Submitted by crinadmin on
Protecting children’s rights, advocacy and lobbying, informing the public for the children’s rights, SOS line for children and youth, Free legal service, Psychosocial counselling, Children’s Workshops, Daily Centre for children on street, strengthening the NGO movement for children’s rights protection and improving the visibility and transparency of the work of the civil society.... The First Children's Embassy in the World Megjashi is an international NGO with the purpose to protect children and their rights and to strengthen the NGO movement for the children's rights. Founded on the 29th of April 1992, Megjashi strives for respecting the child's personality through protection of their rights, advocating for their best interests, connecting children from different backgrounds and enriches their lives with events that make the childhood secure and fruitful. It also strengthens the NGO movement for protection of children rights in the Republic of Macedonia, by developing the voluntary approach in its operation and by exercising concern for the Convention of Children Rights. Social movements, institutions and organizations have tasked themselves with alleviating injustice by creating the same chances for each child and ensuring a safe, positive and encouraging environment for children throughout their early childhood. As one of the leading children’s rights organizations in Macedonia, the First Children's Embassy in the World Megjashi, contributes in realizing this. Megjashi is the first registered NGO for protection of the children's rights in the Republic of Macedonia in the period of transition. With its activities it contributed in the development and strengthening of the civil awareness for the children's rights, broke the silence of the children's sufferings revealing many cases of child abuse in public and it directly engaged itself in establishing more efficient mechanisms for protection of the child. The SOS line for children and youth 0800 12222, free legal service, psychosocial counselling are all direct services for children through which we monitor the implementation of the children’s rights and react when is needed. Every year in April, we are part of the Global Action Week (GAW) which addresses to the rights of the child for education. Children’s Workshops are for children from socially deprived families and provide them creative usage of their free time.
Throughout the Daily Centre for Children on Street we are providing the children on street a form for social protection and services according to their needs.
In the period 2006-2007 we were implementing projects for improving the visibility and transparency of the work of the civil society.