FreeToBeKids exists to support Children and Families who are at risk and experiencing extreme poverty and vulnerability.
Our goal is to facilitate child centered community development with the aim of improving the Community’s capacity to protect children from vulnerabilities such as child labor, child marriage, child abuse and exploitation. We work to address root causes to these vulnerabilities, such as economic constraints at a family and community level, a lack of access to education, limited food security and gender inequalities.
We aim to see an increase in the number of children accessing formal education, improving economic situations for families which will better enable them to provide for their children, and an increased awareness of child rights and protection to reduce risks to children.
We understand that to provide holistic care for a child, their family needs to be supported and strengthened. As such, we also facilitate income generation programs for women. Evidence suggests that this increases children’s access to education and decreases incidents of child labor.