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An NGO is any group of private citizens who join together to advance the public good.

We are a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) working primarily with communities in Ideato North and South local government areas of Imo State South East Nigeria. Registered under Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) as charity organization with registration number : 18492

We are dedicated to bringing an end to the extreme poverty and hardship endured by urban and rural children and their families.

AUCF uses a community based approach to provide immediate direct physical assistance, support and long term sustainability.

Create education awareness and support psycho-social programs that will have profound impact on  the plight of Nigerian children through our projects.

 

 

 

 

 

The continent of Africa is characterized by its many diverse handicaps and divergences. Most of these are avoidable and stem from the simple fact of African leaders not possessing the will vision and integrity to address basic issues in a decisive manner the will, vision and integrity to address basic issues in a decisive manner. Long periods of  corruption military leadership have resulted in the prevalence of killer diseases, landmines, children in arms, child labor, child trafficking, early pregnancies and marriages, stunted educational opportunities and general poverty.

 

That the African child has in consequence over the years lost all its natural privileges has become so precise and profane that it has long deserved to be re-addressed.

 

Abraham Lincoln once defined a child a “person who is going to carry on what you started”. Another philosopher described a child as the emperor of the future full of the  inevitabilities of life.

 

The African Underprivileged Children’s Foundation (AUCF) which we are promoting, is out to restore to children of Africa (with prime focus in Nigeria) the privileges that belongs to them by right.  Where a privilege may not be a right, we contend that the child’s right to privileges must not be denied. This raises a privilege to the level of right though not absolute.

 

A child is entitled to the privilege of societal and parental care, to the privilege of protection and of development. To do less is to destroy the essence of parenthood and  social responsibility to the child.

 

Our foundation intends to focus on Rural, Urban, Disabled, Motherless and Homeless children.  We shall deal with children by direct contact and through their communities and parents in order to individualize each case before categorizing them into their similar and peculiar groups.

 

From time to time we shall invite the public rather than the Governments to evaluate our activities, goals and successes with the view to ensuring that public awareness is high and sustained.  Grants, subsidies and donations which emanate from this exercise will always be welcomed provided that its local and foreign elements are well scrutinized and defined.

 

Our methodology will be in capacity building and awareness raising. To be precise, setting up Soup Kitchens, Settlement Centers for the homeless, Centers for Entertainment and very importantly, Research Centers devoted (exclusively to children’s affairs), Education Assisted programs, HIV/ AIDS awareness campaign, human rights and civic rights enlightenment programs. All these will be programmed in a manner that will involve the participation of all the 774 local Government Areas of the country including Federal   Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja.

 

Putting smiles on the faces of our children irrespective of the status of their parents until they are able to choose a fruitful life role shall be our mission.  We shall operate on the presumption that life, which begins with joy, has a greater potential for progression in joy than that which is characterized by deprivation, abuses, denials and squalor. We shall   confront all children’s developmental problems and ensure that their future is no longer devoid of love and care.  We derive absolute joy in serving the underprivileged children and their families.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Working towards deprived children’s need for a better living and setting pace in addressing

man-made problems in our society.

AUCF is also a stakeholder in the under mentioned UN 8 Millennium developmental goals, (MDGs).

 

 

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were developed out of the eight chapters of the United Nations Millennium Declaration, signed in September 2000. The eight goals and 21 targets include

 

1.           Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

 

Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day.

Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people.

Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger.

Achieve universal primary education

Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling.

 

2.           Promote gender equality and empower women

Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015.

 

3.           Reduce child mortality

Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate.

 

4.           Improve maternal health

Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio.

Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health.

 

5.           Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases

Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS.

Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it.

Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases.

 

6.           Ensure environmental sustainability

Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs; reverse loss of environmental resources.

Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss      

Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation (for more information see the entry on water supply).

By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum-dwellers.

 

7.           Develop a global partnership for development

Develop further an open trading and financial system that is rule-based, predictable and non-discriminatory. Includes a commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction locally, nationally and internationally.

 

8.           Address the special needs of the least developed countries.

This includes tariff and quota free access for their exports; enhanced program of debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries; and cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous official development assistance for countries committed to poverty reduction.

Address the special needs of landlocked and Small Island developing States.

Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term.

In cooperation with developing countries, develop and implement strategies for decent and productive work for youth.

In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries.

In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications.