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DARALUMAN FAMILY HEALTH CENTRE

Location:

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN

Number of children who will benefit annually:

10,000

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

CURE INTERNATIONAL (USA)

LOCAL PARTNER:

DARALUMAN FAMILY HEALTH CENTRE

The centre offers children desperately-needed preventive and acute medical care, access to medicines they would not otherwise have, prevention/treatment of tuberculosis and other infectious diseases, immunisations and testing, and the immediate referral to Cure's hospital if needed.

Cure currently cares for more than 7,500 patients each month at the centre and hospital. Those served include a large number from the neighbouring camp for internally-displaced persons (IDPs) where children and families live in bombed-out buildings. Without Cure they would have no access to any healthcare. One in four Afghan children currently die before the age of five.

WAR-AFFECTED CHILDREN IN AFGHANISTAN

Location:

Afghanistan

Number of children who will benefit annually:

500

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

ACTIONAID (UK)

The project is designed to work with 500 war-affected children and to help to support and reintegrate them by giving them access to education and vocational and life skills such as agriculture and related activities. It will also work on strengthening community-based processes of child protection through local child-protection committees. It will commence once the funds have been raised.

The initiative will build on ActionAid's previous work. It has carried out a similar project elsewhere with 900 war-affected children (including former child soldiers). It has completed two successful demobilisation and reintegration programmes in Kabul and Balkh provinces and is currently implementing a third programme in Balkh.

CURE CLUBFOOT IN CAMBODIA

Location:

CAMBODIA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

300

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

Cure International (USA)

LOCAL PARTNER:

CURE CAMBODIA

This project is designed to treat children suffering from clubfoot, the most common congenital orthopaedic disabling condition in children, affecting as many as one in 500 according to some estimates.

Cure runs Cure Clubfoot Worldwide (CCW), a research, training and treatment programme unlike any other in the world. It is based on a non-surgical casting method of correction, so it is not dependent on surgeons and is thus more suitable for the developing world.

Each countrywide programme provides training and evaluation of healthcare professionals and establishes a network of clinics, as well as providing families with counselling and follow-up care.

STREET CHILDREN EDUCATION PROJECT IN LAOS

Location:

VIENTIANE, LAOS

Number of children who will benefit annually:

1,080

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

CARE INTERNATIONAL (UK)

This project is designed to address the needs of children/youth who are or are at risk of working/living on the street in Vientiane. It will focus on improving the life-skills of children/youth and their communities, increasing access to health and other support services and expanding livelihood opportunities through vocational training and associated job networking and employment support. Care International is working with Friends International, using their combined technical and practical expertise.

IMPROVING CARE FOR CHILDREN IN INSTITUTIONS

Location:

PROVINCE OF MALUKU, INDONESIA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

125

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

Save the Children UK

This project will improve care practices for the large numbers of children that are living in care, many of whom are traumatised from violence and conflict. It will work with institution staff and government officials to change facilities, nutrition, discipline, recreation and routines. It will use children's experiences to develop legislation and policies to meet children's rights and improve the lives of children living in care.

SCUK has been delivering education and protection interventions in Maluku since 1999. Its work is moving away from emergency child-protection interventions and towards strengthening child protection systems within government and at community level.

TAHANAN CRISIS INTERVENTION CENTRE

Location:

MANILA, PHILIPPINES

Number of children who will benefit annually:

30-50

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

ChildHope Asia (Philippines)

This centre provides street girls with basic needs such as food, clothing, medical and dental services and helps them, through therapeutic care, toward healing and recovery from their traumatic experiences. This is intended to lead to eventual reunification with families whenever possible, or referral to other long-term recovery centres. The centre is aimed at girls aged 11-18 who are abandoned, neglected, solvent users or runaways, are sexually abused or exploited or are physically abused or maltreated by parents or guardians. They may or may not have regular contact with parents or relatives.

PROTECTING CHILD-VICTIMS OF WAR IN EAST TIMOR

Location:

DISTRICTS OF TIMOR TENGAH UTARA AND BELU, WEST TIMOR, INDONESIA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

500

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

SAVE THE CHILDREN UK

This project is designed to help children who have fled from the conflict in neighbouring East Timor. At the moment such children are commonly victims of abuse. The Indonesian government has only a limited capacity to provide basic services to children and young people, let alone to protect them. A key aim is to provide both children and adults with increased understanding of and capacity to respond to the risks facing children.

The initiative will build on previous work in the project area which finished in January 2007. The organisers will work with existing local partners to deliver the project activities, using their local knowledge to select staff from local care institutions.

EDUCATION IN NORTHERN VIETNAM

Location:

LAI CHAU, HOA BINH, SOC TRANG, HO CHI MINH IN VIETNAM

Number of children who will benefit annually:

6,000

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

ACTIONAID (UK)

This project aims to provide quality education to poor children from ethnic minorities in remote mountain areas. It seeks to support the provision of basic necessities and equipment, help eradicate language barriers, improve teaching methods and raise awareness among key stakeholders.

While statistics indicate that more than 90 per cent of Vietnamese children complete primary school, the figure is much lower in the target regions, where most people live in poverty. Poor parents cannot afford to send children to school, quality of education is low, the medium used is Vietnamese rather than the local language, and the use of out-dated methodologies makes school uninteresting for the pupils.

