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Forced by
poverty to
marry young
child brides
Also in this issue:
Showing the way
in Malawi
in Russia
Our people -
Payal Saksena
Campaigning
for change

Anna Feuchtwang
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Sevia, from Malawi, is married
and has dropped out of
school. She says she is 16 but
a local EveryChild community
worker believes she is actually
12 or 13. Find out more about
her story on page11.
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02 ChildWorld Welcome
welcome
A
s we come to the end of 2010, I am delighted to
introduce you to the Winter issue of ChildWorld
which is full of exciting achievements and
inspiring stories of children who, with your
support, are now able to enjoy their childhoods.
Last year EveryChild helped just under 50,000 children remain
with their families, protected around 22,000 children living
alone without the safety of a family, and reunited 2,200
children with their families. Find out how to download our
2009/10 Annual Review to learn more about our
achievements at the back of ChildWorld.
In our cover story you will hear from EveryChild’s Chloe Kay
about her experiences in Malawi meeting children and
families supported by EveryChild. She tells us how EveryChild is
helping young girls escape early marriages and stay in school.
On page 6 you can also read about our exciting new work in
Kenya and Tanzania.
In 2010 we called on world leaders to prioritise the care and
protection of children in their plans to achieve the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs). You can find out more about
this, and how we will continue to lobby decision-makers in the
post-MDG framework, on page16.
I hope you enjoyed the seasonal festivities and, on behalf of
everybody at EveryChild, thank you for helping us to provide
thousands of children the chance to have spent this year in a
loving, family environment.
We wish you a very happy New Year.
Anna Feuchtwang Chief Executive
Contents
04 News
From around the world

06 Reaching new frontiers

Our new work in Tanzania and Kenya

08 Feedback
Our summer appeal

09 Our people
Q&A with Payal Saksena, India

06

08 10
10 Forced by poverty to marry young
Child brides in Malawi

16 Campaigning for change

Achieving the Millennium
Development Goals

18 18 Our supporters
Latest news

Contents ChildWorld 03
 News
The beginning of the end
for institutionalisation
more institutions will be built and that reforms to

© EveryChild
systems of residential care will commence.

This major policy change was a result of

Volodymyr Kuzminskyy, our Country
Director in Ukraine, speaks to a
journalist following an interview on
national TV on EveryChild’s
campaign against the government’s
plan to strengthen residential care.
EveryChild and other NGOs responding to a
previous announcement made by the
Ukrainian Prime Minister to commit resources
to the revival and further development of
institutions. We appealed against the funding
of new institutions and the resulting shift away
from strengthening and supporting families.
The announcement was reversed and the
government agreed to reform childcare.

‘Our appeal was based on a firm belief that

EveryChild and other non-governmental
organisations (NGOs) in Ukraine have
successfully lobbied the Ukraine government
to halt investment in the expansion of
residential care in the Kyiv region. Thanks to
our lobbying, in July 2010, we were delighted
to hear the government announce that no
the best alternatives for children are provided
in a family environment where children receive
individual care and attention. The state,
communities and local authorities should
support parents in fulfilling their responsibilities,
and prioritise family-based options for children
deprived of parental care.’ said Vasylyna
Dybaylo of EveryChild Ukraine.

Celebrating children in Cambodia

1st June 2010 marked the celebration of International Children’s Day
across the world. In Cambodia, to celebrate this important date, the
Cambodia National Council for Children (CNCC) organized an event
attended by over 3,000 children in the capital Phnom Penh. The event
was supported by the government, EveryChild and other organisations.

Three children - Sokha, Rithy and Lyly (pictured on the right) – spoke on
behalf of all Cambodian children to appeal to parents, school teachers
and the government to increase interventions to protect their rights. They
asked parents to end the practice of young children being forced into
labour and early marriage. And they called on the government to make
1st June a national holiday to allow parents to spend time with their children.

