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ANNUAL REVIEW 2007

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challenging violence against children

Table of Contents Executive Director’s report 03 Children running their own banks across Asia 04 Young people preventing violence in Brazil 06 ChildHope highlights in 2007 08 Funding our work 10 Financial review 12 The future 14 Partners 15 Trustees, staff, volunteers and patrons 16 The photographs of children are not of those written about and the names of all children have been changed to ensure that their identities are protected. All the children have given their informed consent for the use of their photographs or stories. All images by ChildHope unless otherwise stated.

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Executive Director’s Report Many people helping children assume that vulnerable girls and boys have limited capacity and need to be rescued by adults offering shelter or money. In our experience, achieving long-term well-being for children exposed to violence requires much more than that. It has to involve improving children’s relationships with adults and changing attitudes and behaviour towards them. Tangible help shelter, food, clothes - only offers comfort in the short-term. The role of children in changing their own lives, and even those of other children, has been seriously undervalued by many who work with children. Of course, adults are important to children. For example, when children are separated from their families, some develop resilience through adversity while others despair. The presence in their lives of at least one supportive and affectionate adult is often crucial for children to develop resilience. At the same time, with the right support it is children who are key agents of change. In an HIV prevention initiative in Uganda the decisions made by children have been critical in making the project a success. When adult community leaders selected volunteers they tended to choose family, friends or potential political supporters. However, when the children chose the volunteers, they selected individuals who proved far more committed to the project. When children trust in their own abilities, and know when and where to get help and support, they not only make the best of their own situations, but they inspire their peers to do so as well. In ChildHope’s project in Bangladesh it is the children who decide which boys and girls to help and make the first contact with children who have been abused. They are better than adults at gaining the trust of other children. In this review you will read about children as agents of change. They all transformed their own lives during childhood but many grew up wanting to help other children too. In our project reports, you will read about how children in India are managing their own bank while in Brazil young people are running projects to prevent violence. Our local partner organisations excel at discovering new ways to protect and empower children, moving beyond the rhetoric of child participation by genuinely listening to them and taking their views into account, by hard work and by adjusting to children’s different circumstances. Choosing such partners is one of our strengths. They, like us, make sure the importance of children in changing their own lives is core to everything they do. None of this would be possible without the help of our supporters. I hope the following pages show how your contribution and commitment makes a real difference to children’s lives. Thank you.

Emma Crewe, Executive Director

In 2007 ChildHope’s projects directly benefited over 28,000 girls and boys across the world. The results for those children have been life changing

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In 2001 children in Delhi decided to start their own co-operative bank. With the help of Butterflies, ChildHope’s partner organisation in Delhi, they designed a bank to provide street and working children with life skills education, a saving facility, advances and, for the older children, business advice.

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The children are from low-income families, living a hand to mouth existence earning meagre amounts in rag picking, shoeshine, street vending, or as porters and domestic or casual workers. Children living on the streets do not usually dare to save - exposed as they are to harassment by the city police, railway authorities and criminal gangs. The bank gives them a safe place to keep their money, but also encourages them to think about their future and invest in their education or livelihood. Butterflies staff teach children the basic principles of banking, how a bank functions, how to run a cooperative and the basics of accounting. Children set all rules about criteria for membership, eligibility for loans, size of loans available, interest paid on savings and charged on loans, repayment terms and guarantees. Bank Managers are elected every six months by the child members and the loan committee is composed of both older and younger children; it is the latter, that is children under 15 years old who are not eligible for a loan, that scrutinize the loan applications with the greatest care. By 2007 the Delhi bank had nearly 8,000 members with savings worth £19,500. The initiative has been so successful that Butterflies has been training organisations in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Afghanistan to help children set up banks. The memberships are growing, children have saved £150,000 in Asia so far, and the repayment rates are impressive. These children-run banks are giving children new skills, confidence and opportunities for a better future.