CHILDREN AMBLYOPIA SPECIAL FUND

Location:

China

Number of children who will benefit annually:

500

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

CHINA CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS' FUND (CHINA)

The project is designed to ensure that weak-sighted children from poor families across the country receive timely and high-quality treatment. This is provided at CCTF's dedicated not-for-profit clinic in Beijing that is supported by the special fund.

China has a total of about 12 million children suffering from amblyopia (also known as "lazy eye") - a condition of reduced vision in an eye that has not received adequate use in early years. Those under the age of 13 can be easily and successfully treated with the proper care. After that, they lose the best chance of recovery.

RURAL NUTRITION PLAN IN CHINA

Location:

CHINA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

100,000

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

China Children and Teenagers’ Fund (China)

This project is designed to encourage poor children (particularly girls) to attend rural schools by offering them daily meals. This acts as an incentive for the children to go to the school and for their families to send them.

The children come from farming families which are of very limited means. The food provided by the school is often the only meal that the child will receive. This eases the pressure on the family's resources.

CHILDREN WITH CLEFT PALATES IN GUIZHOU

Location:

GUIZHOU PROVINCE, CHINA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

3,000

Administered by:

CHINA CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS' FUND (CHINA)

This project will help children suffering from the cleft-lip or cleft-palate defect in Guizhou Province. This problem, which affects one in every 1,000 children in China, will if left untreated lead to speech problems, language disability and low self-esteem. It can be corrected with relatively minor surgery, which can totally change the child's life. In the cities, most parents can easily arrange for the necessary treatment. But in rural areas such as Guizhou, the cost involved would be almost as much as the annual income for the whole family.

TIBETAN NOMADIC CHILDREN EDUCATION PROGRAMME

Location:

Tibet

Number of children who will benefit annually:

10,000

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

China Children and Teenagers’ Fund (China)

The programme is intended to provide education to children of poor nomadic families in Tibet. These scattered families are not currently able to send their children to school because they are so far away. These problems are exacerbated by Tibet's harsh conditions and high living costs. The programme will raise awareness among these families and cover the costs of room and board expense for their children at school.

STEPPING STONES TO A BETTER FUTURE

Location:

NEW DELHI, INDIA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

300-350

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

Aids Awareness Group (India)

This project aims to help children and expectant mothers - not only those suffering from HIV/AIDS. AAG provides educational, nutritional and immunisation programmes for children with the aim of improving health as well as enabling them to acquire skills in areas such as computing, tailoring, embroidery and other vocations. It is also providing support to pregnant women, helping them to have healthier deliveries and hence healthier babies. These will in turn be supported by the nutritional supplement programmes to ensure that they enjoy good health during early childhood and grow into healthy school-going children who can make the most of education opportunities offered to them.

ANANYA SHIKSHANA KENDRA (ANANYA LEARNING CENTRE)

Location:

BANGALORE, INDIA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

Administered by:

ANANYA TRUST (INDIA)

The Ananya centre works with children from economically-deprived backgrounds, usually the sons and daughters of migrant or unskilled workers. The children, who would otherwise receive little or no education, are housed, fed and educated at the centre, staying from Monday to Friday or on a permanent basis. It is currently home to 60 boys and girls between the ages of six and 18.

The parent organisation (Ananya translates as 'unique' in the local language) is an established NGO. It is slowly buying the land where the school is situated and hopes to own the site outright in five years. It also works with teachers, training them to be better educators.

SCHOOL BUS FOR PANVEL

Location:

PANVEL, NEW MUMBAI, INDIA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

130

APROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

CARE AND RELIEF OF THE YOUNG (UK)

Cry will purchase a new 52-seater bus for its residential children's home near Pune, India which provides accommodation for 130 children from Mumbai and Pune. Many of these are orphans while others lived as street children.

The availability of this vehicle will ease and enhance operations in the children's home considerably.

The proposed bus, made by Tata of India, is of excellent quality and can be maintained by local Tata garages in the Pune area. The home's existing funding from Cry donors will be sufficient to cover running costs.

DALIT CHILDREN'S CENTRES

Location:

ABOHAR IN PUNJAB AND ANTARJAL IN GUJARAT, INDIA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

500

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

Red international (UK)

LOCAL PARTNER:

Omcc INDIA

These centres provide Dalit (formerly known as "untouchable") children with an English-based education using a worldview encompassing human worth, freedom and dignity. They supply high-quality primary education, uniforms and books. They also give education in health and hygiene including disease prevention.

They provide Dalit parents with health advice, including HIV/AIDS awareness and family planning, as well as medical assistance, literacy and vocational training and women's empowerment seminars.

The centres, run in partnership with a Dalit leadership coalition, currently have about 300 students. Both centres use rented property but land has been purchased for two new buildings. These will each eventually have the capacity to serve 480 to 500 children as well as their families and local communities. The schools are now part of a network of 70 schools all over India currenlty serving 10,000 children.

DELHI CANTT RAILWAY CHILDREN

Location:

Delhi, IndiA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

500

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

Railway Children (UK)

LOCAL PARTNER:

ANUBHAV

This project is designed to support the many children who live on the platforms or pass through Delhi Cantonment railway station. The aim is to fulfil each child's rights through providing protection, family reunification, education, recreation, health and participation and hence development opportunities.