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Showing the way in Russia

E
veryChild has just completed a major
project in St Petersburg focusing on
developing systems and services
to help keep families together and
reduce the number of children
entering institutional care. The aim of the
project was to ensure that the individual needs
The success of our project will now be used
to influence stronger systems and services
throughout Russia to prevent children
throughout the country unnecessarily living
apart from their parents.

© EveryChild
of vulnerable children are properly assessed to
reduce the number of children falling through
social security nets and unnecessarily ending
up in state care.

As part of the project, EveryChild set up working

groups, made up of social workers and other
practitioners, to make informed decisions
about whether children would be better off
away from their families living in institutional Sergei Litvinov,
First Deputy
care, and discuss how parents can be better
Head of Social
supported to look after their children. Protection for
St Petersburg
To present the results of the two and a half City, spoke at
year project, EveryChild held a conference the conference.
attended by over 250 childcare specialists,
government officials and other non-
governmental organisations.A key outcome of
the project shared at the conference was that,
in one district of St Petersburg, our work resulted
connect
in 35% fewer children being taken away from
their parents than in the previous year.
with us…
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Cambodia, over 300 children attended the and families we work with.
celebration and had the chance to enjoy
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Thank you to all sponsors who kindly to start connecting with us now!
supported our celebrations in Cambodia.
The children love the celebrations and we
are grateful for your support.

News ChildWorld 05
 Reaching
new
frontiers
New work is underway in Africa to reach
out to even more vulnerable children.
EveryChild has embarked on exciting new work in
Kenya and Tanzania working with local partners to
further develop our focus on keeping families
together, protecting children who are alone and
getting children back with their families.

In Kenya and Tanzania, like in many
other countries in Africa, rising inflation,
unemployment, widespread poverty,
HIV and AIDS and migration to cities are
all contributing to a rise in the number of
children living without their families, and
those at risk of ending up on their own.
Many children who are separated from their
families end up living and working on the
streets, becoming involved in crime or being
commercially and sexually exploited. Girls
living on the streets are highly vulnerable to
exploitation and abuse and are often
involved in child prostitution just to survive.
Boys can find themselves in contact with the
law with very little access to legal
representation. Many children living with their
families are also vulnerable as they struggle
against violence in the home and extreme
poverty. Often children from poor families
have no choice but to work to help their
families make ends meet.
Keeping families together in Kenya
EveryChild has started working with a local
partner in Nairobi which supports families to
deal with social, emotional and financial
challenges so that they can stay together as
a family. By helping parents join microcredit
schemes, and enrolling them in business and
vocational skills training, our local partner
helps them secure a stable household income
to allow them to better care for their children,
send them to school and reduce the risk of
them having to migrate away for work.
Our local partner also supports a short-term
care centre where young mothers are provided
with counselling, educational and life skills
training to prepare them for their future lives.

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Groundbreaking research on the lives
of children without parental care
EveryChild has just completed an
in-depth research project in Mombasa
which looks at why children end up living
without parental care, where they live
and what their lives are like. The research
will ensure that children’s voices are heard
in our work and that our interventions are
based on the true realities of their lives.
Getting children back with
their families in Tanzania
In the northern cities of Arusha and Moshi, we
are working with a local partner to provide
children living on the streets with essential
medical care, psychological support, non-
formal education and vocational skills training.
Our local partner helps children cope with the
© Sean Sprague/Pendekezo Letu
Young mothers taking
part in hair and beauty
training at our local
partner’s rehabilitation
centre, Kenya.
traumas they have experienced and prepares
them emotionally to return to their families.
Before children are reunited with their families
and communities, our local partner supports
parents and carers with counselling sessions
and parenting skills training. Families are
offered economic support, like saving and
credit schemes, so that they can set up their
own businesses. They are also provided with
financial assistance to enable them to go to
school instead of having to work.
Our local partner works with the children and
their parents or caregivers to resolve the issues
that caused the family to break up in the first
place, and strengthens families financially so
they can break the cycle of poverty.
For more on our new work in Africa, visit
our website at www.everychild.org.uk
Africa ChildWorld 07
 Feedback