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AHMED’S STORY When Ahmed was 10 his father died and he travelled from Allahabad, India, to Delhi to earn a living. He began rag picking - collecting and selling bottles, newspapers, and other rubbish - at New Delhi Railway Station. The police raided the station and took Ahmed to a government-run children’s home. He ran away from this ‘prison’ and took to rag picking again. This time he made contact with Butterflies who enrolled him in their education programme. He became a member of the children’s development bank. He studied hard but also saved for his mother and siblings back in Allahabad, so that they could start building a brick and cement house. After three and a half years he had saved enough. He returned home to his village with gifts for his family and enough money for a house. He has started a new life and opened a small grocery shop. He calls the social workers at Butterflies now and again to thank them for believing in him. 05

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YOUNG PEOPLE PREVENTING VIOLENCE IN BRAZIL

Almost half of Brazilians aged 15 to 24 years old are out of work or formal education. Children and young people are acutely vulnerable to violence in Brazil. The homicide rate among youth is one of the highest in the world. 100,000 young people are sexually exploited every year. How can violence be prevented? “We probably have the most beautiful Constitution in the world. However, violence is everywhere and our authorities seem to be doing nothing about it” (Ernesto, Youth Coordinator). So modern and progressive legislation and regulations are not enough. We support four local organisations in Brazil that are giving young people the chance to express their concerns both within their own communities and at the national level. They are challenging different types of violence in each region and influencing the government’s national health policy. • Promundo in Rio de Janeiro: tackles violence against young men, especially within black and low income communities • Instituto Papai in Recife: challenges gendered inequalities, including homophobia and violence against women • Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra (Workers Landless Movement) in Chapecó: concentrates on violence against youth in rural areas and domestic violence in settlements • Grupo Atitude in Brasilia: works in schools and among youth gangs to reduce violence These young women and men use their own style to inspire their peers; they keep formal meetings to a minimum and communicate through music, radio, mini movies, dance, theatre, e-groups and web chats, graffiti and sport events. This truly youth-led initiative promotes positive community relations. Youth commissions across Brazil are advocating against violence and monitoring public policies with local and national government. “We should be protagonists of our own story. Taking part in this programme, we are learning about our rights and responsibilities, as well as the way to fulfil them and demand for changes” (Favio, Youth Representative).

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JOÃO’S STORY

“I have lived in Nova Holanda (Rio de Janiero, Brazil) since I was born. ‘Red Command’ was created many years ago to promote peace in the community, but now it is a criminal gang that sells drugs. Red Command has taken over about 60% of Rio. The gang members are heavily armed. The police are as corrupt as the gangs - the gangs have to give large sums of money to the police so that they can continue their trade. “I was sixteen when I started fighting. A friend of mine got me involved. Many of my friends died in the fights. Many are still involved in drugs. I fought because I was very insecure about everything. I believed I could gain everything I wanted through force. “But then I made a decision to change my life. Joining the project made me look at everything differently. As I started boxing, my aggression became contained inside the ropes of the ring. I was getting good at sports, and people began to value me. I felt very moved by this, and I thought I could be a mirror of good things for others. Then I began to persuade others to come too. I would say,’come and try this, you will like it, and people will like you for who you are.’ I realised I had a gift for persuading people. We are not the centre of life - we have to open ourselves up and help others. “If it wasn´t for the project, I would probably be dead by now. But instead, I see my future as so big, so wide, I can´t even describe it. I want to do one thing, then another thing, and I think I will have time to do all of them. I want to serve as an example to other young people. I think my wall of history is already very tall even though I am not very old.” 07

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CHILDHOPE HIGHLIGHTS

IN 2007

‘ChildHope is a well managed organisation. First impressions of its competence are confirmed through closer inspection. There is a wealth of knowledge and experience of the relevant issues within the organisation. ChildHope is a vibrant and ambitious organisation. Consequently, it is far from complacent and invests a considerable amount of effort into thinking about its future and how it achieves it. The organisation is on the cusp of a substantial step forward in both the work that it does and the way in which it is funded. ChildHope has reached an important watershed in its evolution.’ (Charities Aid Foundation, 2007, ChildHope Health Check) 08

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In 2007 over 14,600 girls and 13,400 boys were directly helped in our projects, while over 8 million children, young people and relatives gained benefits indirectly from our work.

ChildHope’s Small Grants Scheme is funding Gueto Poetico to provide circus, music, literature and poetry workshops to disadvantaged children and young people in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil.

