Where we work
​We are based in Omaha, Nebraska, USA, with our flagship programs and services planned to impact vulnerable people in East Africa.​

Lifesaving Assistance Program

• Raise funds and material support for  programs for vulnerable children and families [harnessing our core competencies locally and globally through various partners/networks/ SDGs]
• Responding to refugee crises, emergencies & repatriation efforts through lifesaving relief aid
• Fighting hunger and poverty and Improvising Health
• Facilitate the repatriation of refugees and IDPs through effective and urgent food and health interventions.  This helps in reversing the severely acute rate of malnutrition among children in the area. The healthcare aspect of the program can be achieved through partnering with other organizations and health clinics providing general medical care, safe drinking water, public health education and the much needed awareness of ailments to communities.

Empowering women and girls through education and skills training

• Educate women (with a focus on those  widowed by war) about equal empowerment—provide them with literacy skills that will go a long way toward preparing them for sustained development and entrepreneurial opportunities in life.
• Provide micro financing options and encourage building of income generating small businesses for poor families to supplement their always dwindling household food supplies and use some of the money to send their children to school.​

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Educating Children, Transforming Lives and Communities by bringing World-Class Education within Reach

• Offer scholarships to needy children to go to schools in East Africa
• Lay the groundwork aimed at building educational infrastructure in places where it has been nonexistent
• Support girl child’s education. By the world’s standards, South Sudan has the lowest rate of education for young girls. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) 2005 report says that less than 1% of girls have primary education in South Sudan.
• Serve and protect at-risk youth and widows by providing shelter, advocacy and programs  that educate and promote personal and family development​

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The goal and objective is to raise funds and material support for programs for refugee children, and families, and to serve and protect at-risk youth by providing food, healthcare, education opportunities, advocacy and holistic programs that educate and promote personal empowerment and community development. We are committed to bringing world-class education within reach of war-affected children through providing academic scholarships to primary and secondary schools in Kenya and Uganda.
We intend to sustain this mission through grants writing, creating fund raising campaigns, leadership, education and advocacy programs and by partnering with the communities that share our cause.

The primary function for the program will be to provide the basic essentials--urgent resources to the returnees of South Sudanese war while facilitating their reintegration into their communities. It will be modeled on alleviating poverty; keeping at bay diseases of malnutrition through effective food and health/referral interventions and educating women about nutrition and disease prevention.

​The purpose of this program is to provide food supplies --especially nutritious meals-- to malnourished children and youth. This program, in addition to solving food scarcity, will help in reversing the severely acute rate of malnutrition among children in the area. The healthcare aspect of the program can be achieved through referrals to health clinics providing general medical care, safe drinking water, public health education and the much needed awareness of ailments to communities.  By attending to these basic needs, the organization will achieve and document effectiveness in meeting the overall long term goals, which are to build centers of excellence; provide basic services; and initiate programs for children affected by the war.

​According to a report by UNICEF in 2005, over 90% of women are illiterate in South Sudan. Therefore, the purpose of this program is to provide disadvantaged women, especially widows, with literacy skills that will go a long way toward preparing them for sustainable development and entrepreneurial opportunities in life.
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This can be made possible through provision of adult literacy courses and training in basic business skills, entrepreneurial endeavors and the distribution of farm equipment, seeds and fertilizers so that they can cultivate crops. Women also will use their creativity in such areas as craft work, weaving, and the culinary arts to generate incomes for themselves. Through those objectives, the organization will meet and measure its effectiveness in achieving overall goals of rural economic initiatives, poverty alleviation and the empowerment of women and girls.

