Organizations Working on Children's Care

This page offers a Directory of Organizations working on children’s care issues around the world, at a local, national, regional, and/or global level. The Directory is provided to encourage information sharing and communication between actors working in this sector. 

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LAMb International is a Canadian-based Christian organization that provides training, consultation and program development to ensure safety, permanence and well-being for children, youth, and their families. 

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Lumos works to support children in institutions worldwide to regain their right to a family life and to end the institutionalisation of children. Lumos works in partnership with governments, professionals and carers, communities, families and children, to transform outdated systems that drive families apart.  Together with partners Lumos replaces institutions with community based services that provide children with access to health, education and social care tailored to their individual needs.

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Maestral International’s target population is children experiencing, or at risk of, abandonment, abuse, neglect and exploitation. Maestral works to facilitate cross-cutting, comprehensive approaches to child welfare that are locally-owned, adequately resourced, sustainable and well-monitored and accountable.

Maestral International aims to respond to the pressing need to turn this situation around, reducing risk and enabling vulnerable children to grow up to become full members of their communities.

A Global Fatherhood Campaign. MenCare is a global fatherhood campaign active in more than 30 countries on five continents. MenCare's mission is to promote men’s involvement as equitable, nonviolent fathers and caregivers in order to achieve family well-being, gender equality, and better health for mothers, fathers, and children.

 

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Miracle Foundation works to support children and families to prevent separation, reunite children with their birth families, and place children in kinship care and adoption instead of residential care.

National Training's aim is to train and support individuals and organisations directly involved with children, youth and families. For instance: child caregivers, teachers, social workers, pastors, adoptive parents, foster carers and small group home staff. 

BCN is acting as co-convener with SOS Villages International of the New York Working Group on Children without Parental Care of the NGO Committee on UNICEF. The main objective of the Working Group is to disseminate and promote the implementation of the Guidelines on Alternative Care of Children.

UNHCR is mandated to lead and co-ordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide. Its primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees, returnees, internally displaced and stateless children and adults.

Phone Number: +41 22 739 8111 

 

Orphan's Promise is a Christian Faith-Based Organization serving orphaned and at-risk children, helping to keep families together, and creating opportunities for strong, sustainable communities. Their vision is "to meet the emotional, intellectual, physical, social and spiritual needs of orphaned and at-risk children around the world with the Love of God." Aimed at helping hurting families recover and allowing vulnerable children to remain in their homes, Keeping Families Together (KFT) is an intensive program that helps children and their parents learn how to relate to one a

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OVCsupport.net’s mission is to improve the lives of children affected by HIV and AIDS through providing the most up-to-date information on HIV and children to the global community, and connecting community and nongovernmental organizations, policy-makers, donors and other stakeholders in order to improve the global response. 

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