CAMELEON is an international solidarity association born in 1997. It develops a holistic approach to act on the causes and effects of sexual abuse towards children and teenagers. Our solidarity programs in the Philippines give help and a better future for girl survivors of sexual abuse and underprivileged children. CAMELEON promote the actions of our Youth Advocates in the Philippines as we aspire to a world without sexual abuse.
1 every 5 children has experienced any form of sexual abuse and 2.95 million girl children have experienced sexual abuse. Due to the cultural and social stigmatization, victims are forced to keep their silence and not report the crime committed against them. CAMELEON works in breaking the silence. Through the Advocacy Program, CAMELEON runs information campaigns to raise awareness and to educate the public on child sexual abuse and to ultimately, prevent the proliferation of such crime.
The Voice of CAMELEON's Children is a youth group composed of CAMELEON's beneficiaries who explain the significance of Children's Rights to local populations. These young empowered advocates give lectures and workshops to educate and raise awareness to children, parents, teachers. Besides, the CAMELEON Youth Health Advocates organize campaigns and conferences for communities about health, family planing and sex education, using the forum theatre to raise awareness about teenage pregnancy.
Our 2020 impacts: in the Philippines, 2,133 students were reached by advocacy lectures and workshops. 300 parents were reached through advocacy campaigns. 7 tv interviews and 22 radio itw informed about children's rights. On social media, the audience reached by the advocacy campaigns was 177,219. You can help us raise awareness among more children and communities to protect children's rights throughout the world by donating.
