Child's Dignity is a no-government organisation created by Bob Banzelyno, on the 12th of June 1999. Its mission is to protect and reestablish the fundamental aspects of the child's identity.
Today, Bob is a lawyer and assistant at the Faculty of Rights at the Protestant University of Congo.
Bob has put his experience, his knowledge and all his heart at the service of children who lack their identity and therefore their dignity. He has been coordinating this association for two years along with Didier Kalonji (lawyer), Michel Missele (economist), Fideline Ndaume (jurist) and Alphonse Mabika (teacher in languages).

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, a great number of children don't know their parents. In fact, some poor families abandon them very quickly ; others refuse even to recognise them to preserve the prestige of their carrier or because they simply don't want to be accused of adultery or incest.

In all cases, those children are rejected by the society and by their families because they are considered from unknown origins. So they have to live in the streets without legal existence, exposing themselves to serious dangers such as illegal adoption, kidnapping, exploitation, prostitution or non-declared work.

Those children who lack identity and love, lose confidence in themselves and in the society.
This is why Child's Dignity has many objectives to save those traumatized children by :
Leading campains to register children in the civil records, promoting the popularization of the UN convention of the Children's Rights, helping the child to recognise and defend his rights by assuming his identity and trying to find his parents therefore integrating him to the society and most important to make parents and adults think seriously about the child's dignity etc..

To succeed in realizing those objectives, the organisation :

- organises the activities of the plea.

-Creates contacts with the biological family of the abandonned child.

-Takes in charge the legal assistance (and eventually the judiciary) of the child whose dignity has been violated.

-Organizes different conferences, colloquiums, debates and campains on the children's rights.

-Animates debates on television or radios.

Adresses appropriate and useful recommandations to the State in meanings of the children's rights...etc...

Since 1998, 16 million persons, in Congo, suffer of permanant violations of human rights.

Bob has undertaken this courageous, remarkable and essential action to give a better future to children of his own coutry.

Bob and his team need your financial and also your moral support! So don't hesitate to contact them at :

>> DIGNITE DE L'ENFANT
ONG de protection des Droits de l'Enfant
B.P. 409
Kinshasa 1
République Démocratique du CONGO

>> http://www.dignitedelenfant.org

>> CONTACT
Tél. : (+243-81) 8106388
Mobile : (+243) 98 110 251
Fax : 1-760-923-5976
E-mail : dignitedelenfant@yahoo.fr



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