Our summer appeal

EveryChild’s Country Director in Moldova,
Stela Grigorash, tells us about the difference our
supporters made to a young boy’s childhood.

n June I met a 14-year-old boy called

© Chloe Hall/EveryChild
Andrei. His story moved me so much it
became the focus of EveryChild’s
summer appeal. Today I find myself
inspired once more as I have just read a
report on Andrei’s progress and wanted to
share with you how well he is doing.

It is hard for me to put into words what Andrei

had been through before we met him. He
told me what it was like to spend months living
on the streets:

I remember my mother was
always drunk.We did not have
a place to live. Once my mother
left me in the market, I waited for
a long time but she didn’t come
back. I was frightened. I hid in
a pile of cardboard boxes.
I was very cold and hungry.
The police found Andrei wandering the
streets and they brought him to an
EveryChild-funded small group home in the
city of Cahul. We gave Andrei food and
clothes and introduced him to a specialist
child counsellor who helped him to
overcome his past.
with the other children and began to gain trust
in others. He even started to draw and it was
clear how much pride he took in his new hobby.
Since our summer appeal we have learnt that
Andrei’s parents have died. Thankfully, we
have been able to trace his aunt and over the
months she has developed a very strong
relationship with Andrei. She does not have
much money and would struggle to look after
Andrei full-time, but she cares for him deeply
and invites him to stay for the weekends and
holidays. Andrei’s aunt has a son, and it’s
amazing to see how the two cousins spend
time together as if they were brothers.
Andrei is just one of thousands of vulnerable
children you have helped. Thank you.

When Andrei first arrived the trauma he had The summer appeal raised over £35,000
suffered was clear in his behaviour. He was very towards EveryChild’s life-changing work.
withdrawn and staff frequently found him in Thank you. Your support makes a lasting
tears. But, gradually, Andrei started to socialise difference to the lives of children.

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 Our people
Payal Saksena, EveryChild’s Advocacy and Communications
Manager in India, is a passionate campaigner for women’s
rights and the plight of marginalised children. She tells us
more about her work.

What attracted you to work in

international development?
A deep sense of discomfort of what I saw
happening in people’s lives inspired me to
work in international development. Ending
discrimination and removing barriers to
accessing justice and rights is essential. To do
this, the state needs to take responsibility and
focus on strengthening families so that
© EveryChild

children in India don’t end up losing their

childhood, education or die of malnutrition.

What areas of EveryChild’s work in India do

you feel most passionate about?
How did you begin your career?
The work we do to empower the lower caste
Whilst studying for a degree in law at Delhi
communities and their children. They are
University I became interested in human rights
the most marginalised and are treated as
and moved on to complete a post-graduate
‘untouchables’. Children are forgotten about
diploma in human rights and humanitarian
when it comes to child rights, or state policies
law. When I finished my studies, I joined a legal
and interventions. I feel passionate about the
rights advocacy group where I gave legal
rights groups we are setting up to empower
advice to women who were victims of
communities to make sure children access
domestic violence and sexual assault. I
quality education and are prevented from
campaigned to end violence against women
exploitation, violence and abuse. Also, our
and helped draft the national law on
interventions to rescue and rehabilitate
domestic violence.
young girls involved in forced prostitution and
What is your role at EveryChild? labour I believe are crucial to guarantee their
I joined EveryChild in 2008 to focus on helping survival and protection.
marginalised children living without the care of
What do you do in your spare time?
their parents, and those at risk of losing parental
In my spare time I love to read and watch
care. Using my experience of campaigning for
films. At the moment I am reading a very
women’s rights, I am responsible for
interesting book about rural Indian’s dreams
EveryChild’s advocacy work with a focus on
called ‘Lanterns on their horns’ by Radhika
ensuring there are effective child protection
Jha. Books and films on the lives of people
mechanisms in place for vulnerable children in
fascinate me.
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.

