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Childhope
Programme to involve disadvantaged children in the improvement of their own health and that of others
Childhope has been active since the 1990s and is concerned largely with urban children. It reaches out to urban poor, working children, out-of school children, and children in centres but particularly to children who live and work on the streets.
Currently about 200 ‘Junior Health Workers’ are trained and active.
A wide variety of problems are addressed including drugs and HIV/AIDS awareness and training and discussion sessions help to develop communication, decision making and other life skills. Parents and community members are also involved, some voluntarily and some paid. The project fulfils vital needs and receives support from a number of local and international sources. Read more
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Pabahay Tuluyan
Pabahay Tuluyan was founded in 1988 as an alternative education centre for rehabilitating street children.
Bahay utilises the Child-to-Child approach in which former street children lead the way in working with children in rehabilitation, since adults are often incapable of seeing the world through the eyes of a street child.
The children in treatment are also enrolled in regular schools, and Global Family funds assist the center in covering school-related costs such as uniforms and tuition.
This project will continue until 1 April 2007.
Date: 2005
Source: Mennonite Central Committee.
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