Established in 1983, FEFAF – ‘European Federation of Parents and Carers at home’, represents 19 different national organisations from various countries throughout Europe.
They campaign so that opinion formers, academics, national governments, decision- making bodies, including policy makers at the UN and the EU (and other political forums) properly recognise that: Unpaid care should be equally valued, protected and recognised on a human, social and economic level; caregivers are at higher risk of marginalisation and poverty and deserve equal rights protections in all respects, to respect the importance of the invisible work they do; the care that children receive, especially during the first years of life impacts on the whole of adulthood and needs to be prioritized, protected and valued.
