20th Anniversary of UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child
20 years on from the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child EveryChild is warning that at least 24 million children are growing up without a parent and in poor countries their number is growing rapidly.
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Children with disabilities - Azerbaijan
In Azerbaijan, there are over 2,000 children with disabilities who are still living away from their families in Soviet-era children’s homes. The UK charity EveryChild and local partner UAFA (United Aid for Azerbaijan) is helping to prevent children with disabilities from growing up in harmful children’s homes.
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Saved from a life on the streets
In the Merkato area of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, there are over 60,000 children living on the streets. Here they are at great risk of violence, abuse and exploitation. Poverty amongst local families forces many children out of the home and onto the street.
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Conflict in Georgia - One Year On
In March, David Levene, Guardian photographer, travelled to Georgia to document the work done by EveryChild to help families displaced by war.
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Photo Stories
Small group homes - Sevil's story
EveryChild is working with the Government in Georgia to close down residential children’s home that are often so damaging to children’s wellbeing and development. Whenever possible, children are reunited with their parents or extended families.
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Mega, Margot and Manana’s story
Mega, 13 years old and Margot, 10 years old, lost their father many years ago leaving their mother, Manana, with no alternative but to leave her children to fend for themselves day and night whilst she went out to work.
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Hyacinth & Grace's story
Hyacinth is a single mother and has 11 children. Hyacinth cannot afford to feed all her children or send them to school. Before she came across EveryChild, she felt that her only option was to send some of her children away to live with foster families.
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Crossing the line in search of work
In the district of Komrieng in the north-west of Cambodia, near the border with Thailand, many families live there in the hope of finding work as labourers on Thailand’s vegetable farms.
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The shocking reality of Cambodia's child prisoners
All over Cambodia today, children are separated from their families by a legal system which continues to lock up large numbers of children in adult prisons. Their childhood is effectively over.
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Jignesh - India
It is estimated there are 15 million bonded child labourers in India working in factories, agriculture and people's homes. Jignesh, age 10, left school when he was 8 to work as a rope maker.
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Help for Malawi’s orphans on two wheels
EveryChild is working in communities in Malawi to keep families together. With our help and support many AIDS orphans do not have to end up in lonely orphanages. We help them stay in a loving and secure environment with their grandparents or other extended family.
Kamraj - Havri, India
When Kamraj was 10, his father passed away, leaving his family in poverty. Shortly after, Kamraj ran away from home, hoping to find a better life on the streets. Instead, he fell into a life of drug abuse and violence, begging to survive at train stations across India.
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Madhuri - Karnataka, India
Madhuri is 10 years old and lives in a small village in northern Karnataka. She was dedicated as a devadasi when she was just four years old. Read Madhuri's story
Towera - Bulala, Malawi
Towera faced a bleak future after an early marriage. But thanks to EveryChild's intervention, she's now back at school and on the road to a better life. Read Towera's story
Onani - Malawi
Onani, 14 years, is employed as a cattle herder. In Malawi over a quarter of all boys aged 5-14 work, mostly in agriculture. Of all children employed in Malawi approximately 5 per cent never attend school. Read Onani's story
Gulzat - Osh, Kyrgyzstan
Gulzat is an EveryChild trained social worker at the Molbulak Drop in Centre for Street Children in Osh, Kyrgyzstan. Gulzat works with street children who work at the local bazaar and who are at risk of exploitation and abuse. Read Gulzat's story
Vinothini - India
Vinothini is forced to work as a bonded labourer 12 hours a day.
EveryChild wants to put an end to this. Read Vinithini's story
Foster care services - Moldova
EveryChild has been piloting groundbreaking foster care services in parts of Moldova over the past six years as part of a campaign to get fostering introduced across the country. Read Janna's story
Sergey, Nicolai and Egor's story
Sergey, 8 years old, Nicolai, 9 years old, and Egor, 6 years old, live with their mother Alice in one room. They share an apartment in St Petersburg with two other families.
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Veniamin’s story
Veniamin is 8 years old. He lives with his mother, father and two older brothers in St Petersburg. Two years ago Veniamin was taken away from his family and placed in a children’s home for three months.
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