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Promotion of Child Protection and Development

Promotion of Child Protection and Development

To change the lives of children through the protection of their rights and availing quality education to them starting from their formative ages; 

Child Rights Promotion
  • Create forums to raise awareness on national and international covenants .
  • Nurture positive cultural values that favor children.

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    Child Protection
  • Different forms of abuse and exploitation, harmful traditional practices.
  • Abuse in the unsafe school environment (create safe school environment)

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    Child Development
  • Promoting early childhood education.
  • Promoting access to quality primary education.
  • Promoting nutrition and proper feeding.
  • Life skills training .
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    Response and Rehabilitation
  • Support vulnerable children and rehabilitate from street life and different forms of child rights violations
  • Support survivors of sexual violence
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    MAJOR RESULTS

    Through its thematic areas, FC has successfully implemented projects, significantly impacting the lives of its target beneficiaries. The organization’s commitment to community change and strategic initiatives has resulted in tangible improvements, fostering positive development and creating a meaningful difference in the communities it serves.

    Advancing Child Protection and Empowerment

    Promotion of Child Protection and Development mainly focuses on enabling children to realize their full potential and enable them to access basic services. It facilitates child right promotion, and protection, as well as rehabilitation of victim children.

    Orphan and vulnerable children

    FC reunified and reintegrated 379 children and youth in Jimma and Debere Markos Orphanage to their respective families and communities successfully. However, this doesn’t mean problem of Orphan and vulnerable children issue is solved. Therefore, FC developed a strategy that includes a curative component (psychosocial rehabilitation),a proactive component (improving the level of awareness & income of youth & mothers to care their children).

    Psychosocial Rehabilitation, Reunification and Integration

    Following adaptation of community-based child care, FC supported more than 173, 684 OVC, abandend children, street children, and youth victims of different violations and HTPs to get psychosocial rehabilitation and reunification and reintegrate them to their families and communities.

    Promotion of Child Right

    Addressing the root cause behind child abandonment, vulnerability, abuse and HTPs FC works on creating awareness on child right and for the wider community and support the implementation of child right instruments by the duty bearers. Children are also supported to participate in their own agendas and have a say to promote the child right.

    FC - the child going to school

    Promotion of Early Child Education (ECE)

    FC aims to ensure that every child, regardless of background, has the opportunity to thrive in a stimulating and inclusive learning environment. By prioritizing ECE, FC fosters a generation equipped with the tools to succeed, contributing to the broader vision of sustainable growth and societal development.

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    ECE Centers Promoted

    14500

    Children enrolled to ECE

    Basic Education

    In the past, access to education was a challenge for many rural children due to unavailability of schools nearby, longer distances need to travel and congested conditions of classrooms. Alternative basic education (ABE) centers had been an option to create access to basic education for children in their vicinity.

    ABE School Promoted
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    ABE Upgraded
    to Primary
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    Children Enrolled
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    Key figures on School support
    176

    Classroom

    FC constructed 176 new classrooms across 56 schools, fostering positive educational transformation.

    120

    Classroom Renovated

    classrooms across 64 schools through comprehensive renovations.

    121

    School Toilets

    FC built 121 school toilets, improving sanitation and promoting hygiene in school.

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    Water Points

    FC constructed 78 new water points, significantly improving access to clean water in the school.

    Special Need Education

    FC focuses on providing tailored support and resources to meet the unique learning requirements of individuals with disabilities or exceptionalities.

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    Cluster School

    About 29 SNE cluster schools are supported by partially renovating SNE class rooms and equipping with SNE materials.

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    Children enrolled to SNE

    About 378(144F) children with disability attended education in the near cluster schools.

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    Children enrolled Based on their impairment

    About 273 children with disability attended their education in SNEs based on their impairment