East African Resources -
Child Abuse Prevention
Burundi
Help A Child
https://www.helpachild.org/english
Red een Kind (Help A Child) is a Dutch Christian organization aimed at giving a future to children living in poverty through child-centered community development projects focused on engaging families, communities, and larger society to support children in need.
Where They Work: Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, South Sudan, Uganda and Zambia
Ethiopia
Ethiopian Society of Sociologists, Social Workers and Anthropologists (ESSSWA)
ESSSWA’s centre of excellence is in research and training focusing on social issues like early childhood development, social protection of children in sexual abuse, exploitation and those exposed to street life. Furthermore, social issues related to disability of all ages, gender-based violence and studies on human and social capital resources are its major areas of focus in its annual conferences. ESSSWA has strong networks with social and policy forums working closely with training and research institutions all over the country
Jerusalem Children and Community Development Organisation (JeCCDO)
JeCCDO is an NGO that supports children who are orphaned, displaced or lack proper care and support in Ethiopia, and works to find alternative care solutions for them.
Help A Child
https://www.helpachild.org/english
Red een Kind (Help A Child) is a Dutch Christian organization aimed at giving a future to children living in poverty through child-centered community development projects focused on engaging families, communities, and larger society to support children in need.
Where They Work: Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, South Sudan, Uganda and Zambia
Wereldkinderen
Through local partners in ten countries they work on prevention of family disintegration, return to biological family and foster family in the native country. If there are no possibilities for a child to grow up in a secure family in her or his native country, they offer intercountry adoption services.
Kenya
Alternative Care Alliance-Kenya
Formed in October 2016, the Alternative Care Alliance – Kenya, brings together organisations promoting family and community based care for all children in Kenya
ANPPCAN
ANPPCAN is a pan-African network that promotes child rights and child protection in Africa
Founded and based in Africa, our mission is to enhance, in partnership with others, the prevention and protection of children from all forms of maltreatment, thus, ensuring that the rights of children are realised. This is done through the Regional Office in Nairobi and the 26 chapters across Africa. We are dedicated to stopping all forms of child abuse and neglect in the continent.
CREAW
CREAW was founded in 1999 and registered in 2000 when it began carrying out interventions aimed at creating public awareness on women rights and provision of free legal aid and psychosocial support to female survivors of sexual and gender based violence.
Change Trust
www.africachildrightscenter.org
Stahili
Undugu Society of Kenya (USK)
www.undugukenya.org/
Undugu Society of Kenya (USK) is an NGO seeking to promote the economic empowerment of vulnerable children, youth and marginalised communities for self-reliance. USK works with individuals and communities as well as at the national and international levels to improve the situation of children and youth living and working on the street.
Vision Africa
www.vision-africa.org
Vision Africa is a UK Christian charity, supporting vulnerable and disadvantaged children throughout Kenya. They partner with communities to develop systems that will facilitate desinstitutionalization and empower vulnerable families to take care of children at risk of being placed in orphanages. These might include social work intervention or education sponsorships depending on the family situation.
Wereldkinderen
Through local partners in ten countries they work on prevention of family disintegration, return to biological family and foster family in the native country. If there are no possibilities for a child to grow up in a secure family in her or his native country, they offer intercountry adoption services. They work in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenia, South-Africa, Philippines, China, India, Thailand, Haiti, Colombia
Kenya Society of Care Leavers
Kenya Society of Careleavers (KESCA) formerly known as Kenya Network of Care Leavers ( KNCL), is an organization registered as a society in Kenya by and for adults (18 + years) who spent all or part of their childhood in children homes, orphanages, and or rehabilitation centers.
Our vision is to see empowered Care leavers lead a meaningful life and actively participate in the promotion of the rights of children without parental care.
Child in Family Focus - Kenya
Child in Family Focus – Kenya works to reform the child care system in Kenya to ensure all children grow up in safe families by advocating for family-based alternative care and assisting long term residential care programs to undergo deinstitutionalisation..
Change Trust
www.africachildrightscenter.org
The CHANGE Trust envisions an African society that protects its children in every aspect of life; economic, social and political growth. CHANGE Trust achieves its objectives by: documenting, educating and involving. They research and document stories of impact and best practice, educate and inform the policy makers, and involve and dignify the children and community workers in child welfare. CHANGE Trust offers professional adoption and foster care placement services and runs projects in child protection designed to educate and inform leaders how to include children.