Our people ChildWorld 09

 Forced by poverty
to marryyoung
Child brides in Malawi
Chloe Kay, Senior Media and PR Officer at EveryChild, gives a
first-hand account of how EveryChild is preventing girls as young
as 14 from losing their childhoods to early marriage.
n Malawi EveryChild supports rural
communities where subsistence farmers
survive on little or no income. Families
are extremely poor and when drought
affects their crops there is no buffer to
protect them from hunger. HIV and AIDS-
related illnesses claim the lives of 70,000
children every year and rob nearly one
million children of either one or both parents.
Extreme poverty leads to a high proportion
of adults, mainly men, migrating to South
Africa to find work. Sometimes they are able
to send money back to support their
impoverished families. Other times they send
nothing home, leaving single mothers and
grandparents to struggle to provide for their
families alone.
Life can be hard for children in Malawi,
particularly those who have been orphaned
or whose parents have migrated for work.
Children grow up young. Older siblings care
for younger children and take on the
responsibility of providing for their brothers
and sisters, especially when there is no adult
to care for them. Sometimes boys decide to
take the pressure off their struggling family
by leaving school to work, often spending
long hours away from home as cattle
10 ChildWorld Cover story: Malawi
herders or in the tobacco plantations. Girls in
the countryside have the option of leaving
home, and their schools, to marry from a
young age. In doing so, there is one less
mouth to feed and person to clothe at
home. But these young girls put themselves
in extremely vulnerable positions where they
are open to abuse and exploitation. Girls
who marry young not only miss out on an
education, but also their childhoods.
EveryChild is working to prevent early
marriage in Malawi in a number of ways.
Through child rights clubs and children’s
corners, girls are taught about their rights
and the importance of an education. They
also learn about the risks of unprotected sex
and HIV and AIDS. Through parenting classes
and community-based organisations,
parents and guardians are challenging the
cultural practice of early marriage and
recognising that girls should be supported to
stay at home and in school until they are
adults. As poverty and hunger is a major
push for girls leaving home early, EveryChild
supports the most vulnerable families with
seeds and fertilisers for the family’s plot of
land, and school uniforms and materials to
help the children stay in school.
 © Matt Writtle/EveryChild
Sevia, who married
I don’t go to school young, spends her
days doing household
because I am married. chores for her husband
and his family.
Sevia

Meeting Sevia When I asked Sevia why she married so young,

she replied – ‘I got married at an early age
Whilst visiting villages in Malawi I met a young
because people in my family were pushing
girl who had been married for only a month.
me into marriage. Our neighbours told me I
Sevia said that she is 16 but a local community
was ready for marriage. I don’t go to school
worker I spoke to thinks she is actually 12 or 13.
because I am married.’ Now Sevia spends her
The law in Malawi has recently changed to
days helping Richard in the field, preparing
increase the legal age of marriage to 16, but
food for her in-laws, gathering food and water
in rural communities the law is often ignored.
and cleaning around the house.
Sevia’s husband Richard is not much older
It was very sad meeting Sevia but I was relieved
than she is and has also dropped out of
to hear from the local community worker that
school. Now he tends his plot of land and sells
EveryChild will continue to monitor her situation
any surplus he produces at the market to
and assess what can be done to get her back
make a little money. When Sevia’s father
with her family and back to school.
migrated to South Africa some years ago, he
left behind two wives with many children to
feed and clothe. Sevia’s sister also married
young to alleviate the pressure at home.

Cover story: Malawi ChildWorld 11

 © Matt Writtle/EveryChild

A 13-year-old girl in Malawi

having her hair cut to
indicate she has reached
puberty and is ready for
marriage. This is common
practice in rural Malawi.
© Matt Writtle/EveryChild

When I was married I missed

lots of things – one thing I
missed was that I could not
play with my friends.
Maria

Maria with her

friends at the
EveryChild child
rights club.

