SAFETY

When John was ten he was abducted by rebels and forced to become a child soldier. He escaped, but every day is an emotional struggle. BE safety to help kids like John.

BE SAFETY. BE Safety to rehabilitate traumatized children by providing education, resources, opportunities and, most importantly, hope.

Your Choice:

Dedicate your Famine to Safety and you will help prevent child trafficking and restore the childhoods of sexually exploited children and child-labourers in Cambodia and India and rehabilitate former child soldiers in Uganda.

Your Impact

By dedicating your Famine to Safety you will help:

  • Training children and families in life skills and child rights.
  • Preparing younger working children (ages 5–11 years) for school.
  • Providing vocational training to teenagers (12–18 years of age).
  • Helping parents earn a better wage so their children don’t have to work.
  • Training communities, government officials, teachers, and religious leaders on child protection, anti-trafficking, HIV/AIDS reduction, sexual abuse and gender issues.

On safety:

“...in serving the best interests of children, we serve the best interests of all humanity.”

Carol Bellamy
Former Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

Other Causes. With 30 Hour Famine you get the opportunity to choose HOW you will support those in need! Choose a Causes. Rally your team. BE THE difference.

There are 120 million children in the world who want to go to school but can't. Without an education, children are vulnerable to child labour, violence, and sexual exploitation. BE Education to help give children a life-changing education and a new hope for the future.

The drought in the Horn of Africa is the most severe food security emergency in the world today. More than 13 million people’s lives are threatened.  BE Food to help fight the famine in the Horn of Africa and protect families from future food shortages.

1 in 8 people don't have access to safe drinking . 1.4 million children die every year from diseases caused by unclean water. BE Water to help bring secure wells and pumps closer to the people in need of safe drinking water.