Project on the field MARIO | Protect children on the move
From 1 Jan 2009 To 31 Dec 2011 The project Mario implements activities at both national and transnational levels. It targets professionals who come across cases of abuse, exploitation and/ or trafficking of children in Central and South Eastern Europe. Partners decided to join forces to better protect these children. Read the project description
MARIO Project News
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Albania Domestic violence training: ‘Witnessing domestic violence can profoundly frighten and affect children!”
26 Jan 2012
Albania, December 2011: During the month of December a series of one day trainings on domestic violence were organized in 4 regional divisions of Albania. Over 90 actors currently working in the Child Protection Units, the newly established State Agency for Child Protection, Municipal Domestic Violence Departments, Domestic Violence and Minors Sectors within the Police Directorates, State Social Services Departments, prosecutors and judge... More
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Hungary Time to learn for Mario
13 Dec 2011
Budapest, Hungary, December 8-9, 2011: Partners implementing the project Mario have come together one last time to be able to discuss and distill the lessons learnt accumulated during the implementation of the project. The exercise was especially important since partners are planning for a second phase. More
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Kosovo A new tool available to agencies working in child protection field
6 Dec 2011
Pristine, Kosovo, December 5, 2011: As a result of the close cooperation among Terre des Hommes, the NGO Coalition on Child Protection and all the other state partners working directly in child protection issues, a joint conference was held on the 5th of December in Pristine. More
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Poland 8th International Conference „Helping Children-Victims of Crime”
2 Dec 2011
Warsaw, Poland, October 24-25 2011: The 8th International Conference “Helping children- victims of crime” organized by the Nobody’s Children Foundation, the Ministry of Justice and the Department of Social Policy of Warsaw's City Hall in the framework of the EU Polish Presidency took place from 24 to 25th October 2011 and gathered mote than 2500 participa... More
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Hungary Successful film night in Budapest
16 Nov 2011
Budapest, Hungary, November 14, 2011: In the framework of the project Mario, close to sixty professionals and friends gathered at a small movie theater to view - for the first time in Hungary - the documentary of Clara Ott "The Long Way Out". The reception of the film was quite positive, the audience viewed the film attentively, and after it the... More
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AlbaniaKosovo Intensified bilateral cooperation efforts to combat trafficking in persons
1 Nov 2011
Tirana, Albania, October 2011: Representatives of the governments of Albania and Kosovo, including officials from line ministries and central agencies, as well as representatives of civil society organizations met to discuss the draft of a supplementing Cooperation Protocol of the Agreement between both countries ‘on police co-operation’, specifically on... More
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KosovoBulgaria Kosovar and Bulgarian counterparts learn from each other
18 Oct 2011
Sofia, Bulgaria, 10–14 October, 2011: Different representatives of state institutions from Kosovo, working in the child protection field, had the chance to meet with their counterparts in Bulgaria to discuss child protection issues and to exchange experiences among each other on the structure, organization and functioning of the child protection system in... More
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Europe Mario speaks out at largest human rights gathering in Europe
10 Oct 2011
Warsaw, 5-6 October 2011: On the occasion of the 11th OSCE Human Dimension Implementation meeting, the project Mario partners drew the attention of the 56 participating states to the child protection concerns identified throughout their activities, with that action will be taken for children on the move in the OSCE region. More
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Albania Children's assessment of child protection services
7 Oct 2011
Tirana, September 2011: Children views, experiences, beliefs and attitudes regarding the services they have received from Child Protection Workers have been collected and documented in a report that aimed at measuring the impact of Mario partner’s efforts in building the capacity of child protection professionals during the third year of implementation of... More
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Europe Mario presents at the XIIth ISPCAN conference
30 Sep 2011
Tampere, Finland, September 18-21, 2011: Child abuse and neglect are issues which challenge practitioners, decision makers and researchers as well as parents, children and communities: whose responsibility it is to react, respond and care and how should it be done? This was the introduction rationale of the “12th International Society for the Prevention o... More
