“WE SIGNED THE DUTCH NGO PLEDGE #EveryChildAFamily BECAUSE…”
|In this interview, Marnix Huis in ’t Veld of Macheo Children’s Organization, explains to interviewer Monique Derrez (Dutch Tanzania Foundation, one of the founding NGO’s of this pledge) why Macheo signed the Dutch NGO pledge #EveryChildAFamily. Marnix talks about opportunities and challenges, from starting as a traditional orphanage in 2005 to shifting the focus to family reunification. Will children’s homes ever be eradicated? Or are they still needed? Are there enough alternatives available to make orphanages unnecessary? Or is a police cell the only other alternative for a child when it is abandoned and found? Find out.’