Our Strategy

We believe children have the potential to be the most powerful change-makers.

Our Promise for the Future

Given the right educational opportunities children can be nurtured to participate fully in making the world a more just and equal place for everyone.

Our promise for the future;

Increase the quality of early childhood education centres and increase enrolment rates to these centres.
Improve the nutritional status of young children.
Create community structures to improve access to essential services for young children.

How?

Vission, Mission & Values

Compassion. Accountability. Partnership. Equality.

Children in Crossfire is driven by our vision for a compassionate world where every child can reach their potential.

For us, this is not a dream but something we can really make tangible through our work. It is essential that as we work for change, we also nurture compassion as the underpinning core value that drives people to take actions for a better world for all children.

If we lived in a compassionate world, then all the issues we seek to address would cease to exist. But, sadly we don’t!

Yet we believe that the seed to build a compassionate world lies within in us all. Therefore, in all areas of our work, we seek to awaken, cultivate and nurture that seed for a better world. We believe that when everyone acts out of love and compassion for humanity, then Children will live in a world where global injustice no longer exists.

Strategic Direction

Working for Change through our International Programmes

Children in Crossfire works to bring positive and sustainable change to the lives of children who are caught up in the Crossfire of Poverty.

For Children in Crossfire, sustainable Change can only be fully realised through a Programmatic approach to our work.

This means that our interventions work towards agreed outcomes which are linked to national and international identified initiatives, specifically the proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for post 2015.

We integrate our activities in order to promote collaboration between Vulnerable Families, Communities, Civil Society and Government, towards meeting agreed needs.

Strategic Focus

Internationally, We Focus on School Readiness

In both Tanzania and Ethiopia, Children in Crossfire will attend to children aged 0-6 years to help them reach their development potential.

We will focus on quality Early Childhood Education programmes, which include;

Stimulation in the home
Age appropriate Education in ECD Centres
Pre-Primary School.

In Tanzania, we have already built a strong Programmatic Approach in this area. We intend to extend this approach to Ethiopia.

The Island of Ireland: Development Education & Supporter Engagement

Our Development Education programme focuses within the formal education sector to achieve depth of impact in relation to preparing students fully for active Global Citizenship.

We believe that when the formal education sector takes action to adequately implement Development Education, this leads to young people and communities engaging with the issues, developing a sense of global solidarity through an appreciation of self and others, and ultimately taking relevant actions for a fairer world.

Children in Crossfire also considers it essential to ensure that our supporters better understand the context of our international work, the successes of our specific projects and the wider significance of aid programmes. We further believe this is vital to help challenge dominant perceptions and stereotypes of people, communities and governments living in developing countries.

Working For Results

We are working to achieve the following outcomes;

Increased school readiness for young children in Children in Crossfire’s target countries.
Increased cultivation of Global Citizenship fostered within the formal education sector across the island of Ireland.
Implementing partners in Children in Crossfire’s target countries to increase capacity and achieve results.

Strategic Plans

Tanzania

Tanzania has been our flagship country programme since it was established in 2008.

In a relatively short space of time in Tanzania we have made important contributions to the ECD policy space, as well as made a difference in the lives of thousands of children.

Ethiopia

We have been supporting development projects in Ethiopia since 2004. This has involved responding to the needs of very vulnerable communities through provision of safe water, nutritional support and emergency food relief.

We have also been evolving our focus more specifically towards Early Childhood Development and School Readiness.