The Child Aid Program
The Child Aid program is devoted to creating a better life for children and offer support to those children that are facing hardships due to poverty. The project brings people together to take action in their lives and address all the challenges of development. It builds the capacity of families and their communities to work towards the common goal of improving their children’s lives.
The program is all-inclusive and recognizes that in order to nurture children successfully, the entire community must be strengthened. Child Aid is community-driven and places control of the development processes and deci¬sion making into the hands of people who are affected and to take charge in reaching a number of Sustain¬able Development Goals by 2030: no poverty, zero hunger, Good health and well-being, quality educa¬tion, climate action and others.
The Child Aid program is devoted to creating a better life for children and offer support to those children that are facing hardships due to poverty. The project brings people together to take action in their lives and address all the challenges of development. It builds the capacity of families and their communities to work towards the common goal of improving their children’s lives. The program is all-inclusive and recognizes that in order to nurture children successfully, the entire community must be strengthened.
Child Aid is community-driven and places control of the development processes and deci¬sion making into the hands of people who are affected and to take charge in reaching a number of Sustain¬able Development Goals by 2030: no poverty, zero hunger, Good health and well-being, quality educa¬tion, climate action and others.Families and their communities build their capacities to work towards the common goal of improving their children’s lives. People organize themselves in smallgroups called Village Action Groups (VAGs) or other community structures.
These provide a forum to havediscussions, identify problems and take advantage of existing knowledge and to find and implement solutions together. The core objective of all Child Aid initiative is that children must thrive, grow up healthy, and have access to sufficient food, education, protection and care. Child Aid program organizes children and youth into clubs where they do sports activities, learn life skills, plant trees and other environmental ac¬tivities. It operates along 10 concept Lines anchored around Village Action Groups and people take ac¬tion around what is important to them.
Child Aid activities through the concept lines are designed to improve food security, promote health, create bet¬ter education conditions, offering skills training for youth, environment protection and organize care for children in difficult situations among others. Families are brought together to address a range of community development issues, including health and sanitation, income generation, education, district development, environment as well as care and safety, food security and greater opportunities for children.
The program is currently operating in Ghanzi and Selibe PhikweChild Aid Phikwe reached 3,468 families with different activities in order to strengthen the economy of vul¬nerable children. To ensure long term sustainability of the GROW groups, training was provided to members.Throughout the year Child Aid Phikwe trained 71 people on sewing, 52 were trained on computer stud¬ies, 26 were trained on Business Management and 22 were trained on horticulture. The project also trained families on vegetable and small stock production.
The CHILD AID 10 lines of development:
Line 1: Strengthening the economy of the families
Line 2: Health and Hygiene – hereunder the fight against HIV and AIDS
Line 3: Pre-schools
Line 4: Children as active in the political, social, cultural and economic spheres of society
Line 5: Children without parents
Line 6: Education
Line 7: District development
Line 8: Environment
Line 9: Crime Prevention
Line 10: Advocacy against Child labour
The Child Aid structure
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Articles from our Child Aid programs
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Strengthening Households And Community Structures To Support Orphan And Vulnerable Children (OVC)
Through the support of Project Concern International (PCI), Humana People to People Botswana works on strengthening households and community structures to be able to support… -
Informal Play Groups
Humana People to People Botswana is in pursuit to ensure quality education for all remains at the heart of its work. We go with the principle that responsibility of education… -
Building Community Resilience Through Grass Roots Building Our Wealth (GROW) Groups
GROW is a flagship of the Child Aid program. This is an innovative and cost-effective economic empowerment model that helps women and men to build their social and economic… -
Savings groups are transforming lives
With support from Project Concern Internationals GROW program, the Empowerment of Non-State Actors (European Union) and Ministry of Local Government and Ministry of… -
Children without parents
Orphans and vulnerable children vulnerability status vary from being paternal or maternal orphans, living under poverty, negligence, and abusive environment or living with… -
Children as Active in the Political, Social, Cultural and economic spheres of society
Life skills for children and youth Bonani from HOPE Mabutsane reports: “1500 Peer-educators, children and youth in schools have participated in life skills sessions to… -
Strengthening the economy of the family
In this line of work people do food gardens, income generating activities, short courses in business skills, agriculture and food processing and courses to prepare youth for…