Local partner Anubhav, which is led Subash Bose, a former street child himself, runs a drop-in centre and night shelter at Delhi Cantonment and also provides occasional outreach at other stations. In 2006 it contacted nearly 500 children and succeeded in home reuniting 45 of these and in providing education or training to another 211.

SHELTERS AND EDUCATION FOR STREET CHILDREN IN INDIA

Location:

Delhi and Mumbai, India

Number of children who will benefit annually:

600–1,000

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

SALAAM BAALAK TRUST (INDIA)

SBT provides education and healthcare services to children though an outreach programme and through its own shelters, homes and refuges which offer security, a sense of home, and an opportunity to receive all the critical inputs of childhood.

The outreach programme, which runs in slums neighbouring SBT's area of operation, aims at preventing young residents from becoming street children.

The programme is currently providing education to more than 130 boys and girls aged between six and 18. School-going children attend formal coaching classes, whereas drop-outs are encouraged to join the non-formal learning system. Children unable to go to school receive non-formal education.

CHILDREN OF WAR - LEBANON

Location:

Lebanon

Number of children who will benefit annually:

6,000

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

Christian Aid (UK)

LOCAL PARTNER:

MOUVEMENT SOCIAL

This project aims to meet the psycho-social needs of children affected by the war of July/August 2006. It is a one-year initiative, which started in early 2007 and operates across Lebanon. It is designed as an ongoing children and youth-focused programme, complimenting the child-focused activities already being carried out by local partner Mouvement Social.

The project seeks to develop a culture of citizenship and tolerance among children and young people. This involves the production and presentation of a series of short films to provide education on citizenship, tolerance and non-violence, and the organisation of a major event to raise awareness.

LORESTAN EARTHQUAKE CHILDREN'S PROGRAMME

Location:

LORESTAN, IRAN

Number of children who will benefit annually:

20,000

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

RED INTERNATIONAL (UK)

LOCAL PARTNER:

OPERATION MERCY IRAN

The project works with children and families in Lorestan province who are seeking to rebuild their lives after the 2006 earthquake by improving nutrition, education and health. Although many have now moved out of tents, most have lost everything else.

The project has provided food supplies to 1,050 families (including 5,250 children), hygiene kits to 1,110 families (5,550 children), fans for 1,000 families living in tents (5,000 children), and kerosene heaters to 950 families (4,750 children). Vulnerable families will continue to receive food aid.

The organisers have also provided sets of 15 different kinds of sports equipment for 18 schools in the city of Bam (affected by an earlier earthquake in 2003) and plan to provide sets of sports equipment to 10 more schools in this city and another 40 schools in Lorestan..

CLEAN WATER FOR RURAL CHILDREN

Location:

YEMEN

Number of children who will benefit annually:

5,000

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

Care International (UK)

Worldwide a child dies every 15 seconds from water-related disease. This project is designed to support or establish water-user groups in a number of communities and to conduct training in and raise awareness of good water-use practices. This is targeted specifically at children. In addition, the project involves the construction of water capacity for local associations as well as renovation, cleaning and/or upgrading of water-resource infrastructure such as water tanks and wells.

Women and children in developing countries currently spend an average of 4.7 hours a day collecting water and this debars them other activities, including attending school.

HELPLINE FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND SUPPORT

Location:

Jordan

Number of children who will benefit annually:

2,400

Administered by:

JORDAN RIVER FOUNDATION (JORDAN)

The foundation aims to support children and their families by providing a national toll-free telephone helpline known as 110 for Families and Children (110FC) - the first such helpline that families will be able to call for consultation on issues related to their children's development. Children themselves will also be able to call for support and guidance. And 110FC will offer a referral service linking families to existing services, using partnerships with different governmental, voluntary, and private entities

The helpline will thus assist children directly by listening to their worries and concerns, providing them with support and guidance and connecting them to existing services.

AIDS ORPHANS IN HENAN PROVINCE

Location:

HENAN PROVINCE, CHINA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

1,000

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

CHINA CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS' FUND (CHINA)

This project will provide education and foster care for AIDS orphans in Henan Province, which has been particularly hard-hit by HIV due to its experience in the 1990s of the widespread unregulated purchase of blood from local people using unsterilised equipment. Now the government has stopped this practice, but many parents and grandparents are dying. Even if the children are not themselves infected they are highly vulnerable due to social discrimination and poor conditions. They need support, care and respect.

LITTLE FOLKS

Location:

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

500

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

Christian Aid (UK)

LOCAL PARTNER:

MARYKNOLL FATHERS

The project, run by local partner Maryknoll Fathers, targets children affected by HIV/AIDS. It serves about 500 children in and around Phnom Penh. The main aim is to enable children to continue their education. For children whose parents are dead, or too ill to care for them, it seeks placement with extended family members or trusted foster carers. Since HIV treatment is becoming more widely available, fewer children are being orphaned, but many still need temporary homes while their parents recover their health. All children receive financial support and regular visits from experienced field workers to ensure their placement is successful.

Development of AGRICULTURE AND SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS in Laos

Location:

Laos

Number of children who will benefit annually:

120

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Y Care International (UK)

local partner:

ymca northern development foundation (chiang mai)

The project aims to help young people by providing improved nutrition and increased economic opportunities through the building of their knowledge and skills in the production, processing and marketing of local organic food products.

