AFSCO Strategic Activities
a) The Children Care and Counseling Program
Under the Childcare and counseling ministry, Counselors shall continue to reach out to the children, socialize and exchange views and opinions with the children about social life, Fellowships and Bible studies and conduct Sunday school sessions at the church on Sundays, and evening Glory on Wednesdays. The ministry shall also be in charge on welfare and educational facilitations and monitoring of these children looking for sponsorships as well as monitoring the health of these children.
b) The Children Spiritual Program
AFSCO will ensure that Children know the values of their religion to build successful families, societies and nations. Children are the pillars of the next generation and therefore must learn to put God first in whatever they do. AFSCO shall strengthen the Sunday School Ministry in Communities of our reach to make it possible for children to learn, interact and share views about Christianity and today's living.
c) Educational and skills development
AFSCO endeavors to make education for the OVC a priority and possible. Child sponsorship is one of the ways through which one can channel support to help an orphan attain education and a bright future. Support is channeled directly to the respective schools and through AFSCO. Other alternatives shall be put in place such as Income generating projects like piggery, fruit farming, poultry, crafts making, bakery and confectionary projects, etc to provide income to the AFSCO for school fees and other scholastic materials necessary. Our major focus is to equip practical vocational skills to these orphaned Children to adapt to the new challenges in life.
d) HIV/Aids sensitization and awareness
HIV/Aids prevalence is still high though the level of sensitization has increased. In a nutshell, the level of prevalence among children is increasing. This is as a result of increased children involved in sex trade for a living, mother to child infections, low sensitization among children since it is a taboo to carry out sex education among children, etc. This has resulted into increased dropouts from schools as children drop out to look after their sick relatives, increased HIV/Aids infection and death among children, etc. It shall therefore be our paramount importance that children and the entire community are involved in HIV/Aids prevention campaigns, at school, homes and in the community, through child friendly counseling, behavioral training, and awareness messages at schools and general sensitization of the community.
e) Child development and Child outreach
Child development entails the promotion and monitoring of children's basic welfare, as well as cognitive and psychosocial development. Because we are dealing with orphaned and other vulnerable children, most of them live a life of total despair with nothing to neither eat nor drink and nobody is bothered anyway. This is made worse by the deteriorating socio-economic status of the communities around them. Our starting point therefore shall be to ensure food security, good health, cognitive and psychosocial stimulation and putting in place social support mechanisms to ensure holistic child development.
f) Socio-economic empowerment o caretakers
AFSCO will empower OVC caretakers and their households to enable them become self sustainable
g) Volunteer Programs
AFSCO shall continue to recruit both local and international volunteers to work hand in hand with the organization, share and exchange knowledge and ideas and perform specific tasks to achieve the set objectives.
We recruit Volunteers who can participate fully in Children's welfare, education, health, community centered programs and also counselors.