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Annual Review 2010/11
We stop children growing up vulnerable and alone.
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24 million children are growing up without parental care. We are EveryChild. We stop children growing up vulnerable and alone. Our mission: • Keeping families together. • Keeping children safe. • Getting children back into families. • Making sure children are heard. • Learning, to do better. • Influencing and inspiring change.
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Contents. 4 Welcome from our Chair 6 EveryChild – what we do 7 Where we work Reporting back 2010/11 8 Keeping families together 12 Keeping children safe 16 Getting children back into families 20 Making sure children are heard 24 Influencing and inspiring change 28 F undraising – you made it happen 32 Income and expenditure 34 Learning, to do better 36 The year ahead – a statement from our Chief Executive 40 Thanks to you 42 O ur partners and our people
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378,500 children In 2010/11 EveryChild worked with over 378,500 children living, or at risk of living, without parental care.
Melkam, left, kisses her sister in Ethiopia. Our partner Forum on Sustainable Child Empowerment (FSCE) is working with Melkham and her family to help reunite them after she ran away and began living on the streets.
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Welcome from our Chair. With an estimated 24 million children in the world living without parental care, difficult choices have to be made about the most effective means of support. EveryChild aims to punch above its weight. We work with local partners and focus on advocacy to broaden our reach and empower those we work with so that our projects continue long after EveryChild’s involvement. We carry out research, publish reports which are widely read and shared, and raise awareness – aiming for impact far beyond the immediate. Some particular highlights for me this year were: • Our new relationships with local partner organisations in Kenya and Tanzania working with children living on the streets. • Our work with the Georgian government to close all the country’s large institutions by 2012. Two institutions closed in 2010/11 and foster care was boosted by increased payments and training for carers.
• Beeban Kidron’s documentary Sex, Death and the Gods, broadcast on BBC 4 in January 2011, highlighting the Devadasi practice in India. EveryChild and local partners worked with the film makers to give background to the issue, which affects many of the women and girls we work with. Our specially created microsite and links via Facebook and Twitter helped publicise the film. • Calling on world leaders in the months leading up to the UN Summit on the Millennium Development Goals with our Protect for the future report. We demanded the inclusion of care and protection in their efforts to improve the lives of millions of the world’s most vulnerable children. • Starting a worldwide debate to mark the publication of Positively Caring, a report exploring care for
children affected by HIV and AIDS. Our Westminster launch event was streamed live on the internet and we received questions from as far away as Rwanda and Malawi. Later in this report, on page 38, our Chief Executive Anna Feuchtwang talks about the direction EveryChild will take to ensure our work remains relevant and collaborative. EveryChild’s achievements are your achievements too – none of them would have been possible without the commitment of all our donors, staff, partners, trustees and volunteers. Your time and money gives children across the world the chance of a childhood. Thank you.
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EveryChild – what we do. Our vision is of a world where every child enjoys the right to a childhood in a safe and caring family, free from poverty, violence and exploitation.
More than 24 million children grow up without parental care, their survival often threatened by greater risk of malnutrition, violence and exploitation; their future lost by missing out on school, and their childhood. Working with local partners we keep children safe when they are alone and at risk. We protect children in danger of ending up on their own by keeping families together. And we get children back to a safe and caring family, wherever we can.
Working in partnership EveryChild works with local partners to maximise our impact. By working with community groups, local non governmental organisations, or alongside government agencies, we benefit from expert local knowledge and can make a difference where there is real need. By supporting local partners we help also strengthen communities, while ensuring the sustainability of our work and bringing about lasting, positive changes to the lives of the most vulnerable children around the world. Turn to page 42 for a list of our local partners worldwide.
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Azerbaijan Cambodia Ethiopia Georgia Guyana Kenya India Malawi Nepal Peru Moldova Russia Tajikistan Tanzania Ukraine
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15 countries In 2010/11 we worked in 15 countries with 55 local partners.
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This year we helped over 126,900 children stay with their families.
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Keeping families together. EveryChild and our partners have worked hard this year to keep families together. Poverty, neglect, violence and abuse can lead to family separation. Through training, childcare support or income generation schemes we strengthen families and keep them together. Centres for learning and play We give children growing up in difficult circumstances time to be children by providing them with spaces to play and learn. To support families who are at risk of becoming separated, our partners in Malawi run pre-school centres and after school clubs. Over the past year these centres provided a safe, caring environment for over 9,400 children. This year 1,200 out of school children attended classes at two education centres in Ethiopia. The free classes enable children who have missed out on an education as a result of poverty or instability at home to gain the skills they need to return to mainstream school. In Russia our partner offers breathing space for families caring for children with disabilities through respite care.
This year 79 families took advantage of this service this year, giving parents valuable time to work or care for other children. In Ukraine we support young, vulnerable mothers in order to prevent their children from being put into an institution as a result of poverty or neglect. In 2010/11 EveryChild-funded day care gave the parents of 300 children time to work and earn money. EveryChild-supported activity centres in India not only give children a safe place to play, they also help community volunteers teach children and their families about the dangers of trafficking. Children are tracked through the centres so that those at risk of being trafficked are identified, monitored and protected. This year centres in the Karnataka and Tamil Nadu regions protected 14,200 children.
< Jesca Three year old Jesca is pictured with her grandmother Oniss in Malawi. Jesca has lived with her grandmother ever since her mother left the village to find work. Every day Jesca attends her local childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s day centre, supported by EveryChild, where she plays with other children, learns basic educational skills and enjoys a hot meal. The centre gives Oniss the free time she needs to work and earn money for her family.
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Strengthening families Desperate families sometimes look to state-run institutions for support when there simply isn’t enough money for them to take care of their children. To prevent families in Georgia from placing their children in a residential institution, EveryChild offers support through an Emergency Assistance Fund. This year the fund protected 163 families. We also continued to improve assessments of vulnerable children in Georgia to prevent them from being needlessly separated from their families. By providing training for families we help improve parenting and raise awareness of issues affecting children. In Cambodia we worked to prevent children leaving home by supporting 260 families at risk. Our partners offered counselling and training on child rights, child labour, trafficking and violence, as well as parenting skills such as how to safely discipline children. In Moldova
over 85,600 children benefited when we trained social workers. 800 social workers learned how to better support poor families in their local area and help make life easier by assisting them in accessing government cash benefits. In Guyana, 497 caregivers benefitted from parenting skills training. We raised awareness of positive parenting in the country by producing a docudrama and advert which aired on national television. Boosting people’s income makes families stronger. In Ethiopia this year, 80 women received money and training to start new businesses. Following this support the women were able to increase their family’s income, helping to ensure that their children could go to school rather than seek employment. Our projects in Malawi ensured 265 vulnerable families or those caring for children without parental care had enough to eat by supporting them with farming materials.
Ana > Ana, pictured in the bright pink top on the right, is 19 and lives with her son Viku in a home for mothers and babies in Moldova. Ana spent nine years in an institution following the death of her mother. When she fell pregnant she had no one to turn to and no idea how to look after the baby. But Ana was determined to keep her new family together. The home offers Ana a safe place to live while she learns how to care for her son. She says, “They teach us to cook, what to buy and how to budget.”
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In Moldova In Moldova, EveryChildâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother and baby units, pictured, help young mothers improve their parenting skills.
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at work Kaphiri, pictured, lives and works away from his family on a farm in Malawi.
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Keeping children safe. Without the care and support of a family, children risk exploitation, violence or abuse. EveryChild and our partners worked together to keep over 6,800 children safe this year.
Working children
Children and the law
When children work they are missing out on the education they need to build a better future. EveryChild and our partners work with children living with their employers. Separated from their families, these children not only miss out on school, they are also exposed to exploitation and, in extreme cases, abuse. Our projects in India helped over 260 children stop working. In Malawi, our Mndolera Project successfully enabled 56 boys to leave child labour and return to their families. Younger children were helped to return to school, while older children were given the vocational training and materials they needed to gain an income and boost their family’s resources.
When a child is accused of a crime they find themselves in a very grown up world. In the countries where EveryChild works, children are often tried as adults and serve adult sentences. Some accused children may have committed a crime as an act of desperation, and many have not committed a crime at all – they may have simply been begging for food.
Also in Malawi, we developed a Keeping Children Safe handbook and used this to promote messages about child abuse to over 3,000 community members with the aim of reducing cases of abuse, particularly towards working children.
EveryChild works with children within the legal system in Cambodia to ensure they receive a proper hearing and healthcare, and can continue their schooling or undertake a vocational course to help them get on with their lives once released. This year we worked with 130 children in prisons in Cambodia. In Ethiopia our partner gave rehabilitation support to 19 children who had committed minor offences through a community correction centre.
< Kaphiri Seven days a week, from sunrise to sunset, Kaphiri herds cattle in Malawi. At just 14, he lives with his employer away from his family. Kaphiri dropped out of school when he was nine and now he has no hope of returning because his mother is entirely reliant on the money he earns. Kaphiri says, “I would prefer to go back to my family and learn some skilled work so that I can build my future.” EveryChild is working to secure some vocational training for Kaphiri.
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Children living on the streets
New families
No child should make their home on the streets, exposing themselves to violence, drugs and exploitation. This year we worked to get children off the streets and into the safety of a family where they will thrive.
Foster care gives children the chance to live in a safe, family environment until a longer-term solution is found. EveryChild promotes foster care as an alternative to large institutions. In Georgia, EveryChild-funded emergency foster care expanded from one to three months, giving children, families and social workers more time to resolve issues. A summer school, run by our partner in Ukraine, gave 44 foster parents, and the 56 children they care for, the opportunity to develop parenting skills and improve their family environment. This year 166 children in Ukraine began to enjoy life in a family after moving from institutions to live with relatives or in foster care. In Malawi children’s centres, funded by EveryChilld, support children who are being cared for by their extended family because their parents have sadly died or moved away to work. This year over 1,500 children without parental care enjoyed spending time at our centres while their carers used their free time to earn money.
In Cambodia we funded two drop-in centres in Battambang and Kamrieng. These facilities provide educational classes, counselling, healthcare and meals for children who are living on the streets. Helping over 80 children every day, these centres are the first step towards reintegrating them with their families. Our partner, Forum on Sustainable Child Empowerment (FSCE), in Ethiopia runs a children’s drop-in centre offering emotional support and training. This year trained staff worked with 50 children with the aim of getting them off the streets and back to their families, or helping them live independently. One of our new partners in Kenya, Pendekezo Letu (PKL), works with young girls living on the street. In 2010/11 100 girls were supported to leave the streets. They started an intensive 10 month programme of counselling and support designed to help them return to their families or enter other family-based care. PKL also began researching ways to better protect children in the slums of Nairobi.
vuthea > Just a short time ago Vuthea, 16, was living on the streets with no hope of gaining the skills he needed to build a safe and secure future. Now he has a safe place to sleep, enough food to eat and access to counselling, thanks to an EveryChild-funded drop-in centre in Cambodia. Through the centre Vuthea is also learning to become a motorcycle mechanic. He says, ‘‘I like learning about the mechanics of a motorcycle. When I finish my training I want to set up a small business by myself.”
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6,800 children
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EveryChild and our partners worked together to keep over 6,800 children safe this year.
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in ethiopia Our partnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s safe house in Ethiopia helps children like Sara, pictured, get off the streets.
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Getting children back into families. Wherever we can, we reunite children on their own with their families or help them get into alternative family-based care.
To prepare children, their families and the community for a child’s return, we provide emotional support, check the family will accept and care for the child, and help to ensure the reasons for the original separation can be avoided.
21 trafficked children were referred to a safe house run by our partner FSCE in Ethiopia. The children received psychological support and counselling to enable them to be reintegrated into their families. Overall 75 children were able to leave the safe house and return to their families in 2010/11.
In Tanzania 43 children living on the streets were reintegrated into their families by our partner, Adilisha. Initially children moved into a residential home to receive counselling while their families were located. Once children had returned to their families, our partner carried out follow-up visits and worked with families to resolve issues.
In India EveryChild-supported social workers visit Bangalore’s railway platforms to help the hundreds of children who end up living and working there. This year, we worked with 1,314 children to help them return to the safety and care of their family.
Going home
< sara Sara, 15, lives in a safe house in Ethiopia. As a child Sara was forced to work as a servant in her uncle’s home. She was badly treated and so, aged just nine, Sara ran away and began living on the street. When our partner’s staff met Sara she had given up hope. She had been raped repeatedly and her ordeal led her to drugs. Now she is protected, receives regular counselling and is learning to become a hairdresser. Sara adds, “I now have hope. The best things about the safe home are the friends I’ve made and the education I’m receiving. If I hadn’t come to the safe home I would have continued to be raped, and would have been overwhelmed by addiction.”
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Changing institutions Growing up in a large institution has a hugely detrimental impact on a child’s mental and physical development. With so many children to care for, carers simply do not have the time to form a close bond with each child. Without the special attention a family, or even one important adult provides, children may have problems with relationships in later life. Children in institutions are often cut off from the wider community and may be unable to build the skills they need to live independently in adulthood. In two regions of Moldova EveryChild worked in partnership to assess three residential schools. The schools had been established for children with disabilities, separating vulnerable young people from their families. Although the pupils were thought to have disabilities, it was found that the majority had in fact been placed in a residential school as a result of poverty or problems at home. To find the best solutions for the pupils’ care, we worked with 144 children, their
parents, social workers, schools and local authority. One school closed this year. We worked with its 91 pupils, and their families, so that children could return to their homes. Where children were unable to live with their families, suitable alternative care was found. There are plans for the other two schools to close next year. Also in Moldova EveryChild supported the reorganisation of a large residential institution. In the institution’s place is a new range of social services; from day care to two professional workshops where young people can learn employable skills. With support from EveryChild and social workers, 26 children left the institution and were reintegrated into their families. Two institutions closed in Georgia in 2010/11. EveryChild’s team visited both homes and discovered 111 children living in very poor conditions. Rapid action was called for. The children have now been reintegrated into their families or into other, more suitable, care.
Sevil > Sevil, 13 (pictured in yellow and white), lived in a huge institution in Georgia. The conditions were so bad that EveryChild worked with the government to close the institution down. Sevil’s family is unable to care for her, so EveryChild helped her move into a children’s home where just a small number of children are looked after by two caring adults. She says, “There are lots and lots of differences about living here. I didn’t have a room there, no space of my own. We get a lot of attention. We didn’t have that before.”
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At home Sevil (left) at her small childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home in Georgia.
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Child RIGHTS EveryChild strives to protect and promote children’s rights as set out in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child – an international statement that nearly every country has signed up to. We believe that every child: • Has the right to grow up in a safe and caring family. • Has the right to go to school. • Has the right to be heard. • Deserves the chance to play. • Deserves the opportunity to fulfil their potential. • Deserves the chance of a childhood.
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Making sure children are heard. We help children, their families and communities, speak for themselves, take part in decisions that affect their lives, and find lasting solutions to their problems. Children’s rights Losing parental care, or being at risk of losing it, can make it difficult for a child to access some of their most basic rights. We involve children in our projects, helping them find out more about, and stand up for, their rights. We run local child rights groups in India that help children and young people lobby for change. Over the past 12 months representatives from these groups promoted the views of 66,800 children. Decision-makers were called on to improve schools facilities and transport, and concerns were raised about an increase in early marriage and trafficking. EveryChild also supports 950 child parliaments in India’s Tamil Nadu region, which give 19,000 children a chance to debate and campaign on issues such as increased children’s involvement in decision-making and improved child protection in schools. This year 1,200
children met with representatives from Tamil Nadu’s political parties at a state-level children’s parliament, with the aim of getting their demands into party manifestos. While in India’s Mudhol district 650 girls joined 34 groups formed to raise awareness and campaign to stop young girls being trafficked into the sex trade, entering into child marriage, or being ‘married’ to a deity through the Devadasi system. In Cambodia our child and youth councils help to ensure children’s participation in decisions that affect their lives. In 2010/11, 1,660 children took part and had the opportunity to discuss their rights with community members. Students in Peru helped their classmates find out more about their rights with the aim of preventing violence towards young people. Following training delivered by EveryChild’s partner Paz y Esperanza, 23 students learned how to promote their messages on the radio.
< drop-in centre Children in Cambodia at their local drop-in centre. The centre protects children who are left alone all day by working parents. Without their parents’ attention, many children drop out of school and start begging on the street, which puts them at risk of being trafficked.
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Listening to children We listen to children to ensure their views are considered in our projects. Solwodi, one of our partners in Kenya, interviewed 400 children in two districts. The children gave their views on living on the street, in child-only households, in an institution, or with extended family. Their views, along with the views of 400 adults, helped our partner develop a project that will improve the lives of children living in these situations. To mark the beginning of EveryChild-supported work in Nepal, our partner Children-Women in Social Service and Human Rights (CWISH), interviewed 90 children working in domestic situations. The children told CWISH what their lives were
like in order to help us develop ways to improve them. Many young domestic workers are unable to continue with their education, preventing them from gaining better employment in later life. Together, EveryChild and CWISH hope to reduce the number of children in domestic work by strengthening families and improving access to education. To help children in Malawi take part more effectively in decision-making, training was carried out with 114 children living without, or at risk of losing, parental care. Tools such as drama, memory scrapbooks and the ‘Tree of Life’ – a coping tool designed to get vulnerable children to talk about their life, family and emotions – were all used to build life skills and knowledge of child rights.
