The Future for African Children (FAC) is a non-profit organization created in 2007 with the purpose to create a better society fits for children where they are free from poverty, abuse and exploitation by promoting, monitoring and upholding children’s rights. FAC is politically independent and it engages with other institutions and organizations that sustain children’ rights culture. It seeks to provide practical support and advocate for the rights of vulnerable African children by:

- speaking on behalf of the most vulnerable African children and engaging communities and leaders to uphold the best interests of children and young people in Africa.
- giving a meaningful future to the life of hopeless African children through the improvement of the quality of life and advancing African children’s rights.
- working to bring all about changes for good on behalf of African children and their families, and encourage them to participate in processes which enhance their equality, self-reliance and long term sustainable development.
- seeking to provide hope / assistance to the very poor and disadvantage humankind without any bias and discrimination whatsoever, wherever possible to provide practical support which allows African children to grow up in a safe environment within their own families and communities.

Our vision is to create a better society fits for children where they are free from poverty, abuse and exploitation. A society where all children are gladly and proudly become productive and helpful citizens of the society, of the country, of the continent as well as of the world. In doing so, the FAC strives to change the attitude and social-economic of the African society.

The African children are at the heart of everything we do. FAC recognizes that no child lives in isolation, and for the child to truly benefit in any meaningful way, the basics of a stable and healthy community must come first. FAC is dedicated to working directly with children, their families and communities in devising, implementing and evaluating development projects that provide long lasting improvements.

FAC focus in the following major programmes:

1. Child Protection: In response to the critical need of child protection and treatment of potentially abused children in Africa, FAC has decided to focus more on child protection. The Child Protection Program provides services for children who may have been victims of sexual, physical or emotional abuse, neglect or factitious disorders. The programme is actively involved communities in the work to prevent children from migrating to the streets in the first place. The Child Protection’s work is regarded as groundbreaking, innovative, and willing to challenge a status quo that accepts a culture of impunity around child abuse. In order to protect children from poverty, the programme also conducts research, advocacy and education that inform and contribute to appropriate child policy development and implementation in Africa.

2. Education and Early Childhood Development: FAC supports the education of African children by giving them an opportunity to learn and dream about their future. Education support include: school uniforms, supplies, libraries, building of new classrooms, school repairs and classroom improvements, classroom equipment and furniture, capacity building of teachers and scholarship. The programmes also seek to stimulate African children’s learning through play, pre-school feeding programmes, and adult literacy courses that develop participants’ parenting skills (as well as their academic ability).

3. Orphan and Vulnerable Children’s Care and Support (OVCCS): FAC targets children who are most at risk. Such children are orphans and other vulnerable children who are exposed to violence, abuse and exploitation. Children especially girls that have to drop out to school to work or care for their families often engage in hazardous labour or are exploited. The FAC aim is to support children and adolescents who are orphaned, vulnerable or abandoned as a result of poverty, abuse or from the high incidents of death due to HIV / AIDS in their communities. The majority of orphaned children, regardless of their HIV status, live in deeply impoverished households. Apart from the loss of their parents, they face inadequate nutrition and poor access to education and health care. The deterioration in the well-being of such children starts long before a parent dies. But by the time a child is orphaned, the extended family networks that have traditionally supported vulnerable members have been overstretched by the ravages of HIV and AIDS. Our priority is to assist orphans affected by HIV / AIDS, who have lost both their parents or those who are in a vulnerable situation with their mothers being very ill, dad deceased and children who are positive or not.

4. Rural Community Empowerment Programme: The FAC strategy is to ensure sustainability of the social security system within the community and facilitating basic health systems in the village. The programme seeks to develop, monitor and facilitate the implementation of appropriate strategies and programmes aiming at sustainable livelihoods, human development and access to basic health care within the rural communities in Africa. Our philosophy is that, communities are best placed to identify their own problems and formulate their own solutions and make their own opportunities.

Operates in: All of South Africa
Established in: 2007

Non-Profit Organisation Number: 075-285
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Contact person: Yvette Ebalo
Phone: 011 333 9266
Fax: 011 333 9266
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Website: www.futureafricanchildren.org

Physical address: 111 Kerk Street, Meubelsentrum Building, 5th Floor, Johannesburg
Postal address: P.O. Box 15744, Doornfontein, 2028