Health Systems and Policy Research
Action Family Foundation promotes the generation of new knowledge and diffusion of same to solve the myriad of problems facing the health care delivery system in Africa. Accordingly, we partner with organizations of like disposition to advance research, training, capacity enhancement and alliances that strategically advance evidence-based interventions at the policy, programme and project design levels.
Provision of Integrated Primary Health Care Services
Action Family Foundation promotes the generation of new knowledge and diffusion of same to solve the myriad of problems facing the health care delivery system in Africa. Accordingly, we partner with organizations of like disposition to advance research, training, capacity enhancement and alliances that strategically advance evidence-based interventions at the policy, programme and project design levels.
Provision of Integrated Primary Health Care Services
Action Family Foundation promotes the primary health care paradigm. We apply integrated care as a neutral entry point to the needs of our target communities and groups. These include such child survival packagesas immunization, nutrition, growth monitoring, breastfeeding, safe motherhood practices, and child spacing education.
HIV and AIDS Prevention, Care and Support
The HIV/AIDS epidemic affects the core of society in various ways. The family suffers multiple dislocations because of the disease. Action Family Foundation is engaged in activities directed at its prevention and impact mitigation with family members and within communities.
The hallmark of Action Family Foundation’s HIV prevention strategy is chastity education - premarital abstinence and mutual spousal fidelity. People are educated on basic HIV/AIDS topics, and encouraged to access counseling and testing services while advocating family and community care and support for persons living with the disease..
Maternal mortality reduction and Non-Communicable Diseases
Africa has the worst maternal and child mortality and morbidity indices. The avoidable deaths, disabilities and diseases endured by families in rural and urban slum communities can be addressed through education, behavioural change communication and provision of accessible and affordable services. AFF intervenes in the following areas of Public Health: Emergency obstetrics care awareness and education; Cancer prevention education and awareness-raising including breast, cervical and prostate; Hypertension prevention and screening; Diabetes education and outreach screening; Lifestyle malnutrition – under nutrition, obesity amongst others..
Environmental Care and Medical Waste Management
Action Family Foundation works to reclaim the human ecosystem groaning under various threats of degradation. Our organization advocates for wholesome environmental protection and sustainability. AFF coordinates other NGOs and academics under the Civil Society Consortium on Medical Waste Management. AFF is a stakeholder in the National Safe Injection Safety Forum of the ministries of Health, and with development partners
HIV and AIDS Prevention, Care and Support
The HIV/AIDS epidemic affects the core of society in various ways. The family suffers multiple dislocations because of the disease. Action Family Foundation is engaged in activities directed at its prevention and impact mitigation with family members and within communities.
The hallmark of Action Family Foundation’s HIV prevention strategy is chastity education - premarital abstinence and mutual spousal fidelity. People are educated on basic HIV/AIDS topics, and encouraged to access counseling and testing services while advocating family and community care and support for persons living with the disease..
Maternal mortality reduction and Non-Communicable Diseases
Africa has the worst maternal and child mortality and morbidity indices. The avoidable deaths, disabilities and diseases endured by families in rural and urban slum communities can be addressed through education, behavioural change communication and provision of accessible and affordable services. AFF intervenes in the following areas of Public Health: Emergency obstetrics care awareness and education; Cancer prevention education and awareness-raising including breast, cervical and prostate; Hypertension prevention and screening; Diabetes education and outreach screening; Lifestyle malnutrition – under nutrition, obesity amongst others..
Environmental Care and Medical Waste Management
Action Family Foundation works to reclaim the human ecosystem groaning under various threats of degradation. Our organization advocates for wholesome environmental protection and sustainability. AFF coordinates other NGOs and academics under the Civil Society Consortium on Medical Waste Management. AFF is a stakeholder in the National Safe Injection Safety Forum of the ministries of Health, and with development partners
Income Generating Venture Support
Action Family Foundation believes in empowering the members of the family to contribute to its sustenance and prosperity. AFF provides its beneficiaries with opportunities for self-employment including apprenticeship for skills acquisition. Women, widows, single mothers, AIDS-orphans and unemployed youths are helped with such options as vocational trainings.
Gender Mainstreaming and Harmful Practices
Action Family Foundation recognizes that education is strategic to the liberation of
Action Family Foundation believes in empowering the members of the family to contribute to its sustenance and prosperity. AFF provides its beneficiaries with opportunities for self-employment including apprenticeship for skills acquisition. Women, widows, single mothers, AIDS-orphans and unemployed youths are helped with such options as vocational trainings.
Gender Mainstreaming and Harmful Practices
Action Family Foundation recognizes that education is strategic to the liberation of
persons and communities. Gender mainstreaming is a concept that AFF promotes without severing the authentic roles of men and women, boys and girls, husbands and wives in the lives of individuals, families and groups in the right order; gender complementarity. Issues addressed include female genital cutting, widowhood rites, wife inheritance, prostitution, human trafficking, pornography, domestic violence and premature marriage.
Family Life Education and Therapy
Family life is ordered for the individual and common good as it provides the optimal environment for personal growth and development on which the normal functioning of society hinges. “The future of Humanity depends on the Family”. This profound wisdom of one of the world’s recent legends, Pope John Paul II, provides a veritable motivation for AFF’s mission. Strengthening the basic cell of society ultimately ensures a better human community.
Marriage between a man and woman in a permanent covenantal bond is central to
Family life is ordered for the individual and common good as it provides the optimal environment for personal growth and development on which the normal functioning of society hinges. “The future of Humanity depends on the Family”. This profound wisdom of one of the world’s recent legends, Pope John Paul II, provides a veritable motivation for AFF’s mission. Strengthening the basic cell of society ultimately ensures a better human community.