Responsibility to Care (R2C) Campaign: Catalyzing and Advocating for Social Change --
​Partnering for UN Sustainable Development ​Goals (SDGs)

• Modeled after charitable pledges and strategic partnerships as a multi-year fundraising initiatives and geared Toward Integrated Community Development--a Long-Term Social Development Model, Advocacy Action Programs and Support for Education--Impacting Communities through Relief & Revitalization Advocacy and Development of Literacy Education—known by its acronym as the I.C.R.A.D.L.E
• Our Holistic Program for Engaging and Transforming Post-war Communities--A New Organizing Principle/Next Generation Organizing Principle aimed at developing the next generation of leaders & Shining Hope for Refugee Children & Families
• Establish strategic partnership as a way of ensuring long-term coordination and collaboration among friends who will commit resources and support building of an Academy
• Build an educational infrastructure in places where it has been nonexistent so as to provide children with skills that will prepare them to build and rebuild their own communities and the entire nation
• Promote poverty eradication as this disadvantaged group begins to transition from a past wrenched by war to a path full of the recognition of human dignity.
• Help youths tailor acquired skills to various entrepreneurial opportunities available in South Sudan.

 
Affirming our responsibility to care for a generation in need, Cradle Africa Foundation advocates for vulnerable refugee children and families with no homes to return to and provides long-term social development programs for them to rebuild their lives. We provide emergency relief aid, advocacy and education to vulnerable women and children in South Sudan as well as those living in refugee camps in Kenya and Uganda.
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The women and children of South Sudan have clung to the wheel of suffering for far too long, holding out hope. For millions of vulnerable South Sudanese, even with the advent of peace, and a silver lining in the pending implementation of R-ARCSS, the potential for violence is always a concern for their viciously high-risk environment. They are the tens of thousands of orphans, widows, and at-risk youth, whose collective futures ever remain uncertain given the traces of conflicts that have always continued to cut deep into the national psyche. 

​It’s why South Sudanese children and youths need a renewed sense of hope-- some measure of happiness, and an assurance that life is still full of opportunities even after having lost everything, including some of their parents and relatives. Therefore, the program will help these young people build their bodies, minds, and spirits through instruction in such areas as sports, arts, and computer technology, through the development of social skills, oral history projects and through advocacy and mentorship programs. ​

Meeting these objectives will provide measurable results for tailoring the skills of youths to various entrepreneurial activities; facilitating their rehabilitation, and transition from a past wrenched by war to a path full of hope and opportunity as well as the recognition of human dignity.
Highlighting, this early, the confluence of an emerging peace and the high impact of war will help our organization devise a national strategy that guarantees our children an environment where their civic consciousness will be greatly enhanced while equally giving them opportunities to thrive.
The purpose of this program is also to provide those who have been handicapped by war and war-related causes with a recreational place necessary for their rehabilitation. The program will also provide them with health services referrals based on their medical needs. These objectives address the organizational goal of keeping the vulnerable healthy. We will advocate for the creation of sacred, recreational, and national healing zones such as playgrounds or parks—the ones we would like to call the portraits of hope and healing, academies of emerging peace and ethnic relations!

The purpose of our advocacy program is for the government to build some health and educational infrastructure in places where they have been nonexistent so as to provide children with skills that will prepare them to rebuild their own communities and the entire nation’s future. The permanence of peace in South Sudan will be contingent upon making all children the beneficiaries of a world class, and universal education. This can be realized by supporting girls’ preparatory primary, secondary and higher education.
The program also will act as a catalyst for long-term social development- a conduit of hope and opportunity, sustainability, and empowerment as these refugees/returnees begin to rebuild lives to improve their standards of living, learn to thrive while building a better future.
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We envision a society that empowers with education that creates positive social change, a society where no child lives in endemic poverty.
We will make it our life’s work and mission to invest in children and transform post-war communities into pillars of safety and stability, so no child ever again spends their lives on the run, seeking refuge in faraway lands. We envision Cradle Africa as a partner for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a force for good and social transformation, a global hand of charitable partnership from the former child refugees, along with our global network of friends, all investing in the cause of peace for the people of South Sudan who have suffered the indignities of wars for far too long. ​

PEN PALS & READING PROGRAM
​Our bureau of Diaspora Affair Pen Pals & Reading Program will be connecting schoolchildren from the diaspora with the homeland through letter writting and for litteracy and educational exchanges with the aim of deepening ties around emerging peace, dialogue and cultural understanding.

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