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About ANPPCAN
About ANPPCAN Uganda
We protect and support children from all forms of maltreatement
What we do
  • Child Psychosocial support
  • Child facilitation to access Justice
  • Child Empowerment
  • Policy influencing and Advocacy
  • Parents and care-givers awareness raising
  • Network with other organisations for advocacy and child support services
What are our Objectives?
  • To alert and impress upon government and other bodies, the conditions affecting children in Uganda
  • To work with other NGO’s which have an interest in the welfare and promotion of the rights of children
  • To carry out advocacy and sensitization on the rights of the child, particularly as set out in the UN
    • convention of the rights of the child, the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare o the Child and the Children's Act 2004.
  • To provide a forum for exchange of research & information on the problems affecting children in Uganda today
Where are we working?
With the secretariat based in Kampala, we have 8 district offices all over the country. Additionally, we work in 4 other districts on projects managed from secretariat.
Map Showing our current Area of operation
When do we intervene?
Socio-Cultural Socio-Economic Legalpolitical
Early Childhood development (ECD)
Child trafficking
Child labor
Child prostitution
Crime
Poverty
Denial of access to education
Denial of access
to basic health
Children in Armed conflict
Gender Based Violence (GBV) Unfriendly justice system for Children
Sexual abuse/ Defilement  
Orphans and vulnerable children OVC)/HIV  
Early marriages  
Child Neglect  
Physical abuse  
Child sacrifice  
Children with disabilities  
ANPPCAN Uganda Chapter major history accomplishments
Year Activity
1992 – ANPPCAN started activities in Uganda activities where driven by the voluntary effort of the founder members.
1994 - Situation analysis on Child Abuse and Neglect
1995 - Incorporation of provision for children rights in the Uganda constitution.
1995 - Creation and promotion Child abuse awareness week
1995 -1996 Child Right Clubs (peer education)
1997 - Prepared the first NGO report to the UN committee on the rights of the child, culminating into the founding of CRNN
1998 - Pioneers on Media advocacy on children's rights
1998 - Involvement in lobbying in the ratification of the African Charter on the rights and welfare of the child
1999 - Open 1st ANPPCAN district office in Arua
2000 - Integrated case work management Legal-psychosocial-medical
2001 - 2005 Withdrew significant number of children from exploitative child labor in 5 districts
2007 - Successfully hosted The 5th African conference on Child abuse and neglect
2008 - Re-brand. New look & new strategic approach to interventions

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