Since January 1st, 2022, Help a Child has become a full member of the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) Alliance. CHS Alliance is a network of 150 members committed to improving humanitarian & development work through quality, accountability & people management initiatives & standards.
Being a CHS member means that we will continue to keep improving and that we are accountable to all stakeholders involved. That is how we want to provide a future for children in need, their families and their entire community!
That’s the name of the song that was recently released by many great Burundian female artists. Tetero, Miss Erica, Esther Nish, Gretha, Meili, Olga, Belle 9ice, Channy Queen, Linah Blanche, Ines Raguel, and Mo’W Kanzie sing to raise awareness for gender-based violence. Absolutely wonderful to see them coming together and supporting the work of Help a Child and other partners.
With the release of the song, they kicked off the new Empowered 2 Protect (E2P) program in Burundi. After it was successfully piloted in DRC, E2P will now also be launched in Burundi.
E2P is a community-based SGBV protection awareness package that includes an innovative, non-violent prevention tool: the Invi Bracelet.
But, not only the women came together, various male Burundians also wanted to play their part. In a response video, Big Fizzo, Kolly the Magic, Mutima, Vichou Love, and Kigingi call the men to be responsible and to take care of women. They also address the women, they apologise and vow to protect them.
Most of 2020 were taken up by COVID-19, which greatly affected the people in developing countries and also affected the projects of Help a Child. Help a Child did a lot of awareness-raising about COVID-19 and its preventative measures. Almost 150 thousand community members in seven countries were reached by these sessions. We also distributed soap and facemasks and established handwashing facilities. Below you can find a download with all the numbers and figures compiled and analysed by the PMEL (planning, monitoring, evaluation and learning) desk of Help a Child.
Please note: as there was a difference in implemented activities among the countries, partners and projects, the COVID-19 indicators were not mandatory. The data collected comes from Burundi, India, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan and Uganda. Each country and partner collected data that applied to their specific context.
Help a Child Burundi saw its flags raised in 2 refugee camps and 3 returnees’ transit centres in Burundi in November 2021. Help a Child Burundi has started a new partnership with UNHCR and WFP to support refugees, returnees’ families including unaccompanied children. Together with UNHCR and WFP, Help a Child is ensuring the provision of food items and Non-Food items respectively to Refugees and Returnees as well as cash-based interventions to unaccompanied children, ensuring secure and proper orientation of the usage.
Convoy arriving in Kinazi transit centre from Uganda. Help a Child Burundi starts its first mission of distribution.
Dans le cadre de ses projets, Help a Child Burundi lance l’avis d’appel d’offre pour manifestation d’intérêt a figurer sur la liste de ses fournisseurs pour les articles, les services et matériel. Pour plus d’informations, s’il vous plaît ouvrir la pièce jointe.
Date limite Les offres devront être déposées sous pli ferme au bureau de Help a Child au plus tard Vendredi le 17/09/2021 à 12heures.
Plus d’informations
Pour plus d’informations, vous pouvez vous adresser a l’address ci-après : Tel : 22277830, ou à son bureau au Q Gatoke, Boulevard Mwezi Gisabo N˚ 18 ou par email : info@hacburundi.org.
Help a Child attend de ses fournisseurs qu’ils se comportent avec intégrité ; à ne pas nuire et à prendre soigneusement en compte les droits et intérêts d’autrui. Tout fournisseur sera tenu de signer et d’adhérer au Code de conduite de Help a Child et les fournisseurs retenus seront soumis aux vérifications, y compris la vérification du casier judiciaire.
“Réintegration: Espérer, Reconstruire et Rayonner” (“Reintegration: To hope, to reconstruct and to radiate”). That is the theme of the event, organized by Help a Child Burundi on behalf of the Building Bridges in Burundi consortium, held in Bujumbura on Friday June 25.
The main objective of the varied and interactive program is to give information about and to plead for the needs and circumstances of refugees, and in particular returnees in the Burundian context. It also shares insights about holistic management for sustainable reintegration of returnees.
Theatre and a panel discussion are some of the planned activities of this event, that is organized in the week of the International Refugee Day.
We are delighted to share that Help a Child has become a full member of the Keeping Children Safe (KCS) Network. KCS is an independent not-for-profit, setting out internationally recognised child safeguarding standards that ensure all organisations working directly for and with children have comprehensive safeguarding measures in place. What does our full membership mean for Help a Child and our project participants? A few question for Geert de Jonge:
EU Cord (European Christian Organisations for Relief and Development) is currently recruiting an Advocacy Coordinator. The Advocacy Coordinator will be responsible for providing expert input to direct EU-CORD’s advocacy work and strategic direction for advocacy. The Coordinator will lobby for and represent on behalf of the network and help to build the advocacy capacity of EU Cord members.
It is widely known that sports are good for your health and well-being. But sports can bring much more. Today, on the occasion of the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace, Help a Child introduces Boruboru, a revived traditional South Sudanese dodge ball sport, as a tool for empowerment, development, and peacebuilding.
Boruboru was revived in 2015 and today has its own Boruboru National Association with 40 residential neighbourhoods and 23 school teams. The game has been officially recognized by the government of South Sudan, who considers it as one of the national sports. Over 2900 girls and women now enjoy playing Boruboru and use their newly acquired skills. Boruboru players do not just receive sports training, they are also trained in other life skills such as leadership, tolerance, team building, public speaking, and many more.
Based on Boroboru’s best practices, Help a Child has collected 5 lessons learnt to apply any sport for development. The lessons are shared by Oliver Michael, Program Manager for Help a Child South Sudan, who has been closely involved in reviving and implementing Boruboru.
With the closure of the UP MARC project in Zigiti, EKHC and Help a Child marked the end of our 30 years long partnership! It makes us sad to say goodbye, but thankful to know that we affected and improved the lives of thousands of children, families and their communities.
Some of the UP MARC project participants wanted to share their testimony. May God bless the community members, EKHC staff and all others involved in building the future of the children, youngsters and their families in Ethiopia.
