Our vision

To reduce inequality and human suffering by providing opportunities for people, especially children and poor families, to uplift themselves out of abject poverty.

Mission

To assist orphans and vulnerable children fulfill their full physical, intellectual and spiritual potentials, by promoting protection, sponsorship, Guardian Care services and livelihood development.

Goals

1.To enhance access to sustained Sponsorship and Guardian Care opportunities for orphans and vulnerable children.

2.To enhance access to financial inclusion services to struggling economically active individuals from low income communities.

Our values

Accountability, Transparency, Trust and Sacrifice

Before the coming of the ongoing crisis in the English speaking regions of Cameroon that began in 2016, there were already very many unattended children in need.

The situation is being worsen with the presence of many internally displaced children.

Due to the complex and rigorous procedure for adoption in Cameroon and taking into account the non-existence of foster care services, needy orphans and vulnerable children are neglected to their fate.

With the deteriorating situation of the African family support system, coupled with the high level of poverty, these children are trapped in various forms of abusive informal relationships which go unnoticed and under reported.

Due to the above challenges, needy children are poorly protected, leading to many children trapped in various abusive domestic situations.

Many are deprived of their basic rights to education and end up as adults poorly equipped to face the world or as delinquents, thus perpetuating the vicious cycle of poverty.

It is against this background that LINK-UP is working hard to formalize the sector by promoting, Child Sponsorship and Guardian Care services for these children.

What is Child Poverty

Child poverty is a universal problem with devastating consequences on children and societies.

Poor children with little or no opportunities to develop their full potentials grow up into adults lacking in the basic knowledge and skills to be productive citizens and this perpetuates the vicious cycle of poverty by producing more vulnerable children.

In the absence of foster care services, we promote child sponsorship and guardian care services. 

It is difficult to break this vicious cycle of poverty, without help from outside the family.

The Global Guardian Parent Program, has been developed by LINK-UP over the last 20 years, to mitigate this situation, and connect such children to goodwill sponsors.

We invite organisations and corporate institutions with Social Responsibility policies for OVC, to join us in this cause. 

There are many individuals, homes or families with a heart of love and the means to care for a child in need as well as there are many children in need of care and love.

We are also inviting organizations and corporate institutions with friendly Corporate Social Responsibility policies for orphans and vulnerable children (OVC), to join us in building a better society for the development of children.

Priority is given to orphans, neediest children with high morals, values and great desire to learn.