Chance for Childhood is an award-winning charity working in Africa to support the most vulnerable children, such as street-connected children, children with disabilities, children affected by conflict and children behind bars. We work alongside visionary community leaders to design and implement innovative and low-cost solutions adapted to the most complex and low-resource contexts, to ensure barriers to quality education, protection and participation are removed even for the most marginalised children and young people.
Our vision is a world where no child is forgotten.
In 2019, Chance for Childhood’s social protection, justice for children and inclusive education programmes benefitted over 32,000 children, young people, families, community members and frontline workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda.
We work with and strengthen the capacity of African visionary community leaders and governments to implement locally-relevant yet far-reaching projects that create lasting change within the Justice, Education and Social Protection sectors. This enables us to focus on ‘hard to reach’ children, both in terms of their complex needs (e.g. street children with learning difficulties) and location (e.g. urban violent slums or remote rural areas).
Our strong ethos of partnership and collaboration continues to be the driver of achieving impact at scale. Together with our partners, we make ideas and impact both sustainable and scalable to protect, educate and empower even more of the world’s most disadvantaged children.
We believe that the only way to break the vicious cycle of poverty and exclusion is through an approach tailored to the unique needs and situation of each child. We tackle the root causes of exclusion and vulnerability and work with the child, their family and the wider community to create lasting change.
