Top 10 NGOs in Abuja: Adolescent Health and Girl Child Education
In Nigeria, particularly in Abuja, a number of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are actively working to improve adolescent health and promote girl child education. These NGOs focus on addressing critical issues like access to healthcare, empowerment through education, and the eradication of harmful practices. Their efforts are vital in creating opportunities for young girls to thrive, ensuring that they receive the education and healthcare they deserve.
This article highlights the top 10 NGOs in Abuja that are making a significant impact in the areas, showcasing their initiatives and the positive changes they are driving within communities. So come on board!
- Health Aid For All Initiative (HAFAI)
Health Aid for All Initiative (HAFAI) is a non-governmental, non-profit and non-religious organization that is primarily focused on human rights and girl child education as it relates to reproductive health care, sexual health, menstrual hygiene management solutions and advocacy against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). The initiative also revolves around promoting family planning and population control, safe motherhood, good hygiene and sanitation, adolescent health and effective prevention of sexually transmitted diseases through promotion of safe sexual behavior.
VISION: To build a society where everyone has an opportunity and right to a healthy life.
MISSION: Saving lives through improved and sustained health awareness programs to those in need as well as bridging the gap between policy, knowledge and action for people to reach their full potentials for good health.
OBJECTIVES:
- Promoting Gender Equality and Human Rights
- Family Planning and Population Control
- Promoting Sustainable Menstrual Hygiene Solutions to Keep Girls in School
- Promote Advocacy Against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and other Gender Based Violence
- Strengthen Advocacy on Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health
- Awareness / Sensitization on Breast / Cervical Cancer
- Promoting Girl Child Education
- Socio-Economic Empowerment of Women and Youth and Providing Community HIV Testing Services
2. GIVE GIRLS A CHANCE
Founded in 2016, Give Girls A Chance is an organization dedicated to increasing young girls’ access to quality education in Nigeria. We work directly with students in four secondary schools in the Abuja area, providing comprehensive support to girls between the ages of 10 and 19 years from low-income families. With a team of dedicated mentors and volunteers, we provide scholarships, mentorships, and guidance, and address issues related to lack of access, low levels of awareness of the importance of education, and poor infrastructure of educational institutions.
MISSION: To improve the lives of Nigerian girls and young women through access to quality education and skills training, by addressing issues related to lack of access to and low levels of awareness of the importance of education and skills training for women, and the poor infrastructure of educational institutions in Nigeria.
3. The Kiek Foundation
The KIEK foundation is a non- governmental organization established with the aim of improving the lives of the less privileged children in our society through quality education, healthcare, nutrition and child’s right governance. Since its inception in 2018, the foundation has impacted positively on the lives of over 5,000 disadvantaged children, orphaned, street kids, ill and the physically challenged children and young adults in several towns and villages across the country through its various outreaches and projects such as: from street to class initiative, the One child One plate project, the Healthcare and the Nutrition project, the One Child One Book project, the Orphanage project, Rural area children and teens in ICT, THE Compassion Action Outreach and the One Child One Gift Project among others.
VISION: To see our society afford every child the opportunities to live a fulfilled life.
MISSION: To restore hope to the less privileged children by combating poverty through quality education, healthcare and nutrition which enable them to actualize their potential.
4. Girl Child Concerns (GCC)
Girl Child Concerns (GCC) is a registered non-profit organization dedicated to elevating the lives of youth, particularly girls through improved education opportunities. Established in 2003 with the goal of addressing the wide gender gap in girl’s enrollment in school, especially in the northern part of the country, Girl Child Concerns has continuously sought ways of improving the lives of girls and women in Nigeria. With offices in Abuja, Kaduna and Maiduguri its numerous interventions have not only provided access to education for young girls, but also provided them awareness on their reproductive lives, rights, entitlements and responsibility. To achieve this, the organization targets the legislature, religious and traditional leaders as well as communities and institutions. Girl Child Concerns provides holistic interventions that meet the needs of vulnerable adolescent girls especially those from poor rural areas, disadvantaged and undeserved groups like married adolescents and girls in humanitarian settings.
OBJECTIVES:
- To increase girls’ enrollment, retention and completion of secondary education.
- To create community awareness and sustain the interest of community members in a girls’ child education.
- To build the confidence of girls to have a focus on pursuing education and empower them to be responsible members of society.
- To reduce early marriage.
- To improve the reproductive health of young people.
