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New: listen to former international cricketer Henry Olonga talk about his experience of street children and the vision of 180 degrees
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 Recent news Toybox have launched a new campaign called The Big Dream - which is based around the dreams of street children and the Millennium Development Goals. What is it all about? Toybox asked the street children that we work with in Latin America what their hopes and dreams are for the future. They said they want to be safe, to graduate from high school, that their families would be healthy and have enough to eat. We need to take action to ask governments to make the dreams come true by recommitting to the Millennium Development Goals. In September 2010, the UK government will be meeting with the leaders of the richest countries in the world to review progress towards these Goals. The MDGs are a set of eight commitments around poverty, education, healthcare and other key issues. In order to be possible, each country needs to give just 0.7% of their income to overseas development. At the moment the UK is giving just 0.48%. This isn't good enough and we are calling for the promise to be kept. The goal is to get at least 2015 people signed up to The Big Dream by September this year (to match the fact that the MDG deadline is 2015).
2. Five Year Strategy Overview 180 Announces Five Year Strategy - click here to read a summary of the strategy [PDF].
3. Brazil Keeping Children Safe Training a Success November, 2009. As the result of collaboration between the 180º Alliance, Mãos Dadas Network and Tearfund, 65 children at risk workers from 40 organisations from throughout Brazil have been trained in child protection at two 'Keeping Children Safe' workshops in Viçosa and Recife. The training helped participants understand how to design and implement a child protection policy and covered topics such as child development, child theology, HIV/AIDS, advocacy and child sexual abuse. One of the objectives was for organisations to be able to write a plan of action that would enable their own organisation to better protect children. The workshops were facilitated by Lissânder Dias, executive of Mãos Dadas Network team and Débora de Arco, Tearfund expert in children at risk in Latin America. The workshops lasted for four days and took place in Viçosa from the 20th to 23rd of October and from the 27th to the 30th of October in Recife.
In Viçosa, 29 people representing 22 organizations took part in the training. According to the evaluation, participants said the workshop had helped them understand the issue of child protection better and inform their own practice. In Recife, 35 people from 22 different organizations participated. Some are responsible for small projects in the interior of Northeast, as the case of Marlene Morais and Fábio Prudêncio, from Desafio Criança (Children’s Challenge), in the city of Caruaru. They have a house for boys who come from the streets and at-risk situations. They are also part of the Network which 180 Alliance is facilitating in the Metropolitan area of Recife. Fábio said, "We have already been doing some of what we learnt about at this training, but had never had anything in writing or been given clear standards to follow." At the end of each workshop, all the participants signed a declaration committing themselves and their organisation to join the battle to protect children. They also committed themselves to making child protection an urgent and serious matter and make every effort to ensure their own organisation held and lived out their child protection policy. Following these workshops, a working group was formed by representatives from 5 different organizations: 180º Alliance, Pepe Network, Mãos Dadas Network, World Vision-Brazil and Tearfund. This group will work together to support the organisations putting into practice what they have learnt and monitor and evaluate the outcomes of the workshop. They will also plan how the training can be extended to other projects and for the complete kit to be translated into Portuguese. The 180º Alliance Hub in Recife has also decided to form a working group among their members to support each other in fulfilling their action plans. This will include sharing the message with their leaders and staff as well as writing and implementing a child protection policy. They are all aware that this will not be a quick or easy process, but have committed to it for the sake of the children. ------ ENDS ----- About Keeping Children Safe The Keeping Children Safe kit was designed by a coalition of 120 international organizations and has five parts. The original kit was originally written in English, but has now been translated into Spanish and now, as a result of this collaboration, into Portuguese.
4. New from USAID: Displaced Children and Orphans Fund Guidance on Funding Priorities and Parameters for Street Children Programming Find out more in our downloadable resources area under the sub-heading 'Guidance from donors'
Download the new strategy for 2008-2009: PDF
6. Street Boy Becomes Academic Dean (How Do You Treat the Poor and the Orphan?) Contributed by Doug Nichols, Founder & International Director Emeritus of Action International "He who oppresses the poor taunts his Maker, but he who is gracious to the needy honors Him," (Proverbs 14:31, nasb). |
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