Ethical boundaries
AFC-ENG is aware that the quality
ofthe living environment of the child is not optimal in all cases. AFC-ENG is taking steps to improve
this situation and is observing the following guidelines in this
respect:
• The starting point is respect for the other human being or organization.
•
When the AFC-ENG finds out that
individuals or organizations are behaving in such a way that it is
damaging for children in one way or another, then we may take action as
fellow human beings.
• AFC-ENG will take a step-by-step approach.
The first task will be to obtain a clear understanding of the situation and to report on it.
• The next step is to look for other, comparable situations and organizations that have already found a solution to the situation as described above and to present it to the stakeholders concerned.
• AFC-ENG works with the method
of trial and error and in a dialogue with the stakeholders concerned.
•
It is more important for the AFC-ENG
to get the philosophy right than to rush things and try to achieve a
quick fix.
AFC-ENG will
try to contribute to a process of improvement in the quality of
childhood by convincing the general public, the stakeholders concerned
and the ordinary political parties on local, regional, national and
European level to perceive the environment of the child in a new way and
to take action in accordance with this.