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The complete report from the ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ Child Protection Team, reporting from Gaza.

Thank you for your interest in supporting refugees and taking a stand for welcome in Northern California.  You are vital to protecting the values that make this country who we are. On behalf of those we serve, thank you. Here are ways you can help.

Global partners have successfully called on the United Nations to adopt an International Day of Play to champion and protect children’s right to play. The International Day of Play will be June 11th, with the inaugural celebration to take place in 2024.

Opera singer Danielle de Niese visits ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ child protection programs in Tanzania.

An executive summary of a report from the ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ Child Protection Team, reporting from Gaza.

In honor of National Human Trafficking Awareness Month in January, the ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ in Silver Spring sat down with Winifrida Kassembe, Anti-Trafficking Caseworker, to interview her about the office’s efforts to combat human trafficking in Maryland. The focus of the Anti-Trafficking Program is to ensure that survivors have access to protection and opportunities to achieve self-sufficiency through comprehensive case management, advocacy, education, collaboration, and capacity building.

The Healing Hands project of the ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ seeks to support the comprehensive development, care and protection of migrant boys and girls and members of the host community from 0 to 5 years old in Ecuador. After the initial implementation of Healing Hands, the ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ (̽»¨¾«Ñ¡) developed a report with reflections and learnings that organizations can replicate.

In 2018, the ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ assisted over 120,000 Syrian refugees and low-income Jordanians to access healthcare, protection, education and income generation opportunities. One of the recent changes that ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ staff have noticed is that Syrian women are taking on more of an income earning role than was the norm back in Syria and that this is creating changes in household dynamics.

To support agricultural recovery in long-term or post-crisis locations, the ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ works with communities to restore agricultural assets, upgrade skills and practices, and build disaster preparedness to better protect and improve their livelihoods.