a) Building the capacity of overwhelmed women and girls in rural communities to care for themselves by increasing their level of literacy, developing new job skills, and lightening their household tasks
b) Providing humanitarian aid to increase access to water supplies and improve sanitary and hygienic conditions of disfavoured rural communities for readiness to successful productive activities
c) Gradual refurbishment of classrooms, distribution of basic personal necessities to pupils, and provision of furniture and instructional materials to schools to allow indigent children to receive their education in a secure physical environment and prepare their future self-sufficiency in society
d) Engaging deprived rural communities to handle issues critical to the success of their agricultural activities and to create self sustaining family income
Activities
a) Equipping rural communities with basic machineries (e.g., corn mills), to lower the household workload of women and girls
b) Offering educational services to women relating to issues of parenting, substance abuse, sexually transmissible diseases (e.g., HIV), family violence and education
c) Organizing workshops to increasing rural people awareness about the importance of eliminating illiteracy of girls and women
d) Awarding scholarships to meritorious girls from needy families in rural communities to narrow the accessibility gaps to elementary school between girls and boys and boost functional literacy and schooling for women
a) Equipping rural communities with equipment and advice for drilling wells and protecting sources of potable and safe drinking water
b) Providing regular supplies of essential medicine and other material needed to combat disease
c) Supplying health centers, with basic material to handle malaria and other endemic diseases;
d) Providing basic education to increasing the awareness of rural communities about the importance and quality of hygienic and healthy conditions through hygienic latrines, housings, drinking water, and safe food
a) Refurbishing classrooms from fragile, unhygienic, unsafe and rammed earth buildings to safe classrooms
b) Equipping classrooms in impoverished rural communities with basic furniture such as desks and blackboards
c) Equipping needy rural children and women with basic school materials such as pens, pencils, exercise books, textbooks, and rules
d) Awarding selective scholarships to enable the children of poor families, and especially girls, to gain access to advanced studies
e)Distributing a balanced meal at least once a month to needy children
a) Refurbishing classrooms from fragile, unhygienic, unsafe and rammed earth buildings to safe classrooms
b) Equipping classrooms in impoverished rural communities with basic furniture such as desks and blackboards
c) Equipping needy rural children and women with basic school materials such as pens, pencils, exercise books, textbooks, and rules
d) Awarding selective scholarships to enable the children of poor families, and especially girls, to gain access to advanced studies
e) Distributing a balanced meal at least once a month to needy children
Values & Principles
ADERC is a Canadian charity operated exclusively for charitable and philanthropic purposes. Its capital or resources shall not be used to the benefit of or distributed to any of its members or directors.
Any member acting in the name of the ADERC will do it with Honesty, Integrity, and Compassion.
ADERC is a non-political organization operating within the framework of the laws of the countries in which it has activities. No part of its activities and resources shall be used directly or indirectly for any political purpose, nor shall ADERC in any manner or to any extent participate in or intervene in any political campaign (including the publication or distribution of statements) on behalf of any political party, candidate, or propaganda.
ADERC empowers communities to help themselves and encourages them to take ownership of the projects to ensure their sustainability.
