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Wandago Child Rights Club - leading from the start

18/11/2019

 
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Not only this, but the children here have been leading transformation since 2017.  When we first started working here, we asked the children what needed to change. They took us on a tour of the area and told us about some of the problems they faced. We interviewed many of them, and they created a map of Wandago with sticks, leaves and stones to show us the places that were safe and the places where they felt afraid.

They told us about high levels of child exploitation, that there was little access to education and a lack of healthy jobs due to all the dangerous breweries that dominate the area. One of the main problems they described was how when they went to the well for water alone, many girls had been victims of rape and sexual assault.

In the last few years, the Child Protection Team in Wandago have been working to stop this. They have done regular spot checks at the well, many workshops on child protection and ensured that no-one walks there by themselves. Since this point there have been no attacks.

They have been working on wider issues too, supporting the opening of a new Early Childhood Development Centre, and starting a small loan scheme to create healthy livelihoods and make it possible for parents to send children to school.

The same children who raised their voices about these needs in Wandago are now part of the Child Rights Club, piloted in Loco, but now also active in Masese I and Wandago. They are trained about their rights and work hand in hand with the Child Protection Team.
Babra is the social worker for Children on the Edge Africa. She says,

“The Child Rights Clubs help in identifying child abuse cases, because sometimes the children do not report to adults what they go through, but they share freely with fellow children, so in the process the Child Rights Club get to get information, they inform the Child Protection Team.
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Children in Wandago are now not only safer, but teaching other children about being safer, delivering regular workshops to hundreds of younger children, and talking to parents about how to clean up the area and make sure children can go to school. 
They started the change, and they continue to lead, watch the video above and share the great news about the impact these children are having.
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Stanley set to Bring Ugandan Child Rights to Chichester

17/10/2019

 
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​10-year-old Stanley Wilkes will be travelling to Uganda this October half term on behalf of his school student council, to learn from some inspiring children who are changing their communities in the slums surrounding Jinja.


Stanley is a member of his student council at Jessie Younghusband primary school in Chichester, and his Dad works for Children on the Edge. Recently, Stanley found out about three ‘Child Rights Clubs’ supported by Children on the Edge in Uganda and all the incredible things they have done to make their communities cleaner, safer and more fun.
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He decided he wanted to find out exactly how and why these children have made such a difference to this situation, and what he could learn to inspire his own Student Council at home in Chichester.
 “What happens to some of the families in Jinja is devastating and in some cases against child and human rights. For example, the children are exposed to diseases and illness but rarely given protection.” - Stanley

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Four ways Child Rights Clubs are building safer communities in Uganda

30/9/2019

 
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After their first Community clean up campaign in Loco, Uganda, the Child Rights Club here have been inspiring and training hundreds of other children around Jinja. 

Two more clubs have been launched in the last year, one in Masese I and the latest in Wandago. Clubs are given regular workshops on rights, responsibilities, how to work hand-in-hand with local Child Protection Teams and how to prevent instances of child labour, exploitation and abuse. They then take their training out to a wider audience of children in their communities. 
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Here’s four examples of the clubs in action and the kind of difference they are starting to make.

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A strong start and a great opportunity for Congolese early years refugee programme

30/7/2019

 
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Refugee communities have hit the ground running in impressive style, preparing for the strengthening of early years education in Kyaka II settlement, Uganda. Since the launch announcement of the programme in May, new staff have been engaging in high quality training and creating colourful learning resources for centres. 

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Seeing investment in action inspires a month of record breaking fundraising from The Body Shop at Home

3/7/2019

 
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This June started with a trip to Uganda and ended with a target smashing amount raised by The Body Shop at Home™.

​Ben, our Executive Director, visited Jinja with Suzanne, Jade, Louise and Lauren - supporters from The Body Shop at Home. They visited the five communities we work with , to see the difference that The Body Shop at Home are making through their dedicated, year round generosity of their consultants and customers.

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Behind the drive to end child sacrifice in Uganda

24/6/2019

 
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​Children on the Edge Africa is at the forefront of efforts to lobby the Ugandan parliament to tackle child sacrifice through the legal system. We ask CEO Winnie Biira about progress so far...

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The Edge in Jinja

3/6/2019

 
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Children on the margins in Uganda

Despite reducing national poverty rates over the last decade, DFID estimate that 63% of Uganda’s population are either living in poverty or at risk of falling back below the poverty line. High population growth rates have a negative impact on economic growth and create challenges for education and health services. Over 700,000 young people enter the labour market each year with few job opportunities.
Only 13.4% of Ugandan children are enrolled in pre-primary education. This drops to 6.7% or children from the poorest households. ​

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Kyaka II - Uganda: Resourcing refugee communities to provide early years education

9/5/2019

 
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​Kyaka II refugee settlement, close to the border of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has approximately 700  new arrivals each week over 65% of which are children. Having fled armed conflict, ebola, and horrific human rights abuses, many suffer extreme trauma as a result of witnessing the brutality of war and displacement. They face serious child protection risks and have nowhere safe to go during the day.

The youngest refugee children need support


A number of NGOs are providing primary education in Kyaka II, but early years education provision is limited for the youngest children, at a vital time in their development. Our assessment showed a need for up to 30 Early Childhood Development (ECD) Centres across 30 communities within the settlement.
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In these communities, local people are doing the best they can to provide early years learning, but provision and resources are variable at best. While some communities are doing well, with Centres in a relatively good state of repair, others have non-existent provision and broken down venues that are not fit for purpose. Many Centres lack consistent quality teacher training, or well established community ownership. Without this, trained teachers have no incentive to use their training locally, and leave to find jobs in other areas of Uganda, and communities have no support or resources to maintain provision.

Resourcing communities to provide early years education

Through training and targeted resourcing, we aim to support 30 refugee communities in Kyaka II camp, to replicate our model of best practice, ensuring high quality, cost effective ECD for their children.

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The Edge: DRC Refugees in Uganda

9/5/2019

 
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With multiple conflicts stretching across vast areas of the country, The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is one of the world’s most complex and long-standing humanitarian situations.
A protracted civil war ending in 2003 gave way to sporadic bursts of fighting, mainly in the Eastern areas of the country. A new surge of violence then broke out from 2016 in the Kasai region, which covers huge areas in the south and centre of the DRC.

Armed political and ethnic conflicts continue in many areas and in 2019, OCHA estimate that 12.8 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance and protection. This figure represents 10% of the total worldwide humanitarian caseload.
4.5 million people have been internally displaced, with an additional 825,002 seeking refuge in other countries.
Civilians here are exposed to gross human rights violations, sexual and gender-based violence, chronic malnutrition, and various health epidemics including the serious spread of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). ​

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A flying start with training and preparations in Kyaka II

1/4/2019

 
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No sooner have we announced the launch of our new project in Kyaka II refugee camp, Uganda, and the videos and photos of training and preparation are already flooding in from our partners. ​

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