Sadly, I have been a witness to alarming developments, which is one of the reasons why I took the initiative to found the World Childhood Foundation. The goal is to promote the right of every child to its childhood and to work for better living conditions for children in danger. We must fight against the extreme
material, social and emotional poverty in which they live. Money plays an important role when it comes to finding a solution to these problems. World Childhood Foundation is a fundraising organization and I am personally involved in these efforts.
Naturally, we are not able to help everyone, but we hope to reach enough to achieve a noticeable difference. We do our utmost to contribute to greater awareness of how vulnerable children are suffering in various parts of the world.
A number of benevolent individuals, organizations and companies have joined forces to achieve a true improvement for the world’s most vulnerable children.
May we count upon your support and collaboration?
Silvia, Queen of Sweden
LATVIA Leisure activities and help with homework are part of everyday life for school children living in socially safe and financially stable families. But a lot of children are growing up under completely different circumstances. In the Latvian town of Valka, far too many children experience...
LATVIA When Andre became an alcoholic, and his wife Svetlana was sentenced to prison, their children had to move in with another family. The family support centre in Valka helped him stop drinking, and after two years the family was reunited. – I finally understood that my family is more...
In an effort to prevent the spreading of material containing child sexual abuse over the internet, TeliaSonera has launched a free service allowing operators and Internet Service Providers the ability to deny their users access to web sites containing this type of material. The product has been...
GERMANY Refusing to control sisters and female relatives demands great courage for boys growing up in honour-related cultures. By empowering young people and encouraging them to distance themselves from honour oppression, the new project Heroes in Germany are educating boys to become positive...
SWEDEN As Elina came to the meeting point centre Enter, run by Stockholm city mission, she was unemployed, periodically homeless since several years and suffering from drug abuse. At Enter she received adult support, but most importantly, she gained the power to change her situation...
GERMANY Honour related problems, domestic violence, drugs or crime. These are all reasons as to why teenage girls in crisis could need a new home. With support from Childhood, the German organisation Wildwasser recently opened a home for girls at risk in Berlin. Nine girls...
SWEDEN "This place is special; I never experienced anything like it before. You actually get to do something here." The words come from 19-year old Simon, one of the 70 adolescents receiving support from Future Teens in the Swedish suburb Haninge. Mission: creating a normal everyday life...
GERMANY What happens if a stranger is acting weird in the swimming pool, or wants you to come home with him and play video games? Paedophiles use calculating strategies to attract children, who often don´t understand the ulterior motive. In Berlin, boys between 9 and 15 years old learn the...
SWEDEN The internet is one of the most important social arenas for children and youth today. But there are risks; online abuse of sexual character against children is becoming more and more common. With support of Childhood and TeliaSonera, the child psychiatric unit BUP Elefanten in Sweden is...
LITHUANIA Every year, 3 000 children in Lithuania are taken into institutional care. As adults, they often have difficulties in finding and keeping a job, in large part due to hardship growing up. Unemployment, drug problems and criminal activities often become their everyday life. With support...
LITHUANIA Young girls are a vulnerable group in Lithuania who in many cases are at risk of becoming victims of sexual abuse, sexual exploitation and trafficking. At the day centre Pasaka in Vilnius, supported by Childhood, teenage girls at risk come to get counselling, to socialize and to do...
SWEDEN With the aim to exchange best practices, Childhood recently gathered staff from 14 projects all over the world working with young parents and their babies. Gertrude Reuter-Lessing from Mother Child House Lazarus in Germany was one of the participants. “It’s important to meet...
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Annual report 2007
2007 was Childhood´s 8th year of existence. The global project portfolio now consists of over 100 projects. The Swedish foundation, together with our sister foundations in Brazil, Germany and the United States, granted 9,2 million USD during 2007.
Evaluation of Childhood moms & babies programs
”Boys are also abused”