Child Protection

In honor of International Children’s Day, we’re raising funds  to educate, nourish, and empower more children around the world through the month of June. To learn how you can be a hero for a child, click here. This week, we’re featuring stories about the power of education in Sierra Leone.  The World Bank identifies Orphans…

A blog carnival is a blog entry that pulls together articles on a particular topic. For our January Blog Carnival, we’ve pulled together stories from various World of Children Honorees on the topic of Child Protection. These stories represent a breadth and depth of thinking and on-the-ground intervention that we are incredibly proud to support…

Poverty and Risk of Infant Mortality Globally, poverty is one of the most important indicators of negative outcomes for children – and one of the most difficult to protect them from. In the worst cases, poverty prevents families from accessing basic medical care and adequate nutrition and young children die from completely preventable conditions. One…

Children Living with Disabilities Are Particularly Vulnerable Children living with disabilities are at greater risk of experiencing physical or sexual violence than peers without disabilities. Almost 4 times greater risk, according to the WHO and UNICEF. A 2012 WHO report tells us that, “Factors which place children with disabilities at higher risk of violence include…

Kalpana from Nepal was lured in under false pretenses and sold to a brothel owner. You helped her rescue and recovery!

The deadly earthquakes in Nepal last spring put the young survivors at risk for another tragedy – the danger of being sold by human traffickers. Nepal has a long history of child exploitation and officials feared a surge in trafficking after the huge earthquakes took more than 9,000 lives and destroyed a half million homes.…

Sometimes protecting children isn’t about saving them from harm but saving them from the horrible emptiness left by neglect. Adoptive mother Tatiana found this when she helped heal the physical and emotional holes in her young son’s heart. Two years ago, Artem and his brother were placed in an orphanage in the war-torn Donetsk region…

The following piece was written by World of Children Co-Founder Harry Leibowitz as part of our Child Protection Blog Carnival. The Numbers Let’s look at some truly horrifying numbers… 116,000 internet queries each day are related to child pornography. 300,000 or more children in the United States are forced into the commercial sex trade each…

You helped Emmanuel and his parents sleep in a clean room and eat three meals a day while they battled cancer.