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African Children’s Foundation Organization is a civil society nonprofit, non-governmental organization operating in South Sudan, with aims of improving Research Advocacy and dissemination of information on children’s rights. Our mission is to champion in nurture young children to discover their talents to become future leaders through advocating for their rights against racism, discrimination, and poverty and building a healthy environment
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Explain the importance of ACFO's work

ACFO developed a sustainable measure for the upliftment of children’s rights and social inclusivity to promote initiatives for social and economic empowerment of families for children in South Sudan. ACFO works closely with different developmental and humanitarian donors and partners to improve research advocacy and dissemination of information on children’s rights.

ACFO promotes Quality Peace Education (PE) through conducting training in Nonviolence and Conflict transformation (NCT), Alternative to Violence Project (AVP), and establish vocational training Centers (VTC) to produce peace loving citizens in South Sudan.
It engages in agricultural production to increase Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) in the country to fight hunger.

ACFO promotes environmental protection programs by planting trees and conducting awareness raising campaigns against poor disposal of plastics materials and throwing rubbish around human settlement hence contributing to a sustainable climate justice and reduction of carbon emission in atmosphere and health hazardous in South Sudan.

Describe the programs and services of ACFO.

Peace Education: ACFO developed a sustainable measure for promoting Quality Peace Education (QPE) projects that restores hope for purposeful living, dreams for development and great achievements, ambition for bright future. We work with national and state governments to improve access to quality education and develop programs where children can improve their literacy and acquire skills at an early age and to shape their mindsets and prepare them for opportunities for real long-lasting change in families and communities in South Sudan through establishment of education programs facilities, ranging from Early child education development, pre-primary school, secondary school and vocational training centers in areas of higher demand. We provide practical life skills programs and ensure that the learning facilities are well equipped with learning materials, venue for classrooms and accommodations (Dometries), conference hall for trainings, workshops and seminars in areas of Nonviolence and Conflict transformation (NCT); We train children in nonviolence communication skills, inner peace, peace with the environment. The facility has a large playing ground for interaction and social skills development to produce peace loving citizens in South Sudan.

Based on the UN declaration on children rights in 1959; the child shall be entitled from birth to a name and nationality. The child shall enjoy the benefit of social security. He or she shall be entitled to grow and develop in health to his end, special care and protection shall be provided both to him and his mother. Therefore, based on the above principles, ACFO is promoting children rights through helping kids break the cycle of poverty involves much more than providing access to health services and educational resources. It entails working toward the holistic well-being of every child and youth in our care. And that means keeping them safe.

ACFO-Procedures in promoting Child protection program

Reporting incidents procedures: For all reported child-abuse incidents, CI requires that the child’s best interest be the first priority. In addition, all incidents must be dealt with promptly, and they must be handled in a confidential manner that does not harm the victim or the person reporting the abuse.
We train children, staff and volunteers on how to identify and prevent child abuse. We give children the opportunity to participate in programs that educate them on their rights, personal-safety techniques and steps they can take in case of a problem.
Incorporating child protection information into other children initiation (CI) programs; in this way, ACFO reach a broader audience and reemphasize the importance of protecting children. By allowing all children and teens the opportunity to participate in programs regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, ethnicity or religion.

Communications Procedures:

  •  Telling the truth of the story. This means ACFO do not and will never encourage parents to use manipulated or sensationalized texts, images of inappropriately clothed children, and certainly employing discriminatory or degrading language.
  •  Not publicly disclosing a child’s last name, personal address or other information that could be used to locate a child within a country.
  • Not publishing health information, unless the family or individual has given us written consent.

Case investigation procedures:

ACFO is legally obligated to investigate every report received, regardless of the claim’s veracity or how unlikely it might seem, notes We Have Kids. While there may be occasional exceptions, where it’s deemed the report isn’t highlighting a case of neglect or abuse, most investigations are initiated within 24 to 72 hours. During the investigation, agents may attempt to prove or disprove the allegations and question relevant parties thoroughly. This may involve speaking to the child independently, which often happens first to circumvent the possibility of a carer forcing the child to lie or withhold information. It’s important to note that agents see an investigation through to completion, even if reports seem unrealistic or if the child claims that there has been no neglect or abuse.

