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Who We Are

Child's Right and Rehabilitation Network (CRARN) is a charity organization with a firm belief in, and intent on safeguarding the rights of children. It was founded in 2003 with a view to addressing the alarming rate of street and abandoned children branded as witches and wizards stop the killing and to ensure their rehabilitation, including other vulnerable children, particularly in Akwa Ibom, Cross River States Nigeria.

CRARN initiated, and remains in the forefront of a campaign to end the branding of children as witches and wizards. Such children face a critical dimension of abuses ranging from abandonment, rejection, torture, being trafficked out and possible killing.

Given the deep rooted belief in child witches as propounded and spread by some Pentecostal churches, states beyond the Niger Delta region are now affected. These churches make lot money from parents and families by carrying out exorcism on the children they stigmatised as witches.

The Risk of Working with 'Witch' Children
There are much risk involved in working to rescue and save the lives of children tagged witches as the deep rooted belief is far from over despite the strong advocacy and enlightenment campaign involving different stakeholders that are on going. It is unimaginable to some communities that some groups are even involved in saving the lives those they strongly believe are witches.

Attacks
Volunteers and field staff working to rescue or reconcile children are often treated with disdain, verbal and physical assaults. Those who feel their preaching and ‘business’ have been called to question now use the services of gun men to attack the centre sheltering the children and constantly threaten the lives of the carers and advocates of the children.

What We Do

• Rescue Missions
• Shelter and Rehabilitation
• Advocacy Programmes
• Networking
• Counselling
• CRARN Academy
• Skill Acquisition

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