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Appropriate Care
Millions of children are living without appropriate care for various reasons such as violence and abuse, poverty, conflict, parental illness, HIV and AIDS, disability and humanitarian disasters etc. Many of these children live on the streets, in extended families, in institutions or in unsafe situations at home.
An estimated 8 million vulnerable children around the world live in poor-quality institutional care that is harmful to their physical, social and intellectual development. Yet four out of five of those children have at least one parent alive who, with support, could care for them.
Millions of children are on the move both within and between countries and very little attention is paid to their care and protection at national, regional or international levels. Children on the move, and especially those who move alone, are extremely vulnerable to violence and discrimination.
Save the Children is working to strengthen the capacity of families to care for their children and support the development of family-based alternative care options for children who cannot remain with their families. We work to ensure children have good quality care, nurture and guidance at a physical, emotional, social and psychological level, getting any mental health and psychosocial support needed.
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Broken Dreams: Central American children's dangerous journey to the United States
Broken Dreams: Central American children's dangerous journey to the United States shares the obstacles and dangers that children and adolescents face as they journey to the United States. UNICEF reports that in the first six months of 2016, almost 26,000
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Children and Unsafe Migration in Europe: Data and policy, understanding the evidence base
The IOM created the Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC) in response to growing calls for better data on migration, and better use and presentation of migration data. The GMDAC regularly produces data briefings on its latest findings on global m
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Working to End Violence Against Children: Save the Children's Child Protection 2016-18 Thematic Plan
Save the Children's child protection thematic plan for 2016-2018 presents Save the Children's goals and targets to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and contributions to Save the Children's 2030 breakthroughs: No child dies from preventable
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Family Support and Alternative Care in the Baltic Sea Region: Background paper 2015
In preparation for the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) expert meeting on Family Support and Alternative Care in the Baltic Sea Region, May 2015, this background paper was crafted from relevant data and information on family support and alternative
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Jozi Lights: How to protect children engaging in rural to urban migration
By the late 2030s, Africa is set to become a continent with more of its population living in urban than rural areas. Not only do population growth trends in Africa suggest that the sizes of those urban populations will be substantial (by 2100, almost half
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Kinship Care Research: Save the Children, Tulinde Watoto Wetu
This participatory research confirms that kinship care is widely practiced in many Kenyan communities as noted through the participatory engagement with communities in Busia County. Cultural practices and ways of life in many communities placed a high val
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Our Home, Safe Home
The Safe Home project started by providing residential care support to daughters of sex workers, but over the years the objective has shifted to identify community based care solutions for those children. The project is located in Daulatdia Union of Goalu
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Children on the Move: Mancala, the Game of Moving
Children on the move are those children moving for a variety of reasons, voluntary or involuntary within or between countries, with or without their parents or other primary caregivers, and whose movement, while opening opportunities, might place them at
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Save the Children Brief: Violence against children is no longer tolerated
Save the Children believes that children have a right to live a life without violence, exploitation, abuse and neglect, and in 2015 it is unacceptable that violence against children still takes place. We know that violence against children is a reality th
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A Sense of Belonging: Understanding and improving informal alternative care mechanisms to increase the care and protection of children, with a focus on kinship care in East Africa
Building upon a Save the Children regional participatory research initiative on kinship care that was undertaken in West Central Africa in 2012 – 2013, Save the Children’s East Africa Regional Office supported a similar process in East Africa, which resul
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Kinship Care Album REGIONAL
This Regional Kinship Care Album is a compilation of the 3 country albums (Kenya, Ethiopia and Zanzibar) bringing together information from children, young people and adults collected during the Kinship Care Research that took place in each of the three c
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The Child's Right to Quality Care: Review of the implementation of the United Nations guidelines for the alternative care of children in Western Balkan countries
This review of the Implementation of the United Nations Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children in the Western Balkan Countries provides information on the capacities and efforts of the Republic of Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina in