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The EACH Campaign Launch

BECAUSE EACH CHILD DESERVES A FAMILY, THE LEGATUM INSTITUTE IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE LAUNCH OF

Tuesday, 30^th March 2010: 15.00 – 20.00

 Featuring speakers from El Salvador, Georgia, Honduras, Rwanda, Great Britain, and the United States discussing challenges and solutions for protecting each child’s right to a family.

 Film Premiers, Panel Discussion and Cocktail Reception

The EACH Campaign is a global effort to mobilise all those concerned about children who have been orphaned, abandoned or otherwise separated from their parents to ensure EACH child grows up in a safe and loving family.  Its goals are to increase awareness of EACH child’s need for family care and support, to prioritize family-based care for EACH child without it, to highlight country specific innovations that provide a way forward, and to promote best practices for family strengthening, reunification, alternative care and adoption globally.

To view the panel videos of the recent event visit http://li.com/EachLaunch.aspx 

To view the Campaign films visit the EACH Campaign YouTube Channel 

Abbreviated Agenda:

15.30 Welcome remarks:

Jean Geran (Legatum Institute), Lars Tharp (The Foundling Museum)

15.45 Keynote: 

Samantha Callan (Centre for Social Justice/United Kingdom)

16.45 Panel 1: International Child Protection and Alternative Care:

Nyanja Nzabamwita (Ishami, Rwanda), Aaron Greenberg (UNICEF/Georgia), Andy Elvin, (CFAB/United Kingdom) 

17.30 Panel 2: Family Policy and Adoption:

Carmen Elena Balzaretti (Asociacion Familia y Esperanza/El Salvador), Anna Jimenez (Puerta al Mundo/Honduras), Naomi Angell (Osbornes Solicitors/United Kingdom)

18.15 Special Message from the United States Congress

Senator James Inhofe (Oklahoma) and Senator Mary Landrieu (Louisiana)

18.30 Evening Reception:

Remarks by Nadine Dorries, MP, Stevan Whitehead (OASIS/United Kingdom)

For further information regarding this event please contact Olivia Dunigan at:

Olivia.Dunigan@legatum.com or on: +44 20 7148 5400

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