Youth Action International’s Womens Empowerment Center

Youth Action International’s Womens Empowerment Center

Message from All For Africa beneficiary Youth Action International. ” We are proud to announce that this year’s cohort of women have completed their program.  Each of the women has been trained in a skill of their choice.  They have now been placed in cooperatives and granted small business grants to start and run their [...]

Trust of the Month winner – FACE AFRICA

Trust of the Month winner – FACE AFRICA

A heartful thanks all of our friends and supporters who voted for FACE Africa during the All for Africa Trust of the Month competition. I am so humbled by the outpouring of love and support. When I first found out FACE Africa was nominated for the All for Africa Trust of the month, I was [...]

Shine On Sierra Leone uses earthbags to build school

Shine On Sierra Leone uses earthbags to build school

Shine On Sierra Leone, a human service foundation that provides education, mentoring and nutritional support to schools in Sierra Leone constructed a school building using earth bags.  It was constructed using materials easily accessible to all -flour or rice bags and earth (cement, clay and sand) and a thin layer of top cement. Construction of [...]

Southern Sudan Basketball Project

Southern Sudan Basketball Project

Christian Solidarity International (CSI), along with Talkers Magazine and its political editor Ellen Ratner, took a trip to Southern Sudan and the border of southern Darfur in March 2008. Six broadcasters came on the trip and helped to deliver survival kits (“Sacks of Hope”) to freed slaves and villagers in the area. CSI also took [...]

10 years later—it’s working. Ubuntu Education Fund

10 years later—it’s working. Ubuntu Education Fund

When we founded Ubuntu Education Fund in 1999, we did so with the mission to ensure that the young people of Port Elizabeth townships had access to higher education and employment. For the past 10 years, we have reported the ways in which we serve children and families, but now we can also report on the long-term change we have always sought.

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