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vendredi 15 février 2019

Types And Functions Of NGOs For Children In Sierra Leone

By Helen Hamilton


This organization help to promote the rights of children. The cooperation was established with the aim of improving the lives of children by providing better education, good health care. Additionally, they assist a country in giving aid when natural disasters like war and conflicts occur. NGOs for children in Sierra Leone are independent organizations that are operated without government help. However, these groups usually receive funding from the government.

They also help a child to get the best specialist who will help them deal with specific types of illnesses. They provide other critical needs like nutritional support, dental care, counseling, education and provision of basic needs like shelter and clothing. They help youth to find scholarships so that they can further their studies, engage them in leadership programs and assist them in finding employment.

Sierra Leone faces low literacy as a result of low enrollment and school dropout. The nonprofit companies have come up with seminars and training aimed at educating society on the importance of education. They have also helped in building schools and paying school fees for those youngsters who cannot afford the cost of schooling. The organizations have contributed towards employing teachers and student counselors. They have also work with different professionals in coming up with fun activities that encourage kids to attend school.

The community organizations can seek assistance from the Peace Corps, united nation and the United Nations international kids emergency funds for financial and professional support to help in the achievement of the goals and objectives of an association. Most organizations work toward the delivery of fundamental kids rights. They work with vulnerable progenies like street kids, youngsters bonded by child labor, teenage commercial sex workers and those with physical and mental illness.

Associations work with hospitals in ensuring that the mothers know the importance of taking care of their children. Mothers are educated on the importance of natal checkups, breastfeeding, and proper nutrition. The companies have also worked with different research institutions that help in coming up with various ways of dealing with the problems faced by progenies. Also, they inform the necessary authorities on whether a project is giving positive results. This helps them make adjustments early thus avoiding waste of resources.

International non-governmental organizations are those settings controlled by different agencies such as global march against child labor, save the teenagers and ford foundation. They are mostly religiously based on work towards assisting in the community projects that are aimed towards childcare. People who work in the non-government setting are highly professionalized. The staffs are paid although other organizations rely on volunteers.

The institutions have come up with ways of enrolling progenies through various vocational training. This helps them acquire the necessary skills required by different industries. This ensures that they can be employed and in the process get empowered economically. This enables them towards eradicating the level of poverty in a community. Companies receive funding from communities and government.

Currently, most institutions experience a variety of challenges ranging from the flooding number of this organization to lack of funding. This factors resulted in some centers closing. Also, corruption has led to systems going through closure. Donors sometimes want to run the organization using their rules and regulations this can lead to an institution diverting from its primary purpose thus affecting other institutions which are directly connected to the association.




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