ChildHope has been working with organisations across the world to improve child protection practices. In the UK we provided tailor-made support and training courses for other leading charities, partly through the British Overseas NGOs for Development network. We also trained organisations in Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. Our Child Protection Toolkit is available in English, French, Arabic and Spanish.

Six staff members of PricewaterhouseCoopers were seconded to ChildHope for a week. They visited three of our partner organisations in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Brazil and gave invaluable advice and designed frameworks on budgeting, reporting and financial management.

ChildHope, the Department for International Development (DFID), and 34 other international civil society organisations have established a network to promote the rights of children and youth internationally. With UNICEF (UK), Save the Children UK, Plan, the Overseas Development Institute, and others, ChildHope has been encouraging DFID to pay greater attention to child protection and participation.

ChildHope was awarded grants for new work in Peru, Kenya, Sierra Leone, and Ethiopia. The strategic funding of £1.6m for our partnership with Children Aid - Ethiopia will enable us to prevent the forced early marriage and sexual exploitation of girls and to protect street children and AIDS orphans.

Over 16,500 children received formal or informal education within ChildHope programmes.

Our local partner organisations, with ChildHope's support, enabled children to escape from hazardous labour and sexual exploitation, avoid HIV, access healthcare, get out of prison, return to their families and school, learn new skills, and gain influence over others.

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FUNDING OUR WORK Regular donations are invaluable for continuing our work in the longer-term: month will pay for 70 complete HIV £5 atesting kits, enabling more children in

£15

a month will pay for 60 sexually abused children in Bangladesh to receive essential legal help

£25

a month will pay for 9 Peruvian families to start their own businesses, removing the need for their children to be involved in hazardous labour

Uganda to be tested and provided with appropriate treatment

£10

a month will pay for the salary of a cook to prepare meals for hundreds of street children every day in Sierra Leone

Thank you for your support. It’s your continued generosity that makes a difference to the lives of so many vulnerable children.

SUCCESSES IN 2007 We continued to receive generous donations from a wide range of donors including trusts, individuals and companies. • We were awarded three new large grants worth nearly £2.5 million over 5 years: £350k for our work in Sierra Leone, £1.6m for our partnership in Ethiopia and £500k for work with girls in Kenya. • ChildHope celebrated its 18th birthday at the River Room in the Palace of Westminster with the Lord Speaker of the House of Lords, Baroness Hayman, Wahida Banu (an activist from Bangladesh) and some of our long-term committed supporters.

• Janet McCoy, Linda Welsh, Marilyn Perry and Georgie Dalton from Salisbury organised a Christmas Auction of Promises for major donors raising funds for our work in Peru. • We secured trust and corporate support from Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, asset management company Capital International, Arnold and Porter LLP, and the law firm Holman Fenwick and Willan.

For every £1 we raised for our general fund, we obtained nearly £5 in grants from our major donors.

• We recruited new regular supporters, as the result of an appeal for direct debit donations, and even more payroll donors.

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These summarised financial statements contain information from both the Statement of Financial Activities and the Balance Sheet for the year ended 31 December 2007, but are not the full statutory report and accounts. The full financial statements were approved by the Trustees on 22 April 2008 and subsequently submitted to the Charity Commission and to Companies House. They received an unqualified audit report and copies may be obtained from ChildHope UK’s head office. Richard Livesey-Haworth, Chair 23 April 2008 Independent auditors’ statement to the trustees of ChildHope We have examined the summarised financial statements which comprise the summary statement of financial activities and the summary balance sheet. Respective responsibilities of trustees and auditors The trustees are responsible for preparing the summarised financial statements in accordance with United Kingdom law and the recommendations of the charities SORP. Our responsibility is to report to you our opinion on the consistency of the summarised financial statement with the full financial statements and Trustees’ Annual Report. We also read the other information contained in the annual review and consider the implications for our report if we become aware of any apparent misstatements or material inconsistencies with the summarised financial statements. Basis of opinion We conducted our work on accordance with Bulletin 1999/6 “the auditors’ statement on the summary financial statement” issued by the Auditing Practices Board for use in the United Kingdom. Our report on the organisation’s full annual financial statements describes the basis of our audit opinion on the financial statements. Opinion In our opinion the summarised financial statements are consistent with the full annual financial statements and the Trustees’ Annual Report of ChildHope UK for the year ended 31 December 2007. Sayer Vincent, Registered Auditors 23 April 2008

