WHAT EVENT OR PROJECT OR PROGRAMME OR CAMPAIGN THAT NEEDS SUPPORT ▼
We always have initiatives that need funding and/or other forms of support.
We would like to ask you to help End Childhood Distress in Africa.
Childhood distress in Africa encompasses the severe psychological, emotional, and behavioural trauma experienced by minors in Africa. It is primarily driven by systemic issues like extreme poverty, armed conflicts, diseases (such as Ebola) and widespread adverse childhood experiences.
• • Conditions for Children in Africa during Summer 2026
The conditions for children in Africa during Summer 2026 remain deeply concerning, with millions needing emergency distress relief due to protracted conflicts, climate shocks, and disease outbreaks. There is a need to scale up integrated, community-based responses to deliver lifesaving support to these children.
Statistics on childhood distress in Africa highlight severe challenges driven by conflict, climate shocks, and extreme poverty. Millions of children face profound emotional and physical adversity, with estimates (1) indicating a near 50% prevalence of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among adolescents in conflict-affected regions like East Africa.
• • Key Statistical Insights
They include the following areas: conflict and displacement, climate-driven adversity, mental health distress.
Concerning conflict and displacement, millions of children in hotspots like Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) require life-saving assistance since they are enduring trauma from violence and displacement. Across Africa, conflict and violence have driven mass internal displacement, stripping children of community safety and routine. According to UNICEF (2),
“Millions of children in Sudan require lifesaving assistance, protection and the restoration of essential services”.
Regarding climate-driven adversity, Oxford Global Health (3) argues that
“Drought linked to 46% increase in sexual violence among adolescents in Southern Africa… 51% increase in emotional violence in areas affected by drought”.
According to Global Government Forum (4),
“Climate change disrupts education of 130 million children in Africa”.
In terms of mental health distress, the British Medical Journal (5) published the results or study on Post-trauma Stress Disorder (PTSD) among children and adolescents affected by armed conflicts in East Africa. These results or study indicate that
“The pooled prevalence of PTSD among children and adolescents in East Africa was 47.8%“.
This study concludes that the prevalence of PTSD among children and adolescents in East Africa is high. Factors heavily associated with the distress include witnessing violence and experiencing war-related trauma.
Yet, it is possible to end childhood distress in Africa.
You can help provide immediate relief, psychological support, and medical aid to vulnerable children facing conflict, displacement, famine and disease.
You donation towards childhood distress in Africa can save and rebuild young lives by addressing the immediate and long-term impacts of conflict, climate shocks and displacement in Africa.
• • Key Distress Relief Priorities
Your donation will help to
σ Prioritize disease prevention through the treatment of malnutrition and the prevention of diseases like cholera, Ebola, measles, malaria, etc.
σ Scale up clean water access and sanitation to deal with inadequate WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene) infrastructure
σ Relieve children from psychological distress and protect them from exploitation, especially in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Sahel where millions of children are facing conflict or displacement
σ Restore learning environments and education in conflict zones where thousands of schools are either destroyed or occupied.
• • Donation Impacts
There is no single correct donation size to end distress for children in Africa. However, your donation can provide specific, life-saving interventions like therapeutic food or vaccinations. If you choose to contribute monthly, a monthly contribution can also create long-term stability and education for these children in need.
• • Examples of Donations
A £20 donation can cover essential emergency food or high-protein therapeutic biscuits to treat malnourished children’s basic needs and food
A £9 donation can provide 100 children with a hot porridge meal, encouraging them to attend school instead of becoming child soldier
A £15 a month can sponsor a child to receive an education school uniform, shoes, and a daily meal
A £17 a month can help provide hundreds of children with access to clean, safe drinking water, preventing life-threatening diseases.
Supporting this appeal means helping childhood in Africa to minimise and mitigate the impacts of distress on them. Your support will help to fund the life-saving humanitarian needs of these children as well as to cover emerging and urgent needs.
Your assistance is required to respond to childhood distress signals.
One can think of a child or young person without any dreams and expectations, what will be his/her future, especially in spaces (like eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo) where there is enduring deterioration of security conditions in conflict-affected areas and where funding has been cut.
Can you help this child? Yes or No
If you say yes; then you can help children…
√ whose their humanitarian programmes have been impacted by aid cuts
√ who need lifesaving humanitarian assistance
√ surviving hunger, conflict and natural disasters
√ without access to safe drinking water, food, healthcare and education
√ vulnerable to malnutrition, disease and poverty
√ forced into early work or marriage
√ associated with armed forces and groups
√ vulnerable to abuse, neglect, exploitation, and violence
√ experiencing trauma and distress
√ facing war, starvation and poverty
√ experiencing life-threatening malnutrition
etc.
Your support will help these children…
√ dream for and expect a better life and future
√ overcome aid cuts and life events that could become a structural constraint and handicap for them
√ victims of endless insecurity that creates lifelong adverse impacts on them and young people
√ have their lives not being reduced back below the poverty line
√ not become the lost generation of lack of support
√ benefit from anti-sexual and gender-based violence programmes for survivors amongst them
√ stay healthy and protected from diseases
√ have or rediscover hopes and expectations
etc.
Your support is badly needed to relieve millions of children from emergency distress due to protracted conflicts, climate shocks, and disease outbreaks in Africa.
Please help End Childhood Distress in Africa.
To support, please contact CENFACS on this website.
This fundraising campaign will end by 21 September 2026.
CENFACS will accept any support given during and beyond the duration of this campaign.
Please do not wait to donate as the needs are pressing and acute now.
We look forward to your summer support to make helpful difference to the Distressed Children in Africa.
Thank you for your generosity.