It began in 2003 following a pilot project demonstrating that there was a growing demand for nutritional foodstuffs in schools and local marketplaces and an interest among young people to cater for this market by selling and growing foodstuffs. The project addresses malnutrition by teaching young people and teachers how to grow nutritious fruit and vegetables cost-effectively. Income generated by the students also serves to improve their nutritional status.

AL BASSEL SCHOOL

Location:

BAALBEK, LEBANON

Number of children who will benefit annually:

650-800

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Red International UK

LOCAL PARTNER:

operation mercy lebanon

Three quarters of the children at Al Bassel School are either Bedouin or Turkmen, who would otherwise receive no education. The school provides education to the Brevet (the compulsory government exam at the end of the ninth grade level), which allows young people to get jobs that were never open to them before.

Three quarters of the children at Al Bassel School are either Bedouin or Turkmen, who would otherwise receive no education. The school provides education to the Brevet (the compulsory government exam at the end of the ninth grade level), which allows young people to get jobs that were never open to them before.

PROTECTION AND EDUCATION FOR GIRLS WORKING AS TEMPLE PROSTITUTES

Location:

Bangalore, India

Number of children who will benefit annually:

130+

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Kindernothilfe (Germany)

local partner:

visthar

This project aims to save young Indian girls from sexual exploitation. In the Indian caste system many women belonging to the lowest caste have to work as temple prostitutes (so called Devadasi-women). The project takes the girls out of their villages. They can live on the project site and attend school (which many have never done before). Important awareness training is rendered and self-help groups are established so that the village population may recognize the enormous unworthiness of the Devadasi-system. Besides education in classic subjects the girls can also advance their creativity during dancing and theatre lessons.

COMBATING BLINDNESS IN CHILDREN IN PAKISTAN

Location:

PUNJAB, SINDH AND NORTH WEST FRONTIER PROVINCES, PAKISTAN

Number of children who will benefit annually:

35,000 from screening; 1,000 from cataract surgery

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Sightsavers International (UK)

Sightsavers has developed specialist paediatric units in two provinces, as well as a low-vision unit and a primary eye care unit. In 2006, more than 35,000 children were screened, 390 children's cataract operations were performed and 1,200 pairs of glasses dispensed. More than 200 other eye operations were also performed.

Children who are blind are often neglected and considered a burden by their families. Sight-restoring surgery and the provision of spectacles will provide the unnecessarily blind and the severely long/short-sighted with far better opportunities to access education, gain employment and marry, as well as improving the financial situation of their families.

BIRTH LIFE-SAVING SKILLS (BLISS) TRAINING

Location:

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN

Number of children who will benefit annually:

8,400

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Red International (UK)

LOCAL PARTNER:

OPERATION MERCY AFGHANISTAN

BLISS training teaches mothers, and the women who attend them during birth. Its material covers healthy choices in pregnancy, warning signs during pregnancy and birth, and the immediate care of new-born children. Healthier mothers and quick recognition of complications, followed by referral to healthcare facilities, will result in the improved lives and health of women and children in Afghanistan. This in turn will result in improved infant and maternal mortality rates in these communities.

BLISS is a participatory group learning exercise with lessons on the leading causes of maternal and infant morbidity and mortality.

CENTRE FOR THE YOUTH

Location:

Jerusalem, Israel

Number of children who will benefit annually:

500

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Antoniano di Bologna (Italy)

The centre of Beit Hanina is intended as a meeting point for children from the various communities of Jerusalem. Work has recently started on the first part of the project, including the areas for children. In this initial stage the zone for smaller children will be completed. So for the first time in Jerusalem they will be able to take advantage of a 'small town' dedicated to them and built with their particular needs in mind. The new spaces will be especially welcome to Arab children of the old city of Jerusalem, where almost all the areas reserved for children are used by the more numerous Hebrew community.

CHILD HEALTH IN INDONESIA

Location:

MANGGARAI DISTRICT, FLORES AND OTHER PARTS OF NTT, INDONESIA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

1,000

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

VOLUNTARY SERVICE OVERSEAS (UK)

The strategic aim of the health programme is to improve the health status of women and children in the target areas. The majority of health problems stem from poor nutritional status. Better nutrition will protect vulnerable children from killer diseases such as malaria and diarrhoea and improve life expectancy.

CHILDREN'S LIBRARY PROJECT IN RURAL SCHOOLS

Location:

CHINA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

50,000

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

China Children and Teenagers' Fund (China)

The aim of the project is to establish 100 libraries in the north-western Chinese provinces of Gansu, Ningxia and Shanxi, thus benefitting 50,000 rural school children.

Primary schools in the countryside of China, especially in the north-western and mountainous regions, have almost no libraries, largely for financial reasons. While the central and local governments do provide allocations to each primary school, these are not big enough to cover the cost of libraries. And some of the pupils do not even have the money to buy text books, let alone extra reading materials.

DALIT EDUCATION PROJECT

Location:

India

Number of children who will benefit annually:

750

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Red International UK

LOCAL PARTNER:

OMCC INDIA

The project is designed to supply new and improved school facilities for Dalit (formerly known as "untouchable") children in Katihar in Bahar, Nasik in Maharashtra and Kaukuntia in Andra Pradesh.

