The Child Hope, Upkeep, Religious Concerns and Health (CHURCH) Programme is the holistic overall children’s support programme and is a community-based Initiative and response to securing the community’s future by supporting, caring for and ensuring that children orphaned by HIV/AIDS and other Vulnerable Children are supported and educated to their fullest potential.

In 2004 UNICEF reported that not only are orphan levels extremely high and growing, but they will remain high through the first three decades of the 21st century, even if HIV incidence declines rapidly in the near future. Many children who are AIDS-orphaned have to take on the responsibilities of the parents in taking care of younger siblings and running the household. We support orphans through advocacy for full recognition of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Your Support can come in the form of sponsorship of their health care, education, food subsidies and financial support.

CULINKE acknowledges that education does leverage significant improvements in the lives of vulnerable children by conferring 

knowledge and skills; and that education as much as it improves the lives of vulnerable children, also does improve the economic and social well being of countries.

CULINKE supports the framework’s third priority action which seeks to expand the role of schools to provide care and support to orphans and vulnerable children through measures such as linking with community social services and networks and co-ordinating multi-sector and partner involvement.

CULINKE works with communities to run three projects under the CHURCH programme namely:-

 

 

 

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