9%

11%

11%

1%

1% 14% 31% 21%

65%

• • • • •

Analysis of Income Received Grants from institutional donors Donations from trusts, foundations & companies Donations from individuals Income for capacity development of local organisations Other income

14%

• • • • • •

22%

Analysis of Resources Expended Grants to Africa Grants to South America Grants to Asia Capacity development of local organisations Costs of Generating Income Governance

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Balance sheet at 31 December 2007 (all figures in £’s) 2007 Fixed Assets Current Assets Debtors Cash at bank and in hand

Creditors: amounts falling due within one year

2006 Restated 6,111

9,730

18,919 343,442 362,361

18,472 422,037 440,509

(181,554)

(271,679)

Net current assets Net assets Funds Restricted Funds Unrestricted Funds General funds Designated funds

180,807

168,830

186,918

178,560

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-

168,761 18,157 186,918

152,004 26,556 178,560

Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 31 December 2007 2007

Incoming resources Incoming resources from generated funds Voluntary income Investment Income Incoming resources from charitable activities Workshops & consultancy Management of projects Total incoming resources Resources Expended Costs of generating funds Costs of generating voluntary income Charitable activities Distributions to partner organisations Capacity development Governance Total resources expended Net incoming / (outgoing) resources Reconciliation of funds Total funds at the start of the year as previously stated Prior year adjustment Total funds at the start of the year as restated

Total funds carried forward

Restricted

General

Designated

Total

2006 Restated Total

1,171,341 -

261,981 14,305

-

1,433,322 14,305

1,628,787 9,212

183,451 1,354,792

1,680 277,966

-

1,680 183,451 1,632,758

6,822 138,633 1,783,454

15,000

159,172

-

174,172

165,296

1,090,438 249,354 1,354,792

85,946 16,091 261,209

8,399 8,399

1,098,837 335,300 16,091 1,624,400

1,314,135 272,328 17,126 1,768,885

-

16,757

(8,399)

8,358

14,569

241,009 (241,009) -

154,366 (2,362) 152,004 168,761

26,556 26,556 18,157

421,931 (243,371) 178,560 186,918

214,826 (50,835) 163,991 178,560

As part of the annual consideration of accounting policies, the trustees have made changes to reflect the most appropriate treatment of transactions. Accordingly the 2006 accounts have been restated to ensure the consistent application of these policies for both years.

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THE FUTURE ChildHope has formed partnerships with leading civil society organisations in Africa, Asia and South America. In the past four years we have been reaching out to more diverse groups of vulnerable children who experience violence. Violence is neglect, the use of force or abuse of power that causes physical or psychological harm or death. On 27th November 2007 the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution to focus on the elimination of violence against children. ChildHope will contribute to this by: 1. Supporting partners to prevent the abuse and exploitation of boys and girls, particularly in schools and families, and within organisations who are responsible for children. 2. Researching the potential for improving the links between the protection of children and reducing violence against women. 3. Benefiting larger numbers of children by advocating for effective policies and practices that reduce violence against girls and boys. 4. Reducing our dependency on large donors. To ensure our independence and greater responsiveness to local organisations, we will seek greater support from individuals, corporates and trusts.

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EHIT-AGEGNE’S STORY

“I don’t know my father. My mother left me and went to the countryside. I was adopted by a lady who earned her income by renting beds in the Merkato district of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. When she died I was thrown out of the house. I was involved in sex work from the age of thirteen to seventeen. I had a son, Yohannes, and he is very wonderful. The best lesson I have learned from my childhood is to care for my child. “When I was seventeen I was informed about Children Aid - Ethiopia.* I came to talk to workers in the drop-in centre and they would see my bruises. They helped me to go to school and I went to work hiring out beds. Over four years I trained to be a peer educator. They taught me how to communicate to other young girls, to warn them about the danger of their lives and how there are other choices. I can tell the girls about Addis because I was born here and many of them come from rural areas. ‘A dog is a lion in his own community’ - this saying applies to me. I take it as my responsibility to save lives. It is deep inside me. If there was no Children Aid - Ethiopia, I would have been useless.” * This is ChildHope’s local partner organisation in Addis Ababa