It provides the children with quality primary education in English, along with uniforms and school books, using a worldview based on human worth, freedom and dignity. It also provides them with education in health and hygiene including disease prevention, and gives their parents health advice including HIV/AIDS awareness and family planning. Medical assistance is available as well as literacy and vocational training and women's empowerment seminars.

After centuries of caste-based oppression, India's Dalits have recently made strides toward social and political freedom.

These three centres, run in partnership with a Dalit leadership coalition, currently have about 340 students. These centres have been using rented property. Land has now been purchased and they are in the process of constructing new buildings. Each Dalit Education Centre will eventually have the capacity to serve 480 to 500 children as well as their families and local communities. The schools are now part of a network of 70 schools all over India currently serving 10,000 children.

DOOARS JAGRON

Location:

The tea plantations of Debpara, Diana, Palasbari, New Dooars and Katalguri, India

Number of children who will benefit annually:

300+

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Child Relief and You (India)

This project works with the families of plantation workers (almost entirely from scheduled tribes) in the Dooars Tea Plantations. It provides support, nutrition, education, advocacy and medical care.

Children are frequently exploited by plantation employers through payment of abysmally low wages and wage discrimination. Alcoholism and incidences of domestic violence are high.

Children also suffer from acute malnourishment and the number of starvation deaths is rising. Government health and education infrastructures are almost entirely absent.

Heterogeneity among castes and sub-castes leads to caste politics. Incidences of child trafficking and prostitution are high.

EDUCATIONAL MEDIA PROJECT

Location:

Afghanistan

Number of children who will benefit annually:

ESTIMATED 100,000-500,000 VIEWERS

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Red International (UK)

LOCAL PARTNER:

OPERATION MERCY AFGHANISTAN

This project provides the fast-growing number of literate children in Afghanistan with good reading materials and interesting stories. As well as helping to develop reading skills these materials will also help instil values in the lives of the children and at the same time stimulate their imaginations to grow.

The growth of a television- and video-watching culture has also created a need for good, healthy entertainment that has positive life values embedded in it. By dubbing good children's movies into the two national languages, the project gives children an opportunity to watch healthy films, with positive life values such as forgiveness and honesty.

SUPPLYING MICRONUTRIENTS

Location:

Rajasthan and Orissa, India

Number of children who will benefit annually:

8,300

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Population Services International (USA)

This supplies micronutrients to vulnerable children, using the product Sprinkles, which provides microencapsulated iron and other essential micronutrients (Zinc, Folic Acid, and Vitamins A and C) packaged into single serving sachets which are 'sprinkled' onto an infant's food but do not affect taste, smell or colour.

Each year 2.4 million Indian children under the age of five die from causes such as pneumonia, dehydration resulting from diarrhoea, and birth-related causes. Malnutrition and under nutrition are thought to be factors in more than 50 per cent of cases. The prevalence of Iron Deficiency Anaemia (IDA) is among the highest in the world affecting 79 per cent of Indian children aged 6-35 months.

HAUS RUTH - WOMEN AND CHILDREN REFUGE CENTRE

Location:

Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

Number of children who will benefit annually:

300

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

PORT MORESBY CITY MISSION (PAPUA NEW GUINEA)

This three-year-old project aids young girl victims of violence and abuse. The centre provides professional, social, medical and legal counselling, as well as assistance with family reconciliations, education and training and the sourcing of employment.

The project is seeking funds to build additional existing facilities on existing land to increase capacity.

CHILDREN'S HEALTH NEEDS IN MYANMAR

Location:

Minhla Township, Magwy Division, Myanmar

Number of children who will benefit annually:

3,000

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Save the Children UK

SCUK runs community-based child survival programmes in several townships in Myanmar, including training caregivers on early detection and response to danger signs of common childhood diseases.

These programmes involve training village volunteers to assess and treat uncomplicated cases of pneumonia (acute respiratory infection), malaria and diarrhoea, and to refer the severe and complicated cases to health services, as well as maintaining a village drug shop.

It is estimated that 132,000 children aged under five die every year in Myanmar, mostly from the three killers listed above, which can be prevented by low-cost effective and simple methods. This project will strengthen the delivery of preventative and curative interventions.

HOUSE OF HOPE

Location:

Palestine

Number of children who will benefit annually:

50+

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Care and Relief of the Young (UK)

The House of Hope provides care for 20 children with a range of visual, physical and learning disabilities, and a day school for these and other poor Arab children. The organisers are seeking funds for upkeep and to complete renovation work (started in 2006) which will give these children access to new toilets and an electrical system capable of supporting modern equipment as well as premises that are dry and secure.

The house occupies a dilapidated, 100-year-old building. The annex, built some 30 years ago, serves as a school for residents and for disadvantaged children in the local community.

RELIEF FOR POOR IRAQI CHILDREN IN SYRIA

Location:

Syria

Number of children who will benefit annually:

2,250-2,500

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR MIDDLE EAST RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT (JORDAN)

This project aims to help the 500,000 Iraqi refugee children living in Syria by addressing their critical un-met needs. These children account for half of the one million Iraqi refugees in the country, which in turn make up five per cent of the total population.

