Praajak
India
The word Praajak means charioteer, the one who guides and mentors. Praajak are enablers for the young people and the communities they work with to move ahead and forge their own paths to empowerment. Their work focuses on child protection...
KoRoot
South Korea
Almost 200,000 Korean children have been adopted internationally since the 1950s. Today hundreds of children are still being sent abroad for adoption every year. More than 90 per cent of babies put up for adoption are the children of unwed...
Zefie
Germany
Zefie is a care-focused organisation that provides individual, tailor-made support to strengthen children and families. Their work falls into three main areas: Care in crisis: Zefie recruit and train foster families to provide emergency foster care placements for children. They...
Skylight
New Zealand
Each year, many children and young people in New Zealand are emotionally impacted by events that cause significant change, loss or grief in their lives. Children and young people’s loss and grief can impact their later lives considerably; affecting learning,...
Legal Services for Children
United States of America
Legal Services for Children (LSC) provides free representation to children and youth who require legal assistance on matters including immigration, guardianship and education, in order to stabilise their lives and realise their full potential. All children deserve safe and stable...
100% Mamans
Morocco
100% Mamans support single mothers and their children in order to empower these women and prevent child abandonment. Their work addresses a key issue in Morocco where sexual relations outside of marriage are criminalised. Social rejection and stigmatisation of single...
Mentor UK
United Kingdom
As part of the group of charities affiliated with the Mentor International Foundation, Mentor UK promotes the health and well-being of children and young people in order to prevent alcohol and drug misuse. They do this by ensuring: Every child...
Children Assistance Program
Liberia
Children Assistance Program (CAP) advocates for the rights of women and children in Liberia. Its mission is to rehabilitate the lives of Liberia’s war affected children and youth towards sustainable futures. Through its services, CAP creates access to a safe...
CONACMI
Guatemala
CONACMI works in Guatemala, with a focus on the prevention of violence against children and young people; particularly sexual abuse. Guatemala has one of the highest rates of income inequality in the world, and in 2006 had the second highest...
The Mulberry Bush
United Kingdom
The Mulberry Bush School provides specialist residential therapeutic care, treatment and education for primary-aged children from across England and Wales, made vulnerable by their severe social, emotional and behavioural issues. The staff works closely with the children’s families to support...
Enfoque Niñez
Paraguay
Enfoque Niñez supports the deinstitutionalisation of children and developed a foster care programme as a form of alternative care when children need protection and cannot remain in the care of their own families. They prioritise maintaining links between children and their...
Paicabi
Chile
Paicabi has developed models for working with children who have been abused including those who have experienced sexual abuse, social exclusion and commercial sexual exploitation. Paicabi runs 25 programmes in three regions reaching 2,000 children a month with a staff...
Dubai Foundation for Women and Children (DFWAC)
United Arab Emirates
In the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the protection and care risks faced by children include: early marriage, honor crimes, and child marriage; corporal punishment; child abuse; the belief that sex education violates local norms and values; child trafficking and exploitative...
Voice of Children
Nepal
Established in 2000, Voice of Children (VoC) work with children living on the streets, and have increasingly started to work with families and wider communities in the urban slum communities where many children on the streets come from. The goal of their work...
Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Sexual Abuse
Philippines
The Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Sexual Abuse (CPTCSA) has been working for more than 20 years in the Philippines to provide therapeutic support to young perpetrators and survivors of child sexual abuse, and to train foster care...
First Step Cambodia
Cambodia
First Step Cambodia (FSC) works with male victims and survivors of sexual abuse, and their families, carers, supporters and communities. At the core of its work is providing unique training to ensure that victims and their families receive the best...
Community Based Rehabilitation Jamaica (CBRJ)
Jamaica
Community Based Rehabilitation Jamaica (CBRJ) supports children with disabilities and their parents, preventing them from separating and assisting them in staying together as a family. In Jamaica children with disabilities are often discriminated against, and for families that are already struggling to...
Semya Kazhdomu Rebenku
Kyrgyzstan
Semya Kazhdomu Rebenku works to prevent children with disabilities from growing up in residential care. They work closely with local authorities and the Kyrgyzstan government to ensure that these particularly vulnerable children receive the specialist care they need, in loving...