Meeting Maria her leave her older husband. Today Maria is

back living with her parents. She has returned
At a child rights club I met Maria, a 14-year-old
to school and is now an active member of her
girl who has been rescued from an early
local child rights club. ‘I would tell my school
marriage and is now back living with her
friends who are maybe 12 or 13 not to go into
parents. Maria married a 24-year-old man
early marriage. They should continue with
when she was just 13 and spent four months
their education because education is very
living with him as his wife. I asked Maria what led
important in a child’s life. I want to be a
her to marry young and what it was like. ‘Some
doctor when I leave school. I would still like to
of my friends were married but they were a
get married but not until after I have finished
little older than me. They encouraged me to
my studies.’
get married. They used to tell me marriage was
nice. When I got married I discovered there was For more on Chloe’s trip visit her blog at
lots more housework I was expected to do. I www.everychild.org/chloe
had no time to rest and this was beyond what I
To watch and listen to our audio slideshow
was able to do. When I was married I missed lots
on challenging early marriage in Malawi,
of things – one thing I missed was that I could
featured on the Guardian website, go to
not play with my friends.’
www.everychild.org.uk/audioslideshow.
Maria explained to me that friends visiting her
from the EveryChild child rights club helped

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EveryChild sponsor, Lisa May,
travelled to Malawi to meet
some of the children she has
helped support.
‘I have sponsored children through EveryChild
for over 13 years and am currently sponsoring a
little boy in Malawi called Yotamu. He is about
the same age as my own two boys which is why
supporting him and his community is so
important to me and my family. This year I
decided to visit Yotamu and his community so I
could understand more about their lives and
the impact of EveryChild’s work.
I travelled to the Bulala community in northern
Malawi with Laura Clark from the EveryChild UK
team. I had never been to Africa before and it
was difficult to know what to expect. My visit
proved to be far more than I could have ever
imagined because I learnt so much.
Whilst I was there I had the opportunity to meet
lots of children that EveryChild supports,
including Yotamu and an inspiring girl called
Rose. She is 17 and came over to speak to me
© EveryChild
Lisa May (far right) and Laura
Clark meet Rose who, thanks
to EveryChild, was rescued
from an early marriage.
as we were leaving an activity centre. She was
married at an early age and forced to drop out
of school. When EveryChild heard about her
situation they intervened by approaching her
husband and her family. Thanks to EveryChild’s
support, Rose now attends school and is finally
getting an education. She told us that one day
she wants to become a teacher.
I have many stories from my trip that mean a
great deal to me. But I found it particularly
inspiring to meet children like Rose and Yotamu
because they showed so much resilience,
determination and ambition.’ Lisa May
To find out more about how
you can sponsor a child,
visit our website at
www.everychild.org.uk
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 Campaigning for
This year EveryChild campaigned hard to make sure world
leaders prioritise the care and protection of children in their plans
to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
So, what have we done?
In July 2010 EveryChild launched a report,
Protect for the future, in parliament with eight
other international charities showing how the
MDGs do not place a strong enough priority
on protecting children from violence and
abuse. MPs, journalists and NGOs listened to
speakers including international child
protection expert, Nigel Cantwell, who talked
about how the MDGs do not emphasise the
importance of children growing up in loving
stable homes – and that by not doing so they
risk failing to meet their own much broader
goals by 2015.
Download a copy of
our report Protect for
the future at
www.everychild.org.uk/
publications
Our report was calling for action in advance
of the crucial UN MDG summit held in
September in New York. The summit mapped
out how the MDGs could be reached by 2015
in areas such as alleviating child poverty,
increasing access to education and reducing
the spread of HIV and AIDS.
In practice, this means that we need global
leaders to make a long-term commitment to
building family support services and family-
based alternative care for children growing
up without a parent.
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What you did
In September 2010 a group of ten EveryChild
supporters presented hundreds of signatures to
the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, as part
of an event organised by Bond (the UK
membership body for non-governmental
