Advocacy Initiative for Development (AID)

In the spirit of the Earth Charter, this program seeks to promote tolerance, nonviolence and peace by encouraging and supporting mutual understanding, solidarity, and cooperation among all citizens in in Africa. Comprehensive strategies will be developed to prevent violent conflict and use collaborative problem solving to manage and resolve environmental conflicts and other disputes.

The program is designed to address the challenges women face in their homes & communities and to protect their rights at all levels. We are also empowering them through life skills training opportunities and basic management skills. The program also seeks to raise awareness against all forms of Abuse against Women.

The program seeks to promote and support child education and health care services. According to a recent studies, nine out of the ten worst countries for newborns (neo-natal mortality rates per thousand live births in 2012) are from Africa, including Sierra Leone, Somalia, Guinea-Bissau, Angola, Lesotho, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali, Central African Republic and Côte d'Ivoire. Half of these countries were affected by conflict. To help tackle such a huge challenge in the continent, the organization seeks to advocate for and support the promotion of breastfeeding, neonatal resuscitation, kangaroo mother care for pre-term babies and the prevention and treatment of infections. We also promote campaigns against all forms of abuse against children.

This program is geared towards promoting Democracy, Good Governance and a Corrupt-Free society and ensuring that Youths and Women are active participants in governance and anti corruption campaigns at local, national and international levels.

The goal of this program is to foster a commitment to young people that will promote pro-social friendships, strong interpersonal skills, and reassert a sense of hope in the future. Only through personal relationships can a sense of individual responsibility be reestablished that will give youth the commitment to follow through on path to adulthood with a sense of pride and accomplishment. Through repeated failures in the classroom and the development of destructive habits, at-risk young people have lost faith in the possibilities that await them if they are successful in putting their lives together. We believe that young people must be in a caring, inclusive learning environment that promotes their best efforts and reinforces personal respect. Through this program, AID seeks to advocate and create meaningful employment opportunities for youths with special emphasis on the less privileged and young women.

Agriculture is a significant part of many countries in Africa. In Sierra Leone, for example, agriculture accounts for at least 58 percent of its national GDP. In our efforts to make food security a reality in Sierra Leone, AID seeks to not only advocate for farmers but to also support them with adequate tools and other resources in producing sufficient food for their families, communities, cities and the country as a whole in a more sustainable way.

This Program aims at ensuring that citizens are actively involved in advocating for the prevention, treatment and cure of the HIV disease and also help eradicate or mitigation stigma. Just as clearly, experience shows that the right approaches, applied quickly enough with courage and resolve, can and do result in lower HIV infection rates and less suffering for those affected by the epidemic. An ever-growing AIDS epidemic is not inevitable; yet, unless action against the epidemic is scaled up drastically, the damage already done will seem minor compared with what lies ahead. This may sound dramatic, but it is hard to play down the effects of a disease that stands to kill more than half of the young adults in the countries where it has its firmest hold.

Water is Life! It is undoubtedly true that water is a very important aspect of man’s life and so also a very pertinent aspect of Human Rights. As an organization seeking to ensure the livelihood and sustainability of humanity, this program is mainly to advocate and promote Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH).

The program seeks to address issues relating to Climate Change especially in Sierra Leone and other parts of Africa and Asia. We strongly believe that whatever we do to tackle climate change will serve as a legacy for our future generation. Climate change and global poverty have attracted a lot of attention in recent years as key global justice challenges of our times. Both are serious challenges to the future health and prosperity of our planet. They must be combated simultaneously; we cannot take care of one without addressing the other. An effective attack on poverty and the ill-effects of climate change requires taking comprehensive action that encompasses both issues. We cannot fight climate change without considering the rising energy needs of poor people and countries, nor can we effectively address global poverty without accounting for the impacts of climate change on agriculture, disease patterns, and violent weather events, all of which particularly impact the poorest countries.

The program seeks to promoting the use of ICTs for Sustainable Peace and Development. We believe that adequate access to ICT tools especially by youths and women will contribute greatly in enhancing the development of people and their communities.

This program seeks to advocate for the eradication of modern day slavery. Despite the fact that slavery was officially abolished in the 19th century, it is still on the rise in not only Africa, but other parts of the world. Millions of children, women, and men are affected. They are subjected to forced labor, forced prostitution and debt bondage on daily basis.

It has been proven that sports can play a very important role in achieving and maintaining peace and development amongst people and communities. This program is directed towards promoting peace and development through different sporting and recreational activities in local communities across Africa.

In a highly traditional and patriarchal society like Sierra Leone, most girls are no stranger to physical violence and other forms of abuses perpetuated by men and boys. The problem gets perennial when in female secret society initiations, young girls are told to be unquestionably ‘obedient’ to men. Due to such teachings, girls have largely been subservient in society, accepting almost anything that is thrown at them by the dominant and highly protected men and boys. Domestic and sexual related violence, despite myriads of state and non-state initiatives remains rampant in many parts of the country. It is widely estimated that during the civil war that raged from 1991 - 2002, a staggering 250,000 women and girls were victims of gender based violence. This program seeks to upscale the capacity and awareness of girls to be able to report and prevent incidences of sexual and gender-based violence unleashed on their persons in the communities. These girls would also be provided with information on reproductive health that will improve pre and anti-natal reproductive health in the project locations. The choice of the project locations is strategic: Freetown, despite being highly cosmopolitan accounts for a significant proportion of sexual and gender-based violence cases in the country. Moyamba district, as recent surveys have been pointing out is one of the highly notorious places where domestic and sexual-related crimes happen. It is reasoned that once the project outputs are delivered, reproductive health anomalies would be largely addressed among teenage girls; reporting of sexual and gender-based crimes would increase, and timely appropriate actions would be taken by the relevant state institutions (Police and courts) to curtail the malaise.