Mauritania
In Mauritania, 42% of the population lives below the poverty line, and the majority of the population is young, with nearly 60% under the age of 25. This situation forces many children to work as domestic servants, the majority of them girls. These children are often victims of exploitation and physical and sexual violence. The country is also affected by food insecurity. Terre des hommes (Tdh) implements activities to strengthen the protection system and to help child migrants or young people in conflict with the law.
What we do
Children and young people in migration
Access to justice
Child protection
Specialised care
Key projects
Hoping to provide Fatou with opportunities for the future, her parents sent her to work for a Mauritanian family as a domestic servant. However, the situation quickly deteriorated. Fatou’s employers began abusing and beating her.
Fatou, a former domestic servant
Read more...Terre des hommes in Mauritania
Beneficiaries 2021
30,913 people
Expatriate staff / National staff
3 / 22
Budget 2021
CHF 1,474,345
Where we work
Supported by
Financial partners
AECID's objective is to fight poverty by promoting, managing and implementing public policies of international development cooperation, aimed at both the fight against poverty and the achievement of sustainable human progress in developing countries.
www.aecid.en
Financial partners
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, to defend their rights, and to help them fulfil their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
Financial partners
Financial partners
Terre des hommes Spain is a non-profit-making Foundation. Founded in 1994, its purpose is to promote the development of childhood by defending its rights, without discrimination of a political nature, ethnic, denominational and of sex. Terre des hommes Spain men always followed a double vocation: on the one hand to lead direct aid draft aid programs to childhood and on the other hand to be an ambassador of the children’s rights in the world.
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Financial partners
Financial partners
Fedevaco is the umbrella organisation of 49 organisations active in development cooperation. For more than 30 years, it has put its expertise and know-how at the service of public authorities. Its mission is to foster development based on justice, solidarity, human dignity and respect for the environment, in particular by promoting the quality of its organisations' projects financed by public authorities.
Financial partners
https://ch.ambafrance.org/-Francais-
AECID's objective is to fight poverty by promoting, managing and implementing public policies of international development cooperation, aimed at both the fight against poverty and the achievement of sustainable human progress in developing countries.
www.aecid.en
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, to defend their rights, and to help them fulfil their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
Terre des hommes Spain is a non-profit-making Foundation. Founded in 1994, its purpose is to promote the development of childhood by defending its rights, without discrimination of a political nature, ethnic, denominational and of sex. Terre des hommes Spain men always followed a double vocation: on the one hand to lead direct aid draft aid programs to childhood and on the other hand to be an ambassador of the children’s rights in the world.
> www.tierradehombres.org
Fedevaco is the umbrella organisation of 49 organisations active in development cooperation. For more than 30 years, it has put its expertise and know-how at the service of public authorities. Its mission is to foster development based on justice, solidarity, human dignity and respect for the environment, in particular by promoting the quality of its organisations' projects financed by public authorities.
https://ch.ambafrance.org/-Francais-
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