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Meet Child Protection Team Member Maria

25/5/2023

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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. 

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

4/5/2023

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​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

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

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New Child Protection Teams set up in Karamoja, Uganda

9/2/2023

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For the last 10 years, we have been supporting volunteer Child Protection Teams (CPTs) in six slum communities in Jinja, Uganda, a city 80 km east of the capital in Kampala. This low-cost, community-owned model has transformed these areas, enabling local people to create protective environments that allow children to thrive. 

In 2022, thanks to our amazing community of supporters, we were able to replicate and introduce the Child Protection Team model in a new area - Karamoja, eight hours north of Jinja. Here, poverty is rife, and children are at risk. But five new Child Protection Teams will tackle child rights abuses and ensure vulnerable children are better protected.
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Teaching the Benefits of Play, Mindfulness and Yoga for Refugees in Uganda

31/1/2023

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A group yoga session outside in green space with around 15 people doing 'triangle' pose led by two adults in the middle of a circle
We are thrilled to be working with Learn to Play Botswana, who have just returned from Kyaka II refugee settlement in Uganda, where they have been training our staff, caregivers (what we would know as ‘preschool teachers’), and the local volunteers who support the programme on the importance of mindful play and creativity. 

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Children on the Edge in 2022 - Our Highlights

3/1/2023

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Children on the Edge works in coalition with local communities in some of the toughest places in the world, transforming the lives of marginalised children by creating protective environments where they can safely live, play, learn and grow. 

2022 has been an incredible year of transformation for the children we work with, thanks to continued support of our Children on the Edge community.

We'd love to invite you to grab a cup of tea and read through our monthly highlights from 2022 and see just how much your generosity is making a difference.......​
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New latrines and water tanks improving hygiene for refugee children in Uganda

16/12/2022

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13 new toilet blocks and water collection tanks have been installed at the newly constructed Early Childhood Development Centres we support for Congolese refugee children in Uganda.

​Read about the impact they're having on hygiene and sanitation in Kyaka II refugee settlement....

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Meet Najibu Sifa in Uganda

1/10/2022

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​Najibu Sifa, aged 6, is one of the learners at our cluster group in the Mukondo zone. She is the third born in her family and a daughter of the Cluster Learning Managaement Committee chairperson in the Catholic Church study area. 

Despite being six years old, Sifa had never received any education until March 2022 when Children on the Edge introduced cluster learning in Mukondo B village. We asked her about how she is getting along with the new classes…

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A New Playground, Health Checks and Sports Day fun: an update from our ECD centres in Loco and Wandago, Uganda

19/8/2022

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Ugandan preschool children queuing up outside their classroom to wash their hands
The children at the two Early Childhood Development Centres we support in two slum communities in Uganda have been doing well since their school reopened after lockdown in January 2022. Read more about how they are getting on and meet four year old Namusisi.

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Players of People's Postcode Lottery Support Refugees in Lebanon and Uganda for a Third Year

22/7/2022

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Congolese refugee children in Uganda gather together smiling in their new classroom
We are thrilled to share that thanks to the incredible generosity of the players of People's Postcode Lottery, our programmes in Lebanon and Uganda are benefiting from a third year of funding. 
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