At House of Mercy Children’s Home, Lagos, Nigeria (HOM), we also strive to improve public awareness of children’s issues. Creating a safer world for children is a collective responsibility and it requires ensuring that the rights of children are upheld and speaking out when they are violated.

Please browse through our collection of articles and photo essays about some of the issues facing children in today’s world.

• African Renaissance
• Mental Health and Wellness Resources for Children, Youth and Adults 
• Child Refugees
• Child Migrants
• For the Sake of Africa’s Children and the Well-Being of Future Generations, Africa, Wake Up! 
• Child Abuse is Everyone’s Problem
• Child Begging: A Blight on Society
• Homeless Street Children: A Growing Social Ill
• Born To Die: The Bane of Female Infanticide
• AIDS Orphans: A Generation At Risk
• Youth in Crisis: A Disillusioned Generation
• Child Sex Workers: Victims of A Stolen Childhood
• Children of War: The True Victims
• Children with Disabilities: An Invisible Group in need of attention
• Advocacy for the Girl Child
• Leaving a Legacy for Future Generations
• The Little Match Girl

Child protection is a Collective Responsibility

Whilst parents or guardians are primarily responsible for the health, safety and well-being of children in their care, all citizens have a collective responsibility to protect children from abuse and neglect and promote their welfare.

Reporting one’s concerns about a child’s safety or well-being is an important step in preventing or stopping the abuse and protecting children from further harm.

If you have a reason to suspect a child is experiencing harm or is in danger of abuse, neglect, incest, child sexual assault, child battering, child-selling, child labour or child trafficking, please notify the appropriate agencies :

1. Lagos State Ministry Of Youth And Social Development (Child Protection Unit)

Provides Protection Services to the vulnerable members of the society – Youth, Children, Persons Living with Disabilities, Orphaned and the Elderly.

Address: Block 7 &18, The Lagos State Secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos.

Tel No: 08096777389     

Email: [email protected]

2. Lagos State Domestic And Sexual Violence Response Team (DSVRT)

Responds to the   incidents of rape, defilement, domestic violence, and child abuse in Lagos State.

Address: Block 2, Ministry of Justice, Secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos.

Tel No: 112 | 0813 796 0048 

Dial *6820# or Text  6820 using keyword – child abuse (Toll free)

Email: [email protected]

3. The National Agency For The Prohibition Of Trafficking In Persons (NAPTIP)

Responds to the prevention of all form of human degradation and exploitation to stamp out human trafficking.

Address – Lagos Zonal Office: Oba Ladejobi, Near Police College, G.R.A Ikeja, Lagos.

Email: [email protected]             

Tel No: 07080601801

4. National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP)

Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State

08033838858

5. National Agency NAPTIP

18B Ekulu West

Behind Parklane Hospital

Enugu

6. National Human Rights Commission (NHRC)

Serves as an extra-judicial mechanism for the enhancement of human rights. It also provides avenues for public enlightenment, research and dialogue on human rights issues.

South West Zonal Office: 13A Ladipo Bataye Street, G.R.A Ikeja, Lagos

Hotline: 08054707559

Email: [email protected]     

7. Office Of The Public Defender (OPD)

Provides free legal services – legal advice and representation in criminal and civil cases to the indigent, vulnerable and defenseless citizens of the State; especially cases of rape, child abuse or child neglect.

Head office: Iyun Street, Funsho Williams Way – Barracks or Stadium Bus Stop, Western Avenue, Surulere, Lagos.

Ikorodu Office: 130, Lagos Road – Jumofak Bus Stop Ikorodu, Lagos.

Tel No: 01-89755751 | 01-7926930 | 01-7210890  | 112 | 0813 796 0048

Tollfree number: 07080601080

E-mail: [email protected] 

8. Child Protection Network Lagos

E-mail: [email protected] | [email protected]

Tel No:08065841438 | 07089428326

9. Child Protection Network (CPN)       

Ekiti State

08033974238

10. Child Protection Network (CPN)

Gbogan road Abere, Oshogbo

Osun State

08030422562

11. Gender-based Violence Response Centre

Ministry of Women Affairs

Leopard Town Rd

Big Qua Town, Calabar

Cross-River State

12. Gender Desk Police Command GRA

Ikeja, Lagos State               

0906 288 7853

Please note that House of Mercy Children’s Home Lagos, Nigeria (HOM) does not accept responsibility for the accuracy of any information accessed outside our website or any information which is obtained from any such third party.

Children are the only future of any people. If the children’s lives are squandered, and if the children of a people are not fully developed at whatever cost and sacrifice, the people will have consigned themselves to certain death. ~ Dr. Frances Cress Welsing