Our Vision

Existing out of common compassion for children, the Ainembabazi Children's Project believes in the value of education as a critical element for child and community development. The Ainembabazi Children's Project envisions the full implementation of universal education for Ugandan children and the advancement of children's rights through the creation of self-reliant and sustainable families and communities in Uganda. Through a holistic, multidisciplinary approach to development, families and communities will have the capacity to uphold the rights of the child and meet the needs of orphans and vulnerable children, particularly those affected by the AIDS pandemic. 

Our Mission

The Ainembabazi Children's Project exists to advance the rights of the child and to empower children affected by the AIDS crisis in Uganda. The organization seeks to meet the needs of and enhance opportunity for children through both education and collaboration with local communities. The Project aims to enlighten Canadians on the impact of the AIDS crisis on children in Uganda in order to advance the international response to the AIDS pandemic and work collaboratively with Canadian organizations to build connections and linkages on local and global issues.

Mandate

• Improve the quality of life and enhance and promote educational opportunities for orphans and vulnerable children in Uganda.

• Promote and create awareness about the challenges of orphans and vulnerable children who are affected by the AIDS pandemic. 

• Raise funds and support for activities for orphans and vulnerable children affected by the AIDS crisis.

• Create partnerships and linkages between Uganda and Canada to facilitate cross-cultural understanding and global citizenship.

• Work in collaboration with organizations working with children in Canada. The intention is to build reciprocal empowering relationships for the organizations and children through creative projects and fundraising.

Values

• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

• The Convention on the Rights of the Child

• The Convention for the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women

• Education as a critical tool for the advancement of children, families, and communities

• The Ainembabazi Children's Project seeks to move beyond charity to operate as an organization that facilitates empowerment within children, families, and communities.

• Utilizing holistic, multidisciplinary approaches to development in order to embrace the multiple dimensions of poverty, AIDS, and child development.

• Education in Canada on the nature of the AIDS pandemic and its impact on children is an essential element of responding to this unprecedented crisis.

• Partnership and collaboration with existing organizations in both Uganda and Canada

• Addressing the local and global reality of poverty and AIDS is integrally interlinked.  ACP's work is guided by the belief in collaborative projects linking local and global issues.