African Child Initiative (ACI) is a non-profit registered community based organization in Uganda, interested in providing scholastic materials, food, clothes and health care to orphaned children and children from very poor families. We also fight for children neglected to their right to education.
ACI is supporting 400 orphans and vulnerable children allover Uganda.
African Child Initiative focus on the most neediest vulnerable children in Uganda. Many of these children have lost one or both parents to poverty or disease. We also help these children to break away from the everyday cycle of poverty and hopelessness.
Child neglect occur in all sections of our society, but the risk factors are greater in orphaned families, parents having economic challenges, have difficulty controlling anger, alcohol or drugs abused , have little to no education and were abused or neglected as children.
The aims of African Child Initiative.
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To care and support abandoned, abused, neglected, orphaned and homeless children.
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The provision of educate or early childhood development services for pre-school children of poor and needy children where more than 90 percent of those children are under the age of 18.
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The distribution of information related to HIV/AIDS and children rights. The counseling of their families in this regard, the provision of preventative and education programes relating to HIV/AIDS, the care, counseling or treatment of children afflicted with HIV/AIDS, including care or counseling of their families and dependents in this regard and the provision of primary health care education.
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To use dance, drama and music to share culture and experience.
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To establish sports clubs and participate in different sporting activities.
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Mission: To Empower Orphans and Vulnerable children in the communities by providing them with basic needs (food, shelter, clothing’s, health care and education) and building their life skills through early childhood development activities.
Vision: A prepared future life for children in Africa.
Thank you for your generosity and kindness.
Program Coordinator– Mubiru Samuel
African Child Initiative (ACI)
PO BOX 25359 Kampala Uganda
Tel + 256777059988
+256755805927