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We would like to ask you to support the Unprotected Children in Africa by Halving Poverty for and with them.
This appeal is about Unprotected Children, that is children or young persons who are not receiving the necessary care, support, or safety measures to protect them from harm, abuse, neglect or exploitation.
These children are those the system has failed them or is absent of safeguarding them, while leaving them vulnerable to significant risks to their physical, emotional, and social wellbeing.
These Unprotected Children can be identified in several scenarios like children at risk of sexual exploitation, children in humanitarian emergencies, children experiencing neglect, children with undiagnosed needs, unaccompanied migrant children, etc.
All these scenarios exist in Africa and the appeal for these children is given by two items:
a) Appeal summaries
b) How to donate.
• Appeal Summaries
The following summarises the data, needs, request, expectations, use, beneficiaries and outcomes that briefly make the case for halving poverty for and with the Unprotected Children in Africa (UCA).
• • The data
Looking at sexual violence against children in the Democratic Republic of Congo, United Nations Children’s Fund (1) states that
“Nationwide data compiled by protection and gender-based violence service providers indicate that more than 35,000 cases of sexual violence against children were recorded nationwide in the first nine months of 2025, pointing a crisis that continues to scale”.
United Nations Children’s Fund (2) also argues that
“In [African] countries with available data, less than 0.2 per cent of national budgets are allocated to child protection – leaving services overstretched and millions of children vulnerable“.
United Nations Children’s Fund (3) further notes that
“Today, 26 million infants in Sub-Saharan Africa lack a birth certificate: This includes 21 million babies who are unregistered and 5 million whose births are reported as registered, but who lack proof in the form of a birth certificate. Over half of infants in Sub-Saharan Africa have not been registered; nearly 7 in 10 infants do not possess a birth certificate” (p.4).
Similarly, ‘reliefweb.int’ (4) explains that
“Despite the proven power of vaccines to save lives, over 500,000 children under five in Africa continue to die each year from preventable diseases, including measles, diphtheria, tetanus, polio, and whooping cough – diseases that have been nearly eradicated in much of the world”.
Also, according to the United Nations (5), the Child Labour Report released in 2025 by the International Labour Organisation and the United Nations Children’s Fund estimated that 138 million children were still engaged in child labour… Sub-Saharan Africa accounted for two-thirds of child labour worldwide”.
These children face numerous challenges including lack of access to education, healthcare and basic necessities. Their needs of education, healthcare and other ones can be met if they timely get relevant support.
• • The needs
The needs for emergency life-saving support are 24 times more than average in Africa where the livelihoods of Unprotected Children are severely affected.
The critical needs of these children include
σ Safety from violence, exploitation and abuse (like protection from harmful practices, child labour, conflict-related risks, etc.)
σ Legal identity and family care (for example, birth registration, family reunification, and alternative care)
σ Basic survival and health services (such as nutritious food, water, malnutrition treatment, and medical care)
σ Psychological support and education (e.g., mental health support, access to education, and reintegration)
σ Social and economic support (similar to cash benefits, safe spaces, etc.)
σ Specialised care for vulnerable groups of children (for instance, children with disabilities, refugees and migrant children).
These children need your life-saving and humanitarian help to meet their life-surviving need.
• • The ask
What it has been asked to you is your influence or power to have a positive effect on those who are holding the keys to solutions regarding the problems these Unprotected Children are facing, especially for problems that are man-made like armed conflicts.
Alternatively, you can donate money to support these children.
Your gift of Positive Influence or Money or both will provide an emergency life-saving and enhancing relief to the UCA.
• • The use of your support
Your donations to support UCA will be used to provide immediate necessities, long-term safety, and developmental support. Key uses include
√ Supplying food, clothing and essential items
√ Providing therapeutic care
√ Creating safe environments
√ Funding education.
Your donations can also be used to support specific, on-the-ground, and local community-based projects that provide a lifeline to these Unprotected Children.
Briefly, your support will improve the lives, well-being and prospects of these children.
• • The expectations from your gift
It is expected that your gift of Positive Influence or Money will help to address the plight of the UCA as follows:
√ To address the problem of the Unprotected Children, which sometimes get undervalued
√ To avoid sexual abuse of these children, forced labour, trafficking, substance and drug abuse, mental health issues
√ To incentivize parents to look for their children, especially those who are separated from them because of various reasons
√ To enhance social protection of these children
√ To halve the number of unprotected children living in poverty
√ To reduce or end deprivations linked to the lack of access to basic services, violence, abuse, neglect, exploitation and other vulnerabilities.
Also, donors supporting UCA can expect to receive regular updates including photos and letters, showcasing the direct impact of their contributions on these children.
