Fondation pour L'enfance - Terre de Paix

The Fondation pour L’Enfance Terre de Paix was established to meet the felt needs of people, mainly focusing on children. Today, the action of the association remains in line with its original aim: to combat poverty and its resulting consequences on the most vulnerable groups of society, particularly children, in a non-discriminatory way through the child’s rights approach. The foundation was constructed around 30 years ago and now manages around 30 beneficiaries consisting of children and families

The Fondation pour L’Enfance Terre de Paix has for objectives to:

• Carry out child care facilities in a secular and non-discriminatory way while abiding by the laws and rights of the United Nations Convention.

• Provide training in child care through the development and implementation of appropriate programmes.

• Raise and apply finds to meet the objects of the association.

• Engage in networking activities with other NGOs, the government and other stakeholders in the furtherance of the objects of the Association.

• Provide alternative care services, in the best interest of the child in collaboration of biological parents and relatives whenever possible:

-Of a residential nature in ways conducive to the overall development of children, especially through the setting-up of family-type structures for young children and youth homes.

-Of a non-residential nature through the setting-up of appropriate creative and cultural and educational pre-school structures, and appropriate creative and cultural educational, pre-vocational and vocational structures for children who are out of the mainstream system of education and training.

To work towards the above-mentioned goals, The Fondation pour L’Enfance Terre de Paix provides these amazing activities:

• Running of an alternative structure of education and training for children (atelier du savoir).

• Consultative services at other primary schools through specific programmes, in the context of handling severe behavior problems of children.

• Setting up and running of a Centre D’Eveil et de Développement du Jeune Enfant et des Parents (CED) for children aged 0 – 8 years old.

• Setting up a senses park, the Jardin D’Eveil, for children from NGO’s, public preschools primary and lower secondary schools.

• Setting up and running of a self-help project for deprived families of the community. They relate to:

-laying hens

-back yard gardening

-mushrooms cultivation

-literacy programmes

-handicraft

-job seekers programmes

-Training Centre.