PROJECT 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.