"Khalid bin Sultan Al Qasimi Humanity" Its first projects are launched to protect 30,000 children in Zanzibar and Mexico

Sharjah, June 15 / WAM / under the direction of the wife of His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah, Her Highness Sheikha Jawaher Bint Muhammad Al Qasimi, President of the Khaled Bin Sultan Al Qasimi Foundation, the Foundation announced the launch of its first international humanitarian projects with the aim of providing protection and care for more than 30,000 children exposed to various types of violence and exploitation in both Zanzibar and Mexico.

The Foundation will also seek to enhance the capabilities of societies in the two countries to build a safe and supportive environment for children, in cooperation with leading international organizations, “The International Children – Tanzania” and “Plan International – Mexico”.

This advertisement embodies the institution’s vision in consolidating integrated protection systems for children in the environments at risk, as it reflects its deep awareness of the importance of pre -emptive intervention to face the escalating challenges that threaten the physical and psychological safety of children, including violence, neglect and exploitation in its various forms.

It is estimated that one in five children between the ages of 5 and 17 working in forced and dangerous conditions in the less developed countries, and the percentage of children has increased victims of trafficking globally by 31 % over the past few years, according to reports of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

On the goals and strategic visions of the launch of these projects, Her Highness Sheikha Jawaher bint Muhammad Al Qasimi confirmed that the Sheikh Khalid bin Sultan Al Qasimi Foundation starts in its global projects from its deep belief that providing protection and care for children and ensuring their proper upbringing in an environment that prevails in inspiration, love, care and education is a natural human right first and real investment in the future of the world secondly.

Her Highness said that the Foundation is dealing with the threats of children around the world as urgent missions that cannot be postponed, noting that saving one child is a step towards saving the future of an entire society.

Her Highness added: We launched the Sheikh Khalid bin Sultan Al Qasimi Foundation in 2024 to be a global system for the efforts of protecting children wherever they are at risk, and the Foundation works according to the principle of integration and inclusion with the aim of building an integrated protection system that focuses on prevention, containing victims, building partnerships and developing legislation in a way that translates the vision of Sharjah and the United Arab Emirates in supporting man Children.

Her Highness said: Children are the common humanitarian denominator between all peoples, cultures and beliefs, and whatever our visions have spacked, we all meet in childhood and the rights of children to live a normal life far from any form of fear, anxiety, physical and psychological pain, so we mobilize efforts according to the principle of cooperation, sustainability and the direct impact so that our projects do not touch me just an instant response, but rather the milk of a solid brick in the construction of societies A children’s incubator and their garrison.

In Zanzibar, the Khaled Bin Sultan Al Qasimi Foundation launched, in partnership with the “Save Children” project, “Expanding Support Services for Violence in Pimba and Unguja”, after the visit made by Her Highness Sheikha Jawaher bint Muhammad Al Qasimi to the centers concerned in this country previously and at the time revealed the urgent need to expand the scope of support, as this project comes as part of a series of humanitarian projects implemented by the Emirate of Sharjah is in Zanzibar, as it threatens gender -based violence, such as violence against girls, because they are female safety and the future of a large number of children.

The project will be held through two existing “integrated support centers” at the Jitimi Hospital in Uungja and Abdullah Mazay Hospital in Pimba, and aims to provide direct medical, psychological and legal services for at least a thousand survivors and survivors of gender -based violence in addition to providing support to 10,000 individuals through community awareness programs and community care services.

The project constitutes a qualitative initiative at this time, as national estimates in Zanzibar show that one in ten boys and one in twenty girls who are exposed to sexual violence before adulthood, while about 30% of girls face this type of violence before reaching the age of 18.

According to a report issued by the Government Statistics Office in Zanzibar in December 2023, 162 cases of gender -based violence were registered, children constituted 81.5% of its victims, and cooperation between the Khaled bin Sultan Al Qasimi Foundation and the “Save Children” organization extends for a whole year, and aims to enhance the capabilities of the local protection system from gender -based violence in Zanzibar, breaking the violation rings, enabling survivors and survivors from Restore their lives and build a better future.

As for Mexico, the Khaled bin Sultan Al Qasimi Foundation, in cooperation with the “Blanc International – Mexico”, launched the “Child Protection” project to provide integrated support for children and adolescents and their families in three Mexican cities: Tabacola, Mexico City and Siodad Khuraiz, and the project includes providing preventive and protective services, safe spaces, primary psychological support and mobile health care, along with psychological and financial support The affected.

The importance of the project is embodied in view of the reports and numbers about the reality of the violent children, as Mexico registered one of the highest rates of human trafficking globally, and this phenomenon witnessed a remarkable escalation since the Kofid-19 pandem 69,500 children in 2019 to more than 137,000 children in 2023 as a result of escalating violence, poverty and displacement associated with climate change.

About 7,000 children are directly benefiting from the “Children’s Protective” project, while its indirect benefits reach more than 15 thousand individuals through community awareness programs and training the local community members to be effective elements in protecting migrant children from exploitation and violence.

A recent study prepared by the “Plan International”, based on 155 interviews with immigrant children and care providers in three major border cities in Mexico: Ciodad Khuraiz, Renosa and Tikhawana that about two -thirds of the children left their homes with a parent or a sponsorship, but only a third arrived in Mexico with facilities, and this made them more vulnerable to the violence based The gender, exploitation, trafficking and forced recruitment by armed groups while traveling alone in search of safety.

The Khaled bin Sultan Al Qasimi Foundation is looking to consolidate its long -term cooperation approach, enable local communities, and achieve a sustainable systematic transformation in child protection systems. The launch of the Zanzibar and Mexico projects came on the basis of sustainability to ensure the continuation of results and effects beyond the immediate implementation phase.

The Foundation’s partnerships with international organizations reflect its vision and its most comprehensive mission in creating a real and permanent impact on environments facing urgent needs in the field of child protection, especially in areas such as East Africa and Latin America, where these areas are recorded clear gaps in the fields of care, safety and justice.

The Foundation seeks during the next stage to expand its work to include additional priority areas, foremost of which is the Arab region and Southeast Asia, and this expansion comes within the framework of the Foundation’s commitment to providing safer and fair environments for children in various countries of the world.

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