Foundation for Unesco, Education for Children in Need

UNESCO'S worldwide programme for the Education of Children in Need supports dozens of initiatives to help rehabilitate children who are victims of violence and neglect. The programme, which spans 81 countries and actively supports over 300 projects, aims to help give children the means to help themselves through education.

Making a difference

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Throughout the world, over 100 million street or working children, young refugees and child prostitutes are not only robbed of their childhood but deprived of a basic education as well. Children who are victims of war, living on the streets, children with disabilities and no education need more than bread, blankets and medicine. They need a long-term solution to break out of the cycle of poverty.

The UNESCO Programme for Education for Children in Need works to mobilise civil society to help meet the educational needs of disadvantaged children. Children in need must have access to education so they can learn to take charge of their own lives and build a more peaceful future.

This gives the children the means to help themselves, the only way to reduce poverty on a long-term basis. The programme aims to give a sense of their own worth and faith in the future to children who have only ever been treated with contempt.

Support

The programme is based entirely on private donations through the Foundation for UNESCO - Education for Children in Need, which UNESCO Special Ambassador Ute Ohoven helped to create in 1992. It is thus through the support of private individuals and organisations that the Foundation for UNESCO - Education for Children in Need is able to achieve its ends, using UNESCO's infrastructure and administrative support so that every penny donated can be directed to the children in full.