organisations) in advance of the MDGs summit.
They were there to represent the views of
hundreds of supporters who had signed up to
our 'Every child deserves a family' campaign,
calling on world leaders to recognise the right
of every child to grow up in a loving family.
Their message to Nick Clegg was clear –
make strong families and an emphasis on
child protection and care as central to their
international development strategy as it is to
UK domestic policy.
Elisabeth Roeber was one of the EveryChild
supporters at the event:
‘On 15th September over 370 UK charities
working in the field of international
development met with Deputy Prime Minister,
Nick Clegg, to tell him about their views on the
progress made in achieving the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs).
A particularly memorable picture was when
two pupils and one lady from the audience
handed over a big suitcase with 1,300,000
voices of people who actively support the
MDGs and called for a strong signal of
continued commitment by the international
community during the summit in New York.
change
© EveryChild
EveryChild campaigners
represent hundreds of
supporters who signed up
to our 'Every child deserves
a family' campaign.
This event provided a special platform for
making the voices of the poor heard.
Unfortunately there are still many people
who do not know about these global targets.
Though it’s only five years to go until 2015,
and much work still needs to be done, I
personally felt strongly encouraged by this
event and was grateful for the opportunity to
attend as an EveryChild supporter. I got many
new ideas and found new friends as a result
of the event. And I continue to believe that
when we all work together we really can
make a difference to people in the
developing world.’
To get more involved in our upcoming campaigning, sign up to
our Take Action page on our website. You can help us make
a difference. Go to www.everychild.org.uk/takeaction
What
happens
now?
The MDG summit made valuable
commitments to reduce infant mortality
and stop discrimination against women
and girls. But world leaders stopped
short of committing to protecting
children’s rights to a family and their right
to grow up free from violence, abuse,
exploitation and neglect.
We will do everything we can to continue
to press the UK government to prioritise
child protection and care by highlighting
how it is the only way to help children
flourish in all areas. It is also the only way
that the government can achieve its own
stated goals to achieve the MDGs.
Government strategies to achieve the
MDGs currently ignore child rights, or
perceive them narrowly in terms of rights
to survival, health and education. Whilst
these rights are important, they cannot be
achieved if children continue to be left
vulnerable outside of parental care, or
abused, neglected and exploited in
homes, schools and the community.
We do not accept children having to live
on the street, work in hazardous jobs,
marry young or live in damaging large-
scale residential homes in the UK, nor
should we accept this as inevitable in poor
countries overseas.
To help with our campaigning, in 2011
we will have new research on the impact
which HIV and AIDS has on children and
their families and will be promoting a
documentary on the impact of the
Devadasi system on young girls in India.
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 Our supporters
From Russia with thanks
Thanks to the commitment and
support of our sponsors,over the last
year we handed over our sponsorship
projects in Russia to local organisations
and government agencies as the
projects became self-sufficient and
were in a position to operate
independently of EveryChild.
The vital services which started with our
sponsors’ support will continue to improve
the lives of vulnerable children in Russia. The
Parent’s Bridge sponsorship project ran for
13 years until 2005 and, since it was handed
over, huge progress has been made. We
are delighted that the government has
incorporated some of EveryChild’s pioneering
work into its own child and family services.
They have adopted services we initiated such
as home-based care for children living with
disabilities and the accessibility of community-
based social workers. Our services aimed at
keeping children with their families, such as
crisis intervention for young mothers and
respite care, are also being rolled out around
districts of St Petersburg and rural areas in the
surrounding province. We are also helping our
local partners to train hundreds more social
workers in St Petersburg.
We are delighted that the success of
EveryChild’s work has now become a
springboard for a networking project of 250
organisations across Russia, with the aim of
reaching out to a further 50,000 children. It is
thanks to our sponsors that we were able to
put strong foundations in place and that our
work continues to reach vulnerable children
in Russia long after our sponsorship projects
have come to an end. Thank you!

