International Social Service is an international network established in 1924 and active in more than 140 countries. Our ethics are based on the universal and indiscriminate respect for human dignity. Our values are those defined in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child and embodied in SOLIDARITY and RECIPROCITY. ISS-WA aims to work in West Africa to strengthen the ISS network in this region and to promote social work especially at the transnational level.

ISS-WA has been recognised as a member of the International Federation of Educative Communities (FICE) and its Director is the President of FICE-West Africa who will have the role of accompanying members in the region to develop tools and strategies for an effective care of children at the institutional level, but above all at the family and community level.

ISS-WA has been recognised as a member of the International Federation of Educative Communities (FICE) and its Director is the President of FICE-West Africa who will have the role of accompanying members in the region to develop tools and strategies for an effective care of children at the institutional level, but above all at the family and community level.

ISS-WA is part of the Regional Child Protection Group which meets every month in Dakar (Senegal). This group assists ECOWAS as well as States and actors in the field in the definition of policies but also in the implementation and monitoring of global actions in child protection.