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PROJECT INVOLVEMENT CRITERIA |
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Care of Children, Young People and Family Support - Encourage and support families to care for their own children
- Work directly with children on the streets
- Support residential child care where appropriate
- Develop fostering and adoption options for children in residential care.
Education & Training - Encourage and support deprived children and young people to access education
- Resource and support schools, kindergartens, homework clubs etc which provide education for deprived children and young people
- Provide life skills and sexual health education, particularly with respect to HIV/AIDS
- Encourage and advise on health promotion issues and access to medical services
- Provide and encourage access to vocational training.
Medical and Rehabilitation - Provide appropriate medical assistance to deprived children and young people
- Resource and support rehabilitation programmes for children and young people with addictions
- Support children, young people and their families who have disabilities and special needs
- Provide ‘day centre’ type activities for children and young people with disabilities and special needs.
Agricultural and Business - Support the development of agricultural programmes which feed the poor, enable families to achieve self sufficiency, and generate income
- Support the development of small business ventures with, for example, ‘seed funding’, specialist skills etc which provide employment for young people and generate income (income generated would help achieve self-sufficiency of the various care programmes).
Emergency Response - Provision of survival requirements, specialist professionals and other workers delivered to refugees from conflict zones and victims of disasters generally.
- Reference here should be made to our ‘guiding principles’ or working through local churches and/or in liaison with other NGO’s, local government.
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