World Day Against Child Labour 2022
The 12th of June marks World Day Against Child Labour. Learn more about the worldwide movement against child labour as well as our efforts to lead the change.
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International Day of Families 2022 | Iain Disley
The 15th May marks International Day of Families. Learn more on 2022s theme 'Families & Urbanisation' and how we can help the most marginalised groups.
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Safeguarding Part 2 - Terminology | Jill Healey, Executive Director
Current discussion in the international development sector has shifted to the language we use to describe our work. But in the urgency, are we in danger of losing sight of the very people we are meant to be protecting?
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Karen's Fundraiser | The 2020 London Marathon
Karen has been training all year for the London Marathon. Although the 2020 London Marathon was postponed that hasn't stopped her! We caught up with Karen to hear how her fundraising and training has gone over these past few months.
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Child Labour and COVID-19 in Nepal
"We are confident that the project will be valued as effective interventions to address the child labour and contribute towards ending the child labour by 2025."
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Poverty and hunger - the reality of child labour
Poverty-stricken families engage children in work to provide food for their families so that they don't starve to death.
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Celebrating International Youth Day 2021
“Young people have the potential to effect change but cannot do it alone. It is important to give young people the opportunity to express themselves and achieve their potential”
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Reviving a rural school in Nepal
An update from our WASH project in Nepal – A story of a school revival - how we are working with our partner Voice of Children to rebuild toilets and hand washing facilities in a rural school and improve hygiene literacy.
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Interview with Vicky from Glad's House
ChildHope is proud to be working with Glad’s House, an organisation supporting children and young people who live on the streets of Mombasa, Kenya. Glad’s House’s chief executive Vicky Ferguson tells us more.
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Deaf Child Worldwide
Around four years ago, we decided to invest more to integrate safeguarding into everything we were doing. We wanted to make sure everyone on our team was up to speed with safeguarding and child protection, so we invited ChildHope in to do some training for us.
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5 minutes with…Future Focus Foundation, Sierra Leone
ChildHope talk with Future Focus Foundations' Umaro Sheriff to discuss the power of volunteering and issues face by women and children in Sierra Leone.
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Community Led Action against Modern-slavery and Poverty
CLAMP, which stands for Community Led Action against Modern-slavery and Poverty, is a three year project focused on ending modern slavery and human trafficking in Nepal and supporting those who have been victims. To deliver this programme we are partnering with Shakti Samuha. We spoke to Project Manager Sarala Tamang to find out more about their work in Nepal and what CLAMP will achieve.
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Supporting Garment Factory workers and their children
In Dhaka, ChildHope and our partner Nagorik Uddyog are running centres that protect, educate and nourish children while their mothers work long hours in garment factories. These life-changing centres are being funded by the UK-based charity TRAID. We spoke to Angela Russ to find out more about TRAID and what it hopes to achieve through its partnership with ChildHope.
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Young people's understanding of uncertainty in Ethiopia
Our research work into young people's understanding of uncertainty, violence, poverty and rights in post-conflict and fragile environments in Ethiopia.
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Charles' Story and Journey With ChildHope
Charles has been supporting ChildHope since 1997! Between 1988 and 2002, he ran an impressive 16
marathons for his favourite charities. Today he has swapped his running vest for an apron.
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South to South Safeguarding Network
ChildHope utilised a Comic Relief grant to create the South to South Safeguarding Network.
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Children’s Participation and Sexual Violence, Lunch and Learn Seminar
Helen Veitch led our Lunch and Learn seminar on the subject of Children’s Participation and Sexual Violence, find out more about our Safeguarding seminars.
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Meet our team | Colin Haikin
I’m Colin, the Education Adviser for ChildHope, I have been working for ChildHope for around two and a half years. I have many years’ experience in the education sector as an educator, team leader, and quality improvement manager.
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