Family for Every Child

Our international #BlueUmbrellaDay campaign – which reached over one million people with a call to better protect boys from sexual violence – is GROWING and we need YOUR signature! ✍🏽 Sign our petition to declare #BlueUmbrellaDay a UN recognised day ☂️ 🌏 SIGN HERE 🔗 https://buff.ly/3BAH46N Our members have been rallying for support around the world – because sexual violence affects ALL children, but most services, resources and programmes are aimed at supporting girls. Great to see these images from our member Taller De Vida (Colombia) rallying for support at the 1st World Ministerial Conference to End Violence Against Children, advocating for the #BlueUmbrellaDay campaign. We love your work! Together, we can #ProtectBoysBetter ☂️

In 2024, we launched a new, innovative approach to delivering emergency aid, right to the scene of the disaster, and directly to those who are meeting the immediate needs of those impacted. 🏥 It’s called the Frontline Fund 🚨 It’s designed to deliver urgent funds directly to our members in a humanitarian crisis ⛑️ It demonstrates that local leadership makes all the difference 🚨 It proves that those on the ground are already meeting urgent needs 🏥 It fast tracks humanitarian aid In its first year, the Frontline Fund delivered critical support to women fleeing the Gaza conflict to Lebanon, it helped families fleeing in the Middle East to find shelter in Egypt and gave urgent backing to communities impacted by devastating floods in Kenya. A localised approach to humanitarian aid is critical. This fund will continue to deliver aid in 2025 and beyond. ⛑️ Find out more: https://buff.ly/4fkiLb5 #EmergencyAid #HumanitarianAid #ChildrenInNeed #DonateToday

We're so proud to see a collaborative article written by our Chair Rita Panicker of Butterflies NGO our CEO Amanda Griffith featured in Devex's Global Voices collection of 2024! The piece "Opinion: Dear INGOs, localisation needs local leaders, not boxes ticked" is listed as one of the top articles in the Localisation section. Have a read here: https://lnkd.in/d9K2bqXd Localisation is at the heart of Family For Every Child's mission. This is why we're a member-led network. The opinion piece sums up why we do operate the way we do. #LocalisationAgenda #CivilSociety #ChangemakersForChildren #FamilyForEveryChild

We’ve pulled in extra support to finish off the year, and now we need YOU to join! RemoFirst are generously matching donations to our End of Year Appeal dollar-for-dollar, doubling your gift’s impact 🎁 Our member organisations are working around the clock to support some of the most vulnerable children and families around the globe, and 2025 will bring about unprecedented challenges and hardship. Every single donation will help our alliance head into the New Year stronger than ever. 🔗 Your goodwill will go twice as far. Give today: https://buff.ly/4gjwQH0

In 2024, we backed Kinship Care like never before. Why? Because Kinship care – where children are cared for by family members other than their parents – is a lifeline for approximately one in ten children globally. In the past twelve months, we’ve made big moves in this space, through the release of the first ever Kinship Care Guidance Paper, and through our Global Kinship Care campaign, which engaged thousands of people to better understand, support and kinship care as an alternative care for vulnerable children. 🎥 by our member Voice of Children in Nepal 🇳🇵 "The government should make good policies and solutions to keep the children in Kinship Care situations" 🚸 Read our blog: https://buff.ly/3Dt6Eeq 🚸 Discover our guidance paper: https://buff.ly/41CY4nv 🚸 Learn about Global Kinship Care Week: https://buff.ly/41xOaDK #KinshipCare #GlobalKinshipCareWeek #SupportKinshipCare

As 2024 draws to a close, we are (like so many) reflecting on the twelve months gone by. It has been a year of growth and impact – our community expanded, advocacy campaigns spread further than ever before, we rallied for policy and law reform, raised funds for those in critical need and helped keep more children connected to safe and caring families. Meanwhile, our online platform Changemakers for Children grew by 18%, with over 700 new members joining! This safe, digital space is critical for fostering collaboration, practice exchange and connection between civil society organisations and child protection professionals around the globe. Together, we are stronger. Thank you, for all who have come on board and engaged – you make this community what it is. 🔗 🌐 https://buff.ly/3ZWMHFM #EndofYear #Impact #ChangeMakersForChildren #FamilyForEveryChild 📸 Image credit to our member Taller De Vida in Colombia 🇨🇴

2024 is coming to an end and we’ve pulled in extra support to finish off the year 🎉 Now we need YOU to join! Give to vulnerable children this festive season. Our partners at RemoFirst are generously matching all donations to our Christmas Appeal dollar-for-dollar, doubling your gift’s impact 🎁 Our member organisations are working around the clock to support some of the most vulnerable children and families around the globe, and 2025 will bring about unprecedented challenges and hardship. Every single donation will help our alliance head into the New Year stronger than ever. 🔗 Your goodwill will go twice as far. Give today: https://buff.ly/4gjwQH0 #ChristmasAppeal #EndOfYear #DonateNow #ChildrenInNeed #ShareTheLove

Just in! Our End Of Year Appeal is live and every dollar will be DOUBLED thanks to our generous match funder RemoFirst. 🎁 Share the love over here: https://buff.ly/3VC10Nj As twelve of our most impactful months wrap up, we’re looking to kick 2025 off in the strongest way possible. Our community’s support this year has helped change thousands of lives, our advocacy reached millions and our appeals supported those in critical need of aid. We released internationally recognised research, helped raise the voices of marginalised communities and have been on a mission to prevent violence and harm of different kinds. Help us grow our impact and double your donation. Share the love ❤️ 📝 Want the details? Read out annual report: https://buff.ly/3VAkXUO #ChristmasAppeal #ChildrenInNeed #Appeal #ShareTheLove #GiveToday

📍Aotearoa, New Zealand 🇳🇿 An incredible initiative has just launched in New Zealand, supported by our member organisation VOYCE Whakarongo Mai, setting an example of how the voices of those with experience can shape solutions to improve outcomes for children and young people in their communities! TE4CL - Tertiary Education 4 Care Leavers - is an initiative that offers support to care experienced young people to access tertiary education, encouraging them to be aspirational about their future and their education. Family feels honoured to have VOYCE Whakarongo Mai in our global alliance, and congratulate Isaac Heron (who sits on VOYCE’s board) for being a key part of bringing this vision of TE4CL to life. Check out the resources on their website for care leavers, and those supporting them, including tertiary institutions: https://te4cl-nz.org/ #CareLeavers #CareSystemReform #RightToEducation

In 2024, #BlueUmbrellaDay, our global campaign dedicated to preventing sexual violence against boys, grew EXPONENTIALLY, reaching over one million people in person and online. 📣 Now, we're calling for signatures ☔️ 🚨 We are on a mission to declare 16 April #BlueUmbrellaDay a UN-recognised Internationl Day to protect boys from sexual violence. ❓Why? Because protecting boys from sexual violence complements and strengthens the essential efforts being made to prevent violence against all children, including girls. 🌐 Global advocacy and recognition of this issue is key in combatting the effects that sexual violence affecting boys has on society as a whole. 📝 Sign the petition today: https://buff.ly/4gxCDbA #BlueUmbrellaDay #SignThePetition #GlobalAdvocacy #ProtectBoysBetter #JoinTheCall