Child Protection

Our Rescue and Recovery activities are comprehensive and cumulative, providing victims with holistic rehabilitation in all areas including physical health, education, behaviour, and trauma-sensitive psychology. We begin this rehabilitation support from the moment we rescue each child or receive them into our shelter from other organizations who have rescued them. After about 3-9 months and once they are ready, we reintegrate each child into the community either in formal schools or in vocational/apprenticeship training and continue monitoring them to ensure their well-being and successful reintegration into society. We provide rehabilitation services to hundreds of children each year.

The Challenging Heights’ Max Stenbeck Mother and Child Center was established to serve as a recovery center and a safe house for girls and young women and their children, who are victims of sexual and gender-based violence, teenage mothers and children, survivors and girls fleeing from child/forced marriages, victims and survivors of trafficking and the worst forms of child labour. The Center offers courses in cosmetology and fashion under the CTVET model. The women and girls are also provided with soft skills training in sexual and reproductive health rights, Computer literacy, Business and financial management, leadership and conflict resolution. The Center receives referrals from the Department of Social Welfare, DOVVSU and other NGOs/CSOs across the country.  We believe this can be useful for the consortium in our proposed activity on child marriage because the victims identified can be referred to the center for the necessary recovery and psycho-social support, in addition to the skills training.