UNICEF: Cash grant programme helps ensure rights in Lesotho

http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/lesotho_51799.html

LEBAKENG, Lesotho, 18 November 2009 Mapalesa Sebatanyane, 73, is the primary caregiver for her four grandchildren, but she struggles to feed them with the small income she earns raising chickens in this remote village.

Recently, help arrived for Ms. Sebatanyane in the form of cash grants delivered by helicopter from the Child Grants Programme, an initiative of the Government of Lesotho, the European Union (EU) and UNICEF.

The programme is now several months into its initial pilot phase. It aims to improve the well-being of vulnerable children including those who have been affected by HIV and AIDS, and those who live in families struggling with poverty, food insecurity, undernutrition and lack of access to essential services.

Besides ensuring every childs right to have such basic needs met, the Convention on the Rights of the Child states, in Article 29, that all children either through their guardians or directly have the right to help from the government if they are poor or in need.

Cash transfers have the greatest impact when combined with other social services such as health, nutrition, education and protection, said UNICEF Representative in Lesotho Dr. Ahmed Magan. The grants are part of a greater child-sensitive social protection programme that will benefit entire families.

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• UNICEF
• Lesotho
• CRC
• Convention
• Rights
• Child
• cash
• grants

[pheonixking999]

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[Kuuddy]

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