Although these children are permitted to attend school, their poor material circumstances mean that it is almost impossible for them to perform well.

This organisation has provided food parcels and medical support for hundreds of Iraqi refugee families over the past year or so and is now seeking to extend this work.

LIVING INDIA HIV/AIDS ORPHANAGE

Location:

Hyderabad, India

Number of children who will benefit annually:

500

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

Keep a Child Alive (USA)

LOCAL PARTNER:

LIVING INDIA

The project will help the growing number of AIDS orphans in India. According to current estimates, more than one million children aged under 15 have lost one or both parents to AIDS.

Local NGO partner Living India, based in southern India, strives to educate Indian citizens at home and abroad about the AIDS crisis in India. In addition to education, Living India is dedicated to providing compassionate service and care for those who are HIV positive.

The new orphanage would be adjacent to the Chandrakal Hospital, which Living India has renovated.

RURAL KINDERGARTEN PROGRAMME IN LIAONING PROVINCE

Location:

Liaoning Province, China

Number of children who will benefit annually:

400

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

CHINA CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS' FUND (CHINA)

These kindergartens will serve children of poor families, particularly migrants, who are unable to look after their children or to afford the cost of qualified education or organised playing. So the children spend the whole day with nothing to do.

Rural kindergartens provide a very good way of filling this gap and of providing children with education and fun from a very young age.

CCTF is planning four such kindergartens in the Enshan area of Liaoning. It has already built a number in other areas.

LEARNING DISABILITIES IN CHILDREN

Location:

China

Number of children who will benefit annually:

200

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

China Children and Teenagers' Fund (China)

This project helps children with learning disabilities through the CCTF-backed Beijing Zhiguang special education and training school, established in 1998. This is the first school in its kind in China to focus both on vocational training and on capability development for such children.

Under the current underdeveloped social welfare system, the livelihood of the handicapped has become a burden to the individual families. But the ability of the families to meet these challenges is limited, and great difficulties are being imposed daily on both the family and their children. Society lacks proper understanding towards children with learning disabilities.

MATERNITY WAITING HOUSE

Location:

STUNG TRENG, CAMBODIA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

500

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Care and Relief of the Young (UK)

The aim is to build a waiting house for up to 10 pregnant women in Stung Treng town. It will be adjacent to the one provincial hospital, to which it will provide referral, as well as health education and immediate medical attention. Midwives on mopeds will provide ante- and post-natal care, children's immunisations etc in isolated villages in the nine regions of Stung Treng province, a remote region of extreme poverty.

Currently many women and babies are dying because they cannot get to the provincial hospital in time and have nowhere to stay when they arrive in Stung Treng.

CHARITY MIGRANT CHILDREN SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP IN BEIJING

Location:

China

Number of children who will benefit annually:

1,000

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

China Children and Teenagers' Fund (China)

This school provides the children of rural migrants with a quality education for a relatively low payment - thus helping to fill the gap left by the national school system. Scholarships can help ease family burdens and encourage these good and hard-working children.

The Chinese population flow from rural to urban areas has now gone beyond 100 million. Beijing attracts more than 2.3 million rural migrant workers. But urban schools do not recruit rural children on a large scale. And at private schools they are dissuaded by high tuition fees.

MOBILE MEDICAL VAN

Location:

WEST BENGAL, INDIA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

3,000

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

ANTONIANO DI BOLOGNA (ITALY)

This will provide medical services to children who cannot easily access existing facilities. It will operate daily. It will carry out regular and general check-ups and provide prevention health services, as well as gathering and transporting blood, urines, and other specimens for analysis and pathological tests (anaemia, tuberculosis, malaria, and dengue) carried out in external structures. It will also handle campaigns of diagnosis, prevention and first aid for specific children's pathologies: dental troubles and eye diseases. The organisers will also establish a network of collaboration with hospitals and health structures in the area for logistic co-ordinations, hospitalisations and for the supply of educational materials.

RURAL NEPALESE CHILDREN'S PROGRAMME

Location:

Nepal

Number of children who will benefit annually:

2,500

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Child Welfare Scheme (UK)

CWS serves children in 13 rural communities where it has helped to set up and manage day-care/health centers which provide primary health care and safe havens for learning and playing.

Around 85 per cent of the population live in rural villages. Apart from a small amount of trading, people survive on what they are able to grow. There is little electricity and no roads to the nearest town, usually several days' walk away.

The child mortality rate (for those under five years old) is often far higher than the national average of 10.4 per cent.

PRE-SCHOOL RESOURCE CENTRE

Location:

Negombo, Sri Lanka

Number of children who will benefit annually:

1,600

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

The Shiva Charity (UK)

The charity runs 31 pre-schools in the Ampara District, including 27 that were built after the tsunami of December 26th 2004. Most schools have two teachers and cater for up to 45 children, aged 3-5. One west coast school has 100 children. Each is built to a high standard.

The charity needs a resource centre to produce and store supporting materials - such as educational games, school uniform, drawing and writing books, posters, puppets and dolls houses - in order to improve the quality of education.

It has identified land on which to build (in Pitipana, Negombo), but has no funding for the project.

