About GCCAI
We help girls connect with opportunity.
Girl Child Care Advancement Initiative (GCCAI) is a Nigerian nonprofit founded in 2018 by Oiza Alonge. We exist because girls in Nigeria face financial, social and cultural barriers that boys often do not, and those barriers decide too much about how their lives turn out.
Our story
GCCAI started with a simple observation: many girls have the talent and the drive, but not the fees, the books, the guidance or the safety to use them.
From 2018 we visited schools and communities in Abuja, ran the Illuminate seminar, supported girls with school costs and learning materials, and spoke up about issues that harm girls, including sexual and gender-based violence.
In October 2026 we restarted GCCAI with a clear aim: build an organisation that lasts, with a small number of programmes that measurably help girls.
What we believe
Agency, not charity
Our question is not "how do we help girls?" It is "what has to be true for a girl to have more say over what she becomes?" That means school access, information, skills, safe relationships and people who open doors.
Dignity in every story
We never reduce girls to hardship. We tell stories with consent, protect privacy, and do not publish personal details of minors.
Evidence over noise
We measure what changes for girls, not only what we did. When we only know activity, we report activity.
Rooted in Nigeria
We use Nigerian data and work with Nigerian schools, communities and partners. Solutions should fit the places where girls live.
Our values
Respect
For girls, families and communities, and for every girl's right to choose.
Integrity
Honest numbers, honest stories, careful use of every naira.
Discipline
We finish what we start and keep the promises we make.
Drive
We keep going until the barrier in front of a girl moves.
Our journey
- 2018Oiza Alonge founds GCCAI to help girls connect with opportunity.
- 2019The first Illuminate seminar. Road to Illuminate visits Government Secondary School Jabi, Junior Secondary School Jabi 1, Junior Secondary School Life Camp and the New Kuchingoro IDP camp.
- 2020GCCAI focuses its advocacy on sexual and gender-based violence and plans mentorship through Walks of Life.
- 2026GCCAI restarts, with new programmes, a new website and a newsletter.
Partners
Organisations we have worked with
Partners and supporters of GCCAI's work, 2018 to 2020.
Leadership
Oiza Alonge, Founder and Executive Director.
GCCAI is registered in Nigeria: CAC/IT/NO 107761.