OUR MISSION
Our mission is a Social Justice advocacy for PWD, using the tools of the Social Teachings of the Catholic Church.
The mission of Raise Up the Roof Foundation is to drive advocacy for the most abandoned of the society and in particular to serve people with disabilities, with special attention to children and young adults in sub-Saharan Africa.
Our starting point is Enugu, in Nigeria and Mamfe in the Cameroons. We seek to go the extra mile to see that they are empowered to be able to go through life, knowing that they are not left to walk all alone. It is a solidarity movement that aims at the flourishing of people with disabilities in Africa.
As an advocacy that focuses on recognition of PWD for the common good, we seek to provide them fitted education as each person’s condition will require and as will be necessary for the empowerment of each person. By God’s grace, we hope to build a school and clinic at the designated places mentioned above when feasible.
The recognition of the inherent dignity of these friends will be paramount in our mission. Our advocacy and empowerment programs will focus on safeguarding their human dignity and integrity; we will work to restore their hope in humanity and faith in God. Our hope is that through the teachings of the Catholic Social Teaching, which is foundational in our advocacy, the dignity of every human person as created in God’s image will be recognized and respected.
Our mission will also focus on aiding scholars especially seminarians and priests not negating the lay faithful, whose specialty will be on advocacy for people with disabilities (Disability Studies), with the aim of creating awareness through education on the dangers of exclusion.