A couple of years ago, many world leaders signed a deal with the United Nations in an effort to help reduce violence against children, improve their health, and provide more access to education and nutrition. This was their main goal to ensure that no children are ever left behind. However, by 2017, world leaders concluded that children who are living without families are still struggling to survive. One of the main reasons why these children are not accounted for is because data about them is never collected. Governments and organizations are often unable to get information about these children. If children are not included in the data, it is difficult for these world leaders to make progress towards their goal of helping children live better lives. According to experts, some of the most vulnerable children in the world are unable to grow up without a family. They are often separated from their families by poverty, war, and discrimination. As a result, they are forced to live on the street, live in institutions, and also be trafficked. Nobody is sure how many children live outside of the care of a family but there are an estimated 200 million who are currently unaccounted for throughout the entire world. Without any data that is accurate, the international community is unable to completely assess how many children are in need of assistance.
As of today, many world leaders are now working on ideas to help improve the process of data collection so that they can more easily find children who are in need. They will look to develop a new technology where they can efficiently track children in institutions as well as those who are found by other people in the community. This will ensure that governments all over the world can accurately gather important data about children and how they can then work towards improving the lives of these displaced children. Georgette Mulheir is one of the top experts in the world who transforms systems that provide care and protection for children. During the past thirty years, Georgette Mulheir has worked with over 30 countries in which she has advised governments and donors in the international community to improve care for children all over the world. To date the programs developed by Georgette Mulheir have helped establish a global movements to recognized the effects of displaced children and how to best help them live better lives. Read more.