The Separated Children in Europe Programme (SCEP) is a European NGO-Network of 31 organisations from 28 European countries. The SCEP Network seeks to improve the situation of separated children through research, a shared policy and advocacy at national and regional levels. Age assessment, guardianship and durable solutions are the priority areas of SCEP. All the work of SCEP is based on the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Statement of Good Practice.
The Seven Passes Initiative is a registered Non-Profit Organisation (065-133 NPO) that has been working to prevent violence and support and improve youth education and opportunities in Touwsranten and the rural area surrounding Hoekwil (approximately 30 km from George) since 2008. They are building on their experience and good practice, and growing their work into new communities in the Garden Route of South Africa.
SFAC aims to ensure that everyone providing care for vulnerable children can access training and professional support that is accessible, adaptable and applicable to their own culture and context. They work closely with local partners to help them set up and implement systems and procedures appropriate to their organisation to allow them to provide the best possible care for the children they work with.
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Shakti Milan Samaj's mission is to facilitate health care and ensure access to resources and human rights of women and their children living with HIV/AIDS through advocacy, capacity building, care, support and referral service for treatment. Their goal is to reduce violence, stigma and discrimination and improve care and support for women and their children living with HIV/AIDS.
Shakti Samuha was established in 1996 as a trafficking survivor’s girls group. The organizations' mission is to enable trafficking survivors and women and children at risk of trafficking to be organized, empowered and aware, helping them to contribute to campaigns against human trafficking, protecting women and girls living in vulnerable conditions.
Shamaa is a non-profit NGO Community Based Organization based in Sudan. The organization cares for abandoned, and unaccompanied children. They are working to end institutional care by providing family based care solutions to children without parental care.
In 2015 the world leaders made a decision to establish “End violence against children” global partnership and to eliminate all forms of violence against children by 2030 with the goal of making the following vision a reality: “a world where all children – girls and boys, grow up in an environment free from violence and exploitation”. Violence against children has an adverse effect on the child’s development, health and education. At the same time, it slows down economic development, causes damage to the human and social capital of a country.
Established in 1992, Shungu Dzevana Trust Children’s Home provides residential care for orphaned and vulnerable children in home-like settings. It also reintegrates children within the communities through identification for foster families and adoption parents.
Siam-Care Foundation began as the British organization ‘Christian Outreach’ which was founded to care for those who were infected by HIV/AIDS and their families. The initial work focused on home based family care for the infected and affected family members including relatives and communities, supporting them to care for the sick and for the orphans, widows and others left behind by demised relatives as a result of HIV/AIDS. In 1996 ‘Christian Outreach’ was handed over to Thai nationals and continued under the name ‘Siam-Care’.
The Young Forum is aimed at children and young people up to 25 years, and custodians who have children under the age of 18 and are in some form of social vulnerability. They offer advice and support in different life situations. The staff are social workers and lawyers with long experience working with children and young people.