Our mission
Terre des Hommes Netherlands prevents child exploitation, removes children from exploitative situations and ensures these children can develop themselves in a safe environment.
Our vision
Terre des Hommes Netherlands works towards a world where all children have a decent life and can grow up to be independent adults. A world in which children are no longer exploited. We will continue our work until this is accomplished.
Our focus
Child exploitation is about serious violations ofthe rights of the child. Our definition covers:
- worst forms of child labour (according to Convention 182 of the ILO);
- child trafficking and migration;
- sexual exploitation of children;
- child abuse
Stopping child exploitation, the most serious violations of the rights of the child, is the main focus of Terre des Hommes Netherlands. This is not an easy fight; poverty can drive people to despair and prosecuting perpetrators of child exploitation is rarely a priority for local authorities. But Terre des Hommes Netherlands does not give up and remains committed, with its local partners, to realising a world without child exploitation.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child forms the basis of our work. We offer help without discrimination against race, religion, gender or political inclination. Because we believe that every child has the right to grow up in a safe environment without exploitation.
Nowadays around 30 employees in The Hague, 70 local colleagues in the regions and over 1,800 volunteers in the Netherlands are dedicated to stopping child exploitation. They are, in turn, supported by tens of thousands of donors and companies. Together they aim to accomplish one dream: a world without child exploitation.