Managing Director of the “ChildLink” organization, Omattie Madray, yesterday signed a $75.7M grant agreement with the European Union Ambassador Jernej Videti?,
Bayern M?nchen Trikot 2019, to implement the Child Rights Alliance project.Ambassador Videti? and Ms Madray affix their signatures to the contract in the presence of EU Delegation and Childlink Inc officials.The grant will be funded from the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) 2014-2015 country allocation for Guyana and will seek to strengthen national collaboration for the prevention of violence and abuse against 6,000 children through improved networking, influencing policies and practices and advocacy in Regions Three, Four and Five by June 2018.The actions anticipated under the grant complement work already carried out by ChildLinK under three previous grants, totalled over $86 Million and funded from previous EIDHR Calls for Proposals put out by the Delegation.ChildLinK completed activities under one of the grants in 2013. The project, “HUG”, was implemented over 30 months and sought to improve the lives of Guyanese children experiencing violence and domestic abuse.The project exceeded its objectives in sensitizing almost two thousand (2,
Arjen Robben Bayern Trikot,000) children from the Agricola and Ruimveldt communities to realize their rights to protection from abuse.?The two other grants are aimed at providing children with an opportunity to grow up in environments that are safe, secure and conducive for their all-round development.“Their collective focus is to ensure that children receive direct psychosocial support in the form of counselling and family support to help them develop resilience in their varying situations and where possible, to accommodate changes,” the European Union said in a statement,
Maillot Psg 2018/19, adding? that these interventions will contribute to “ChildLinK” working directly with 500 children—300 in alternative family-based care,
Maillot Psg Pas Cher, comprising of foster care and kinship care, and two hundred children who are at risk of losing parental care.The Union stated further,
Maillot Psg Femme Pas Cher, “It is envisaged that the fresh grant will complement the work already undertaken and the beneficiary will be working along with its partners over the next 30 months who include the relevant Government agencies, such as the Childcare and Protection Agency towards the effective roll out of the activities foreseen under the intervention.”Madray stated that the organization’s vision is to foster a Guyanese society where children are growing up in safe families and communities. She said that the new initiative builds on the organization’s previous and current work, especially on the work of Child Advocacy Centres, which were all funded by the European Union.She added that while the centres will continue to provide services to abused children, greater importance must be placed on prevention of abuse of children in order to give them a better chance at growing up without the trauma of abuse.The project will, therefore, build a national coalition led by the Rights of the Child Commission to strategically work with stakeholders across all regions to create higher levels of awareness on child abuse.She lauded the European Union for its long term commitment to creating safe families and communities for Guyanese children.Ambassador Videti? stressed that human rights are one of the core values of the European Union and its Member states.? He stated that the rights of vulnerable groups, especially children are particularly important in this regard and the “ChildLinK” proposal convinced us, and therefore the union looks forward to a successful implementation.The European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) is a self-standing financing instrument that provides assistance for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide,
James Rodriguez Trikot Damen, and specifically aims at assisting civil society to become an effective force for political reform and defence of human rights.