- To address the special needs of married adolescents, providing them with the opportunities to develop to their highest potentials.
5. Education As a Vaccine
Education as a Vaccine (EVA) is a non-profit organization founded in 2000, registered in Nigeria and in the United States to improve the health and development of children, adolescents, and young people. Using child and youth-friendly approaches, the organization strengthens the capacities of children, young people, and other stakeholders to facilitate and sustain social change in the area of health, protection, and education through integrated programming.
The organizational programming priorities are aligned to the achievement of at least 7 Sustainable Development Goals with a focus on providing innovative, efficient and effective sexual and reproductive health, child rights and youth-friendly services.
6. Life Builders Initiative
Since 2014, Life Builders Initiative an NGO based in Abuja has been working to make education available, affordable, accessible and adaptable to the less privileged, the poor and the IDPs in Abuja and its environs.
The School Without Walls (SWW) project is the flagship project of Life Builders Initiative and remains the main focus. It is a learning center for children at all levels (from primary to secondary) and vocational training center located in Area 1, Camp David (separate from the IDP Camp Durumi/Area 1) and New Kuchigoro IDP Camp, where the internally-displaced children and other vulnerable children in the neighborhood attend daily.
The aim of School Without Walls is to provide access to formal education for the out-of-school internally displaced children. Currently, over 600 children attend the School Without Walls, with provision of one meal per day for every pupil and access to medical services provided by the Life Builders Initiative Medical Team of qualified medical personnel and funded by Life Builders Initiative.
MISSION: To envision a world where every child and young adult has access to quality education to fulfill their potentials.
VISION: To change the pattern of education provision for the under-served population globally by engaging and partnering with relevant stakeholders to create more resilient and self-reliant communities.
7. Intercommunity Development Social Organization
Intercommunity Development Social Organization, formally Integrated Development Services (IDS) is a voluntary, non-profit and Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) founded in 2004 by Peace-loving and law-abiding women and youth and incorporated with the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC/IT/No.60576) 2013 and granted Special Consultative Status by the United Nations (UN) Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in 2013. IDS dedicates to peacebuilding, social-economic empowerment, health, education and promotion of food security/nutrition and equity to improve on the lives of vulnerable women, youth, children and other minority groups in Africa.
VISION: A society where marginalized groups are empowered.
MISSION: IDS mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable women, youth, children and other minority groups through peacebuilding, food security/livelihoods, education, health/nutrition and promotion of equity in Africa.
8. The Health Strategy and Delivery Foundation (HSDF)
The Health Strategy and Delivery Foundation (HSDF) is a not-for-profit firm established in December 2013 to improve the quality of decision-making and execution in the health and social sectors. HSDF supports key stakeholders at all levels of government and private sector to achieve measurable and sustainable impact.
MISSION: To save lives and livelihoods by transforming the health and social sector landscape in Africa using better evidence for decision-making, accountability and action.
VISION: To be the leading thought partner and trusted adviser in the health and social sectors in Africa.
9. Centre For Adolescent Health and Social Development (CAHSD)
The Centre for Adolescent Health and Social Development established in 2017 is a non-for-profit organization focused on improving the wellbeing of adolescents through comprehensive interventions and online mobilizations and advocacy. Their focus lies on;
- Health education and public awareness
- Community healthcare services
- Skill acquisition and mentoring
- Research and policy advocacy and
- Counseling services
VISION: A world where adolescents are healthy enough to fulfill their potential.
MISSION: To improve the wellbeing of adolescents through comprehensive interventions and online mobilizations and advocacy.
10. Association For Reproductive and Family Health (ARFH)
Association for Reproductive and Family Health (ARFH) is a leading Non-Governmental and Not-for-Profit Organization established in 1989 by two eminent and reputable Nigerians who are the most prominent advocates of Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) and Family Planning (FP) programming in Nigeria. ARFH, a Nigerian fully indigenous, Non- Governmental, and Not-for-Profit organization had implemented projects across the 36+1 states of Nigeria on cross cutting programs including Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health plus Nutrition Investment Case (RMNCAH+N), Family Planning (FP), Global fund grants on HIV, TB and Malaria as Prime & Sub recipient, USAID grants on Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) among others.
VISION: To be a model non-governmental organization working towards an African continent, free of disease.
MISSION: To collaborate with Government and other strategic partners in designing and implementing innovative and high impact programs for improved health and well-being of individuals and families in Africa.