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• References
(1) https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.gov/articles/PMC12853469/ (accessed in June 2026)
(2) https://www.unicef.org.uk/press-releases/2026-brings-no-respite-to-children-living-in-violence-and-conflict-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa/ (accessed in June 2026)
(3) https://www.globalhealth.ox.ac.uk/news/drought-linked-to-46-increase-in-sexual-violence-among-adolescents-in-southern-africa (accessed in June 2026)
(4) https://www.globalgovernmentforum.com/climate-change-disrupts-education-of-130-million-children-in-africa-report-finds/ (accessed in June 2026)
(5) https://bmjpaedsopen.bmj.com/contents/10/1e004100 (accessed in June 2026)
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How
you can further support CENFACS ▼
You can help by
● Sending a one-off voluntary giving ● Sending a yearly contribution to CENFACS ● Providing a legacy or donation ● Sponsoring a particular project, need, cause or programme ● Promoting particular events or publications or even activities
You can as well support with No Direct Cash Donations
Those who would like to support CENFACS by using other means than directly giving cash, they can consider the following:
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Give unwanted goods and items to CENFACS charity e-store (details about this way of supporting are given below)
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Sign up for a Gift Aid declaration
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Nominate CENFACS for a donation at charity fundraising and donation events
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Select CENFACS as your preferred charity for donation from advertising revenue
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Choose CENFACS as a donation recipient of some of the profits raised from online shopping
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Donate your unwanted and unused points and cashback to CENFACS as your chosen charity from your loyalty shopping rewards or good cause gift cards
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Name CENFACS as your favourite deserving cause from click online option “donate cashback to charities”
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Donate any unwanted excess points of your loyalty card from apps.
The above is just the few examples of helping that one can think of to support CENFACS without they have to directly give cash.
Supporting by Donating Unwanted Goods and Products for CENFACS Zero Waste e-Store ▼
You can donate unwanted and unneeded light and easily movable goods and products to CENFACS’ Charity e-Store to support good and deserving causes of poverty reduction.
After donating products or goods, these will be converted into cash to support good causes or our work. The cash converted can also be used to support CENFACS‘ work.
When thinking of donation, please ensure that your donation does not bear high costs for us to handle, otherwise the impact you want to create through your giving will be reduced or nullified.
Items to donate include:
Mobile phones, IT accessories, laptops, digital and communication devises, art and design objects, children gadgets and toys, and miscellaneous.
Notes for goods and products donors (Products Acceptance Policy):
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- We do not take electrical equipment and devises
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- Items donated need to be functioning, not requiring fixing, repair or testing prior to use
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- Products given must have environmentally-friendly contents and be sustainable
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- We do not accept heavy items such as books, metals and a heavy bag of clothing
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- We do not take items requiring large storage capacity as we are not a profit making organisation
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- We do not refund or give back the products donated as we expect products givers or donors to act in good faith and in the interest of poverty alleviation
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- We do not take stolen properties or items in dispute
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- We can arrange for collection if you live locally
Help us to convert your unwanted goods or products into cash to help reduce poverty.
To donate or enquire about your products donation, please contact CENFACS.
Thank you for your support!
Choosing the Beneficiaries of your Support▼
You can choose or indicate
● The type of beneficiaries of your contribution
● The project or country where your support has to be allocated
● To help CENFACS’ running costs
● To leave to CENFACS the choice (freedom) to decide on the best possible use of your support
● To delegate your responsibility to CENFACS to execute your wishes
Reporting on your support ▼
As a result of your giving, you can ask us to send you
● Either the report or a summary of change that your support has brought to beneficiary people.
● Either the report on the project or area or even country that you have supported
● Either the report on CENFACS’ works and activities
MAKING A DONATION TO CENFACS IS NOT ONLY ABOUT THE TRANSFER OF MONEY. IT IS FIRST AND FOREMOST THE SHARING AND DEVELOPMENT OF KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Executing your wishes to support ▼
● Through donation in cheques, postal orders, vouchers, online and paper free payments made payable to CENFACS
CENFACS offers straightforward and easy ways for individuals and organisations to help projects and project beneficiaries. Donations can be made directly to CENFACS Fund for Poverty Relief and Development or CENFACS grant making programme or even indirectly to help with CENFACS‘ running costs in order to deliver its programmes.
Making a donation to CENFACS is not only about the transfer of money. It is first and foremost the sharing and development of knowledge and skills. Through our Development Programmes, we work in strategic partnership with Africa-based organisations through a participative and bottom-up approach to set up and develop sustainable initiatives. Our African project partners initiate projects and CENFACS help them to plan, execute, control and close the project in the most successful way. CENFACS also helps them to develop a viable, accountable way to helping them to help themselves in building their capacity, particularly in the ever changing development landscape as it deems the case now with the 2030 Agenda and Global Goals for Sustainable Development, the new International Climate Change Agreement and the African Union Agenda 2063.
● Other ways of supporting us include:
Legacies, gifts, sponsorship, premises, web advertising, direct marketing, events, training, digital technologies, public relations and social media (communications). It is in this way your support can make a world of helpful differences.
Volunteering at CENFACS ▼
<> About CENFACS Volunteering Opportunities
Volunteering at CENFACS is about giving the opportunity to volunteers to acquire direct exposure to CENFACS’ work and/or to compliment development-oriented learning with practical experience for those who are planning to take up a career or to further their practice in international development. We review our volunteer opportunities every quarter.
To find out and/or discuss what opportunity is available, please contact All in Development at CENFACS and read/check our BLOG page every quarter.
When contacting us,
● Either you could let us know the role or kind of work you would like to carry out
● Or we can explore together areas of work or role which may be suitable for you
● Or even we could simply tell you what voluntary position is available
<> Applying to become a CENFACS Volunteer