One of our goals is to fight against all forms of abuse, to improve the protection of children not only but to promote a climate of well-treatment knowing that violence against children is destructive.
Often victims of violence are children with disabilities, child labourers, child beggars, children removed from school, and child victims of rape.
Trafficking in children is also illegal. It is extremely harmful because children who are victims of it face physical abuse and sexual and other exploitation.
It is difficult to obtain precise data on child trafficking because it is a criminal activity.
As an NGO, we are doing everything we can to fight and act preventively against trafficking in children in our country and in the world and thus change the course of things.
ASOME works on the resilience capacity of vulnerable children, supports the psychological and physical reconstruction of child victims of abuse and helps them to implement a new life project. Sometimes cases of abuse go to trial and allow child victims to receive legal support.
Situation of violence and children’s abuse
- Children’s begging
To eradicate this scourge of child begging, the solutions will be endogenous and will require the pooling of initiatives involving all stakeholders: State, religious authorities, families, civil society, NGOs, etc. Some such as those mentioned below may address the whole problem.
The revitalization of rural areas to avoid the rural exodus of entire families who find themselves in the city without having the means to live there decently and who can increase the ranks of begging candidates.
There are also all these young boys, coming from these rural areas who are suffering the full brunt of the profound changes in the urban world with the abandonment of subsistence farming and breeding.
– We intend to carry out an inclusive social policy to improve the standard of living of the most vulnerable layers and to put an end to daily survival emergencies.
– Support the Koranic Teachers to find subsidies allowing them to modernize and better structure the Madrassas (Koranic Schools). This would allow the Koranic Students to be decently taken care of and provide them with optimal support in their learning.
– Reproductive health to be promoted and adopted more by poor families who continue to have a high birth rate without having the means to provide for their children.
A child has the right to education, protection and dignity. As soon as he finds himself in the street begging he finds himself deprived of all these rights and is exposed to all kinds of vices.
The place of these children is not in the street, but in reassuring and structuring places to give them an opportunity to forge their destinies. They need and have the right to get the best possible start in life.
- Children’s exploitation :
Child exploitation refers to the use of children for the advantage, satisfaction or economic or sexual gain of another person, often resulting in unfair, cruel and harmful treatment to the child.
– Children’s labour:
Child labour is any unpaid or paid work that is mentally, physically, emotionally, socially or morally dangerous and harmful to children. This is the kind of work that hinders the development and schooling of children.
– Child abuse:
Refers to all forms of physical and / or emotional abuse, sexual abuse, neglect or neglected treatment, or commercial or other exploitation, causing actual or potential harm to the child’s health, his survival, development or dignity within the framework of a relationship of responsibility, trust or power.
– Child neglect: Neglect occurs when the parents of a child, or the adult caregiver, persistently lacking to adequately provide for the basic needs of a child while they have the capacity to do so. There are many forms of neglect, namely physical, medical, emotional and educational neglect.
– Child abuse: Child abuse is defined as all forms of physical or mental abuse, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, abuse or exploitation, including sexual abuse.
– Children’s well-being and protection: The well-being of a child can be understood as the quality of the child’s life. It is a dynamic state that improves whenever a person has the opportunity to achieve personal and social goals. A wide range of domains and indicators are used to assess the well-being of children, but more importantly to ensure their safety.
– Foster care: Foster care is intended to provide a temporary home for children whose parents or extended family cannot care for them. However, the ultimate goal is to reunite these children with their families. Family placement is a form of replacement care in a family structure.
– Allow a child to go to school through sponsorship
By sponsoring a child, our generous donors fight inequalities and barriers to education in a sustainable way. They take part in improving the living conditions of their godchild as well as that of her entire community. Join our godmothers and godfathers and help a child break out of poverty through education.