The overall aim of OneLife 3 is to build capacity and raise awareness of 5215 youths between the ages of 12 to 18 years and caregivers including teachers, PTA Executives, Schools Welfare Officers and parents on the issues of gender-based violence (GBV) and its relations to HIV/AIDS in an effort to prevent and reduce violence against women and girls over an eighteen (18) months period.

Project Purpose: Collaboration with the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security, Child Care and Protection Agency to reintegrate 75 children coming into state care and stop the separation of 225 at risk children in Guyana receiving parental care by enabling their rights to quality family life through advocacy, training of stakeholders and supportive services inclusive of psychosocial support and parenting skills education by the end of March 2014.

Overall Objective: Improve the lives of children experiencing violence and abuse to promote children’s rights and protection.

Specific objective:  1100 children from the Agricola and Ruimveldt communities have improved access to services and information to enable them to realize their rights by March 2013.

The One Thousand Boys (OTB) initiative builds upon the groundwork laid by ChildLinK and its collaborative efforts since 2010, initially focusing on child sexual abuse (CSA) prevention through the Tell Scheme campaign. The OTB initiative aimed to improve the functioning of crucial stakeholders and civil society organizations, including governmental bodies such as the Ministry of Social Protection, Guyana Police Force, and Ministry of Education. The initiative included objectives such as establishing an action group focused on CSA, enhancing the skills of human rights workers, empowering young boys and men as advocates for the prevention of child sexual abuse, setting up Child Advocacy Centers in regions 6, 8 and 9, conducting a baseline surveys on harmful social norms that contribute to child sexual abuse of boys, and conducting a public education campaign that highlight positive social norms that contribute to the prevention of child sexual abuse of boys by March 2023.

Family for Every Child’s focus on children and families propelled the organization to introduce this tool to its work and build on the strength of its members to use this tool to probe children and their experiences within their families across varied socio-cultural-political contexts. Participants for DST initiative were 6 children between the ages of 9-14 years. With this intention, 8 members came on board early this year to participate, own and implement this initiative.

Project Purpose: Collaboration with the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security, Child Care and Protection Agency to reintegrate 75 children coming into state care and stop the separation of 225 at risk children in Guyana receiving parental care by enabling their rights to quality family life through advocacy, training of stakeholders and supportive services inclusive of psychosocial support and parenting skills education by the end of March 2014.

Project Purpose:The overall aim of OneLife 3 is to build capacity and raise awareness of 5215 youths between the ages of 12 to 18 years and caregivers including teachers, PTA Executives, Schools Welfare Officers and parents on the issues of gender based violence (GBV) and its relations to HIV/AIDS in an effort to prevent and reduce violence against women and girls over an eighteen (18) months period.  These target groups will be identified from thirteen (13) secondary schools where there are high levels of violence, 8 in Region 4 (Georgetown), 3 in Region 3 and 2 in Region 10.  Students to be trained as Youth Advocates/Mentors (YAMs) will be identified from Forms 2 and 3 to further strengthen the sustainability of the initiative as those students are likely to remain in the schools for at least another 2/3 years.  The overall impact of this initiative is intended to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS by addressing issues related to gender discrimination, sexual and reproductive health, communication, conflicts, anger management and male/female relationships within the family and community.

The Child Rights Alliance (CRA) aimed to prevent violence and abuse against 6,000 children in Regions 3, 4, and 5 by fostering collaboration, advocacy, and capacity building among its members. The CRA's four strategic objectives included establishing a national alliance of community-based organizations, enhancing the capacity of the alliance for violence prevention, improving the capacity of parents and regional networks in prevention, and raising awareness in target regions about child abuse through public campaigns.

Project Goal: Collaboration with the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security, Child Care and Protection Unit for the placement or reintegration of 105 children into foster/kinship care (25 new and 80 existing), thus giving them a chance to grow and develop to their full potential free from violence and abuse.

The Overall Objective is to collaborate with the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security – Child Care & Protection Agency (MHSSS-CCPA) to build strong systems, policies, practices and guidelines that ensure the new child protection legislations becomes operational for the social protection of children to have family or family type environment to thrive and develop to their full potential free from abuse by Dec 2014.

The Overall objective is to strengthen policies, practices and approaches to ensure social welfare services prevent and protect 12,650 children across Guyana from sexual violence by Dec 2015. This project has now evolved into the CAC project. 

The Recovery Safeguarding Reintegration project (RSR) aimed to promote the adoption of international guidelines and policies for children's reintegration in alignment with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). This initiative targeted 749 children living in institutions and 2500 children at risk of institutionalization, with collaboration from the Childcare and Protection Agency (CPA), 23 children's institutions, and two community-based organizations. By September 2020, the project sought to achieve four main objectives: establishing a reintegration working group, enhancing the skills of human rights workers and managers, improving parental capacity for reintegration, and raising public awareness on child separation issues.

The overall objective of the Communities Responding In Emergencies (CRIE) project is to strengthen partnerships of five grassroots community based organizations (CBOs) and Regional Administration in Region 3, 4 & 6 to improve community responses during the Covid19 and migrant crisis to children and their families at high risk of family and community violence, exclusion from education, health care and social protection for 5000 children including children with disabilities and their families by March 2024.

The One Life Too project aimed to support the adoption and implementation of the Special Education Needs (SEN) policy by the Ministry of Education (Guyana) for integrating children with mild autism into mainstream schools. The project focused on multiple fronts: strengthening the capacity of civil society organizations to lobby the Ministry of Education (Guyana) for the adoption and the implementation of the SEN policy and integrating 60 boys and girls with mild autism into mainstream schools in Guyana and Jamaica. Focus was also placed on strengthening the capacity of Education Officers and teachers to integrate boys and girls with mild autism into mainstream schools in Guyana and Jamaica, strengthening the capacity of parents of boys and girls with mild autism to support the integration of their children into mainstream schools in Guyana and Jamaica and conducting annual public education campaigns to raise awareness of the rights of children with mild autism.