Alternative Care Alliance-Kenya
Alternative Care – Kenya, brings together organisations promoting family and community based care for all children in Kenya through the implementation of the Guidelines for the Alternative Family Care of Children in Kenya and other relevant legislation and policies.
Ruwanda
Uyisenga Ni Imanzi
https://familyforeverychild.org/who-we-are/members/uyisenga-ni-imanzi/
Uyisenga Ni Imanzi is a Rwandan organization that helps vulnerable children and youth, especially those affected by the genocide and HIV/AIDS to rebuild their lives. UNM’s mission is to respond and contribute to the rehabilitation of orphans of genocide responding to their needs through counselling, capacity building and support to local initiatives in social economic development, direct assistance, medical care, education and training, empowering them to be involved in a process of solving their problems and participating in the country recovery and development.
Ubumwe Community Center
The Ubumwe Community Center is a local organization based in Rwanda set up to help persons with disabilities find their abilities and is now becoming an inclusive community through their pre-school and primary school, and Community Based Living program for children and young adults with severe disabilities
Help A Child
https://www.helpachild.org/english
Red een Kind (Help A Child) is a Dutch Christian organization aimed at giving a future to children living in poverty through child-centered community development projects focused on engaging families, communities, and larger society to support children in need.
Help a Child works in : Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, South Sudan, Uganda and Zambia
South Sudan
Child Rights Civil Society Coalition (CRC)
The Child Rights Civil Society Coalition (CRC) is a voluntary network of South Sudanese Civil Society Organizations committed to ensuring that all children fully enjoy their rights as defined by the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Child Rights Coalition provides a coordinated platform for CSOs action and plays a central role in key child rights developments at the state and national level in South Sudan. The Coalition's mission is to initiate and influence policies and actions to promote, protect and respect the rights of children in South Sudan.
Tanzania
Child Watch Tanzania
Child Watch is a Non Governmental Organization registered in Tanzania with the focus of safeguarding children's rights through ending child trafficking and its associated impacts like child labour, child sex exploitation, early marriage, GBV and all other forms of violence against children in Tanzania. With an interest of safeguarding children's rights in the community.
Community for Children's Rights
Violence against children will prevent Tanzania achieving its development goals. CCR addresses violence against children by enabling people to do the right thing, and explicitly addresses the issue of violence and child protection through the perspective of democratic governance.
Kingdom Families
www.kingdomfamiliestanzania.org
Kingdom Families is a Christian Faith-Based Organization that began in 2014 as a program under the non-profit Global-Effect Ministries. Kingdom Families focuses on empowering and facilitating the local Tanzanian church to care for orphans, to engage their communities and welcome kids into their own families. Kingdom Families has three branches of ministry: Advocacy/Training, Family-Based Services and Adoption Support. Their Family-Based Services include promoting kids to be in families through family preservation, reunification and foster care and adoption.
Tanzania Child Rights Forum
www.childrightsforum.org
Tanzania Child Rights Forum (TCRF) is a platform with open membership committed to credibly support the fulfilment of children’s rights in Tanzania. Formed in 2009 along with Law of the Child Act 2009, the TCRF has reached about 85 Tanzanian Civil Society Organisation (CSOs) working on Child Rights issues across the country in Tanzania to date. The TCRF intends to take lead in coordinating CSO initiatives to support the Government in its efforts to implement the Law of the Child Act, international child rights instruments and the recommendations of international child rights treaty bodies to Tanzania.
Victoria Research Bureau (VRB) Ltd
www.childrightsforum.org
Tanzania Child Rights Forum (TCRF) is a platform with open membership committed to credibly support the fulfilment of children’s rights in Tanzania. Formed in 2009 along with Law of the Child Act 2009, the TCRF has reached about 85 Tanzanian Civil Society Organisation (CSOs) working on Child Rights issues across the country in Tanzania to date. The TCRF intends to take lead in coordinating CSO initiatives to support the Government in its efforts to implement the Law of the Child Act, international child rights instruments and the recommendations of international child rights treaty bodies to Tanzania.
Uganda
Abide Family Center
Abide Family Center is located in Jinja, Uganda. Abide Family Center's goal is to reduce the number of children living in orphanages in Uganda. The organization offers direct services to families at risk.
AAPECA
https://www.girlsnotbrides.org/members/aapeca/
Based in Nigeria, (with offices in Uganda) the African Association for Prevention of Elders and Child Abuse (AAPECA) works on the front lines to raise awareness and prevent the abuse, exploitation and neglect of elders and children. The organisation moreover provides education relating to maternal and new-born health, and informs communities about the dangers of child marriage.
