Terre des hommes

[1] The organization is named after Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's 1939 philosophical memoir Terre des hommes (English title: Wind, Sand and Stars).

To achieve this, the organisation sets up innovative programmes focusing on areas such as health, migration and access to justice, designed specifically to have an impact in the short and long term.

For over 60 years, the Terre des hommes Foundation has been working in difficult contexts, whether in countries at war, regions affected by natural disasters, or areas where poverty and malnutrition force millions of children and their families to migrate.

Together with Avaaz.org, Terre des Hommes the Netherlands has created an online petition to pressure governments to adopt proactive investigation policies in order to protect children against webcam child sex tourism.

Terre des hommes Spain also carries out significant medical aid for children from several African countries, thanks to the program "Journey towards Life".

In 2008 Terre Des Hommes-Lausanne brought a defamation suit against a teacher in Ethiopia, Jill Campbell, for accusing the branch of knowingly hiding child abuse in one of its centres in the village of Jari.

[3] Mrs Campbell compiled evidence which helped to convict a British paedophile who was sentenced in 2003 to nine years hard labour in prison.

[3] Her husband Gary had already withdrawn similar allegations in order to avoid prison and ensure that one of the couple would be able to look after their two ten-year-old adopted children.