CRIN - Child Rights Information Network - Organisations - Community Children Organisation (COCO)

Further details: The Community Children Organization (COCO) is a Non-governmental Organisation with the Reg No:SW/GP/02/07/5866 working locally and abroad. Since its inception the organisation has been working with children/ youth who are disabled, parents, governmental bodies and intergovernmental bodies in the promotion of handicap, orphans children's affairs. It works to identify the need of disabled children and young people, especially the rural child, the underprivileged, abandoned and the weaker section of the society through participatory approach.
- To protect and make known the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child through education.
-To assist the needy child irrespective of tribe, Origin, sex, religion, in the domain of social welfare.
-To protect the child from sexual exploitation and child labour.
-Assist children in prisons, orphanages, centers for the disabled and street children.
-Organise Youth leadership Training and Youth Exchange Programmes
-Actively take part in the prevention of HIV/AIDS especially in children/youths and women.

Areas of expertise: Armed conflict, Child participation, Children and the media, Children living with HIV/AIDS, Children with disabilities, Children working and living on the street, Economic rights, Education and cultural rights, Emergency relief, Environment and habitat, Family and alternative care, Gender and girls, Health and welfare, Implementation, Individual cases of violations, Justice, Minority or indigenous children, Refugee and unaccompanied children, Reporting to and monitoring the CRC, Sexual exploitation and abuse, Violence

Countries in which this organisation works: Cameroon

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Last updated 02/10/2009 09:33:16

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