Alternative Care Initiatives Uganda
www.alternative-care-initiatives.org
Alternative Care Initiatives is a small NGO established to respond to the growing need in Uganda to support government and civil society organisations to develop and implement Alternative Care solutions, i.e. family-based placements for children outside of parental care, in line with the Ugandan Children's Act, the Alternative Care Framework and international best practices for child care placements.
BULA
BULA's mission is to empower children and youth in vulnerable situations by improving access to quality education, by strengthening families, and by facilitating a platform of support and dialogue among, and for, young people. BULA also believes that by breaking the cycle of institutionalization, by supporting the alternative care framework, and by providing support to young people transitioning out of care, they can reduce vulnerability and strengthen their educational support initiatives.
Child's i Foundation
www.childsifoundation.org
Child's i Foundation creates change by reimagining care, rebuilding family support systems and repurposing orphanages in communities so that every child grows up safe in a loving family.
Children on the Edge
www.childrenontheedge.org
Children on the Edge exists to help marginalised and forgotten children, who are living on the edge of their societies. These are children without parental care, neglected or persecuted by their governments, ignored by international media and missed by large overseas agencies. Their work includes providing education to refugee Rohingya children in Bangladesh, many of whom are separated from, or have lost, their parents. They work in India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Lebanon, Uganda
Kids Club Kampala
http://www.kidsclubkampala.org/
Kids Club Kampala is a community-led organization seeking to empower vulnerable children and their families and reduce poverty in Kampala, Uganda. Kids Club Kampala offers various programs catering to the needs and suggestions of the communities they work in, focusing on children and teens, women, and their families.
TPO Uganda
www.tpoug.org
TPO Uganda supports and partners with civil society organisations and government to empower communities with the skills and tools they need to effectively address their problems.
Uganda Child Rights NGO Network (UCRNN)
Uganda Child Rights NGO Network (UCRNN) is a coalition of child-focused organizations comprising of community based, national and international non-governmental organizations advocating for the rights of children in Uganda.
Youth Alive Uganda
Youth Alive Uganda (YAU) was started by a group of youth under the guidance of Sr. Dr. Miriam Duggan in Kamwokya, a Kampala suburb which was severely affected by a diversity of social and health problems, chief among them HIV&AIDS. We believe that young people and the entire communities have the inherent capacity to change attitudes and behavior. The power to fulfill this capacity is often denied or is not exercised. This power must now be recognized, called forth and supported from within and without. This will enable young people to initiate change and sustain behavior that promotes a healthy state of mind, body, spirit and environment. A critical component in this process is a supportive response to the most vulnerable young people.
Zambia
Help A Child
https://www.helpachild.org/english
Red een Kind (Help A Child) is a Dutch Christian organization aimed at giving a future to children living in poverty through child-centered community development projects focused on engaging families, communities, and larger society to support children in need.
Help a Child works in : Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, South Sudan, Uganda and Zambia
Zimbabwe
ANPPCAN
ANPPCAN is a Pan-African network that promotes child rights and child protection in Africa. It was founded in 1986 in Enugu, Nigeria at the first Child Labour Conference. The organization has national chapters in 26 African countries and is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya.
Our mission is to create and enhance partnerships and other opportunities for the prevention and protection of children from all forms of maltreatment, thus ensuring the realization of children’s rights.
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Farm Orphan Support Trust (FOST)
FOST enables effective, community-based protection systems in remote areas and safeguarding children who are affected by HIV and AIDS, while also promoting kinship and informal community fostering for girls and boys whose parent(s) have died.
They work with a range of district governments to promote the rights of children and families. They ensure that children can grow up with their siblings in a familiar environment and provide access to education, food security, vocational training, psychosocial support, home-based care, self-help business groups and child-led protection committees.
Hands Of Hope
There are four major avenues where we focus to accomplish our vision which make up our practical mission to care for the orphaned and at-risk children in Zimbabwe. These avenues are Homes, Transformation Centres, Habitation of Hope, and Child Sponsorships.
Save The Children
https://www.savethechildren.org/us/what-we-do/where-we-work/africa/zimbabwe
Save the Children has supported programs in Zimbabwe since 1984. We serve children and families through humanitarian relief and long-term development, working to help communities rebuild their economy and their lives. We also help Zimbabwe’s children access quality healthcare, education, protection and nutrition services so that they can not only survive, but also live to build a better future for themselves and their families.