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In early June, we traveled to Rwanda, where we held the startup-seminars for our two new instructor teams. The participants include social workers, teachers and psychologists. The students were very engaged and we look forward to following the 50 students who will be...

In March, we started two new teams in Tanzania. This time we luckily had the opportunity to travel there to hold our startup seminar physically, which has previously been a challenge due to the corona situation. The two teams included participants from SOS Children's...

Fairstart takes part in Community Action for Quality Alternative Care and Protection in our collaboration with the SOS Children’s Villages. We have trained two more teams of instructors. One team in Tanzania and one team in Rwanda. We have just started another team in...

In these days, where we all must keep good distance, we have successfully completed the second digital introduction seminar in collaboration with our partners SOS Children's Villages in East Africa. Our digital seminars are part of our joint upscaling effort, where we...

"The world is already facing great challenges, and if we don't do anything, the 70 million children without parental contact, who don't get help, can become a burden rather than a resource for the world society."Niels Peter Rygaard GlobalNew has written an article...

The American Psychological Association (APA) has awarded Fairstart's head of research and founder Niels Peter Rygaard their international award for humanitarian work. The award is given for his many years of dedication and humanitarian efforts for vulnerable and...

CONGRATULATIONS to the many caring, skilled, and dedicated foster parents in Greenland with their newly acquired and well-deserved diploma! Since fall 2019 foster parens throughout Greenland have met up in local groups and been taught in relation-based caregiving....

Yesterday we attended a important dialogue meeting with the UN special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples Victoria Tauli-Corpuz in the UN city in Copenhagen. Together with other central actors and experts in the situation with children in Greenland, we...