Local NGO, ChildLink has secured a grant from the European Union (EU) of $87.7m to reintegrate 749 children living in institutions and 2500 children at risk of institutional care in Guyana.
Entitled “Recovery, Safeguarding and Reintegration (RSR)”, the objective of the project is the adoption of international guidelines and policy for children’s reintegration in line with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child [UNCRC] for the children in question, a release from the EU said yesterday.
The contract for the grant was signed by Ambassador Jernej Videtič, Head of Delegation of the EU to Guyana and Omattie Madray, Managing Director of ChildLink.