- Awareness raising and sensitisation: within African communities and among young Africans about children’s rights as enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and other international conventions and UK legislation promoting the rights and welfare of children.
- Information, education, and advisory services: to raise the profile of African children in the UK, increase awareness of their needs, improve policies and practices, and develop the leadership potential of young Africans. Activities include research and publishing reports; media work; conferences, seminars, workshops, and training programmes for policy makers, service providers, parents, faith and community leaders, young people; community meetings; advice and consultancy services.
- Advocacy and policy development: working closely with policy makers to shape the development of policy and regulatory action to promote the welfare of children.
- Community and international development: in partnership with others to put in place programmes and projects to help relieve some of the suffering and hardship that African children experience
- Family Support: Working to support families in crisis, at the point of breakdown through effective early intervention services.
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