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CHILD POVERTY

Our meticulously crafted child poverty program uses a variety of livelihood interventions to improve children’s nutritional, health, and educational status while significantly reducing the risk of abuse, exploitation, and neglect. We take our interventions to areas facing extreme poverty, undernutrition, and protection risks through strong networks that we’ve built to support developing and implementing the National Social Security Strategy. Those in poverty often lack access to education and do not understand the necessity to learn, as they are encouraged to start work early to support the immediate needs of their families. To help poverty-stricken children transform into empowered citizens, our Education for Youth Empowerment (EYE) Programme is geared towards improving their social status through accelerated education and vocational training and linking them to decent job opportunities in the future. By teaming up with the Ministry of Labour and Employment, we will support the adoption and implementation of the National Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Policy for Children. Our nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive approach has led to substantial changes in infant and young child feeding (IYCF), maternal child health & nutrition (MCHN) practices, dietary diversity, household food security, nutrition indicators, and household income and savings.