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.

• • Child Abuse is Everyone’s Problem

• • Children with Disabilities: An Invisible Group in need of attention

• • Child Refugees

• • Child Migrants

• • Advocacy for the Girl Child

• • The Little Match Girl

• • African Renaissance

• • Mental Health and Wellness Resources for Children, Youth and Adults  

• •  For the Sake of Africa’s Children and the Well-Being of Future Generations, Africa, Wake Up! 

• • Leaving a Legacy for Future Generations
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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