Combined Federal Campaign #9956

The vision of the House of Nanny is to strengthen community network and NGOs by tapping into Diaspora resources to support caring for orphans and caregivers. This will help ensure the development of a generation of African orphans who are physically strong, mentally healthy, emotionally stable, self reliant, well-educated and HIV/AIDS free to assist in Africa's economic recovery.

The program will harness resources from local community based organizations, including women's groups and men's groups, youth groups, Faith-based organizations and Non Governmental Organizations to implement and meet the needs of orphans and their caregivers. The program will be implemented in collaboration with existing and new village based associations whose members are drawn from grandmothers who care for orphans in close collaboration with other orphan caregivers.

The House of Nanny aims to increase access to psychological and social support, provide rural job opportunities and access to microfinance, and to reduce the stigma attached to AIDS for families affected by it. For the orphans, it helps provide educational opportunities, training community volunteers to teach the children basic reading skills, artistic skills such as art, drama, poetry, puppetry, singing and athletics. In addition, it also aims to increase access to health, education, and services, including voluntary HIV/AIDS/STD testing and counseling, for the community at large, in order to reduce infection rates and teenage pregnancy.

The program is being administered, with full accountability and transparency and built-in sustainability mechanisms, by the Foundation for Democracy in Africa (FDA), the secretariat of WHADN. It has pledged to match any funds raised by local African organizations, made possible by generous contributions from private and public sector donors, foundations, churches and individuals. For more information, please contact us at info@democracy-africa.org.