War Child: Working Together for Positive Change
In 2016 War Child made a difference in the lives of 381,830 children and young people forced to grow up with the effects of violent conflict.
War Child works to ensure that children affected by conflict and violence can realise their fundamental rights and build a better future - both for themselves and their communities.
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Children do not belong in war. Ever.
This is how we create value
War Child works to achieve excellence, quality and enhanced impact in everything we do - both at head office and in the fourteen counties in which we are active. Our programmes, methodologies and fundraising activities are all designed to deliver meaningful positive change in the lives of conflict-affected children.
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Input
Financial Capital
Global Presence
Head Office Amsterdam
Office Sweden
Country programmes
- Afghanistan
- Burundi
- Central African Republic
- Colombia
- DR Congo
- Iraq
- Jordan
- Lebanon
- the Netherlands
- occupied Palestinian territory
- South Sudan
- Sri Lanka
- Syrian Response
- Uganda
Intellectual Input
Experienced volunteers
Expertise, knowledge of staff
Core intervention methodology
Human Capital
Social Support
Donor support through
- 3 main sponsors
- 10 business partners
- 151 business friends
- 54 product sponsors
- 19 business ambassadors
- 105,691 individual donors
Outreach
- 3,955 people reached by volunteers
- 2,481 magazines and newspaper articles
- 4 national campaigns
- 785,201 website visits
Social reach
- 17.5 million people
Our operating structure
War Child empowers children to shape their own future, as we unleash their inner strength by using our creative and engaging approach.
We provide protection, psychosocial support and education to children affected by conflict. Together with partners, caregivers and communities, we improve both the resilience and well-being of these children. With our evidence-based interventions we are the expert in our field, while we inspire our partners and host countries to expand our interventions. Together, we create lasting impact in order to reach as many children as we can.
War Child has developed a Theory of Change (ToC) which guides the development and implementation of a comprehensive care system for conflict-affected children in the countries where we work. Our R&D activities help us to build the necessary evidence to improve our interventions and significantly increase the scale of our impact.
War Child works to deliver a positive, lasting impact on the lives of children and young people in areas of conflict. We operate programmes in fourteen countries that combine protection, education and psychosocial support to achieve enhanced impact. Our goal is to improve the psychosocial well-being of conflict-affected children wherever we can.
and fundraising
Our Marketing, Communications and Fundraising (MCF) activities all support our mission to create a global movement for peaceful futures for children affected by war and conflict. We work to inspire increasing numbers of people and organisations to participate in our mission - in any way they can.
Output
Financial output
- €25 million spent on our objectives
- €3 million spent on fundraising
- €1.5 million spent on management and administration
Global presence
- Branch offices in 8 countries
- Project activities in 13 countries
- Head office in the Netherlands
Intellectual Output
- Innovative core programmes
- Innovative e-learning concept
- New partnerships for R&D
Human capital
- 83 full-time head office employees
- 269 employees in programme countries
- 381,830 children participated in our programmes
- 119,662 adults participated in our programmes
