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Meet Child Protection Team Member Maria

25/5/2023

Meet Child Protection Team Member Maria. Maria standing next to a small hut

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In 2022 Children on the Edge started working with communities in the Karamoja region of Uganda, replicating our Child Protection Team model. The Children on the Edge Africa team worked alongside Karamajong community members to identify the needs in the area, which include child neglect and abuse, trafficking, hunger and crime, including a lack of police protection to tackle it, due to the remote nature of the settlements.

After identifying the needs in the area, they started building strong relationships with the wider community including local leaders, teachers and parents, supporting them to establish six voluntary Child Protection Teams for the 39 villages in the Lopoko sub county.

26-year-old mother of two Maria, was elected and joined one of the newly formed Child Protection teams in her area. Since joining the team, she has proved to be a very committed and active member who leads by example to help make her community safer for the children who live there.

A marathon challenge for Kelly and Lizzie

22/5/2023

Kelly (left) and Lizzie (right) holding their medals on the finish line of the 2023 London Marathon

Kelly (left) and Lizzie (right) holding their medals on the finish line of the 2023 London Marathon

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The London Marathon is one of the most iconic running races around. Thousands and thousands of people enter the ballot each year to secure their place but many are unsuccessful. Children on the Edge is not one of the charities that is allocated places in the marathon, so the only way supporters can run for us is by being lucky enough to get their own place in the ballot and, in 2023, we were fortunate enough to have two fantastic runners who took part in the event and ran for Children on the Edge - Kelly and Lizzie.

“I feel like I’m leaving my family” - 10 years of building ‘belonging’ for Syrian refugee children.

15/5/2023

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Mayassa has been teaching at the school we support in Zahle, Lebanon since it started back in 2013. After ten years of incredible work supporting Syrian refugee children, she’s leaving to start a new life in the Netherlands. We want to take a moment to celebrate Mayassa’s dedication, and the incredible contribution she has made to building her school family.

Monthly Highlights from Children on the Edge: April 2023

5/5/2023

Monthly Highlights from COTE April 2023. Health checks in Bangladesh

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In April, on World Health Day, we celebrated #HealthForAll, as the Learning Centres in Bangladesh reported a decrease in the amount of illnesses amongst the children due to regular health checks in lessons. The following week, Refugee teacher John shared the story of his escape from the DRC and how teaching helped restore his hope.

Our London Landmarks runners kickstarted a month of fantastic fundraising, and were followed by our brilliant London Marathon runners, Kelly and Lizzie you can read all about their marathon challenge here. The fundraising didn’t stop there, with our friends at Montezuma’s organising some eggs-ellent Easter fundraising in their stores.

Read on to find out about our highlights from April …

Trapped in a Refugee Camp but Flying into Space - The Sky is No Longer the Limit for 'Moja Kids'

4/5/2023

Using green screen technology and video communication, refugee children confined to cramped border camps in Bangladesh are able to express their ideas in any environment they can imagine and connect with friends in other countries.

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An Update From Karamoja, Uganda

14/4/2023

Road sign in Karamjoa, Uganda: Don't sell your children, send them to school

Rachel Bentley

CEO & co-founder of Children on the Edge

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I’ve just returned from Uganda, where I visited Karamoja, a region in northern Uganda where Children on the Edge has begun to replicate our successful Child Protection Team model.

Children here are living on the edge of society, with little support. Read about how we're supporting communities here to better protect their children.

Finding Humanity - A report from Kyaka II refugee settlement, Uganda

12/4/2023

Gemma from COTEUK and Marble from COTE Africa sat together smiling looking at a laptop

Gemma Driver

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager
I work on monitoring and evaluating our work and how we can improve our programmes.

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I’ve recently returned from my first visit to Kyaka II refugee settlement in Uganda, where we provide pre-school learning to mainly refugee children from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Here are some reflections from the trip…

My Story Can Restore Hope - Meet John, a Teacher in Kyaka II Refugee Settlement

12/4/2023

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John Byamungu Nachale is a refugee teacher who is working with Children on the Edge to pioneer a new approach to early years education for Congolese refugee children in Uganda.

He was attacked and left for dead when he lived in the DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo), and had to flee the country having lost everything.

He tells us the story of his journey, and how working to educate some of the youngest children fleeing his home country has begun to restore his hope.

Life on the edge for Rohingya refugees

10/4/2023

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Conditions for over a million Rohingya refugees in the world’s largest refugee camp are dire.

People living in Kutupalong camp, Bangladesh are truly living on ‘the edge’, facing poverty and violence, trapped in dangerous conditions and unable to leave. It’s here, Children on the Edge have been working for over a decade, supporting education for thousands of refugee children.

Meet Logistics Officer - Shafaet Hossen

6/4/2023

Logistics Officer Shafaet

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28 year old Shafaet Hossen is Logistic Officer for our partners in Bangladesh, Mutki Cox’s Bazar. We spoke to him about his career, aspects of his job he is really passionate about and what motivates him.
Read on below to meet Shafaet …