The child who has inspired me for 24 years
Dana shares a personal account of children's rights and how World Vision's work has empowered children and young...
Dana Buzducea
Partnership Leader – Advocacy and External Engagement
"From social work in Romania to leading our global advocacy work, I have always been committed to ending injustices facing children."
For more than 20 years, Dana has worked to change the systems that keep some of the world’s most vulnerable children living in degrading, dehumanising conditions.
Graduating in the first generation of Romanian social workers after the fall of the communist regime, Dana started her career working with HIV-infected children, and at-risk families to prevent child abuse, neglect and abandonment to institutions.
For more than nine years, Dana worked with USAID in Romania, contributing to deinstitutionalisation, and developing community-based services and mainstream education solutions for vulnerable children. As a National Director of World Vision Romania, Daniela focused on increasing World Vision's visibility, programme quality and sustainability. In her current role as World Vision International’s Leader for Advocacy and External Engagement, Dana leads the organisation’s work to advocate for an end to violence against children, to see children’s rights recognised and respected, and to see justice restored in some of the world’s toughest places.
Dana is a passionate advocate for children’s right to participate, and to help shift the lack of political will, or leadership, or ignorance. It is our responsibility as adults to keep children high on the political and the public agenda so that no child is left behind in the development race.
Follow Dana on Twitter @DanaBuzducea
Read articles by Dana
- What do our broken promises teach children?
- Why I will never stop making a case for children
- Why food is so much #MoreThanAMeal to me
- What happens if we miss our window?
- Changing the COVID-19 world for children
- Faith leaders and child rights advocates: the good news and bad news
Child protection and participation must be the new global agenda
Dana says that while children are finally being heard by those in power, more must be done...
What do our broken promises teach children?
New research puts uncomfortable spotlight on the global commitments to end violence against children, say Dana Buzducea...
Why I will never stop making the case for children
Children give us so many reasons to hope, but on Human Rights Day Dana asks if we can...
Why food is so much #MoreThanAMeal to me
To mark World Food Day, Dana recalls the food anxiety and trauma – and the rare moments...
What happens if we miss our window?
Children don’t stay children forever; Dana reflects on the lifelong impact of missing our opportunity and responsibility...
Changing the COVID-19 world for children
It was obvious to us from the beginning that this pandemic would become a children’s crisis.
Faith leaders and Child Rights Advocates: the good news and the bad news.
On the 30th anniversary of the Convention, do people of faith care about the CRC? By Dana...