AFRICAN
CHILD
TRUST
About ACT
ACT is a UK registered charity with the vision to support the education of disadvantaged children and orphans in women led households in Africa. Our aim is to enable them to reach their potential in life. We are empowering women and widows in need, through training, to generate income to sustain their families. Our aim is to break the cycle of poverty among poor people in Africa.
The community in Africa is central to our approach. We therefore work alongside partners that are best placed to recognise the households with the most need in their community. Typically, well established Christian churches and community-based organisations that share our vision of supporting people in need and have the capacity to operate well managed and comprehensively monitored projects.
We are currently working in Burkina Faso, Congo DR, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.
Our Mission
Educating Children
ACT provides funding for the children of widows and also for orphans to complete their education.
Empowering Widows
ACT provides counselling and training to empower widows, a group amongst the most vulnerable in Africa.
Enriching Communities
The community is central to the approach of ACT in funding the education of the children of widows and orphans in Africa.
Our Impact
By educating children and empowering widows, we are helping them out of poverty and helping to develop their nations.
In 2022 alone, 1,500 girls from 5 secondary schools Ayobo-Ipaja, Lagos State, Nigeria benefitted directly from our Dignity for Girls (Period Poverty) project.
As we come up our 25th anniversary, our work has so far impacted nearly 15,000 children and woman-led families in need in 8 countries across sub-Saharan Africa where we operate.
