AfriKids

 AfriKids is a Child Rights organisation working to improve life for Ghana’s most vulnerable and disadvantaged children

Listen to what the community knows it needs

Empower them to make the necessary changes themselves

Ensure absolute sustainability

Our work ranges from the more traditional children’s projects including foster homes, schools and street child centres to more groundbreaking initiatives which tackle complex cultural issues including child trafficking, child labour and the spirit child phenomenon. Rather than spreading our work across a continent or focusing on a single ‘headline’ issue, AfriKids has invested time and resources in making real and fundamental change to the society and economy of one region. By doing this AfriKids has uncovered the extraordinary passion and ability of the local people there and is achieving something unique; genuine sustainability. As well as the child rights projects AfriKids Ghana owns and runs businesses including a medical centre, an eco-lodge and several trade programmes. The profit from these feed back into the projects and within the next decade AfriKids Ghana aim to raise all of their funds this way, making them independent from charitable handouts.

How we help is as important as who we help

In an area where 9 out of 10 people live below the poverty line children’s rights are constantly at risk.  The problems are complex and are exacerbated by poverty, ancestral tradition and external exploitation.   The situations faced have many comparisons with those faced across the developing world but are framed in a unique cultural and social situation.  We only employ indigenous staff in Ghana.  They work with their own communities, who both understand their problems and how to address them. Communities that understand their problems, own their solutions.

We go where others don’t

We specifically target the most neglected people, places and issues. We work in remote areas of Ghana, most projects are as far as 800km north of the capital, Accra.  Many of our them fit within the traditional development spheres of education and health but our unique successes lie in applying these to more challenging issues such as child labour, child streetism, and  harmful cultural beliefs.

We care about lasting change

Every individual has a different experience of a problem and needs tailored support.  We help these individuals but we also help the communities to ensure the problems don’t reoccur.  Before we start any work we ensure that its impact can carry on without our support in the future.

Change must not breed reliance; if the solution is not sustainable then it’s not development

To find out more about AfriKids, please visit our website at www.afrikids.org.

UK Registered Charity Number: 1093624
Ghana Registered Charity Number: SWD/3024