Programs

• Integrating homeless orphans and other vulnerable children into families within their community and supporting these families with monthly stipends and other resources needed to provide proper care.
• Supporting children’s education by providing for school related expenses. To give many more orphans and abandoned children an opportunity to receive access to education, AFH builds free educational institutions in areas where there are no schools or they are inadequate.
• Strengthening the capability of surrogate families by providing microloans to support income-generating enterprises so they can meet the needs of orphans independently.
• Establishing free community health clinics to give children access to basic health care. Making basics health care services available will significantly reduce the mortality rate among children due to preventable diseases such as malaria that accounts for more than 40 percent of all deaths among children.

Having a stable environment enables poor children to focus on acquiring knowledge and marketable workplace skills that prepare them to provide for themselves, their siblings and contribute to the development of their community. Empowering these children to take control of their lives will help in breaking the cycle of poverty.