SPECIAL SUPPORT TO PUPILS/STUDENTS:

ACFO provides psycho-social support services to the learners as part of social welfare services. We provide scholastic materials washing detergence as basic necessity to learners to motivate them and eliminate trauma factors that divert their focus from class.

SPECIAL SUPPORT TO GIRLS:

ACFO also supports girls in pivot period with reusable sanitary pads and washing soaps to ensure that they are clean, smart and do not miss class and do not feel stigmatized during menstrual circle. We put the interest of girls a priority at the center of all programs in schools and ensure their needs and performances are maintained at required standards.

GIRLS’ EDUCATION: Every child has the right to a safe, formal, quality peace education and access to lifelong learning. However, due to a combination of factors, many girls are forced to leave school while others never have the opportunity to go in the first place. School is a space in which girls exercise their rights, make their voice heard, and access their first leadership opportunities.
Being out of school doesn’t just have devastating consequences for girls’ life opportunities – it places them at risk of teenage pregnancy, child marriage, female genital mutilation and other forms of gender-based violence.
Education is critical in tackling harmful gender norms, and empowering girls to drive change. It gives girls the skills to become leaders, innovators and change makers, and to tackle future crises.

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION PROGRAM:

ACFO’s recommended approach is that “disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation measures need to be implemented to build a climate resilient society”. These are done through conducting climate sensitization, planting trees, environmental campaigns against throwing of rubbish around human settlement, and pollution of environment by placing warning posters in hot spot areas, garbage collection points, and advocate for dumping sites.

Provide examples of how these programs and services have made a positive impact:

  • It has greatly increased on food commodity in the production point hence has reduced hunger rate among employed community members, orphans, students in schools since the food items are distributed to schools for consumption.
  • The program has created employment opportunities to local communities working in the agriculture, environmental, and education sectors.
    The program has created peace clubs; hygiene education, games and sports, Music Drama and Dance (MDD), and Debating Club, Youth recreational center for social skills development.
  • It has also motivated young girls to concentrate on studies through distribution of washing detergence to both boys and girls, and reusable sanitary pads specially for pivoted girls.
  • The program has created a ground for social skills development among leaners, and employers.
  • It has created good relationships between the organization and stakeholders through collective decision making in the project implementation.

Discuss any challenges ACFO faces in delivering these programs and services.

Since Central Equatoria falls within the tropic Equatorial rain forest, ACFO normally faces a lot of challenges during heavy rains between the months of June – October, this disrupts the normal program schedule as well as movement of Staff, beneficiaries and other stakeholders who would like to participate in the project.

Due to climatic changes, other production activities normally incur poor harvest, this is coupled with attack from pest and diseases. Currently other States are still experiencing violence, that is farmers – pastoralist conflict, this continues to interfere with the participation of targeted project beneficiaries because they are threatened, displaced, and thus social amenities are destroyed, therefore, the economic activities brought to stand.

Delaying access to local government officials and constitutional post holders to plan and structure project activities; this in most cases affects the project implementation schedule. Sometimes there will be low turnover larger turn up of interested participants during project activities implementation which normally affects the already approved budge lines.

Economically, South Sudan is facing price inflation with uncertainty about fixed market prices of basic consumer goods. If this condition persists, will affect the expenditure against approved budget.

 

Impact and Success Stories

Highlight any data or statistics that demonstrate ACFO's impact.

