ACROSSAID
ArossAid is a leading charity Organization that strives with impact to improve the lives of children and young people across the region and pave their pathways towards life achievements.
We support while bringing hope to the most vulnerable and underprivileged children and young people and ensure they have access to quality life in its fulness.
Areas of Interventions
Literacy improvement
AcrossAid Literacy Improvement seeks to fast-track quality education among pre-primary (nursery) and lower primary learners i.e. from 3 to 9 years of age (P1 to P3) through literacy and learning interventions. The interventions envision to address the increasing literacy gap facing learners through promoting the culture of reading and writing among early grades learners.
This will be strategically achieved through: (1) increasing the availability of adequate, age-appropriate and child-friendly high quality reading storybooks and other learning support materials across the country for early grades learners; (2) equipping children with basic reading skills in Kinyarwanda and English languages and help them be able to freely speak, read and write well at the completion of their primary education through continuous reading sessions; as well as (3) providing professional development to teachers and reading mentors (Abafashamyumvire bo gusoma) for reading instructions and methodology through trainings and mentorship programs.
AcrossAid Education Strategy is implemented to achieve the following strategic goal:
Ensuring access to quality education
Enhancing inclusive education
Fostering the culture of reading and writing
Enabling accessibility and availability of learning materials
Incorporating technology into learning and teaching methodology
Promoting peace values and culture
Child Rights & Protection
In collaboration with our Children CareGivers (CCG) locally known as “Inshuti z’Abana” (i.e. Friends of Children in Kinyarwanda), ACROSSAID strives to reach children within their families and ensure children are holistically cared for and that their rights are safeguarded. This is to ensure that every child is protected against all forms of abuse and that he/she enjoys the life in its fullness.
AcrossAid works to create an enabling and protective environment around children from which all vulnerable children (such as orphans, street children, drop outs, etc.) are socially reintegrated into community. Social linkages between children and parents/adoptive families are established to ensure children are free from any forms of abuse.
The focus is put on parenting mechanism within families where parents are mobilized on their children’s rights and care they owe them together with local authorities on responding to the cases on children’s rights violations including physical and psychological child abuse, exploitation, denied to education etc.
AcrossAid Child Rights and Protection Program aims:
To advocate for child rights and protection through community mobilization and senzitization
To fights against all forms of abuse, violence and neglect
To ensure no child remains homeless and that all children are raised within their families
To address the issue of dropouts among children and respond to the phenomenon of street children.
Youth Socio-economic Empowerment
AcrossAid has, through its AYODE (Action for Youth Development) Initiative, intervened in youth socio-economic development to support the most disengaged youth and others with special needs and help them improve their lives.
The Program targets more specifically the out-of-school youth including youth with minimal formal or informal education, dropout youth, teen mothers, youth with disabilities as well as youth with risk behaviors such as drug abuse. Youth socio-economic empowerment and livelihoods opportunities have been provided through capacity building and training organized to prepare, engage youth and turn them into productive and become agents of change.
Through Action For Youth Development (AYODE) literally translated as “KURUTERIMBERE” , the interventions aim at increasing young enterpreneural skills especially teen mothers and other dropout youth while engaging them into income-generating activities that can improve their future lives.
The program aims to:
Empower disengaged young people through hands-on employment opportunities
Contribute to the improvement of youth livelihoods through decent jobs
To provide youth with toolkits and other support materials for their small-scale busnesses
Mitigate anti-social risk-behaviors hindering youth socio-economic development
Campaigning for Child Protection against Drug Abuse
In partnership with Caritas Kigali, Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC) and Local government, AcrossAid has conducted a four-day campaign meant to prevent children from dropping out of school, leaving their families and go to settle in the streets where their become affected with drug use conditions. In addition, youth have been also mobilized against such use of illicit substances which affect their lives and their socio-economic development where alternative livelihoods opportunities are to be provided to help youth improve their lives.
The campaign aimed at raising awareness within community members, government institutions, private and public institutions, leaders, decision makers, and all stakeholders on the issue of vulnerable street children, who drop out of school, quit their families and go to live in the street as their respective shelters.
It was a four-day campaign starting the 25th to 28th June 2019. The campaign reached more than 1200 people (Children, Youth, Parents and the Community) across the three sectors of Muhima, Kimisagara and Gitega of NYARUGENGE District, Kigali City will be covered.
Campaign Activists, Youth Volunteers, Children CareGivers, Parents and Community Members including motorcyclists, started with “THE WALK TO FIGHT AGAINST DRUG USE AMONG STREET CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE” from GITEGA Sector leading to Club RAFIKI at NYAMIRAMBO where the opening event was held.
Key Achievements
MFASHA NSOME Project
872 children from Muhima and Karama reading sites were reached and participated in the literacy improvement activities
23 Reading mentors were trained
17 Reading clubs from Karama and Muhima reading sites were formed
65 age-appropriate reading materials (Children storybooks Titles) were developed and approved by REB.
More that 750 hundred storybooks have been distributed
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CHILD AHEAD “Mbere na Mbere Umwana” Project
“Child Ahead” project interventions and activities were conducted in the districts of Rulindo, Gasabo, Bugesera and Rwamagana.
1161 Total direct beneficiaries reached
700 Children at risk (from poor families in conflicts) were reached
377 Parents from families at risk,
84 Parents from model families
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KORUTERIMBERE
Project
AYODE _Koruterimbere Project has targeted:
77 youth who enrolled into AYODE Program of whom:
26 Youth enrolled into Modern Tailoring,
22 Youth enrolled into Hair-dressing,
15 Youth enrolled into Culinary Art and
14 Youth enrolled into Mechanics & Carpentry
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