The Organization For Poverty Alleviation And Development

The Organization for Poverty Alleviation and Development (OPAD) is a charitable and voluntary organization that renders its assistance and resources (human efforts, time, materials, and finance) for free, to its target beneficiaries, where and when it is necessary. OPAD operates in a multicultural environment where there is exposure of the growing human population in line with unemployment, discrimination, drugs/addiction, homelessness, youth gang, and violence. OPAD strides to fight against all natural and man-made disasters that threatens and affects the lives of men, women, and children.

OPAD emphasizes its values and beliefs of "We are committed to the welfare of other young people, We serve youth and children especially in crises, We serve with complete impartiality, We work for sustainable pace and development at local, national and international levels, We are an organization with a vision, mission, belief, and values."These values can be seen in their marginalized/minority focused programs. Some of these programs include, but are not limited to:

• Poor and unskilled farmers;
• Abandoned/street, unaccompanied/orphaned children;
• Refugee and internally displaced persons;
• Drug abusers/addicts;
• Under privileged families;
• Foreign domestic workers including commercial sex workers, and many more.

OPAD also provides free of charge assistance to its target audience, including:

• Providing community health centers and other health facilities,
• Providing counseling and youth friendly drop-in - information centers,
• Providing care and support for HIV/AIDS, STDs, malaria etc. infected and affected youth and children,
• Providing rehabilitation and reintegration centers,
• Providing relief aid, and many more.

I have included a link to OPAD's website below.

http://www.opad.eu/index.html

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