VISION
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.
MISSION
Working towards reduction of poverty by moral and financial assistance to deprived children and their families in African worst disorganised civil society-Nigeria. Setting pace in addressing man-made problems is a cause we stand to see to its end.