Share success stories of individuals or communities that have been positively impacted by ACFO’s work

Discuss any ongoing efforts to measure and evaluate the effectiveness of ACFO's programs and services

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEAL) are an essential part of this project. In pursuit of best practice, the MEAL team was formed to monitor and evaluate program implementation on annual basis and throughout the project cycle. At the beginning of each project implementation phase, a baseline is developed as the basis for the MEAL Framework. The baseline is normally used for collection of timely and accurate information to measure whether or not the project is achieving some progress. An activity monitoring forms (tools) are developed and filled before and after each activity. The information that will be contained in the activity forms included, among others, the name and nature of the activity, its aim and objectives, the number of participants in the activity, the location Sat which the activity is implemented, what the intended outcome(s) of the activity is/are, successes achieved or challenges encountered, observation and/or lessons learnt.
The activity monitoring forms are compiled on a quarterly basis, to give a preview of the progress that has been made and whether the initiatives undertaken are consistent with the overall objectives of the proposed action. This will be in addition to enabling monitoring of the use of the funds on activity work and the ratio of funds spend on direct project activities to those spent on administrative/support functions. Through the compilation of the activity monitoring tools on a monthly basis, it is possible to ascertain quite easily whether there is need for any corrective action to be taken, to ensure the intended objectives are realized within the given timeframe. Quarterly reports are normally analyzed further with a view to determining whether the activities are yielding results at higher level, and or if the results produced are contributing towards the realization of the project objectives. The compilation of the quarterly reports is accompanied by sessions held at the level of the individual programs to explore further the actions that have been implemented, the changes occurring or beginning to occur at the target areas, as a result of the action, challenges encountered and support required to address these challenges. The feedback session is also identified whether there is need for change in the strategy and if so, the nature and manner of the proposed strategy. The outcome of these discussions will be reported, shared and discussed in the management meeting. The program staff will formally and informally seek feedback from target beneficiaries on the extent to which the interventions being implemented are meeting their expectations and what further action would be necessary to ensure that there is fair balance. The organization normally puts vulnerable children and communities at the center of the implementation of these proposed actions throughout its programing, we seek in the feedback of every member of the community involved directly or indirectly. During our MEAL sessions, we organized focused group discussions into clusters of the children and Youths, Women with other key stakeholders to ensure that views of all beneficiaries are incorporated.

Future goals and plans of ACFO

Capacity of women, youth enhancing the management of agricultural activities as this will ensure its sustainability, ownership, self-reliance and improved on their living standards.
350 vulnerable children and youth group within the 67 institution of learning (5 people per group) to start group MSEs instead of undertaking individual initiatives, year one 125 young girls.
Business Development Sector (BDS) and technical vocational and agriculture production training delivered to 2,500 youth and women to improve their business skills and technical production knowhow. These will be short term trainings that will last 6-8 weeks not necessarily full time to accommodate young girls/women and boys with domestic tasks.
Market linkages establishment between youth led MSEs and markets at national and regional level through medium and large enterprises as off takers.

Explain how ACFO plans to expand or improve its programs and services

In order to achieve the objectives and realize the impact or harvest outcomes, ACFO will employ a number of strategies which among others includes: facilitating skills training for targeted project beneficiaries, conducting regular actor mapping to identify other service providers within the project locations, (who is doing what, where, how is it being done) this will enable the project to link up beneficiaries with other potential actors within the county and state levels.
The organization will further build synergies with other actors at Payam, county, state, and national levels who will include CBO’s NGO’s NNGOUN Agencies, and National and State Governments. ACFO will further work with relevant state ministries such as the Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Youths and Sports, Ministry of Labor, Ministry of Gender Child and Social Welfare as well as organized bodies of persons with special needs.s.

Targeted marketing strategies for produce from beneficiaries will also be employed, these will include: market surveys identify potential buyers, risk and opportunities and competitors. The project activities and products shall be advertised on local radios through the use of public service announcements (PSA), and televisions, local promotions inform of display of products in public places special days shall be designated for these events with the advancement in technology in the formation of cooperative union and other sectors. Through the support of the organization shall link beneficiaries to access outside market and share knowledge of their production units by creating a platform for product advertisement.

