An active, knowledgeable citizenry is critical to strengthening democratic practice and securing social justice.
The Covenant Foundation Center (CFC) aim is to instill human rights norms and values as inalienable rights within the disadvantaged societies in Nigerian, Africa, and its sub-region, and to integrate them into economic and social development there. The Foundation seeks to promote, defend and protect international human rights standards, values, and respect for human and people's rights, the rule of law, democracy and good governance, to document, analyze and report violations of human rights and substantive rights in particular, promote access to justice for survivors of sexual and domestic violence, build , support and strengthen civil society, youths and young people, women and children, both physical and intellectually challenged adults and children as disability issues.
The Foundation also seeks to support the healing journey of individuals and communities who are survivors of violence and conflict, as models of hope. It believes in the acknowledgement of the suffering and injustice as a well-founded response to help restore the dignity and values of victims.
The foundation will further pursue other related objectives in the interest of its beneficiaries to achieve its aim.
The Foundation values the voices of civil society and seeks to assist them to gain ownership over their own development work, give them the enabling environment, opportunity and support to be able to control and manage the available resources to achieve their common goals and agenda.
The Covenant Foundation Center implements projects under three components, namely health, education and social justice. Among the Foundation's concerns are sanitation, HIV/AIDS, community health education, the maternal / child mortality rate, advocacy and policy regarding, young people, gender and child protection, resource mobilization and capacity building, training, peace building , human rights and democratization, agriculture and food security, and disability issues.
In Nigeria, Africa and globe, health care has become worrisome, while the country/continent endures some of the worst child mortality and maternal health outcomes worldwide. The country (Nigeria) is yet far from reaching the objectives of the Millennium Development Goal. The poor health care and high mortality rate amongst the vulnerable (women and children) has a dramatic effect on the growing population. We are trying to address the barriers to accessing quality and affordable healthcare in the country as one of the priority areas of our projects, by establishing: