Orphans and Vulnerable Children Care Support Project

Hello everyone,

My name is Francis, and I am the founder of Elite Star Foundation.

Elite Star Foundation is a child-centered non-profit organization established in 2021 in Nigeria to promote and protect the rights & welfare of every child and to mitigate the advent of child abuse in society.

The Concern of Elite Star Foundation

Due to the increasing deaths of people in Nigeria, so many children have been left as orphans with nobody to take care of them and give them support. Most of the children are left with their relatives or grandparents, some are in IDP camps and some are left homeless hence ending up on the streets.

According to UNICEF, Only 43% of Nigerian children's births are registered, meaning that the majority of children are denied this basic right. About 13.2 percent of households in Nigeria had, as of 2018, children being raised with neither their mother nor their father present. In addition, 7.3 percent of all households had children with one dead parent and the unknown survival status of the other parent.

The number is expected to rise in the next decade and this will increase the risk of children turning to the streets, and becoming beggars and thieves.

The rise in the proportion of child-headed households and child laborers means a rise in percentages of the illiterate, early pregnancies, and related consequences such as infant and maternal mortality rates, increased incidence of those who are infected by sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and HIV/AIDS, and drug abuse.

While the Government will continue to increase spending on reproductive health services, it will also be losing valuable human resources. The cycle of child poverty will thus be passed on to the next generation and become chronic. A large proportion of deprived children have acquired psychopathological behavior, increasingly becoming involved in crime, drug abuse, and violence. Many, too, are vulnerable to HIV/AIDS and yet enter the labour market at very young ages, all of which seriously affect their growth and well-being. Children under this category experience extreme poverty, which is compounded by the household, community, and national poverty.

The Purpose of Our Project

The purpose of this project is to reduce the suffering of orphans and vulnerable children and build their capacity by giving them love, care, education, and simple activities to do so that they become productive in society.

Specific objectives of the project:

1. To improve the quality of life of orphans and vulnerable children by establishing a permanent home, school, and health care center for them.

2. To train caregivers in caregiving skills to enable these children to get adequate care, love, and support.

3. To provide adequate education to these children to make them good citizens and have a better future through good education right from a tender age.

4. To create awareness in the community and the outside world of the need to protect and support vulnerable children and orphans as well as protect their rights.

Please join us and support these children

This project is targeting 5,000 Children and these will be orphans and vulnerable children from poor families. This idea is to provide a happy life to these children and to eradicate poverty from their families indirectly by providing sustainable education to these children.