Our mission: To promote the rights of the girl child, and gender equality through education and capacity building activities to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as they affect youths in Africa.
Description of the organization.
Girl-Child Art Foundation (GCAF) was formed on the 19th of October 2000 and is registered with the Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, Anambra state, incorporated under the Companies and Allied Matter Decree of 1990 in the Corporate Affairs Commission Abuja with registration number CAC/IT/NO18768.
We have membership strength of about 2,905 girls within the ages of 8-18 years and a campus network of youths targeting over 5million youths.
GCAF is aimed at promoting girl child education, rights of the girl child, HIV/AIDS awareness programs, capacity building for Nigerian youths, peer education among youths and other MDGs related through all forms of arts especially through the media.
We believe in catching them young, inculcating respect, initiative, progressiveness and professionalism. We are a career opportunity generating foundation.
Creativity and talent display is our utmost pride. Our solutions are all based on our ideas and the inspiration from our immediate environment.
GCAF in collaboration with Local and International Agencies and partners are also executing programs, which assist in improving the economic condition of trafficked victims, sexually harassed females at work place and family members through different practicable strategies and approaches that are of interest to a modern day Nigerian girl who are vulnerable to trafficking, HIV/AIDS, Violence against girls, all forms of discrimination as a result of their poor economic condition and ignorance.
The strategies used include Skills trainings, media, E-learning projects, talent hunt, practical classes, conferences, workshops, arts festival, concerts, arts exhibitions and awareness on issues through performing Arts, Personal empowerment /literacy education, and Education and Training of girls as future women.
GCAF has been able to observe the level of response to HIV/AIDS in Nigeria through our close relationship with our members particularly during training classes, and the experience recorded from the inauguration exhibition of “Voice of a Nigerian Girl 2003” (VONG),a successful 3 year PEPFAR media projects on HIV/AIDS for young people in the South Eastern region of Nigeria and cartoon for life-were young girls expressed their views to their immediate problems in the society including HIV/AIDS.
Aims and Objectives
a. Enhance the creative and imaginative abilities of the Nigerian Youth especially the Girl Child.
b. Encourage Girl Child education and basic development skills by enhancing their talent through all forms of Art – literary Acts, performing arts and visual arts.
c. Advocate for the rights of women and children especially the girl child by providing and equipping them with skills and knowledge to enhance their Social rights and also prevent other social ills against girls e.g. prostitution, child abuse, rape, early marriage, drug addiction, female genital mutilation and all forms of discrimination against women and girls.
d. Organize training classes, workshops, seminars, conferences, art festivals, concerts and competitions towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) through her projects.
e. To partner with other NGO’s having similar objectives both within and outside the Country.
f. Ensure that the initiative of the foundation shall be in conformity with the provision of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and that accordingly the foundation shall at all times pursue the educational, economic, social and other objectives of foundation accordingly.
g. Support GCAF's ability to operate in 260 higher institutions in Nigeria and beyond by encouraging youths to take simple, effective steps that can help achieve the MDGS.
ACTIVITIES OR PROGRAMS
Key areas of Work:
a. Girl Child education
b. Rights of young people especially girls
c. Economic empowerment for youth.
d. Girl Child’s personal health/hygiene and HIV/AIDS as major focal point.
e. Right based Media projects on various MDGs.
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Today, the high poverty levels, unemployment, environmental hazards, health, educational challenges, and violence affect millions of youth. The Campus Initiative which supports GCAF’s ability to operate in over 100 higher institutions, encourages the youth in the country to work on issues related to human and environmental health, in youth development, capacity building, access to information on global issues and participation in meaningful recreational activities.
Youth achieving their dreams will in turn help the GCAF to carry out its own activities on behalf of world youth. Youth are exposed to friendly and professional training, activities, courses, and experiences, which they can utilize in future activities towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals in the world.
Students in higher institutions have a unique opportunity to gain access to widespread resources in order to increase public awareness about GCAF projects. The formation of student activist groups, forums and other international programs provide a medium for campus-wide education, advocacy and fundraising. The GCAF campus initiative creates a culture of advocacy for the programs and activities that relate to youth development, particularly through all forms of arts (literary, theatre, fine, and sonic) as basic strategies and vehicles for education, communication, behavior change, and activism.
While youth and students are benefiting from this effort by GCAF, we hope this initiative will also have a positive impact on the faculty and staff of the different higher institutions, and that youth will be encouraged by this to see themselves as future leaders. Through educating their peers, students are contributing to general youth development. This also ensures that the younger generation will produce a great number of people who support issues related to youth, and to young women specifically.
GCAF campus initiatives will set up concerts, festivals, arts exhibition, seminars, conferences, media programs; produce publications on important issues related to youth development; fundraise, advocate, and participate in the GCAF parent projects locally and internationally.
So far GCI has reached 85 campus chapters in Nigeria and currently in Ghana, it is targeting 260 campuses by 2008.
All projects done by the Campus Initiative are strictly youth-led, but supervised by the parent organization GCAF.
We have carried out a number events.
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