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World Vision UK Ending the worst forms of child labour

Beneficiaries

  • Children / Young People

    This project, which started in 2018 and is entering its final year, working across three regions in DRC; Haut Katanga, Tanganyika and Lualaba to help improve ac

  • Number of beneficiaries - 80000

    Families not always prioritising girls’ education

ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION

World Vision’s mission is for every child to enjoy life in all its fullness. In doing so, we seek to reach and protect the most vulnerable children, fighting injustice and poverty wherever it is found. Children caught up in forced labour, trafficking, illicit activities and pornography instead of having an innocent childhood, are some of the world’s most vulnerable children, and it is for them that we exist to bring hope and life in all its fullness.

BENEFICIARIES REACHED ANNUALLY

20000

Low household incomes meaning families are unable to afford

SIZE OF PROJECT PER ANNUM

£67,000.00

TIMELINE

Oct 2018 Onwards

Activity goals

Improving access to a quality education

Improved literacy through Learning Clubs

Increasing families’ income through savings groups

Activity Actions

  • Increasing families’ income through savings groups and loan groups.

  • Prioritising girls education through community champions, to overcome the restraining factor.

  • To improve children’s basic reading and writing skills has been the introduction of learning clubs.

  • Improving access to a quality education

  • Children in grade 4-6 can neither read certain words in French nor identify a letter of the alphabet

Activity details
GEOGRAPHIC REACH

Central African Republic

IMPACT REPORTING

Bi-annually

March 2021

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
UN SDG 5: Gender Equality UN SDG 4: Quality Education UN SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being UN SDG 17: Partnerships to achieve the Goal
How we monitor the quality and results of our work

Work with local organisations to identify and share the best ways of preventing child labour.

WHO IS ALREADY FUNDING THE PROJECT?

The UK Foreign Aid

We have been granted a total of £12 million from the Department for International Development
OTHER PARTNERS

Columbia University

Partnering with Columbia University to test and develop the most cost effective, sustainable method