by Susan Durston I was lucky enough to be part of the launch of Child to Child in 1978, just before the first International year of the Child. The organization, which won the Maurice Pate Award of UNICEF in 1991, was a decade ahead of the Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC). Its philosophy and outreach was originally centred on school children helping other children and their communities, especially in low income countries, by relaying health messages to out of school children and their own families. There are several rigorous research projects which have illustrated the efficacy of this approach and which are still replicated today. As the current chair of trustees of Child to Child I am immensely proud of the fact that several large international organisations such as SAVE, Plan and World Vision, partnered with Child to Child in the initial stages of their child participation journeys. There was also a partnership with UNICEF, particularly in the Getting Ready for School prog...
Written by and for the former staff of UNICEF