Child Protection Network

Youth Alive, with support from UNICEF, led the creation of the Child Protection Network (CPN). Members are comprised of Government departments including the Department of Children, Ministry of Widows and Orphans, National Commission for Civic Education and Department of Community Development as well as NGOs including Afrikids, Child Support International and of course Youth Alive. These groups link together to monitor and act on child protection issues across all three northern regions.

SWIFT Aid

SWIFT Aid are a street children NGO based in the Ghanaian capital, Accra. They focus on helping girls who have travelled from rural villages in northern Ghana to the capital in search of employment, only to realise the hardship, to be reunited with their families and communities back up in the north. Youth Alive assists SWIFT Aid in this, being able to act as interpreters for the different local languages spoken in the north, advise on the different cultural circumstances and facilitate the child's reintergration to their community. Youth Alive and SWIFT Aid work together on advocacy in community forums in very remote villages, helping to explain the realities of youth migration.

Ghana Education Service

Youth Alive has a strong working relationship with Ghana Education Services (GES). Our field staff work closely with the head teachers and teachers in schools to monitor our children and give special understanding to their difficult situations. Youth Alive invite teachers to quarterly stakeholder meetings to raise any issues and receive feedback and ideas for improvement. GES schools are usually understanding and often will kindly waive some of the fees for our beneficiaries. We have a partnership with the trained councellors at GES who offer their concelling services to our children, sometimes greatly needed by these children who have faced so much at such a young age.