In October 2009, Terre des hommes (Tdh) began implementing the “Developing a Child Protection Safety Net in Albania” CPSN project. A consolidation of Tdh’s former TACT project (Transnational Action against Child Trafficking) project, CPSN has worked to achieve a child protection safety net able to protect children against trafficking and other forms of abuse, violence, exploitation or neglect. Based on Tdh definition, a child protection system is a coherent set of actions and actors, in which the child is the starting point and which aims to guarantee the rights and well being of the child by constructing synergies within and between protective environments. For Tdh in Albania achieving a functioning statutory child protection system implies working with local and central level institutions and actors which have a role in protection and can help ensure the promotion and protection of child rights and their well-being, no matter what the circumstances. The CPSN project has focused its efforts to achieve the establishment and functioning of local Child Protection Units (CPUs) in over 12 municipalities and communes of Albania; the inclusion of schools in the child protection safety net at the local level, particularly focusing on strengthening the coordination between school actors to improve identification and responses to child protection concerns; the mobilization and empowerment of marginalized communities, especially Roma and Egyptian, in 8 communities to contribute in ensuring a safer environment for the most vulnerable children and support a sustainable livelihood for their members; and the empowerment of child care institutions to implement and monitor the standards of child care in their environment. CPSN has also offered families sustainable livelihood alternatives to child exploitation by supporting the income generating activities program implemented by the local non-for-profit CAAP (Common Action Against Poverty). Given that this project is ending in December 2012, Tdh wanted to celebrate it through the stories of some of the beneficiaries, who happily shared the impact that CPSN project had on their lives.