Discuss any potential challenges or obstacles ACFO may face in achieving these goals

  • Insecurity associated with seasonal movements of pastoralists and irregular movements of armed groups can greatly affect the project implementation timeframe.
  • Since Central Equatoria falls within the tropic Equatorial rain forest, ACFO normally faces a lot of challenges during heavy rains between the months of June – October, this disrupts the normal program schedule as well as movement of Staff, beneficiaries and other stakeholders to participate in the project.
  • Due to climatic changes, other production activities normally incur poor harvest, this is coupled with attack from pest and diseases. Currently, other States are still experiencing violence, that is farmers – pastoralist conflict, we project that ifsimilar incident persists in the future during the project implementation, this will continue to interfere 
with the participation of targeted project beneficiaries because they would have been displaced, social amenities destroyed and economic activities brought to stand still. -Delaying access to local government officials and constitutional post holders to plan and structure project activities; this in most cases affects the project implementation schedule. Sometimes there will be larger turn up of interested participants during project activities implementation which normally affects the already approved budge lines. -The censorship of the work of NGOs and Civil Society organizations by seeking approvals from the security services in order to conduct activities will delay activities implementation as this process takes time. -Economically, South Sudan is facing price inflation with uncertainty about fixed market prices of basic consumer goods. If this condition persists, will affect the expenditure against approved budget. -Internally, in a situation of sickness of a human resource personal, this normally affects project implementation in terms of delay or brought to stand still, the bureaucracy in logistics procedures sometimes delays the project implementation.    

Funding and Support

Discuss the sources of funding for ACFO

ACFO gets funding through membership subscription
Applying for grants through the development of project proposals
Fundraising programs
Donation from trusted partners

Thank any donors or supporters who have contributed to ACFO's work

ACFO thanks all the founder members for being so committed in sacrificing little resources such as time, money and energy which would have helped address personal conditions, but they diverted it to facilitate ACFO work right from the development of innovative ideas and turned into the implementation phase. We thank the diverse group of different academic qualifications and experiences in different fields who tiresomely invest in the efforts in making necessary adjustments in the documentation and registration processes (Legal) to ensure ACFO stands to serve the intended beneficiaries. Our heartfelt thanks goes to all the partners who genuinely accepts to work with ACFO through thins and thick. Your advice is always valued whenever we apply it.

Explain how others can support ACFO's mission and work

ACFO wish supporters to support through donation in all forms ranging from finance, materials and kind.
ACFO looks forward to cooperate with potential supporter to partner with us.
ACFO wish supporters to link ACFO to possible grants.
Support ACFO in the fundraising process.

Highlight any important partnerships or collaborations ACFO has formed

ACFO promotes Quality Peace Education (PE) through conducting training in Nonviolence and Conflict transformation (NCT), Alternative to Violence Project (AVP), and establish vocational training Centers (VTC) to produce peace loving citizens in South Sudan.
It engages in agricultural production to increase Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) in the country to fight hunger.

Conclusion

Summarize the importance of ACFO's work

  • It has greatly increased on food commodity in the production point hence has reduced hunger rate.
  • The program has created employment opportunities to local communities.
  • The program has created learning ground for children hence restoring their hope for future.
  • It has also motivated young girls to concentrate on studies.
  • The program has created a ground for social skills development among leaners, and employers.
  • It has created good relationships between the organization and stakeholders.

Encourage readers to get involved or support ACFO in some way

“What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?”
“Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.”
Sometimes one can become lost in a big company and lose sight of how what one does truly helps or impacts the end customer. If you are one of those, think of a fire brigade, a line of people passing buckets of water from one to the other from a source of water to the site of the fire. An individual in the brigade may not be able to see the end result, i.e., the water being thrown on the fire to put it out, but the contribution of the individual is indispensable to the final outcome.

End with a message of hope and optimism for the future

“What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?”
“Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.”
Sometimes one can become lost in a big company and lose sight of how what one does truly helps or impacts the end customer. If you are one of those, think of a fire brigade, a line of people passing buckets of water from one to the other from a source of water to the site of the fire. An individual in the brigade may not be able to see the end result, i.e., the water being thrown on the fire to put it out, but the contribution of the individual is indispensable to the final outcome.

OUR LEADERSHIP & GOVERNANCE

Mr. TOWONGO EMMANUEL MAWA

The Founder & Chairman, Board of Directors
Targeted marketing strategies for produce from beneficiaries will also be employed, these will include: market surveys identify potential buyers, risk and opportunities and competitors. The project activities and products shall be advertised on local radios through the use of public service announcements (PSA), and televisions, local promotions inform of display of products in public places special days shall be designated for these events with the advancement in technology in the formation of cooperative union and other sectors. Through the support of the organization shall link beneficiaries to access outside market and share knowledge of their production units by creating a platform for product advertisement.