Marriage between a man and woman in a permanent covenantal bond is central to
family life. Marriage preparation services are provided to intending couples in religious and community formations. Presentation topics include spouse care through the life cycle, parenting techniques, home-based sexuality and chastity education, HIV prevention through abstinence and fidelity and family-centred care and support.
Youth Development for Self-Efficiency Action Family Foundation works to empower young people through awareness creation and emotional literacy with emphasis on character development and entrepreneurial creativity. AFF applies the directive pedagogic methodology to promote self-mastery, positive values and culturally adequate messages for youth as realistic strategy for preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs), HIV, unplanned pregnancy, and their complications. We work to assist young people especially women with improved access to training on business development and linkages to expanding market opportunities.
Care of the Elderly
We desire to mainstream the plight of older persons in local and national development agenda. As general health and living conditions improve, Africans are living longer and so contributing to the emerging “age-quake” phenomenon. This phenomenon underscores the unpreparedness of communities for the many health and care challenges and needs of the elderly persons as longevity and life expectancy improves. Our organization is privileged to collaborate with other NGOs and faith-based organizations to awaken Africans in this noble aspect of social work.
Crisis Pregnancy Management
AFF upholds the fundamental and in alienable right of all human beings to life. In promoting this “culture of life”, our organization is not unmindful of the fact that circumstances may render the conception, birth and rearing of a child tumultuous. Therefore, for teenagers unwed pregnancies (unplanned or crisis pregnancy), AFF intervenes to provide psychological, financial and rehabilitative support. We promote adoption and foster-parenting as ethical and viable options against abortion for any reasons whatsoever (cf. Mother Theresa of Calcutta).
The Association of African Families
This is a network of over 100 NGOs, FBOs and CBOs that promote the rights and functions of the African family. In addition to being the coordinating NGO, AFF serves as resource organization for a large number of student bodies from across Nigeria, and the Association members. Schools, religious groups and communities frequently contact AFF and the Association for technical facilitation, information, education and communication materials or strategic input to their HIV, teen pregnancy prevention programmes and youth development activities.
Youth Development for Self-Efficiency Action Family Foundation works to empower young people through awareness creation and emotional literacy with emphasis on character development and entrepreneurial creativity. AFF applies the directive pedagogic methodology to promote self-mastery, positive values and culturally adequate messages for youth as realistic strategy for preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs), HIV, unplanned pregnancy, and their complications. We work to assist young people especially women with improved access to training on business development and linkages to expanding market opportunities.
Care of the Elderly
We desire to mainstream the plight of older persons in local and national development agenda. As general health and living conditions improve, Africans are living longer and so contributing to the emerging “age-quake” phenomenon. This phenomenon underscores the unpreparedness of communities for the many health and care challenges and needs of the elderly persons as longevity and life expectancy improves. Our organization is privileged to collaborate with other NGOs and faith-based organizations to awaken Africans in this noble aspect of social work.
Crisis Pregnancy Management
AFF upholds the fundamental and in alienable right of all human beings to life. In promoting this “culture of life”, our organization is not unmindful of the fact that circumstances may render the conception, birth and rearing of a child tumultuous. Therefore, for teenagers unwed pregnancies (unplanned or crisis pregnancy), AFF intervenes to provide psychological, financial and rehabilitative support. We promote adoption and foster-parenting as ethical and viable options against abortion for any reasons whatsoever (cf. Mother Theresa of Calcutta).
The Association of African Families
This is a network of over 100 NGOs, FBOs and CBOs that promote the rights and functions of the African family. In addition to being the coordinating NGO, AFF serves as resource organization for a large number of student bodies from across Nigeria, and the Association members. Schools, religious groups and communities frequently contact AFF and the Association for technical facilitation, information, education and communication materials or strategic input to their HIV, teen pregnancy prevention programmes and youth development activities.
Action Family Foundation is keen to partner with individuals and groups to facilitate their activities and enhance the ideals and methods of AFF. AFF Services include strategic consultancy and programme support in the following areas:
1. Chastity education (abstinence and fidelity) in schools, religious groups and communities
2. Health education and training for individuals, families and community groups.
3. HIV and AIDS information, education and communication
4. Marriage preparation and family therapy
5. Rehabilitation of teenage pregnant girls
1. Chastity education (abstinence and fidelity) in schools, religious groups and communities
2. Health education and training for individuals, families and community groups.
3. HIV and AIDS information, education and communication
4. Marriage preparation and family therapy
5. Rehabilitation of teenage pregnant girls
Affiliations:
AFF is a member or affiliate of the following local and international bodies:
• Malaria Summit Group – Coordinating NGO
• Human Rights Information Network - Member
• Lagos State AIDS Control Agency – Implementing Partner
• Civil Society for HIV/AIDS in Nigeria (CiSHAN) - Member
• Association of African Families – National Coordinating Office
• Civil Society Consortium on Medical Waste Management – AFF is the lead NGO.
• Stop TB Partnership/WHO, Geneva (www.stoptb.org)
• Health Systems Research Network (www.hesren.org)
AFF is a member or affiliate of the following local and international bodies:
• Malaria Summit Group – Coordinating NGO
• Human Rights Information Network - Member
• Lagos State AIDS Control Agency – Implementing Partner
• Civil Society for HIV/AIDS in Nigeria (CiSHAN) - Member
• Association of African Families – National Coordinating Office
• Civil Society Consortium on Medical Waste Management – AFF is the lead NGO.
• Stop TB Partnership/WHO, Geneva (www.stoptb.org)
• Health Systems Research Network (www.hesren.org)