Hayat Sende
Turkey
Hayat Sende strives to reduce the exclusion of children from mainstream society, which is the most common problem for children who leave institutional care in Turkey. Founded by young professionals who were brought up in care themselves, Hayat Sende identifies and promotes new innovative solutions for...
Farm Orphans Support Trust (FOST)
Zimbabwe
FOST supports and protects vulnerable children in Zimbabwe’s farm worker communities. In 2010, 55% of Zimbabwe’s population were living below the poverty line and there were more than one million children who had been orphaned as a result of HIV...
Naba’a
Lebanon
Naba’a supports children at risk of violence and neglect in refugee camps and marginalised villages, across Lebanon. They work to empower local communities so that they can uphold the rights of children and young people; enabling them to play an...
Children In Distress Network
South Africa
CINDI was founded in July 1996 as a multi-sectoral network of over 300 South African civil society and government agencies (non-governmental organisations, community based organisations, faith based organisations, local and regional government departments). CINDI champions the rights of vulnerable children...
Undugu Society of Kenya
Kenya
Undugu Society of Kenya (USK) is an independent national non-profit NGO based in Nairobi, Kenya. USK works to improve the care of children and youth living and working on the streets in Nairobi and beyond. Over the years USK has...
Taller de Vida
Colombia
Taller de Vida (TdV) works with children affected by the armed conflict in Colombia. It strives to keep them safe and to protect their rights. The five-decade long conflict between government forces, paramilitary groups and guerrilla groups has devastated the...
Jordan River Foundation
Jordan
The Jordan River Foundation (JRF) envisions a Jordan where solutions are homegrown, where the opportunity to prosper is for all, and where the wellbeing of Jordanian children shapes society’s future. Established in 1995 by Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah,...
Forum on Sustainable Child Empowerment
Ethiopia
Forum on Sustainable Child Empowerment (FSCE) was established in 1989 by a group of social development professionals who worked in child-focused organisations. Its establishment was a response to the increased number of orphaned and abandoned children in Addis Ababa caused...
ChildLinK
Guyana
ChildLinK gives orphans and vulnerable children who are separated or at risk of being separated from their families or communities a safe and secure future. ChildLinK’s vision is a Guyanese society where every child has the right to grow up...
Challenging Heights
Ghana
Challenging Heights brings unique expertise in rescuing children trafficked within Ghana for exploitation in the fishing industry. In Ghana, fishing communities are responsible for recruiting a large number of children, who are either sold or involuntarily taken from their communities, and...
Uyisenga Ni Imanzi
Rwanda
Uyisenga Ni Imanzi was established in 2002 in response to the high number of children and young adults who became orphans and heads of their households as a result of the Rwandan genocide and HIV/AIDS. Today Uyisenga Ni Imanzi carries out...
Projeto Legal
Brazil
Projeto Legal is a Brazilian non-governmental, human rights organisation working for the promotion and defence of human rights, especially those of children, adolescents and youth. Their focus is the legal and psychosocial care of citizens who have experienced rights violations....
Partnership for Every Child
Russia
Partnership for Every Child has worked in the field of family separation for over 20 years. They focus on preventing loss of parental care for children and ensuring that where children do have to leave, they are protected in a...
Muhammadiyah
Indonesia
Muhammadiyah is an Islamic organisation in Indonesia founded in 1912 as a reformist socio-religious movement based on Al-Ma’un, one of the surahs (chapters) in the Koran. The main value of the surah is to help those in poverty and orphans....
Hope Village Society
Egypt
Hope Village Society (HVS) cares for children in difficult circumstances, orphans who have been abandoned and those deprived of family care, especially street children. HVS aims to ensure that all children can enjoy the right to a childhood in a...
Associação Brasileira Terra dos Homens
Brazil
Associação Brasileira Terra dos Homens (ABTH) works with children and families in violent situations to prevent separation and provide a continuum of care options, including reintegration support, temporary foster care, and institutional reform. Approximately 80% of children in institutions in...
Butterflies
India
Working with street and working children in Delhi since 1989, Butterflies believes in the right of every child to protection, respect, opportunities and participation in his/her own growth and development. Programmes are carried out in 12 contact areas in Delhi...
JUCONI
Mexico
JUCONI works to prevent and heal the consequences of domestic violence affecting girls, children, youth and their families living in extreme poverty and who have been living on the street. Each year, JUCONI’s programme provides direct attention to 350 children from 120 families...