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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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. Jerusalem Children and Community Development Organization (JeCCDO) was established as Jerusalem Association Children’s Home (JACH) in 1985 as an indigenous, non-governmental, humanitarian organization, in response to the needs of children who were left orphaned, displaced or lacked proper care and support as a result of the 1984 famine. JeCCDO facilitates community development process where the wellbeing of children

Jinja Connection is an educational based program for children living on the streets and other vulnerable children in Jinja, Uganda. They are committed to providing quality education, medical care, personal growth, life and decision-making skills, as well showing each child one on one attention and love. Their vision is for every child attending their program to get off the streets and back home with family where they can then receive a proper education and become a positive contributing member of their community.

The Jordan River Foundation (JRF) is a Jordanian non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO) established in 1995 and Chaired by Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah. Main programs include the Jordan River Child Safety Program and the Jordan River Community Empowerment Program. JRF's vision is for a Jordan where solutions are homegrown, where the opportunity to prosper is for all, and where the well being of Jordan's children shapes its future. Its mission is to engage Jordanians to realize their full economic potential and overcome social challenges especially child abuse.

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JUCONI Foundation, a nonprofit organization, was founded in the city of Puebla in 1989 through the efforts of Sarah Thomas de Benítez, Joanna Wright de Serra and Gabriel Benítez. Together they joined efforts concentrated toward a single commitment: to make JUCONI an organization that would attend children in street situations in a professional way. JUCONI works in Mexico to tackle the social exclusion of children and families from poor and violent homes.

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After reading a story in the New York Times Magazine about children being sold into slavery in Ghana, West Africa, John Stevens and Marci Kirk Stevens felt that they needed to do something to help. Their original plan was to start an orphanage in Ghana but after visiting many orphanages in Ghana they felt an orphanage may not be the best option to care for orphaned and abandoned children.They sought advice from national and global experts, did extensive research into best practices, and determined that children should be raised in a loving family.

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Keeping Children Safe is a network of organisations working together to ensure children globally are safeguarded and protected from all forms of violence, abuse and exploitation. They advocate for the universal adoption and monitoring of international standards on safeguarding, build the capacity of organisations to safeguard children and work to advance a global movement of organisations committed to ensure that their staff, operations and programmes do no harm to children.

 

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Kenya Children of Hope (also known as Tumaini Kwa Watoto) was founded in UK in 1996 by Heddwyn & Lydiah Williams and started operating in Kenya in 1999 to address the plight of orphans and vulnerable children in Kenya. Kenya Children of Hope's vision is to see every child in Africa restored into a transformed family impacting their community, generation and beyond.

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. Its 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.

 

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The Kenyans to Kenyans Peace Initiative is a non-governmental organization that was registered in 2006 and thereafter in 2007 registered as an adoption society. It was founded with a purpose of improving the welfare of orphaned, abandoned, vulnerable and destitute children through alleviation of their status and facilitating their integral development.

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Key Assets – The Children’s Services provider, part of the founder led Core Assets Group, is an international group of companies delivering flexible children and family social services solutions.They are a social enterprise working in Europe, North America and Australasia, and they offer a range of innovative, client centred services to government and non-government partners.