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About Marianco
We work to protect children from trafficking and exploitation, so that they have somewhere safe to grow up and a way back when that has been taken from them.
Our story
Marianco was founded by Francisco Padilla, who grew up on the streets of Cartagena, Colombia. His mother, Maria, was a child when she was first sold in the slums of that city. The organisation carries her name.
We work against child trafficking, documented child sexual abuse and the commercial sexual exploitation of children. We support every child who comes to us, and we take particular care with children under fifteen.
The organisation was started by people who were not willing to keep watching. What we do is unglamorous and specific: prevention where children are recruited, support for the adults around them, and pressure on the systems that are supposed to protect them.
Our mission
To protect children from trafficking through prevention, support and rehabilitation, and to keep working on the conditions that make a child reachable in the first place.
Safety
Every child should be able to feel safe. We work on the places where that breaks down first, the journey to school, the home under pressure, the account nobody is watching.
Dignity
We treat every person, and every child, as someone with a say in what happens to them. Nobody is defined by the worst thing that has happened to them.
Empowerment
Communities protect children better than outsiders can. We give teachers, families and neighbours the knowledge and the resources to do it.
Justice
We push for accountability and for laws that hold. A case that ends in nothing teaches an entire community that reporting is pointless.
The team
The people doing this work, day to day. Small team, long hours, no press office.
Oscar-Francisco Padilla Andreasson
Founder
Serial entrepreneur, innovation-lover and former street child.
Eunice Fiati
Marketing and Fundraising Volunteer
I work on awareness, community engagement and securing the resources the organisation needs to counter child trafficking and exploitation.
Faizan Asif Butt
Web Developer for Social Impact
Builds the digital tools the organisation runs on, so that the work reaches the people who need it.
Duygu Özkan
UX Designer
Combines a background in political science and social policy with user-centred design, working on experiences that are clear to people under pressure.
Briar Wilks
Charity and Fundraising Intern
An advocate for human rights, working towards solutions that draw on political science, sociology and law.
Linn Winberg
Marketing Specialist
Works in strategic communication and digital marketing, building campaigns that support the work of protecting children.
Naz Hoseinkhani
HR Specialist
Works on how the team is supported and how it grows, so that people can stay in difficult work for longer than a year.
Join us
We are always looking for people who want to help this grow, as volunteers, as partners, or as monthly givers.
Get involvedAccountability
We did not write our own standards
This work sits inside the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Palermo Protocol, the EU Charter and the Global Goals. All of them were written by someone else, all of them are public, and all of them are specific enough to hold us to.
Our partners
Marianco is backed by companies that give us time, tools and infrastructure. It means more of every donation reaches the work it was given for.
Daylited
Publishing and web infrastructure.
Hosting and infrastructure
Visit DaylitedENEQUI
Energy storage and power management for homes and businesses.
Engineering time
Visit ENEQUIFlowerWork
Workforce and scheduling software.
Volunteer scheduling
Visit FlowerWorkFRANS ANDRÉ
Clothing for people who change roles several times a day.
Design and garments
Visit FRANS ANDRÉGADDR
Identity and hiring platform.
Recruitment and vetting
Visit GADDRMOVON
Moving and relocation technology, built in Sweden.
Logistics and transport
Visit MOVONNeurTask
Task and workflow tooling for teams.
Software licences
Visit NeurTaskRealdini Studios
Studio for interactive and real-time work.
Film and motion
Visit Realdini StudiosRekaro
A register that puts company reviews, public procurement and public money flows side by side.
Data and engineering
Visit Rekaro
Support the work
Everything is made to order. What is left after production funds prevention, support and casework.
- Clothing
Print-on-demand keeps our stock at zero, so nothing is bought that nobody wants. What is left after the item is made and shipped goes to prevention work, support for families, and the slow business of getting cases taken seriously.