The Hope for Communities and Children Initiative has been holding activities and reaching out to less privileged and vulnerable people especially children for the past 5 years through provision of scholarships, medical and social support among our numerous activities.
HOPE F0R COMMUNITIES & CHILDREN INITIATIVE
Providing a means for children and communities to access social, educational and health facilities
Providing a means for children and communities to access social, educational and health facilities
OUR CORE VALUE
Building bridges to inclusion and empowerment
“Building an inclusive environment conducive for young people, women and children to thrive positively and making informed decisions for a vibrant future”.
OUR VISION
OUR GOALS
To promote inclusive practices and healthy behaviors in rural communities and
to empower women and children to contribute to decision making in schools and communities.
To improve access to education and basic health information for poor and vulnerable populations.
To facilitate the creation of safe spaces for children
to empower women and children to contribute to decision making in schools and communities.
To improve access to education and basic health information for poor and vulnerable populations.
To facilitate the creation of safe spaces for children
Breaking the barriers to inclusion and empowerment
OUR MISSION
To facilitate the advancement of inclusive, healthy and safe communities in the Nigerian society
Hope for communities and children initiative is expanding access to HIV testing and counselling services to communities and hard to reach localities.
SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM AND GENERAL INTERVENTION
SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM AND GENERAL INTERVENTION
Hope for communities and children initiative has taken the bold step to sponsor several of the Almajiri boys and hard to reach girls, to be enrolled into government schools.
THE STRATEGY
We employ world class acceptable models for our trainings, outreaches and general interventions through our well-trained staff who are conversant with working with a wide range of stakeholders.
Above are a few of our community engagement strategies employed to get to the real issues that shape behaviors and inform choices. Most of our programmes are community-driven for sustainability. We employ the follow strategies:
Training using participatory methodologies
Community/town hall events & meetings/forums/dialogues
Interpersonal Communications (IPCs)
Peer group meetings
Mystery client surveys
Participatory Community Monitoring & Evaluation
Focused group Discussion
Media Engagement
Advocacy event
Public Policy Dialogues
Research
Community/town hall events & meetings/forums/dialogues
Interpersonal Communications (IPCs)
Peer group meetings
Mystery client surveys
Participatory Community Monitoring & Evaluation
Focused group Discussion
Media Engagement
Advocacy event
Public Policy Dialogues
Research
STRATEGY FOR OUR PROGRAMS AND GENERAL INTERVENTION
STRATEGY FOR OUR PROGRAMS AND GENERAL INTERVENTION
Thematic Areas of Focus
Thematic Areas of Focus
Education
Child & Vulnerable Adult Protection/Gender Based Violence (SRGBV/GBV)
Gender and social Inclusion
Support to IDPs, vulnerable populations
Gender and social Inclusion
Support to IDPs, vulnerable populations
Reproductive Health/MCH/FP/Advocates for vaccine access
Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Agriculture
Governance
Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Agriculture
Governance
Latest News & Events
Latest News & Events
Hope for communities and children initiative is conducting a free HIV counselling and testing in Kajuru LGA of Kajuru town and Tudunwada district of Zaria, Kaduna State Nigeria.
The outreach provides access to poor and vulnerable populations and empowers them to make informed choices about their health status.
Over the years we have supported and partnered on Gender Base Violence (GBV) and School Related GBV with UNICEF in Niger, Zamfara, Kano, Katsina, Sokoto, Kebbi, Bauchi and Ebonyi States.
We have just recently concluded work on the UNESCO_ O3 (our Rights, Our Lives, Our Future) Programme Kaduna, Lagos, Abia, Benue, Taraba, Ebonyi, Nasarawa States and The FCT where we developed prevention, mitigation and response mechanisms. We created and trained School Community Rapid Response Teams across 18 LGAs in the 9 States and reached out to 54 schools on SRGBV.
H4CC was also instrumental to the development of the Kaduna State Child Protection and Welfare Law and has continued to support sensitizations and the access to justice across communities in Kaduna State as part of the UNFPA- Led GBV Actors in Kaduna State.
We are currently coordinating Kaduna CS sensitization to public and privates’ schools in the State and also part of the UNFPA team on SGBV Project in Kaduna North.
We have formed SRGBV Response Teams in Giwa and Sabon Gari LGAs and we are currently working with Kaduna North, Kajuru, Makarfi, Kauru, Kudan, Giwa and Igabi LGAs
Gender Based Violence Component