Daniel Magnus

Kenyan Orphan Project, Protecting Vulnerable Children From Injustice - standing up for human rights

With Rebecca Leslie and Owain Evans, Dan Magnus founded the Kenyan Orphan Project in 2001. Teams of UK medical students now travel to Kenya, using their skills to assist with projects that feed, educate and provide access to healthcare for hundreds of children in the region. They have built facilities so that orphans and street children can leave the streets for safe feeding and school environments. As a result hundreds of children are now educated and healthy, rather than labouring, hungry and vulnerable to substance and physical abuse.

By engaging young people in the UK in development, education and support of communities in Kenya, KOP hopes to form lasting partnerships to overcome injustice. KOP's projects include the initiation of a hospital, medical clinic, schools, orphan feeding centre, orphan support and street children centre. KOP doctors and nurses run rural medical camps and international health symposiums.

Standing up for the principles of the Universal Declaration
Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights affirms the rights of children to "special care and assistance." Children's rights were further strengthened through the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which nearly every country in the world has signed and ratified.

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