Child Aid - AfricaChild Aid and Community Development
More than half of the world's children live in absolute poverty. They have no access to clean water, schooling or sufficient food. One out of every four children born in Sub Saharan Africa dies before the age of five. Much is needed to secure a good life for the next generation, with health and education, protected by basic human rights and the ability and opportunity to be active in the political, social, cultural and economic sphere of society.
Child Aid projects started in 1990. Today there are twenty projects reaching more than 500,000 people. Child Aid targets the families in an area and mobilizes them to take part in a long term plan whereby they, step by step, will be able to change their conditions - capacity building and help to self-help. Child Aid works with ten lines of development. Eight are similar in all Child Aid projects - two are locally identified. Within each line there are many different activities - created and implemented to fit local conditions.
The eight lines of work in Child Aid are:
1. Strengthening the economy of the family
2. Health, hygiene - hereunder HOPE
3. Preschools
4. Children as active in the social, political, cultural and economic sphere of society
5. Children without parents
6. Education
7. District development
8. Environment
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 Humana Annual Report
First of all the children are fully included when we say ‘people’: in the committees, in full swing with their education, as trainers of peers, as activists in many different issues. |
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