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ESTHER’S STORY Esther is 13 years old and lives near Lima, Peru. Up until 2 years ago she worked in the brick-making fields with her family. She used to go to school occasionally, but she felt so tired when she got there, that she did not have the energy to understand her teachers. She used to work long hours, resting just for half an hour each day. Esther received support from ChildHope’s project with her school work and learned about the dangers and risks of child labour as well as the benefits of pursuing an education. “We come to the project to study but also to play. Here the educators don’t just teach us, but help us to have better relationships with our families and school teachers.” She was interviewed by a local radio programme, and spoke about her community’s dreams and needs and made a call to the government to provide more jobs to adults so that children do not need to work. Now Esther only works a few hours to help with the family income. Esther is studying hard and her family will receive a loan so that they can start a small business and enable their children to stop working completely. Esther looks at the future differently now. “Until last year I wanted to be an office secretary because I learnt how to use computers and enjoyed working with them so much. However, now that I have learnt about my rights, I want to put that knowledge for the benefit of my friends and the people in my community. Therefore, I want to be a lawyer.”

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 CHILDHOPE’S LOCAL PARTNER ORGANISATIONS

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South America

Africa

Asia

Asociación de Defensa de la Vida (ADEVI) and Centro Proceso Social, Peru Movimiento de promoción por los derechos humanos de las mujeres (Amhauta), Peru Gueto Poetico, Brazil Promundo, Instituto Papai, Grupo Atitude, and Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra, Brazil

Children Aid - Ethiopia Children in Distress Network, Build Environment Support Group, Pietermaritzburg Child Welfare Society, and Lawyers for Human Rights, South Africa Help a Needy Child, Sierra Leone Mkombozi, Tanzania Pendekezo Letu, Kenya Uganda Youth Anti AIDS Association and Uganda Reproductive Health Bureau, Uganda

Aparajeyo, Bangladesh Butterflies, Delhi, India Child in Need Institute Asha, India Foundation for Rural Youth, Thailand

WHAT PARTNERS SAY ABOUT US:

“We have learnt and gained a lot from your visit. Do it more often.” “ChildHope’s Programme Manager has been insightful, sensitive and has taught us so much.” “We are so proud to have ChildHope for a partner. You are all such hard working, nice and committed people. We have learned a lot from your strengths. Much of the credit of our success has to go to you.”

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TRUSTEES Dean Anderson William Brewis Sonya Burke Carolyn Clarke Jean Grugel Sarah Hammond Ward Alex Kirby Michael Little Richard Livesey-Haworth (Chair) Alice Mayhew Chris Mowles Fiona Mitchell Maria Pemberton Lesley Thornley* Helen Turnbull Tina Wallace * Left in 2007

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STAFF Emma Crewe Catherine Klirodokatou Nicolas Deloux* Ibiye Dokubo* Majda El Bied Andres Gomez de la Torre Elanor Jackson Tim Jenner Beatrice Kahiro* Hazel Lim Gemma McCoy Mike Northcroft Sandra Noronha Sabrina Qua* Tanya Rahman* Julie-anne Smith Jacqueline Wallis Matthew Wilson

VOLUNTEERS Carmen Caruccio Hannah Cooper Shelley Copelovitz Victoria Cork Erika Hamer Harriet Johnson Satu Kanninen Marta Ortiz Morales Marta Persiani Taci Silver Rebecca Spurling Suzanna Wright

PATRONS Helen Baxendale Jeremy Bowen Lyse Doucet Trevor Eve Christine McCafferty (MP) Dr Sandra Scott Timothy Spall

* Left in 2007

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Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT Telephone 020 7065 0950 Fax 020 7065 0951 Email [email protected]

www.childhope.org.uk Registered charity number 328434 Company limited by guarantee 2343358 The photographs of children are not of those written about and the names of all children have been changed to ensure that their identities are protected. All the children have given their informed consent for the use of their photographs or stories. All images by ChildHope unless otherwise stated.