A Safer and a Better World for Children

"COMING TOGETHER IS THE BEGINNING.
KEEPING TOGETHER IS PROGRESS.
WORKING TOGETHER IS SUCCESS."

By Henry Ford

We believe that every child has a right to a safe childhood free of violence.  The first federal legislation to protect children from abuse and neglect, the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA), was passed in 1974. In 1982 then, the Congress took further steps toward identifying and preventing child abuse and recognized the first Child Abuse Prevention Week. Shortly after, the first National Child Abuse Prevention Month was designated in the month of April. Since those early days, the focus was on recognition and prevention and has widened to include promoting healthy parenting and strong families through education and community support.

Our team works every day to advance the science of safe childhood and we work towards the highest standards of child care and produce high-impact education and outreach programming. By accelerating discovery, we lead the way to a better understanding of changing the way the world understands and treats children. And by empowering families and educators with clear, unbiased information, we promote the kind of open, honest dialogue that will help ensure that every child gets the opportunities he or she deserves. “We speak not for ourselves but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.” We run programmes to provide quality education and healthcare, protection from harm and abuse and life-saving aid during emergencies to children. Bold in our ambition and powerful in our care, we do whatever it takes to protect the world’s children.

Credibility and accountability have always been the bench mark for us and our pioneering programmes address children’s unique needs, giving them a healthy start, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. Drawing on a century of leading expertise, we dynamically take on the toughest challenges facing the hardest-to-reach children – especially those unfairly excluded from the world’s progress.