The 2,000 daycare and youth welfare facilities operated by the German Red Cross provide a permanent nationwide system of education, care, and protection for children aged one to twelve years. These facilities support families in their daily lives while ensuring that every child—regardless of gender, background, or disability—is protected, respected, and empowered.
Botswana Red Cross Society (BRCS) runs two specialized early childhood centres that support children with special needs across the country. These are the Sefhare Stimulation Centre in Tswapong South and the Tshimologo Stimulation Centre in Francistown.
Through the IFRC Children Affected by Armed Conflict project, the Yemen Red Crescent has delivered essential services to orphans and children with disabilities.
Kenya Red Cross and CBM Global: How a decade of relationship building and capacity strengthening led to more systematic OPD participation in humanitarian response
In Gaza, children have been severely impacted by hostilities. This includes death, injury and disability, separation, trauma, loss of school, health conditions, and a loss of routines and play. One of the responses by the Palestinian Red Crescent has been to implement the mobile Child Friendly Space named, the "Dream Bus."
As part of the Pakistan Red Crescent response to the return of Afghan migrants from Pakistan to Afghanistan, programing has been established for children and adults in vulnerable situations. The main features of the program implemented by PRCS for Afghan returnees include the establishment of Humanitarian Services Point (HSP) in Torkham Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a medical care facility at Chaman in Baluchistan province, and provision of essential services such as health care, safe drinking water, and gender-sensitive sanitation facilities targeting 60,000 people under an IFRC supported operation. The program integrates Protection, Gender, and Inclusion (PGI) and Community Engagement and Accountability to ensure the dignity, safety, and participation of diverse groups including children, women, the elderly, and persons with disabilities.
There are 67 Case Studies on this website, with many valuable examples and lessons learned about many aspects of protection, gender and inclusion work.