Good Practices

Reducing trauma by encouraging the child to express and talk and facilitating their participation in in disaster, relief and recovery.

Setting up of orphanages and Institutionalization of Children should be the last option for children affected by the tsunami. Initiatives to support to surviving family members and relatives to help maintain themselves and the child are preferred.

Identify informal care systems that exist in the community for e.g. relatives or neighbors taking care of children.

Priority must be given to family reunification in the case of separated children

Protect children's inheritance right to land and property, and administration hereof by legal guardian until the child reaches maturity.

Right to continuation of formal education

Special efforts to prevent abuse in camps and families.