Maria > Maria, 14, from Malawi, got married when she was just 13. Her local Child Rights Club helped her leave the marriage and return to school. She says, “I got a lot of encouragement from the EveryChild Child Rights Club. They used to visit me at home and talk to me about the importance of education. I would encourage my colleagues not to go into early marriage. They should continue with their education because education is very important.”
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111,220 speak out We helped over 111,220 children speak out this year.
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Inspiring and influencing change. By raising awareness and lobbying governments and decision-makers about the issues affecting vulnerable children we can transform many more lives than through our projects alone.
We work with governments to improve policies and procedures that impact on the lives of vulnerable children.
Justice Law. The law will introduce child-friendly legal proceedings and prevent young people from being tried and sentenced like adults.
In Georgia EveryChild helped the government with the development of new childcare standards that are now obligatory for all services providing 24-hour care, including residential institutions. These standards are a huge breakthrough in ensuring that basic requirements are met in services for children without parental care, or at risk of losing parental care.
Around 2,000 children marked World Day Against Child Labour in Malawi. For the first time the government has launched an action plan to tackle the issue of working children and EveryChild joined the child labour network to support the development of these plans. The government also invited EveryChild to be part of a taskforce working to revise Malawi’s child protection policy.
In Cambodia, EveryChild worked alongside other organisations to make recommendations for the treatment of children within the country’s legal system. These recommendations helped to form the draft of Cambodia’s first Juvenile
In Ukraine we advocated for necessary changes to the assessment of vulnerable children’s needs. Our influence led to the alteration of legislation impacting on family and child protection and youth policy.
Influencing ways of working
hun > Hun, 16, was arrested for stealing just a small amount of money and now lives in a cell with 13 other children, some of whom are convicted murderers and rapists. With EveryChild’s help, Hun received free legal advice, which led to a shorter sentence. He is also learning to become a motorcycle mechanic. Hun adds, “I never want to go back to prison.”
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in cambodia EveryChild protects children in contact with the law.
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Raising awareness We raise awareness of the issues affecting children living without, or at risk of losing, parental care. EveryChild promoted the reform of the childcare system in Moldova and became a member of the council coordinating this reform, chaired by the country’s Minister of Education. The reform supports EveryChild’s work reorganising and closing down large-scale institutions and carrying out full assessments before children are separated from their families. We raised awareness of the proposed changes through televised debates, radio discussion and articles in national media. In the UK we launched an online campaign to support our EveryChild deserves a family report. Supporters used our webpage to tell us why every child deserves a family and joined a growing movement to help prevent millions of children from growing up
vulnerable and alone. A group of eight supporters presented 239 collected signatures to UK politicians ahead of the UN Millennium Development Goals Summit in September 2010. Also ahead of this key UN summit we launched Protect for the future, a report written in collaboration with eight other charities focusing on the need for world leaders to place more emphasis on care and protection in order to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. In 2011 we held a launch event, hosted by Jenny Willott MP at the House of Lords, for a new report, Positively Caring. The report examines the impact of HIV and AIDS on children living without parental care, and the alternative options open to children affected by HIV and AIDS. For the first time we encouraged partners, staff and supporters across the world to take part in the event by using Twitter and email to set questions to a discussion panel.
Mahananda > Mahananda, pictured with her children, is a Devadasi. She was dedicated (see box right) when she was just eight years old and when she reached puberty she began working in a brothel. Mahananda became a sex worker because her family was desperate but she wants a better future for her own children. She says, “I don’t want them to have the life I had. My life was not good. Education is the only way.” Now Mahananda works with EveryChild to raise awareness of the devastating effect of the Devadasi system on young girls’ lives. She also receives support so that her children are able to go to school.
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Sex, Death and the Gods
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In January 2011, Beeban Kidron’s documentary Sex, Death and the Gods aired on BBC 4 in the UK. The film raised awareness of the Devadasi practice in northern Karnataka, India. Devadasi, meaning ‘a woman who serves god’, is an ancient Indian custom by which a girl is dedicated to the Hindu goddess Yellamma. Traditionally Devadasis had status in their community but over recent years the practice has been made illegal and has degenerated so that low-caste girls are being exploited and
abused in the sex industry. EveryChild is working with local partners to stop the exploitative practice of dedicating young girls. Together, we worked with the film makers to provide background information and to show how change is happening through our work. To support the broadcast of the film we created a microsite and used Facebook and Twitter to engage a new audience in discussions about the issue. EveryChild’s ‘tweets’ were read by over a million people on Twitter.
