History
1995
Action for Peoples in Conflict is established.
First AfPiC projects are funded:
- Fiji - journalists are provided with resources to provide better communication to remote areas
- Bosnia - refugees are assisted with projects to rebuild their country after war
- UK - AfPiC supports a mental health project at Hallfield School for young asylum seekers and refugees. This will later become the Haven Project.
1996
South Africa - A Grant from Comic Relief enables AfPiC to provide counselling to those giving evidence at the post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Committee.
Convoy to Bosnia - AfPiC in partnership with BT telecom, delivers over £1,000,000 worth of telephone equipment to the war torn region of Bosnia.
The 1st students from Portsmouth University volunteer with AfPiC on 6 month placements.
1997
AfPiC sends a container of goods to Sierra Leone to assist in work with refugees and orphans.
Safe Places for Children to Play - Projects in Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, and South Africa to create safe playgrounds for children.
AfPiC delivers shoe boxes of goodies to children in Bosnia for Christmas.
AfPiC supports an appeal to help raise money and supplies for the Sawahari people.
We set a World Record for juggling giant balls!
People begin participate in fundraising activities such as: White Water Rafting, Dragon Boat Racing and Team Challenges
Bosnian Lamb Roast event and performance of Shakespeare's As You Like It held to raise funds for AfPiC.
Great University Duck Race held.
1998
Summer work camps are organised to send people to Bosnia to help rebuild after the war.
Didcot shop opens in June.
1999
Pirates for Peace - A project based in Northern Ireland to encourage and facilitate cross-denominational relations by setting up a radio station for children. An Ex-Naval vessel is transformed into a classroom and production studio.
Centre of Good Hope - AfPiC supports an orphanage in Nairobi specifically for street children.
Balkan Appeal - To raise money for projects in the Balkans school children encouraged to donate £1 to sing a special song, Tom and Hannah's Carol. Paddy Ashdown came to hear the school children perform at St. Margaret's Chapel in Westminster.
Big Friendly Giant Tour - an AfPiC painted lorry carried performers and equipment from a partner charity, Rise Phoenix, to Kosovo to do performances for children.
2000
Action for Peoples in Conflict becomes Action for Children in Conflict (AfCiC)
Abingdon Shop opens in January.
2001
Oxford Schools - The programme working with young asylum seekers and refugees in Hallfield is expanded to schools in Oxford.
AfCiC declares the organisation's focus will be on programmes in Africa and the UK.
2002
The programmes at Hallfield and the Oxford schools are named The Haven Project.
AfCiC Sierra Leone becomes a registered charity.
A skills training programme for vulnerable girls in Freetown, Sierra Leone opens.
AfCiC begins its partnership with the Single Leg Amputee Soccer Club (SLASC) in Sierra Leone.
Grove shop opens in April.
Faringdon shop opens in October.
2003
AfCiC begins work in Kenya by supporting St Patrick's Primary School in Thika. A school feeding programme is funded at the school.
The Kenyan Childrens' Legal Aid Work (KCLAW) project starts in Thika.
Play 4 Hope Tour - AfCiC organises a UK tour for SLASC. The team plays a number of matches against various UK teams, tours the UK and promotes disability sports and rights.
In Freetown, AfCiC starts the youth bank where registered youth organisations can apply for small grants.
The Lunsar Cycle Breaker programme opens providing skills training for sexually abused girls.
The Street Children Centre in Makeni, Sierra Leone opens in July.
The Haven Project expands into schools in Leicester, Cardiff, Glasgow, Manchester, Hull, Liverpool and Rochdale.
AfCiC provides funding for technical support and capacity building for Children for Children's Future (CCF) in Arusha, Tanzania.
2004
Basic education and counselling is provided to Sexually Abused Girls in Makeni, Sierra Leone.
The programmes in Sierra Leone are granted funding from UNICEF.
In August the first annual St. Patrick's Holiday Club in Thika, Kenya begins providing basic education, special interest topics and activities for children during their school holidays.
A Street Children's Day Centre is opened in Thika, Kenya.
In September, AfCiC begins research in Uganda for the future development of projects.
Highworth shop opens in April.
Baroness Harris of Richmond becomes our new Patron.
AfCiC's headquarters move from Silverbirch House to the Frilford Farm in Longworth in June.
2005
AfCiC-Uganda becomes a registered charity and begins establishing its own programmes.
In June the Interim Care Centre in Thika is opened.
AfCiC-Tanzania becomes a registered charity in July and begins research on setting up a street children's centre.
2006
AfCiC Kenya's feeding programmes and school holiday clubs extend to another underprivileged school, Garissa Road Primary.
AfCiC ceases to operate programmes in Northern Uganda and the UK.
AfCiC begins offering skills training to older street youth in Thika, Kenya.
2007
AfCiC UK launches its family sponsorship scheme.
AfCiC Kenya runs a successful pilot project supporting the families of street children and older street youth to set up their own small businesses.
AfCiC ceases to operate in Tanzania.
Skills training begins at the AfCiC Day Care Centre in Thika, Kenya.
December: Post-election conflict in Kenya sees thousands of people die in the fighting. Many lose their homes and livelihoods. Emergency appeal for funds launched in the UK.
2008
AfCiC Kenya responds to Kenyan conflict by providing food and shelter to displaced families and children. Trauma counselling is offered and training is carried out in the local Internally Displaced Person Camps in collaboration with the Kenyan Red Cross.
