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Partners @ Each Inc.

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The Memory Project is a unique initiative in which art students create portraits for children and teens around the world who have been neglected, orphaned, or disadvantaged. Distance Education for Africa. Distance Education for Africa (DeAfrica) is an educational organization based in Nairobi, Kenya. The objective of DeAfrica is to relieve poverty, promote ICT and improve access to efficient and effective world-class training and education courses to poor communities in Africa. Hope & Resq. The REPLACE C...

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Support the REPLACE Campaign

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No place for a child. Campaign and spread the word. When you hear, or read, about people or organisations raising funds for orphanages, please encourage them to support positive, long-term solutions instead:. Our work is based on the freedoms, rights and duties as detailed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. And the Convention on the Rights of the Child. One way to help is to read the convention and become more aware of the issues and abuses that are happening every day. A non-profit organisati...

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Calling for change: media

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No place for a child. Take Action: The Media. National and local media companies, both print and broadcast, have the power to give widespread publicity to the needs and rights of poor and vulnerable children, and to mobilise awareness and support. With this power comes the responsibility to ensure that ethical and rights-based initiatives are supported, not those that harm children. Calling on journalists and presenters. The REPLACE Campaign is supported by.

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Volunteering at orphanages

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No place for a child. Volunteering to help alleviate poverty has a two-fold benefit, the recipients benefit and the volunteer is brought closer to the real issues faced by those in need. The benefit of volunteering is often questioned in the context of depriving someone in the local community of employment, but if care is taken over the choice of project and the kind of help provided, volunteering can make a real difference for good. An orphanage is a sign of failure of all other avenues. Residential car...

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The REPLACE Campaign

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No place for a child. Millions of children worldwide are living in orphanages, deprived of their right to family life. Institutional life damages children, yet it is still supported by many. We call on those in the following groups to stop supporting orphanages:. A lot of studies show the harm done by placing children in orphanages. Family life is a child rights issue as well, but the simple truth is that an orphanage is no place for a child. Many people who have built, volunteered at or who have...We us...

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Studies, conventions and other resources about orphanages

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No place for a child. United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in November 1989. It evolved from the Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child, which was adopted by the League of Nations in September 1924. This in turn was inspired by proclamations drafted by the founder of Save the Children, Eglantyne Jebb, in 1923. Jebb's initial document had the following criteria:. The Univers...

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About the REPLACE Campaign

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No place for a child. About the REPLACE Campaign. Fritz Curzon, Kate Kopischke, Alan Kiff and Eric Gutierrez. The REPLACE Campaign was initiated by International Child Campaign. In response to calls for greater awareness on the issue of child welfare and in particular the harm done to children by orphanages. We do this by:. Advocating for the adoption of, and compliance with, international and regional codes of human rights, in particular the rights of children, by those in positions of duty. Child Prote...

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Harm done to children by orphanages

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No place for a child. First, do no harm. In all cases, they never get the love, support and sense of identity that only a loving family can give. Hundreds of studies tell us - as does our common sense - that family life is critical to a child's healthy development. Without it, children suffer great harm and are deeply damaged. The physical and psychological harm. With the right support, the older children can go on to live fairly normal lives. But most can expect little more than a life of homelessne...

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Calling for change: schools

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No place for a child. Many schools raise funds for good causes, which is of course an excellent thing. Not only do the good causes benefit from this, but it instils a sense of good citizenship in the students. It raises their awareness that many people suffer in the world. Yet many schools raise funds for orphanages, rather than for projects that work hard to ensure these children enjoy their right to a family life. Every cent or penny raised for orphanages makes it harder for those projects that are...

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Positive solutions to child welfare

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No place for a child. There are positive solutions. As many countries have shown, no child needs to live in an orphanage on a long-term or permanent basis. There are better solutions, all of which can provide the one thing children need and want most - a loving family. Download an example of one country's framework for providing childcare Uganda's Alternative Care Framework. Rather than placing and supporting children in orphanages, we must support solutions that:. 2 Place children in the care of other f...