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Fundraising – you made it happen.
8.9 million Our income grew to £8.9 million this year.
In this difficult economic climate our fantastic supporters ensure our vital work with vulnerable children and families continues.
In 2010/11 our fundraising brought in £8.9 million, an increase on last year’s £8.4 million. Over £6 million was donated to EveryChild by members of the public making a real difference to the lives of children living without parental care and their communities. As we increased our focus on working with local partners we brought our sponsorship programmes in Russia and Guyana to a close, successfully handing projects over to organisations created out of our work. We communicated these changes to our valued sponsors, many of whom went on to start sponsoring new children in Malawi or India.
We have received some inspiring support over the past 12 months. A brave team took on the challenge of trekking 84 miles from Bowness in Solway to Wallsend along Hadrian’s Wall. Thank you to Chris Jarvis, Alan Evans, Graeme Perry, Anth Matthews and David Rutter for raising £1,000 for EveryChild. We would also like to offer the May family a big thank you. Lisa May, who has sponsored children with EveryChild for many years, made a trip to Malawi to visit the community where the child she sponsors lives. Following her trip, the May Charitable Trust decided to help even more children look forward to a brighter future by donating £60,000 to our work there.
santhosh > As a member of the lowest caste in India, Santhosh, 13, is particularly at risk of discrimination. But he regularly visits his local activity centre, funded by EveryChild’s child sponsorship programme, to get help with his school work. Santhosh feels strongly about education and is the Education Minister of his local children’s parliament. He says, “We need to get all children to school.” Meet more sponsored children like Santhosh at www.everychild.org.uk/sponsorship.
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A boy plays on the streets in Cambodia. The funds you raise for EveryChild enable us to work with children living on the streets, helping them look forward to more positive futures.
TRAID began supporting an EveryChild-funded project in Tamil Nadu, India. The project prevents children being forced into work, specifically in textile spinning mills. These mills invite poor families to send their daughters to work in order to earn their marriage dowry, which is rarely paid. EveryChild is incredibly grateful for every penny we receive. We would like to say a huge thank you to all of our supporters and funders.
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Our income from institutional donors grew throughout 2010/11. New grants from trusts and other grant making bodies confirmed this year will bring in over £3.5 million over the next three years. Our existing donors Comic Relief, the European Commission and the Jersey Overseas Aid Commission also increased their commitments to EveryChild. The funds pledged will enable us to work with local partners in new countries and develop our existing projects. A new collaboration with USAID will help to improve Moldova’s child protection system and reduce the number of children in institutional care.
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could get a child out of an institution in Moldova and unite them with a safe and loving family.
70 could provide a child protection officer in Malawi with a bicycle so that they can reach and protect abused children.
2,000 could build a classroom in Ethiopia, helping vulnerable children to get an education.
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Income and expenditure. Income Total income £8.9 million 26% Grants and contracts
The full accounts were approved by the Board on 28 September 2011 and have been delivered to the Charity Commission and the Registrar of Companies. The accounts have been audited by Crowe Clark Whitehill LLP, registered auditors, and received an unqualified opinion. This information is a summary of the full accounts and as such may not provide a full understanding of the financial affairs of EveryChild. The full annual accounts, together with the auditors’ report and trustees’ annual report are available from the EveryChild registered office, or from our website.
Nadine Nohr Chair
Independent Auditors’ Statement to the Trustees of EveryChild
24% Child sponsorship
We have examined the summarised financial statements of EveryChild set out opposite.
5% Legacies and other income
22% Other committed giving 13% Other donations and events 10% Gift aid
Respective responsibilities of trustees and auditors: The trustees are responsible for the preparation of the summary financial statements. We have agreed to report to the trustees our opinion on the summarised statements’ consistency with the full financial statements on which we reported to the trustees on 1st November 2011. Basis of opinion: We have carried out the procedures we consider necessary to ascertain whether the summarised financial statements are consistent with the full financial statements from which they have been prepared. Opinion: In our opinion the summarised financial statements are consistent with the full financial statements for the year ended 31st March 2011.
