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Association for the Defense of Human Rights
“Poverty is the worst form of violence”
(Ghandi)
ADDHU – Association for the Defense of Human Rights - is an International NGO, registered and accredited by the Portuguese Institute for Development, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as an NGO for Development and a Public Utility Institution, according to the articles 8th and 12th, Law 66/98, 14th October. Our main fields of action are human rights defense and advocacy, humanitarian relief and cooperation for development.
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Missão Quénia Novembro | Dezembro 2011 |
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Wednesday, 11 January 2012 00:00 |
Between the 1st of November and the 5th of December, ADDHU’s team, composed by the president of the NGO Laura Vasconcellos and the project manager Carolina Vasconcellos, travelled to Kenya for a one-month field mission. Besides the awaited reunion with the children of the Wanalea Centre, other initiatives were developed, among which the distribution of food and Gifts of Hope in Nairobi’s slums.
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This Christmas, give the Gift of Hope! |
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Friday, 09 December 2011 00:00 |
There are more than 300,000 vulnerable children in Nairobi, Kenya who have never had the opportunity to have a real Christmas... More than 300,000 children who don’t know the safety, protection and care of a home and a loving family... Who don’t know what it’s like to eat everyday, go to school or to the doctor when they are sick... Many of these children are orphans, others where abused and abandonned, but they all have something in common: they don’t have anything, not even a piece of paper to proove they exist... It they die or disappear, no one will look for them... Because they don’t exist, they have never existed... They are the invisible children...
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