World Childhood Foundation’s work is aimed at the most marginalized children, the ones most often ignored and forgotten. Childhood focuses especially on girls and the main target groups are street children, children living in institutions, young mothers and sexually abused children.
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BERLIN A father is an important person in a child’s life. At the Mother-Child House Jörg Sommerlath, mothers and children receive the majority of the support via government and other services. In order to ensure that fathers take an active role in the life of their child, Jörg Sommerlath House...
UKRAINE Hundreds of children are living on the streets in Odessa under horrible circumstances. They abuse drugs, many of them are infected with HIV or other diseases, and their lives often end early. Helping them to a better life is difficult, but the organization The Way Home reaches many of...
UKRAINE In Odessa, a four hour flight from Stockholm, hundreds of children are living on the streets in total misery. When a few of Childhood’s board members recently visited the city, they met with The Way Home, an organization working to give street children a future...
Sexually abused children in Belarus do not receive enough support. To make sure that more cases of abuse are reported and raise awareness among the police, prosecutors and others who are in touch with these children, the organization Ponimanie works on introducing the method “Barnahus” in the...
INTERVIEW Leah Richardson is the newest member of Childhood’s Advisory Board. Together with four other experts she gives her advice on all project applications. Having worked for Unicef, the World Food Programme, and Action Against Hunger, she recently moved to Sweden with her husband and two...
NEW YORK Far Rockaway in Queens is not an idyllic place to grow up in. High unemployment rate, violence, crime and drug abuse characterize the area where many teenagers feel hopelessness, facing an uncertain future. In this area, Childhood supports a drop-in center where the youth can spend...
SWEDEN That children should be able to go to the cinema, the amusement park and pet animals in the zoo is obvious to most people. In reality, many parents have difficulty making the money last to buy food. Often, single mothers are more exposed to the hardships related to living on a strained...
UKRAINE The Way Home Charity Fund has worked for over 13 years in helping street children to a better life. In Odessa, Ukraine it is estimated that thousands of children are living in the streets, with the main causes of leaving home being drug-addicted parents, violence within the family, and...
POLAND Many cases of child abuse can be avoided through preventive support to parents. January 2008, Nobody´s Children started a pilot project for parents with small children in Warsaw with support from World Childhood Foundation and Vattenfall, who is a Major Partner of Childhood. Since then...
SWEDEN Children who become victims of abuse over the internet often blame themselves and very few tell anyone about their experiences. Few methods for helping these children have been developed, but slowly new knowledge is being gained. Recently children´s experts, researchers and...
LATVIA Leisure activities and help with homework are part of everyday life for school children living in socially safe and financially stable families. But a lot of children are growing up under completely different circumstances. In the Latvian town of Valka, far too many children experience...
LATVIA When Andre became an alcoholic, and his wife Svetlana was sentenced to prison, their children had to move in with another family. The family support centre in Valka helped him stop drinking, and after two years the family was reunited. – I finally understood that my family is more...
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