MOB Unit

Who is the Mobilization Unit? 

The Mobilization Unit is a department within The Rainbird Foundation focusing specifically on the motivation, activation, and achievements of people around the world working for the end of child abuse. Our unit creates actionable projects made up of simple tasks that individuals can do to produce a result that contributes to the end of an injustice or the eradication of a wrong-doing. These projects have an achievable goal and a reasonable timeline. They are things we can successfully accomplish within a short (maybe a few days or a few weeks) period of time. When a project is completed, we follow up with participants to let them know the outcome, or the further action that is needed.

What is the ultimate goal of the Mobilization Unit? 

1. To activate individuals who have forgotten, or never realized, their dormant power. 
2. To alter the culture from one that allows for the persistence of child abuse to one that stands for the end. 
3. To give people real, actionable projects that can be easily reproduced and make a difference in the lives of children everywhere.
4. To produce results that contribute to the end of child abuse. 

What is the vision for the Mobilization Unit?

 We create real, actionable projects that effect lasting change in the lives of children everywhere, alter the perceptions of cultures, and ultimately END child abuse across the globe.

The Mobilization Unit focuses specifically on the motivation, activation, and achievements of people around the world working for the end of child abuse. The MOBs Unit creates actionable projects made up of simple tasks that individuals can do to produce a result that contributes to the end of an injustice or the eradication of a wrong-doing. These projects have an achievable goal and a reasonable timeline. They are things we can successfully accomplish within a short (a few days to a few weeks) period of time. When a project is completed, we follow up with participants to let them know the outcome, or the further action that is needed.

The Convention on the Rights of the Child

The Convention on the Rights of the Child project is designed to uproot any/all impediments to the United States ratifying the convention and taking a stand for legitimate, globally recognized rights for children.

The goals of the project include: to educate opposing forces, or equal their opposition with education that clears up the misunderstandings and myths that cause them to oppose the ratification of the CRC.

There are many ways to get involved. You can:

1. write your congressman/woman, senators, and representatives and apply pressure for them to get the U.S. to ratify this convention.

2. contribute money to this project so that we can hire the people and writers necessary to fulfilling this project.

3. contribute time to working with us on this project and help us clear up the myths and fears that keep our country from signing this convention and taking a stand for legitimate rights for children.

4. host educational events for your family, friends, religious, and professional communities to find out the facts around this convention, and the facts about what's stopping the convention from being signed in America. To learn about the CRC, click on the Photo Essay, Parts 1 and 2, in the lower right corner on Unicef's page: CRC

Click here to be part of the latest MOB action:

Teacher-on-child abuse is rampant in 19 states in America, but you won’t hear about it because it’s still legal. That’s right, it’s legal for teachers to beat children in 19 states. They can beat a child for failing a test, talking out of turn, or just about anything they think is worthy of a beating. They call these beatings “discipline,” but they’re actually assault. 

If you want to be an active part of the MOB Unit by spreading the word on actions anyone can take for the End,  contact the Head of the MOB Unit: 
whitneytrotta@rainbirdfoundation.org