Founding directors
established Acacia Children Trust from hereon called:
ACT in 2000 out of the grassroots efforts, to address
then the immense distress place on the orphaned children, and on the households
of the kinship groups raising those orphans. ACT is one of the first
organization in the field of AIDS orphans in Namibia, if not the first in the
US to be put in place solely for AIDS orphans to Protect, promote and utilize
our Natural resources in order to strengthen the future generation (OVC, s).One
of the unique features of ACT is its approach of encouraging family units to
draw from the traditional cultural strength and kinship resources and network
of caring, to link up with local communities to address the concerns of
orphans.
ACT believes that for
any intervention to be effective in addressing the orphan problem, it must
recognize and utilize the african cultural tradition in which the care of
orphans is accepted as a responsibility of the extended family and the
community at large. Grandparents, kinship and community members, local leaders,
educators, business owners, traditional medicinal practitioners, the clergy and
many more founded ACT.
Let’s ACT the
African way!!!
“The deep since of
kinship, with all it implies has been one of the strongest forces in
traditional
James 1:27 "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world"
