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On the occasion of World Refugee Day, marked on 20 June, Terre des hommes Hungary organised an exhibition opening and guided tour at the Ott Thaly Community Center in Budapest. The exhibition showcased the drawings of children who participated in workshops organised by Tdh and UNICEF within their…
Today marks one year since Russia attacked Ukraine, ending decades of peace on the continent. More than seven thousand civilians, among them 500-1000 children were killed in the fighting. The country has 5.7 million school-age children missing out on education, while two million minors have been…
A new project, called i-ACCESS MyRights, will improve access to information and legal assistance for child victims in the European Union, including by using digital and artificial intelligence tools. AI-driven solutions will allow child victims to easily find information and exercise their rights…
The Safeguarding Resource and Support Hub for Eastern Europe (RSH EE) is a programme that serves civil society organisations responding to the war on Ukraine. It provides practical and accessible safeguarding resources aiming to reduce the risk of harm to those they work with. Governments, NGOs,…
In Romania there were grand openings for the new school year  on the 5th of September 2022. Among the local children, there are Ukrainian kids who joined the classes. Some of them are just listening, not actually studying, but they also have the possibility to fully attend as a pupil. One example…
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Moldova and Romania have been facing an unprecedented influx of displaced people, mostly women and children. Terre des hommes and its partners have been active in these countries for a long time and have set up children's spaces and baby corners in key…

Every child in the world has the right to a childhood. It's that simple.

Terre des hommes (Tdh) is the leading Swiss child rights organisation. Since 1960, Tdh has helped build a better future for children and youth, especially those most exposed to risks, making an impact with innovative and sustainable solutions. Active in more than 30 countries, Tdh works with its own teams and/or local and international partners to develop and implement field projects.

In 2022, we supported 2.6 million children and members of their communities with a focus on mother and child health, migration and access to justice for children. We trained people who in turn supported a further 4.5 million children and members of their communities.

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As they want to protect their colleagues and reduce violence in school, children of Bechet Theoretic Highschool (Romania) participating in the REVIS project made a poster through which they promote a non-violent attitude. The solution they propose in this poster is communication, because they…
Young people from six Romanian highschools participating in the REVIS programme made creative projects through which they gave original responses to the school violence issue.  By posters, drawings, wall paintings, theatre plays staged by themselves, the pupils encourage children worldwide to take…
This video presents the anti-violence project developed by pupils from Theoretical Highschool of Bechet (Romania) involved in the REVIS programme. They made drawings, painted the passage way walls, created posters,  applied message stickers on stairs, worked as a team, supported each other,…