- We promote and protect the rights of children in all matters and concerns. HORD seeks to implement the most effective means of securing the protection of children’s rights. In coordination with the government at the district level, we identify and convict child abusers.
- We find supportive homes for orphaned children and regularly visit those homes to ensure that quality care is ongoing.
- We promote HIV/AIDS awareness through information dissemination coupled with community outreach activities in our areas of operation. By organizing a district-wide soccer league, we are now able to distribute condoms to hundreds of young men at their weekly practices, and provide continuous messages regarding HIV/AIDS prevention.
- We promote agriculture through training in modern farming practices, distribution of high-quality seeds, anti-mosaic cassava cuttings, and providing hybrid goats, among other activities.
- We provide school scholarships for motivated children. Most of the existing scholarships have been obtained through direct negotiation with schools to “donate” the scholarships.
- We train the village women to use their traditional craft-making skills to produce products which they can sell. (HORD is currently seeking foreign-based volunteers to sell these crafts in their home countries and send back the profits.)
Ongoing project:
HORD is implementing a project coded “PROMOTING SAFE, CHILD FRIENDLY SCHOOLS: Integrated and participatory strategies to reduce gender-based violence in schools”. This project focuses on the prevention and elimination of child abuse in schools with special attention on sexual abuse of children (rape, defilement, etc) and sustained use of brutal and violent approaches and practices – physical force and corporal punishments by teachers for inculcating discipline among children.