What We Do
Gender-Based Violence Awareness Building
Our program teams work with our project participants to bring awareness to the risks and harms that are inflicted upon women and girls through gender-based violence. This includes domestic violence and abuse, physical, sexual, or mental harm, threats or coercions, and physically forced sexual acts. We listen and learn about the experiences and perspectives of community members and engage them in trainings that demonstrate how to prevent, avoid, and respond to this type of violence. Our facilitators prioritize working with participants, including men, to identify unequal power relationships and address the risk factors that inhibit safe and inclusive behavioral practices.
Early Child Marriage Prevention
When parents are in a financially compromising position, they may seek another resource that can provide for their child. Due to a variety of factors, girls can be promised as brides to typically much older, financially stable men who often inflict pain, suffering, and trauma on girls who are yet to be of a marriage-appropriate age. World Concern facilitators work in communities where early child marriage rates are high to keep children, particularly girls, in school and provide trainings to families so that they become aware of the dangers of early-child marriage and what they can do to prevent it. Through scholarships to students and savings-and-loans skills training to parents, they can financially support their family's needs and keep their children safe and in their care.
Training on Child Rights and Caretaker Champions
Children’s voices are increasingly important in the fight for their protection and safety. Many youth involved in World Concern programs are trained on the UN’s “The Convention on the Rights of the Child” so that they are able to voice their needs, be their own advocate, and attain the protection they deserve. Caretaker Committees are established alongside these trainings so that adults in the communities we serve can also advocate for their children, protect them from harm, and improve the mechanisms that support a healthy, positive, and safe childhood.