Pre-schools for Children in Jordan

Location:

Jabal al-Natheef and Jabal Amman, Jordan

Number of children who will benefit annually:

56-64

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

International Organisation for Middle East Relief and Development (Jordan)

This organisation has been running two pre-school education centres for more than 12 years, located within underprivileged and densely populated areas in Amman. Each serves about 28 regular children from very poor families and diverse ethnic backgrounds (Egyptians, Syrians, Iraqis and Jordanians). After two years of education in these pre-schools, the students graduate and continue in other schools. A remarkable number of them perform extremely well.

Today's children are the citizens of tomorrow's world. Their education and personal development are prerequisites for a better future for humanity. Mothers, fathers, caregivers, and teachers are critical partners to promoting a good start in the lives of children.

PRE-SCHOOL SUPPORT PROGRAMME

Location:

Sri Lanka

Number of children who will benefit annually:

2,300

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Hope for Children (UK)

This programme is designed to provide Early Childhood Development Centres which are affordable, offering relief to families in the low income groups and at the same time humane, culturally appropriate and supportive of child development. The curriculum will include mental development, personal and social development, language development, health care and outdoor play activities.

Twenty-three temporary structures were put up in place of schools destroyed by the tsunami of December 26th 2004. When the displaced people are relocated the structure can be re-sited close to the housing complex. Eleven pre-schools that were affected by the tsunami were provided with much needed equipment furniture, and now need on-going support and investment in facilities, materials, training and staff.

REBUILDING CHILDREN'S LIVES AFTER WAR AND NATURAL DISASTER IN SRI LANKA

Location:

Sri Lanka

Number of children who will benefit annually:

250

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Voluntary Service Overseas (UK)

VSO Sri Lanka is working to provide community-based rehabilitation programmes to enable children with disabilities to access their rights and participate in society

Disabled children are often isolated and stigmatised. Occupational therapy will improve the lives of children who have become disabled through war or natural disaster by equipping them with the knowledge and skills to enable them to access their rights and take their rightful place in society.

ROOTS PROGRAmme

Location:

Jordan

Number of children who will benefit annually:

100

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Red International (UK)

local partner:

operation mercy jordan

There are currently four kindergartens that provide pre-school and early years support and education to the poorest refugee families. To encourage the development of a whole child through early child education using the Montessori method of multi-intellectual education, this enhances the children's creativity and motivation for learning.

CHILDCARE PROJECT IN SAMMAKY

Location:

Cambodia

Number of children who will benefit annually:

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Korean Foundation for World Aid (Korea)

This childcare project was developed on the basis that infants aged 2-6 require constant care of their nutritional balance, and that young people need the facilities to learn foreign languages and computer skills which are crucial for their future development. Orphans will be cared for in a separate facility by house parents and will be provided with meals, education and so on. This project will cover the Tropang Krosang commune in the Dong Kor district of Phnom Penh.

SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE PROJECT

Location:

MANIcKGANj AND SIRAGANJ REGIONS, BANGLADESH

Number of children who will benefit annually:

22,500

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Red International (UK)

LOCAL PARTNER:

YCW-HRDP BANGLADESH

The project aims to improve conditions for schools by supplying various types of practical help. These include the installation of fresh water supplies (tube-wells) and sanitation units (toilets), the provision of sets of books for libraries (with bookcases) and classroom furniture (benches, desks, blackboards and cupboards), the construction of flood-prevention works (earth-filling in low-lying areas) and the provision of two-week teacher training seminars.

In 2005 the project helped to improve conditions in 233 educational institutions, raising the quality of life for about 70,000 children and students. Local partner the Youth Care and Welfare Human Resource Development Project operates as part of the Society for International Ministries, an NGO recognized by the government of Bangladesh.

Secure Future

Location:

Jammu and Kashmir, India

Number of children who will benefit annually:

600

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Child Relief and You (India)

This is designed to work for the betterment and development of children and women in these regions, which have seriously affected by conflict. It aims to support and undertake development programmes for the victimised, exploited, and deprived sections of society and to promote and advocate children's and women's participation at different levels of decision-making and in policy formulation, including policies pertaining to children. It makes provision for education, nutrition, housing support, health care, child protection and counselling.

SPRING BUD PRACTICAL SKILLS TRAINING PROGRAMME

Location:

China

Number of children who will benefit annually:

10,000

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

China Children and Teenagers' Fund (China)

The aim of this programme, established in 1989, is to help girls who have dropped out of school to return to the classroom. This is the first and still the largest charitable effort to improve girls' lives and education in China. The ultimate objective is to help every girl realise her right to education and maximise her possibilities.

Over the past 16 years, the project has helped sponsor more than 1,500,000 girls in their education and practical skill training. CCTF believes in empowering women by giving them practical skills and vision for life. So far, it has set up 30 rural practical skill teaching centres in different areas of China.

Nursery School Building

Location:

Ampara District, Sri Lanka

Number of children who will benefit annually:

225

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Shiva Charity (UK)

The project will target children aged 3-5 years, whose families were affected by the tsunami of December 26th 2004, and who still have no proper school buildings or facilities. They will receive free schooling in a quality-built school in a safe and comfortable environment.

Since the tsunami, Shiva has replaced 27 of the 32 schools that were destroyed in the Ampara district of Sri Lanka. All of these new schools are built to a high standard, with tiled rooves and tiled floors, and are furnished with desks and chairs. The requested funds will be used to complete the remaining five buildings.

