Annual report Helpcode Italia - EN

WHAT WE DO
Protection
All boys and girls have to have the chance to express their potential, to grow and realize
their dreams in the communities they live in: this is why our projects promote children’s
rights and fight against every form of abuse.
Our activities in the field of Childhood Protection are aimed especially at protecting boys
and girls from abuse and violence with special attention to the areas where natural disaster
strikes, or where there is political instability and emergencies. Our activities are concentrated
on the most vulnerable boys and girls, aimed at their safety and well-being.
With an increase in our work in the sector of emergency response and humanitarian crises, the
area of protection has grown with respect to prior years to include, in addition to protecting
children’s rights, a broader range of activities that have the goal of guaranteeing respect
for individual rights and especially those of the most vulnerable in line with principles
sanctioned by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international humanitarian law.
At Helpcode taking care of protection means contributing to the guarantee of safety and
survival for people in contexts of crisis and humanitarian emergency, and re-establishing
access to rights – such as the right to health, education, freedom from violence including
gender-based violence.
In this area, in 2021 we started up important partnerships with two organizations of the
United Nations, UNCHR and UNFPA. This was to respond respectively to the need to monitor
the need for protection of victims of the Cabo Delgado conflict in northern Mozambique
(and starting from here, structure the answer to the emergency) and to satisfy the needs of
vulnerable women and girls in the Covid-19 crisis and the increased risk of gender-based
violence.
PROTECTION: ONE OF OUR PROJECTS
Meeting the needs of vulnerable women and girls in the context of the crisis COVID-19
Where
Donor
Town of Beira, Province of Sofala (Mozambique)
UNFPA
Duration 01/04/2021 – 31/10/2021
Spent in 2021 € 76,545
Goals
Improve hygiene, menstrual health, sexual and reproductive health, prevent
risks linked to COVID-19 for vulnerable women and girls through
the use of electronic vouchers
Activities
Beneficiaries
Partner
Development of a system for distribution of materials for personal
hygiene based on electronic vouchers
Identifying and training business owners as regards system of vouchers
and procedures for prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse
Telephone campaign for information on the use of vouchers for women
and girls, beneficiaries of the project
Rigorous monitoring of use of vouchers on the part of women at the
selected businesses
Radio campaign of information against gender-based violence
2000 women and girls
Town of Beira, Provincial Service for Health, Women and Welfare of
Sofala, Vodacom
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