• • The beneficiaries of your Gift of Positive Influence or Money Donation
They include children
√ In armed conflicts and conflict-related violations
√ Victims of violence, abuse and exploitation
√ Without birth registration
√ Migrant and unaccompanied
√ labourers
√ Food insecure
√ Victims of growing geopolitical rivalries and the paralysis of multilateral institutions that should have normally protected them
√ Vulnerable to risks
√ Sexually violated
Etc.
In short, the beneficiaries will be children in situations of lack of human protection.
• • The outcomes
With the influencing support or money donated, the following changes will be expected:
√ Reduction or cuts in the number of UCA
√ Improved health and reduced mortality (e.g., reduced HIV/AIDS risk, enhanced access to food, better access to life-saving vaccinations)
√ Reduction of malnutrition for these children
√ Education and social protection (like encouraging school attendance, reduced school dropouts and child labour, reduced risks of abuse, exploitation and neglect increasing the likelihood of children obtaining legal identification)
√ Economic and household stability (in particular, improved economic production, stability to families, reduced poverty-related risks, etc.)
√ Psychological well-being (e.g., reduced stress regarding basic needs)
√ More happy and healthy children in Africa
Etc.
These outcomes are most effective when combining with other interventions (e.g., cash transfers plus health services).
• • How to Donate
You can donate either influence or money or both.
• • • Donating influence
To donate, please contact influential persons (or those having the keys) to reduce or solve the detrimental effects of the crises that the UCA are suffering from and make these persons reduce or end these negative effects on them.
You can as well influence the things or factors that determine the lack of child protection in order to create lasting favourable healthy and living conditions for these UCA.
To move forward your influence, you can provide faster and smarter influencing support for the UCA. You can use digital assistant or Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbot or co-pilot to plan and execute your timely influencing support. This will help save the unprotected lives, reduce costs and speed up your life-saving response to them.
Please let CENFACS know about your influencing work or contribution you are or will be making and its outcome on behalf of the UCA.
To let us know, you can contact CENFACS as follows:
* Over phone
* Via email
* Through text
* By filling the contact form on this site.
On receipt of your message or influencing donation, CENFACS will contact you for record and thank you for any influencing donation made. However, should you wish your influencing support to remain anonymous; we will respect your wish.
• • • Donating money
You can donate money, pledge and make a gift declaration to support.
• • • • Making a money donation
You can donate a small monthly contribution between £2 to £10 or a larger amount.
Your money donation will positively impact these children’s life.
For instance:
£5 per month can provide hygiene supplies for two unprotected girls for a year
£10 per month can give three meals a day for a child for a year
£20 per month can cover school sponsorship, including food and care.
For every £1 given, 86p will directly go to the UCA, with the remainder covering operational, fundraising, or administrative costs.
• • • • Making a pledge
You can make a pledge of £2 to £10 or any amount more than £10 to support the UCA.
• • • • Making a Gift Aid Declaration
You can make a gift aid declaration to support UCA.
All donations, pledges and gift aid declarations MUST be made payable to CENFACS (the Centre for Francophone African Development).
To avoid fundraising frauds and scams, CENFACS would like to ask to all potential money funders and donors to contact us prior to making any donations, pledges and gift aid declarations.
• • • • How to donate money
You can donate
* Over phone
* Via email
* Through text
* By filling the contact form on this site.
UCA would sincerely appreciate your contribution toward their honorable and noble cause of poverty reduction. Your assistance will significantly reduce the count of UCA lacking a joyful and healthy existence.
Please DONATE, PLEDGE AND MAKE A GIFT AID DECLARATION of £2 to £10 or any amount more than £10 as a way of supporting this appeal. CENFACS will enthusiastically accept, on behalf of the beneficiaries, your given support.
CENFACS welcomes any enquiries and or queries about this humanitarian relief appeal.
Please do not wait to donate as the needs are NOW pressing and urgent.
We look forward to your support to make helpful difference to those UCA in pressing needs of survival and of coping with life.
Thank you for your generosity.
Thank you in anticipation for your willingness to give your Positive Influence or Money and help save the lives of the Unprotected Children in Africa.
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• References
(1) https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/sexual-violence-against-children-entrenched-and-rising-across-democratic-republic-of-congo (accessed in February 2026)
(2) https://www.unicef.org/esa/reports/from-promises-to-protection#:~:text=Highlights.robust%20framework%2C%20implementation%20remains%20weak (accessed in February 2026)
(3) United Nations Children’s Fund (2025), Birth Registration in Sub-Saharan Africa: Current levels and trends, UNICEF, New York
(4) https://reliefweb.int/report/world/africa-cdc-warns-millions-african-children-still-lack-access-life-saving-vaccines#:~:text=… (accessed in February 2026)
(5) https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/06/1164211 (accessed in February 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 Charity 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!