Expenditure Total expenditure £8.2 million 29% Fundraising
Crowe Clark Whitehill LLP Statutory Auditor London
70% Programmes 1% Governance
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Summary statement of financial activities for the year ended 31st March 2011
Summary balance sheet as at 31st March 2011
2011 £’000
2010 £’000
From generated funds
6,610
6,544
From charitable activities
2,328
1,840
Investments
Total incoming resources
8,938
8,384
Incoming resources:
Fixed Assets: Tangible assets
Cost of generating funds
2,379
2,431
Charitable activities
5,789
6,782
732
- 758
732
Debtors, prepayments and accrued income
729
969
Cash at bank on medium term deposit
957
703
1,873
1,283
3,559
2,955
233
312
Net current assets
3,326
2,643
Net assests
4,084
3,375
Cash at bank on short term deposit and in hand Governance 61 59 8,229 9,272 Total resources expended 709
(888)
Other recognised gains and losses
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Net movement of funds
758
Current assets:
Resources expended:
Net income/(expenditure) for the year
2011 2010 £’000 £’000
Creditors: amount falling due within one year
709
(874)
Fund balances at 1st April 2010
3,375
4,249
Funds:
Fund balances at 31st March 2011
4,084
3,375
Unrestricted funds General reserves
1,462
1,946
Designated reserves
1,736
629
3,198
2,575
886
800
Restricted funds
4,084 3,375
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Children at an education centre in Ethiopia. Our partner FSCE runs centres like this one to help children who have missed out on school develop their skills and knowledge so that they are able to return to mainstream education.
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Learning, to do better. We try new ways of doing things, and then share what works with communities and governments to bring about lasting, positive change. As this report shows we have built on the work we carry out with our partners this year. We entered into new partnerships in Kenya, Tanzania and Nepal. In Nepal and Kenya our partners, CWISH and Solwodi, both carried out research projects in order to support the development of successful projects. In Kenya, Solwodi produced a report focusing on the lives of children living on the streets, in child-only households or in institutions, while in Nepal CWISHâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s research focused on children working in domestic situations. We developed key policies and tools to ensure that our relationships with partners are high quality and empowering for everyone involved. To develop new ways of working we held discussions with partners and EveryChild staff. We also set out the key principles which govern how EveryChild works in partnership. These principles ensure that EveryChild and our partners complement one another and that our partnerships are effective, equitable and accountable.
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The year ahead. A statement from our Chief Executive EveryChild maximises its impact by working with partners and advocating for change. Looking forward, 2011/12 sees us developing this positive way of working. Working in partnership
Building a worldwide network
Our experience of how to contribute to positive changes in children’s lives tells us that working in partnership with local organisations with local knowledge and expertise is the most effective route. In the coming year we will increase our network of partners and indentify new projects to support in countries across Africa and Asia. We will work with local organisations that understand the problems children face, targeting our support to match the need.
As we increasingly work with, and support the development of, partnership organisations, EveryChild is spearheading the creation of a new coalition. This coalition will bring together organisations from across the globe under a single aim: to reduce the number of children without parental care. Over the next year the coalition will collaborate on research, advocacy and future plans to support the development of a formal international alliance by 2014. The Alliance will share knowledge, raise awareness and leverage more support – together we will make an even bigger difference. Find out more at www.everychild.org.uk/coalition.
Advocating for change Millions of children across the world are without, or risk losing, parental care. Though we are ambitious, the work we carry out and fund can only reach a fraction of these children. Only through influencing and advocacy can we maximise our influence. To help us build our work in this area over the next year we will develop a new advocacy strategy. EveryChild’s evolution Our confidence in the benefits of working in partnership has led us to begin moving away from running offices in countries and, where appropriate, supporting staff to create independent national organisations that can continue working with children. Next year, our work in Russia will be handed over to a new organisation created out of our branch office, and we will work towards making the same transition in Moldova.
Carrying out these plans will really lay the foundations for a big shift in the way EveryChild works. We couldn’t achieve any of this without the collaboration of our partners or the participation of hundreds of children and their families and carers. And we couldn’t support them all without the contribution we get from those of you that provide us with funding – even a small amount makes such a difference. Thank you.
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everychild We stop children growing up vulnerable and alone.
Š Frank Muriithi Karuma/EveryChild
Lucy, 13, was just nine when poverty forced her to drop out of school and support her family by working with her mother at the local rubbish dump. While working there alone one day she was viciously attacked by a man she knew. PKL, our partner on Kenya, enrolled Lucy in an intensive programme of counselling and sought justice on her behalf. We work in partnership to protect vulnerable children like Lucy across the world.