BETTY ASHA MOSES ADULLYI

Secretary General

Betty Asha is South Sudanese, base in the United State of America. She Holds Bachelor of Arts in International Business & Political Science in Maryville College & is a Co-founder of A.S.H.A.C.F Children’s Foundation in the United state of America.
During Betty’s time at Maryville College, she worked as a Legislative Intern with Tennessee General Assembly in Nashville, TN, Executive Intern with the Office of Tennessee Governor in Nashville, TN, and currenting working as a Marketing and Legal Department Intern with DeRoyal Corporation in Powell, TN.
She is the secretary general of African Children’s Foundation Organization in South Sudan to overseeing Governance issues and participating in the organizational Development, Planning, Fundraising Programs.

Madam. Tabu Winny Nyetete

Deputy Secretary General
Tabu Winny is a Deputy Secretary General & Co-Founder of African Children Foundation. She started her career in 2019 as Intern – programme & Administration Assistant before the position is transition to Programme Assistant to present at Nonviolent Peace force organization in South Sudan. She holds B.A in Economics from Kyambogo University – Uganda.

Mr. MAMER ABRAHAM KUOT

Secretary for Information & Communication
Mr. Mamer Abraham Kuot is South Sudanese journalist, novelist and poet. He has work experiences for sixteen (16) years from different media houses including Refugee Research Network (RRN), Juba Monitor, The City Review Newspaper, Kakuma News Reflector (KANERE), Real Woman Magazine, South Sudan International et’ cetera since 2007 to present. He currently the Secretary General and the Chief Editor for International African Writers’ Association (IAWA). In addition, he works as a freelance journalist and an editor for various media houses in South Sudan and abroad. He holds a diploma in journalism and mass communication, currently pursuing B.A of Journalism and Mass Communication from Chandigarh University in India.

Mr. LEVI JONATHAN MANZA

The Secretary for Resource Mobilization
Levi Manza Joined ACFO, Co-founder in resource mobilization focused and coordinated work with program teams to identify and follow up on linkages between donor strategies and member interests, identifying funding opportunities and matching them to program needs and facilitating smooth communication between all stakeholders of ACFO. Mr. Levi Has served in different discipline in programs and administration roles in Africa and Germany between 2018 to 2022 with Act for Transformation in Rhino Refugee Camp in Uganda and Germany, Organization for Nonviolence and Development (ONAD) in South Sudan. He Holds B. A in Social Work and Social Administration from Nkumba University, Kampala Uganda. He has several Trainings in Project Planning and Management, Training in emergency preparedness and response, Training of Trainees (TOT) in Nonviolence and conflict transformation, Training in Monitoring, Evaluation, Investigation, Documentation, reporting and Advocacy on human/children Rights.  

MR. MAWICH KUOL NYANG

Deputy Secretary for Finance

Mr. Mawich Kuol is a Business Executive of MM Enterprise Ltd. He has work experience for over Seven (7)-years in the areas of financial management and humanitarian operations started with International Youth for Africa (IYA- Uganda), Initiative Development Empowerment Aid-Africa (IDEA-Africa), Save Children International (SCI- South Sudan) and currently serving as Finance and Administration Officer, Child Right Coalition (CRC-South Sudan).
He holds Bachelor of Business Administration with a major in Finance from Bugema University, MBA from University of Juba and Pursing Certified Public Accountants (CPA) Kenya from KASNEB Center. He Serves as Deputy Secretary for Finance & Co-Founder of African Children’s Foundation Organization.

End with a message of hope and optimism for the future

Hope is a great thing. It gives flight to our dreams, gives confidence to our hearts, and gives strength to our convictions. No matter where you’re heading or what you seek to accomplish, you can always use a boost of hope. One of the things we learned the hard way, was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. – Lucille Ball

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