The Future Fund will support a million children over the next five (5) years by funding community based initiatives that incorporate continuity, creativity, counselling, community building and care. Children need interventions that are rooted in their rights and well-being. They benefit most from a wide spectrum of care sustained over the long-term. It is the children of Africa who will inherit the next chapter in the AIDS pandemic and it is they who will lead Africa out of the crisis.
What will the Future Fund do?
- It will increase the reach of direct support to a million children within the next 4 years, by funding ongoing effective orphan care projects that incorporate initiatives around continuity, creativity, counselling, community building and care and by funding new projects with powerful models on orphan care.
- It will increase the impact of funding by ensuring that successful strategies and models are shared substantively across communities and countries.
- It will build capacity, increase learning, expand the number of children supported through: learning roundtables; mentoring roundtables; peer-to-peer exchanges for African project staff and youngsters; documenting experiences of grassroots projects; ensuring that orphan representatives participate in international fora so that their voices are heard and respected; and facilitating a Grandmothers’ Gathering in sub-Saharan Africa in 2010 (a gathering of projects working with grandmothers who care for grandchildren orphaned by AIDS)
