Five mothers hailing from Turkey, Switzerland, Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina are reaching out to children in distress across the world.
Upset about the conditions some children around the world are currently living in, particularly in refugee camps, the mothers joined forces in Switzerland in January 2020 to set up the international association For Children Smile to help children living in different regions of the world, particularly in refugee camps.
Speaking to Anadolu Agency (AA), Emine Taş, president of the organization, said their focus is to reach out to children in need of humanitarian aid, especially those living in war and conflict zones, occupied areas and disaster-hit regions.
“After witnessing so many times the pain of thousands of children in countries that have been affected by war and poverty, I decided to do something for them. Mothers like me from different cultures came together, and we established the association,” she said.
The organization aims to ensure that all the rights in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child are applied without exception for all children, Taş said.
According to the organization, it has so far identified 100,000 children in Syria, 13,000 in Yemen, 5,000 in Palestine and 1,500 across Asia and Europe who need humanitarian aid, educational assistance, housing and access to various facilities.
