African Partners for Child Poverty – Through development, assistance, and advocacy, APPCO strives to address the causes and impacts of poverty. The predicament of Deprived, Excluded, and Vulnerable children and women in the areas where we serve is the focus of our programming. APPCO can provide educational support, empower communities to end violence against women and girls, construct and equip schools and health centers, train health workers and farmers, participate in advocacy campaigns, distribute improved crop varieties and animal breeds, and provide clean and safe water.
APPCO is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) that has been delivering services to vulnerable communities in Uganda since 2010. APPCO has been committed to empowering communities affected by armed conflict and other natural and man-made disasters to meet their protection needs, social health well-being and to improve their livelihoods. <br>APPCO has over the years grown into a respectable national NGO with a demonstrable track record in over 12 districts as of May 2023. APPCO is currently operating in the regions of Acholi, Lango, Teso, Karamoja, sub-regions, South West, West Nile, and Central Region. The Organization works with both refugee-hosting and non-refugee-hosting districts in Uganda.
APPCO started in 2010 to offer psychosocial support, reunions of families, simple relief and resettlement packages and to help mobilize communities to co-exist after a lifelong Karamojong conflict, raids, and abductions. Development work was added on with the initiation of Community Development Projects and capacity-building sessions by UN Women in 2010 for Northern, Eastern, and Karamoja regions.
“A society where children, women and their communities are empowered and enjoy equal dignity and wellbeing free from poverty”.
APPCO works in partnership with communities, civil society and government to empower children and women to survive and thrive in ending poverty for healthy and sustainable well-being”
APPCO will work towards a holistic vision for the improved well-being of children, in which all girls and boys: • Enjoy good health • Are educated for life • Are cared for, protected, and participating • Experience socio-economic sustainability
is a non-profit organization with the ambition to have a positive impact on children and their families lives to Zero Poverty. APPCO seeks to address the causes and effects of poverty through development, relief, and advocacy. Our programming principle is to address the plight of Deprived, Excluded, and Vulnerable children and women in the communities where we operate.
