Child Abuse and Neglect

The project entitled „We protect children against sexual abuse" was designed to develop high-quality educational resources for parents, educators, as well as professionals working with children and their families. It was implemented by the Empowering Children Foundation (Poland), Paramos Vaikams Center (Lithuania) and Dardedze Center (Latvia). Now ECF shares the content with interested organizations in order to prepare other language versions of the e-learning courses.

The newest (September 2018) report prepared by organization Vostok-SOS/East-SOS presents the result of a study on the situation of Ukrainian schools located within the 15-km zone along the frontline in Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

The project entitled „We protect children against sexual abuse" was designed to develop high-quality educational resources for parents, educators, as well as professionals working with children and their families. The e-learning provides information on how parents can talk to children about their bodies, safety, dangerous situations, to improve their protection against sexual abuse, and how to react when children face dangerous situations online and in the real world (including legal intervention).

The index compares countries by a set of indicators representing life-changing events that signal the disruption of childhood: poor health, malnutrition, exclusion from education, child labor, child marriage, early pregnancy and extreme violence. These "childhood enders" are most prevalent where poverty, conflict and gender bias overlap to create toxic environments for children.