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Our Vision.
Our vision is to create an environment where children especially girls and those in the rural communities will have a right to protection, survival, development and have a voice.
Our Mission
Our mission is to use research, education, advocacy and community partnerships to enhance child protection systems and facilitate vulnerable children’s access to basic facilities while BREAKING BARRIERS FOR THE GIRL CHILD to enable them have equal rights.
Our Objectives
- Increase access to children’s basic and developmental rights
- Advocate for the rights of the children and empower girls in general and adolescent girls in particular to uphold their rights/make concrete decisions on reproduction, sexuality, HIV/AIDS and drug abuse.
- Improve the health of HIV/AIDS infected children and other vulnerable children.
- Care and support street/neglected/abandoned children with the basic non-food and food items and shelter.
- Increase awareness among children and community members on the rights of the child
- Empower women to care and support vulnerable children with emotional and physical needs.
- Network and share information with development actors locally, nationally and internationally and encourage them to help vulnerable children prosper.
Our Principles
- Best interest of the child: In all actions concerning children, the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration. I In all a
- Do No Harm: In all our activities, decisions made concerning children, their families, and the community we will seek to avoid causing harm.
- Gender equality: though we may have specific projects for girls because of their high vulnerability, most of our projects involve both boys and girls
- Integrity: HOVUCA endeavor to be transparent, accountable, and responsible in all its activities with youth groups, community heads, staffs, volunteers and partners.
- Transparency: Honestly tell our success story and failures regardless of consequent.
- Non Discrimination: at HOVUCA, all children and young people, regardless of their class, race, creed, parentage, lineage, religion, faith, sex, disability, ethnic origin and sexual orientation have a right to protection from harm.
- Participation and Sustainability: We believe that children’s participation in the initiation, design and implementation of projects that concerns them will give them project ownership and hence sustainability
- Partnership: HOVUCA holds that, success comes with developing partnership with related organizations and government related entities.
- Accountability: Our structure and system of management is credible and linked directly to our ability to take responsibility for our actions and activity
