Countries

In South Asia, Terre des Hommes Netherlands supports projects in Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka. In general, challenges for all the three countries are the high percentage of the population living below the poverty line, the poor quality of education, the high malnutrition rates for pregnant mothers and the neglect of children with disabilities. Child labour and extreme forms of child exploitation like trafficking and prostitution are still common in the region.

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About Us

Millions of children across the world are treated like merchandise. Like an object that somebody claims for himself or herself for sexual acts. A tool that is used to do heavy physical work. Or an investment that yields money as a prostitute, drugs dealer, or beggar.

Children's aid organisation Terre des Hommes Netherlands is devoted to put a stop to child exploitation in developing countries. Collaborating with experienced project partners, Terre des Hommes Netherlands offers guidance to victims and helps them regain their confidence and to build an independent future for themselves.

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Programmes

Terre des Hommes Netherlands has clustered its activities into four programmes: Education, health, socio-economic development and children that are vulnerable to abuse and exploitation. The organisation also provides humanitarian relief aid when an emergency arises.

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Annual Report 2010

This is why we do what we do

Liza from Bangladesh works as a domestic child labourer. She started at the age of five, often working for more than 12 hours a day and no opportunity to get an education. The life of Nandini, from India, revolves around the handloom machine. By weaving sarees she helps her family make ends meet. Fourteen-year-old Pushparanee, from Sri Lanka, was send to an aunt to look after her baby. Instead she was forced to work in a hostel as kitchen helper. Arif spends his days making fish and chicken food out of animal skins. For Liza, Nandini, Pushparanee and Arif Terre des Hommes made a difference in 2010. Like them, there are still millions of children who need our help in South Asia. That is why Terre des Hommes Netherlands continues its work to reach more children in exploitative situations. In 2010, we reached 3,744,601 children and young people in Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka.

Would you like to know more about Liza, Nandini, Pushparanee and Arif and the difference Terre des Hommes Netherlands makes in their lives? Please view our Regional Annual Report 2010:

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Projects

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Partners

Terre des Hommes Netherlands mainly works together with local organisations on three strategies: (1) direct assistance, (2) capacity building and (3) research and lobbying, focussing on the poorest and most disadvantaged children in their immediate environment.

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Emergency Aid

The heaviest rains in almost one hundred years hit Sri Lanka from 26 December 2010 onwards, causing devastating floods and landslides throughout the country. The floods followed two cycles of flash flooding in the capital city of Colombo on 10 November and in the northern districts from late November onwards that put many of the conflict-affected returnees in serious difficulties. This series of extensive and devastating floods, due to record rainfall levels since November, have cumulatively stretched coping strategies and available resources to the brink of exhaustion.

At the height of the floods, the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) of the Ministry of Disaster Management reported that 1,055,262 people (283,667 families) were flood-affected, with 27 deaths and 12 people reported missing, as of 14 January 2011, and 362, 646 people displaced in some 630 temporary relocation centres in 12 districts. Batticaloa reported the highest number of flood-affected displaced people (165,494) followed by Ampara (157,649). From 13 January, the flood waters began to recede and people began to return home; however, the humanitarian needs remain due to damaged houses, crops and livelihoods.

The eastern and northern districts have borne the brunt of the recent floods, with 94% of the affected population located in the three eastern districts of Batticaloa, Ampara and Trincomalee. Here, the floods damaged over 24,000 houses, and severely affected livelihoods and agricultural production resulting in heightened food insecurity. For some of the people affected in the east, the floods were another setback after rebuilding their lives following the December 2004 Tsunami and/or after displacement from the conflict during 2006/2007 (Sri Lanka 2011 Flash Appeal UNOCHA).

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Annual Report 2010

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