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Active child and youth participation has been a crucial response in 2021, a time in which children may not hold so many fond memories due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This crisis has posed multiple challenges: it has exacerbated existing children’s vulnerabilities while enhancing the number of children in vulnerable situations. And it has substantially increased child poverty, inequalities and violence against children across the world.

Children and their families have also experienced other consequences of the environmental crisis, as communities have been struck by unexpected floods and landslides as well as an increase in droughts, which affect their health and protection.

Confronted with these very difficult conditions, Terre des Hommes continued to strongly believe that we can build back a better world for and with children. And we further engaged to address the challenges of the pandemic, poverty, inequalities and violence, through our 730 projects, across 67 different countries while campaigning for the rights of the child.

See the projects and their impact on children and their communities in 2021 on the Terre des Hommes Annual Report here.

The COVID-19 pandemic has severely changed the lives of millions of people around the globe. During the pandemic, there has been an increase in the number of children involved in the worst forms of child labour. Public health restrictions and the closure of public markets and other economic sectors have also left many child workers and their caregivers with less income or unemployed. In this report, Terre des Hommes was interested to hear more about the views of children on what can be done to improve their situation during and after the pandemic by collective action of all relevant stakeholders.