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Š David Levene/EveryChild
Our future plans take us one step closer to our vision of a world where every child enjoys the right to a childhood in a safe and caring family, free from poverty, violence and exploitation.
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IN 2011 /12:
• We will develop our work with new partners in Kenya, Tanzania and Nepal and explore new partnership opportunities in Uganda and Zimbabwe. • Our work in Russia and Moldova will be handed over to independent local organisations created out of our own programmes. • We will make significant progress towards the establishment of the Alliance by recruiting at least 16 founding members. • We will continue with our three-year research project exploring children’s reintegration into their families. • Four working papers will be published focusing on positive care choices. • We will have identified, tested and started to raise funds through a new fundraising technique.
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Thanks to you. The generosity and commitment of all our supporters helps EveryChild to continue doing what we do. You stop children growing up vulnerable and alone. Thank you.
The following individuals and organisations have given significant support to EveryChild in 2010/11. Aberdeen Asset Management
Nigel and Lisa May
Anne and Matthew Richards
Sandhu Charitable Foundation
Anton Likhodedov
Souter Charitable Trust
AXA IM
Stitching Cards
Big Lottery Fund
Stuart McMinnies
Bryan Guinness Charitable Trust
Susan Edwards
Comic Relief
Tokio Marine
European Commission
TRAID
Futures for Kids
DFID â&#x20AC;&#x201C; UKAid
Jersey Overseas Aid Commission
Unicef
Medicor Foundation Leichtenstein
USAID
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Elena plays with her toys in St Petersburg, Russia. She and her four siblings were supported by EveryChild when her parents were struggling to cope following the loss of her Dadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s job.
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Our partners and our people. We work together to stop children growing up alone. Our partners Active Youth Initiative for Social Enhancement
International Leadership and Development Centre
Rights Education and Development Centre (READ)
Patrons Baroness Billingham
Keystone International
Adilisha
Legal Aid of Cambodia
Ruimveldt Children Aid Centre
Donald Brydon CBE
Alliance of NGO’s working in child and family protection
Linden Care Foundation
Rural Women Development Trust (RWDT)
Lady Forsyth
Caritas Georgia CCF Moldova Child Rights Trust (CRT) Children-Women in Social Service and Human Rights (CWISH) Children of Georgia Doctors to Children
LUMOS Moldova Mahila Abhivrudhi Maththu Samrakshana Samsthe (MASS) Meatho Phum Komah Ministry of Gender, Children and Community Development Mkombozi
Fence
Moldova Children’s Rights Centre for Development and Information
Forum on Sustainable Child Empowerment (FSCE)
National Centre for Child Abuse Prevention
Foundation Breath – Georgia
Neighbourhood Community Network
Family to Children
Foundation Breath – Netherlands Georgian Foster Care Organisation GURT Resource Centre HelpAge International Home for All Hope and Homes for Children International Charity Foundation ‘Father’s House’
Sir Bruce Forsyth CBE
Sama Foundation
Dame Deirdre Hutton
Save the Children USA
Elaine Paige OBE
Society for Assistance to Children in Difficult Situation (Sathi)
Rt Hon Sir Malcolm Rifkind KCMG QC
Solidarity for Women in Distress (SOLWODI) SOS Children’s Villages Georgia
Board of trustees Nadine Nohr (Chair) Dorothy Dalton Avril Davis
Speranta Centre
John Flint
St Petersburg Early Intervention Institute
Robert Graham-Harrison CMG
Terre des Hommes
Trevor Pearcy
The First Step Foundation
Anne Richards
Our Home Association Poland
Ukrainian Child Well-Being Fund
Dr David Tolfree
Parent’s Bridge
VSO
Dan Higgins
Partnership for Every Child
Youth Innovation Centre ‘Media-M’
John Trampleasure
Our people Chair Nadine Nohr
Company Secretary Ian Hanham
Paz y Esperanza Pendekezo Letu (PKL) Police Child Protection Units Prerana Public Health and Medicine Defence Fund (PHMDF)
Chief Executive Anna Feuchtwang
Dame Jo Williams CBE
Pramod Unia
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Our partnerships Š David Brunetti/EveryChild
Our partnerships have enabled us to support over 378,500 children living, or at risk of living, without the care of those most important to them.
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