Child Protection & Development
Professional Alliance for Development (PADet) envisions a transformed society where children, youth, and women are living dignified and secured lives. Our Child Development and Safeguarding strategic focus ensures comprehensive care, support, and institutional protection for vulnerable children across Ethiopia.
Holistic safeguarding and reintegration
Through dedicated initiatives such as the Migration Awareness and Action project, the Prevention of Risky Movement of Children in the Northern Ethiopia Corridor, and targeted child domestic servitude interventions, PADet works directly with communities, employers, recruiters, and local government structures.
We provide vital support services including temporary retention care, psychosocial counseling, scholastic materials, nutritional assistance, vocational skills training, and legal aid services to protect children from exploitation, child labor, and unsafe migration.
How this shows up in our programmes
Migration & Reintegration Support
Reunifying thousands of migrant and street children with their families, providing psychosocial support, temporary retention care, clothing, medication, and sustainable income-generating opportunities.
Prevention of Risky Movements
Carrying out corridor-wide interventions across northern Ethiopia to provide tutorial classes, nutritional support, school material backing, and protective community watch structures against child trafficking and abuse.
Child Domestic Servitude Response
Improving community understanding of domestic worker rights, monitoring workplace conditions through local watch groups, and providing essential shelter, education, and livelihood support to survivors.
