Programs

In the context of its principal mission to provide for orphans and vulnerable children through foster families and other support mechanisms, AMU's major programmatic areas include:

Education

Primary

Child sponsorship
o Pay school fees
o Provision of uniforms and scholastic materials
o Medical care
o School and home based progress monitoring

Community based education
o Renovate and construct classrooms
o Build toilets for schools
o Provision of school materials
o Teacher training

Secondary

Senior 1-3 years
o Pay school fees
o Provision of uniforms and scholastic materials
o School and home based progress monitoring

Senior 4-6
o Pay school fees
o School and home based progress monitoring
o Provision of supplemental technical and vocational training

Vocational

On-Premises training
o Tailoring
o Card making
o Shoe making

Off-Premises training
o Driving
o Welding
o Carpentry
o Masonry
o Catering

HIV/AIDS

Prevention
o Organize seminars and workshops for children, youth and parents
o Organize seminars and workshops for community members including church groups and schools
o Develop and distribute brochures and other materials targeted at various constituent groups
o Maintain documentation center

Care for HIV infected/affected
o Assure access to education for HIV infected/affected children
o Provide medical care for HIV infected children and parents
o Supply food for families affected by HIV/AIDS
o Provide weekly prepared and fully nutritious meals to infected children
o Support micro-enterprise groups of HIV/AIDS affected families to provide financial self-sufficiency and social networks assuring emotional and physical well-being
o Through fishing and agricultural projects and the provision of land and livestock, assure nutritional self sufficiency for HIV affected families
o Counseling
o Organize seminars and workshops for children, youth and parents
o Organize seminars and workshops for community members including church groups and schools
o Develop and distribute brochures and other materials targeted at various constituent groups
o Maintain documentation center

Micro Enterprise

For youth and parents
o Entrepreneurship training
o Direct provision of micro-loans and grants
o Provide access to outside financial institutions for micro-loans and banking
o Facilitate access to raw materials
o Provide access to markets

Evangelism

Morning devotion

Choirs

o Perform for AMU and community churches
o Encourage participation in their own church choirs
Visits to churches

o Encourage children and families involvement in the community churches of their choice
Organize prayer days/weeks

o Invite evangelists and pastors
o Encourage children to have prayer sessions on their own, in addition to the organized programs
Testimonies

o Provide forums for testimony and witness