ChildHope

Mon, 03/21/2011 - 11:12

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Based in the United Kingdom (UK), ChildHope is an international non-government organisation (NGO) that provides resources, information, support, and training to organisations working in 10 countries in Africa, Asia, and South America that challenge the many forms of violence suffered by children and young people. The children in question are: living or working on the streets or in slums, in prison or in conflict with the law, exposed to abuse at home or in schools, orphaned or alone, at risk of HIV or denied treatment for AIDS, and/or engaged in the worst forms of child labour or sexual exploitation.

Communication Strategies

ChildHope aims to increase the capacity of each of its partner organisations to respond directly to the needs of vulnerable children from their communities and to strengthen these communities. Through the projects that ChildHope supports, children receive basic assistance in terms of food, shelter, and clothing - and, in addition, long-term support through educational services, legal advice and protection, family reunification, skills training and rights training.

Details about the specific projects ChildHope supports - by country - are available on the ChildHope website, but, in general, its focus areas include:

Child protection
- Providing access to appropriate justice for all children in contact with the law/reform of the juvenile justice system
- Implementing child protection policies and procedures for organisations working with children
- Preventing violence towards children in the home, schools, and community
- Protecting children who are HIV-positive from discrimination
HIV/AIDS and child rights

Promoting children's rights (particularly those who are orphans and vulnerable) at the local, community, and national levels by developing sustainable systems and political changes that address children's rights to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS, and to information, support, and treatment.

Child Rights in the Community

ChildHope works with partners in a number of communities around the world touched by poverty, conflict, and disease to: build mechanisms with young people in those communities to promote and support access to child rights; and advocate for the political framework to ensure that governments are held accountable.

Development Issues

Children, Rights

Key Points

ChildHope's vision is to realise the rights and opportunities of children and young people around the world and to strengthen the capacity of partner NGOs to defend and promote the rights of those children.

"In 2008, ChildHope transformed the lives of 31,696 girls and boys around the world."