Grateful for artistic support

In September David Richards, who sponsors a child © David Richards
through EveryChild in Malawi, raised almost £300 for our
work by holding an exhibition of paintings at his home.
The paintings exhibited were his very own work, as well as
his late father’s and other local artists. Family, friends and
neighbours helped raise money through raffles and a
cake sale. David was delighted with the response to his
fundraising event. ‘Everyone was very generous. I think
people are especially forthcoming where children are
concerned. They all really enjoyed themselves and said it
was an original way to raise money for a good cause.’

If you would like to hold your own special event to raise vital funds
for EveryChild, call our Supporter Care team on 0207 749 2490
or email supportercare@everychild.org.uk

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 Challenge yourself
to a 25 mile trek
along Hadrian’s
Wall for EveryChild
Rise to the
challenge!
In 2011 EveryChild will be embarking on an
exciting new fundraising partnership with
Discover Adventure, a challenge events
company. Discover Adventure offer a choice
of over 30 fundraising treks and challenges
in some of the most amazing, beautiful and
adventurous parts of the world. From classic
routes like the Inca Trail Trek to Machu
Picchu, the Land’s End to John o’Groats
cycle ride and other unique adventures.
Why not take part in a challenge for
EveryChild? Here are just some of the
fantastic open challenge events that are
on offer next year:
Ben Nevis weekend
17–19 June / 19–21 August
Hadrian’s Wall weekend
3–5 June / 5–7 August / 9–11 September
Jurassic Coast weekend
13 –15 May / 15 –17 July / 16–18 September
Around the Clock sailing challenge
11–14 May / 6–9 July / 7–10 September
London to Paris cycle
15 –19 June / 3–7 August / 7–11 September
For more information about the
challenge events, visit our website at
www.everychild.org.uk/events or contact
Owen Williams 020 7749 2497 or by email
owen.williams@everychild.org.uk
A global push
by Tokio Marine
In November, long-term
corporate supporter
Tokio Marine Europe
(TME) undertook a
month-long corporate
social responsibility
initiative to highlight the global business’
commitment to being a good corporate
citizen. Staff from the UK, Belgium, France,
Germany, Italy, Netherlands and Spain
took part in various fundraising events in
support of the initiative with all the income
generated donated to EveryChild.
This is the first time that all members of staff
from across the TME group have taken
part in a global group event. For the
European business, headquartered in
London, this is an excellent opportunity to
really show just how imaginative they are
as a group and get behind our
commitment to help vulnerable children
around the world growing up alone, or at
risk of growing up without their parents.
Since becoming a corporate partner in
2007, TME have been supporting our work
in Eastern Europe, particularly in Romania
where EveryChild played a significant role
in modernising the children’s care system.
TME is also a committed supporter of our
work in Moldova, where we have been
able to legalise the foster care system so
that 50,000 children can now be properly
and safely cared for by foster parents, and
no longer risk ending up alone with no one
to care for them.
We will tell you more about some of the
exciting highlights from TME’s jam-packed
month of fundraising next year. In the
meantime, a special thank you goes to
everybody who took part.
Our supporters ChildWorld 19
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Annual Review
2009/2010
This year’s Annual Review gives a real Listening to children and giving
sense of the impact we are making them a voice is a key part of our
on the lives of vulnerable children work and a theme you can enjoy
and families across the world. in this year’s Annual Review.
In 2009/10 EveryChild helped just
under 50,000 children remain with
their families, protected around
22,000 children living alone without
the safety of a family, and reunited
2,200 children with their families.

Go to www.everychild.org.uk/annualreview to download a pdf or contact

our Supporter Care team on 020 7749 2490 for a printed copy.