Child's Right and Rehabilitation Network (CRARN) is a charity organization registered with Corporate Affairs Commission in Nigeria. CRARN began operation by a small group of volunteers in 2003 to shelter a few children who had been accused of possessing witchcraft power as part of a widespread witch-hunt in their community, which left hundreds of people dead in the space of two months.
Most children have suffered some severe violations of their right’s, either on the streets or at the hands of pastors, parents neighbors and members of the public. This includes horrible beatings with machetes, rods, horsewhips, burning parts of the body with fire to elicit confessions, hanging on the roofs. Some children shows scars of fire or hurt water burns, finger chopped off, mutilated bodies while being rescued. Some children have told volunteers how they where chained in churches, starved of foods for days and even hung on roofs and allowed to dangle for hours while receiving beatings from the step-parents and step brothers and other adults.
CRARN's vision is to raise a safe, supported and educated child that is aware of their rights as part of a community that no longer stigmatize children.
Our mission is to educate the society on the need to protect the child from any form of abuse and to give protection to the right of every child.
