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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 their associated education authorities as well as helping them to work together 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:

9,000 plus families

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 Dafur in Sudan

Number of children who will benefit annually:

3,000 +

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

Red International (UK)

LOCAL PARTNER:

OPERATION MERCY SUDAN

The drop-in centres in Khartoum, Nyala and Dafur 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 is currently finalising the land acquisition. It is preparing a pedagogic curriculum based on reconciliation and advanced studies which will be adapted to the Rwandan culture. Ethiopian-Israelis will be serving as teachers.

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 plus families

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)

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.