and practice of human rights in Cambodia at the community and national policy level to protect vulnerable groups from trafficking, abuse and exploitation.
At the community level, this project works directly with police and local authorities to train on how to respond appropriately to cases of trafficking and exploitation and protect the community members they serve. At a national policy level, Chab Dai engage with the Cambodian government by providing assistance with advocacy, training and policy recommendations.
With these efforts, Chab Dai aims to strengthen collaboration in Cambodia between various sectors of society in order to abolish all forms of abuse and exploitation.
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+ Children In Families, Cambodia
Nearly 75% of the 12,000 children living in orphanages in Cambodia have at least one living parent (UNICEF). Poverty and limited access to education are the main reasons why these children are placed in residential care, away from their own families and communities. Children in Families exists to place vulnerable children in loving families.
Children in Families understands that for children’s healthy development, the love, nurturing and security of a permanent family unit is required. For those children who cannot be reunited with their birth parents, CIF finds permanent Cambodian families for children through kinship care and long-term foster care and supports their journey.
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+ Operation Uganda
Operation Uganda work with orphaned and vulnerable Children, their families and schools in the communities of Kasubi (in Kampala, the capital city), Abim District and Opit.
Many families in these communities are living in extreme poverty, working as subsistence farmers or in unskilled jobs. And although there are strong government commitments to child welfare, social services continue to be weak. In response to this need, Operation Uganda is working alongside the Ugandan Government to increase access to education for children and improve the capacity of local schools to provide quality education.
Operation Uganda does this through family case management to strengthen and preserve families at risk of breakdown or separation, and capacity building in local schools to improve the quality of education children receive.
Operation Uganda are creating more stable environments for children to thrive in and reach their full potential!
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+ Sepheo, Lesotho
Sepheo identifies, reintegrates and educates children living and begging on the streets in Maseru, Lesotho’s capital. Out of poverty, Sepheo develops children who live with excellence.
Sepheo are the first point of call for new children arriving on the streets and work together with children and the Lesotho Government in identifying relatives, reintegrating children back into families and supporting their emotional and physical wellbeing.
Sepheo also operates a bridging school called the Sepheo School, for those kids unable to enter mainstream school. The school also acts as a great support network for children and their families, and prevents them from returning to the streets.
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+ Childrens Fortress Africa, Kenya
Children’s Fortress Africa’s vision is to see children and young people in Kenya reach their potential using the unique gifts and skills they have within them.
Focusing on children and young people living on the streets of Nairobi, they aim to see children restored to families, families strengthened to care for and send their children to school, and young people given the opportunities and support required to overcome the challenges they face.
Children’s Fortress Africa see this outworked through a range of activities, including family reunification, income-generation, education scholarships, community libraries, sports programs and advocacy efforts. They are working with government services, families, children, and young people to tackle issues leading to children living on the streets from all levels.
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