Stairway Foundation

Location:

Puerto Galera, Philippines

Number of children who will benefit annually:

1,060+

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Kindernothilfe (Germany)

local partner:

stairway foundation

The foundation offers rehabilitation for street children in a beautiful rural environment. Many of these children are victims of sexual abuse and domestic violence. Most of them are undernourished and suffer from diverse diseases.

The foundation provides year-long activities including medical care and therapeutic possibilities as well as formal and informal education to support the children's mental and physical development. The children also receive love and sympathy, probably for the first time in their lives. The foundation offers a future far from the tough reality of street life.

INTEGRATION OF DISABLED PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN

Location:

Khujand, Tajikistan

Number of children who will benefit annually:

85-100

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Red International (UK)

LOCAL PARTNER:

OPERATION MERCY

This project provides early intervention for disabled pre-school children with individual teaching plans. The objective is that each child will reach its optimum physical and metal capability, that families and the community will understand and accept children with disabilities and that children with disabilities will be accepted in to the public school system.

There are 55 children in four classes attending twice a week for a minimum of three months. Home visits and individual child assessments help to set specific goals for each child. Mothers' classes aim to ensure that home and school both work on these goals. The organisers also work with the ministry of education and the medical community.

URBAN CHILD PROTECTION AND DEVELOPMENT

Location:

Nepal

Number of children who will benefit annually:

400

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Child Welfare Scheme (UK)

CWS's urban activities focus on educational and health-related issues of young people and children. Only about 14 per cent of the Nepali population live in urban areas, but the numbers are increasing.

The JYOTI Vocational Training Centre gives neglected and disadvantaged youths an opportunities and a second chance in life. The Asha Clinic treats an average of 50 patients per day - mainly slum and street children. Midway House is a socially supported 'independent living' facility, where such young people get an opportunity to re-enter mainstream society. And the Street Children Contact Centre provides a full range of support to street children to give them access to safety, healthcare and education.

VOCATIONAL TRAINING PROGRAMME FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

Location:

Palestine

Number of children who will benefit annually:

150

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Y Care International (UK)

local partner:

east jerusalem ymca

This project is designed to provide teenagers and young people with training, education and support. This will include work placements and integrated sessions in civic education, life skills, personal and career development, self-assertiveness and psycho-social counselling. The participants will gain the knowledge, skills and confidence to enable them to seek employment and escape a cycle of violence, poverty and disaffection. In previous years, 85 per cent of students have obtained employment within a year of graduating. It is hoped that by the end of the project in 2010 the development of a peace process will mean that levels of poverty and unemployment will have significantly reduced.

WIDE ANGLE

Location:

Manipur, India

Number of children who will benefit annually:

250-500

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Child Relief and You (India)

The project works with children affected by HIV/AIDS, and with children belonging primarily to scheduled tribes/castes. It seeks to provide care, housing, education, health care and family support to maintain orphans and homeless children in an extended family unit.

The objectives are to develop appropriate models of health care and youth- and child-friendly services, to improve health care for marginalized women and children, and to strengthen advocacy towards the enhancement of public health and improve economic conditions and sense of peaceful co-existence.

Acute poverty, ethnic violence, insurgency, urban-rural migration and HIV/AIDS have produced large numbers of orphans and homeless children in the area, with all of the attendant problems.

School for Chechen Children

Location:

Chechnya/Russia

Number of children who will benefit annually:

45-50

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Care and Relief of the Young (UK)

The school provides for children affected by the conflict in Chechnya. Many are severely traumatised and/or injured and live in extreme poverty. The school gives them an education (previously denied) as well as skills and a hope for the future.

For many years Chechen refugee children were educated at the "New Way School" in Armavir, North Caucasus, Russia. Recently many such refugee families have returned to Chechnya. The organisers have purchased and renovated a building in Grozny for use as a school and employed qualified teachers, with support from those in Armavir. The children also receive a good daily meal, vitamins, clothing, shoes and other medical and general support.

Peace Education for Conflict-Affected Children

Location:

Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia

Number of children who will benefit annually:

Estimated television audience of two million, plus taught pupils in 60 schools

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Save the Children US

This project aims to help promote tolerance, conflict resolution and peace building among children aged 5-11. The organisers produced television programmes for broadcast on local stations, promoting respect for diversity, compassion and cooperation and encouraging the understanding of conflict transformation and use of critical thinking skills. These were among the most-watched children's television programmes in these countries and are estimated to have been seen by about two million children and their care-givers.

Funding is required to sustain activity, including the production of further episodes and the introduction of a peace education curriculum in up to 60 schools in cooperation with the respective Ministries of Education.

Project Drishti

Location:

Bangalore, India

Number of children who will benefit annually:

2,000

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Vision Aid Overseas (UK)

This project, which started in 2001, organises eye camps for children in Bangalore and surrounding rural areas. It is involved in screening all school children in the inner and outer Bangalore area, providing free spectacles if required and referring those who need specialist surgery or additional treatment. It has trained ophthalmologists and hospital staff to do this.

Good vision is essential for children to help them in their education and everyday lives. Often it is as simple as providing a pair of spectacles for a child to enable them to see the board at school, play and interact with others.



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