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MELLBY GÅRD IN SOCIETY – CHILDREN’S RIGHTS

For children’s right to be children

All children have the right to feel safe and secure. All children have the right
to education. All children have the right to believe in the future. We at Mellby
Gård want to help provide vulnerable children with safe, warm and nurturing
environments – where they have time to be children before they become adults.

PROJECT PLAYGROUND ESTABLISHES
OPERATIONS IN THE GAMBIA

Project Playground is a Swedish organization whose vision is Project Playground currently operates in South Africa and Sweden,
to create “a world in which all children and young people can and has also recently started work on establishing a presence in
grow up with a belief in the future and the ability to make a the Gambia. Mellby Gård has been a Project Playground partner for
positive impact on their own lives”. Project Playground works from a several years.
holistic perspective, which means that every child and young person
involved in its activities receives support based on their individual “All children have the right to be children,” says Cecilia Bergling
needs and life situation – in a safe place and from safe and competent Nauclér, Secretary General. “An essential part of our work is to
adults. provide children with safe and meaningful contexts in which they
can grow and develop. The contribution from Mellby Gård is of great
The founders H.R.H. Princess Sofia of Sweden and Frida Vesterberg importance to our activities, helping us continue and develop our
started the organization because they saw the great need for an work.”
organization that sees the whole child – and that sees the child’s own
capacity to grow. Founded in 2010, Project Playground focuses on Cecilia Bergling Nauclér,
socioeconomically disadvantaged areas in which society’s support Secretary General
systems are insufficient to help children living in broken and violent
homes, for example.

By providing vulnerable children with support and capacity-
building activities, Project Playground helps boost the confidence
of these individuals and helps children at risk of ending up in crime,
addiction or mental ill-health to find a different path.

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