Netaid to help reunite families

Netaid.org is to support the tracing and reunification of some 3,000 children separated from their families by armed conflict in Guinea and two other countries, Congo-Brazzaville, and East Timor, the organisation announced on Saturday. The Bringing Children Home programme is a collaborative effort of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), TIME magazine and Netaid.org, which was founded by the UN Development Programme and Cisco Systems Inc. “Our goal is to reinforce current efforts to locate and care for these children, and to trace their families and reunite them as quickly as possible,” said David Morrison, president of Netaid.org Foundation. He said some of the children had been separated from their families for years and many had been abused and exploited. Morrison said Netaid would match contributions for the protection, tracing, and reunification of the children “dollar for dollar”. The focus of the Bringing Children Home programme is to provide separated children with basic protection as well as trauma counselling, education and other assistance to reintegrate successfully into their families and communities. The IRC will implement the programme.