The Vision of AFAO is to improve the lives of orphaned and vulnerable particularly those located in orphanages in remote areas and slums, to enable them to become sustainable and to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations.
Our Mission
AFAO Mission is to Educate, Professionalize and Empower needy orphanages
We empower needy orphanages,OVCs and schools in rural areas in Africa to change the current situation and prove that orphanages have the capacity to be acceptable, and sometimes superior alternatives, where children can thrive.
United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Goal 1 – End poverty in all its forms everywhere.
Goal 2 – End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.
Goal 3 – Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
Goal 4 – Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
Goal 5 – Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
Goal 6 – Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
Goal 7 – Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
Goal 8 – Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
Goal 9 – Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
Goal 10 – Reduce inequality within and among countries.
Goal 11 – Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
Goal 12 – Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.
Goal 13 - Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
Goal 14 - Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.
Goal 15 - Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.
Goal 16 - Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.
Goal 17 - Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.
We know that it will take a concerted effort on the part of all players but, we are hopeful that there will be a better future in store for the orphans and for Africa!
AFAO Pursuant to the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
SDG #1 is NO POVERTY
SDG #2 is ZERO HUNGER
SDG #3 is GOOD HEALTH
SDG #4 is QUALITY EDUCATION
SDG #5 is GENDER EQUALITY
SDG #6 is CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION
SDG #10 is REDUCED INEQUALITIES
Our Projects
SDG #4
We hold as Truth that every Child has the Right to an Education that will allow them to assume their Rights and Responsibilities as adults.
We support Laws that promote subsidies for free education and the infrastructure needed to provide Distance Education for children in remote areas and slums.
SDG #3
We assert that all Children have the Right to enjoy the highest attainable standard of Health, possible.
We support medical research, telemedicine, the provision of permanent and portable health programs and facilities, as well as the delivery of services for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental illnesses.
SDG#10
We support the Right to Equal Opportunity for children with Special Needs, in order to allow them to fully enjoy all the Human Rights.
To accomplish this goal, promote the development of AFAO programs
SDG#2
Right to training can help to empower children-by providing them with the knowledge to achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.
SDG#16
Promote peaceful and inclusive societies Right to protect children from violence, exploitation, conflict, natural disaster and neglect
SDG#5
Gender equality by raising girls’ awareness of their sexual and reproductive health and their child rights
Child care
Ensure that the child is cared for appropriately and that the care is in his/her best interest. Support informal alternative care placements, monitoring and follow-up. Promote quality Care and protection of children.
Education
Children born in low income households to exit the poverty cycle making our appeals for children education support a big step to leverage the future of orphaned children.
Health
AFAO dissemination of health information is to get everyone involved; caring most about health of others and in particular the health of Orphaned children.
Community
We work to provide psycho-social support services for children and their families. Support families and community to be able to care for their children through empowerment programs
Child Consultation
Through arrangement of consultation, some Orphaned and vulnerable children programs and orphanages shall act to reunify lost or abandoned children separated with their parents.
Family Planning
Our planning programs strengthen the capacities of families taking care of vulnerable children, separated children and children at risk
Government
Trace, re-integrate and provide after care services to children in need of care and protection by working with the government to generate viable option of care; monitoring and follow-up
Medical Facilities
AFAO dissemination of health information is to get everyone involved; caring most about health of others and in particular the health of Orphaned children, the elderly
Innovation For Children
Children born in low income households to exit the poverty cycle making our appeals for children education support a big step to leverage the future of orphaned children.