By David on May 29, 2008 in Africa | 0 Comments
Student Project Africa Network (SPAN), founded in 2005, has sent nearly 50 volunteers to over 15 organizations in Kenya during the past two years. Volunteers have built basketball courts and libraries, taught students, cooked, brought electricity and water to schools, installed wiring and plumbing, worked on malaria and typhoid campaigns, assisted in HIV/AIDS clinics and many [...]
By David on May 25, 2008 in Africa | 0 Comments
OmniPeace sells t-shirts and consumer products and donates 25% of all profits to Millennium Promise in their efforts to end poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. OmniPeace has raised over $150,000 for Millennium Promise and has sold their products to Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox, David Arquette, Zac Efron, Kevin Costner, Hugh Laurie, Rachel Ray and other celebrities.
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By David on May 23, 2008 in Africa | 0 Comments
Paths of Native Africa (PONA), based in San Francisco, is an American charity that works in Africa to integrate modern technology for the sole purpose of overcoming suffering and hardship. Solutions are provided on individual and communal levels, and educational and cultural exchanges are opened through the process.
In June 2008, three members of Paths of Native [...]
By David on May 20, 2008 in Africa | 0 Comments
The Tanzanian Children’s Fund (TCF), based in Portland, Maine, is an American charity that provides support to improve the lives of marginalized children in Tanzania, Africa through cooperation with local organizations. Most of the children supported by TCF have been orphaned because their parents died from HIV/AIDS.
TCF is working with the Rift Valley Children’s Fund, [...]
By David on May 15, 2008 in Africa | 0 Comments
‘Climb Up So Kids Can Grow Up’ is a program by the American Alpine Institute (Bellingham, WA) that supports the American Foundation for Children with AIDS (AFCA). AFCA provides relief, services, medical and social support, education and advocacy to children with AIDS in Africa.
Climbers and hikers all across the USA are invited to participate in climbing [...]
By David on May 7, 2008 in Africa | 0 Comments
The PRODUCT RED campaign was created by Bono and Bobby Shriver to help African women and children affected by HIV/AIDS by selling (PRODUCT) RED branded products. Every time you purchase a RED branded product, $10 is donated to help people in Ghana, Swaziland and Rwanda and other countries.
So far over $60-million have been donated to The [...]
By David on Apr 29, 2008 in Africa | 0 Comments
SOTENI International (Cincinnati, OH) is a charity that helps orphans and vulnerable children who have been most affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa. Founded in 2003, by American and African volunteers, the nonprofit works through the ‘Villages of Hope’ model … where grassroots sustainable communities, led by locally elected management, supports orphans, children and families [...]
By David on Apr 25, 2008 in Africa | 0 Comments
Team Darfur (Washington, DC) is an international nonprofit coalition of Olympic and professional athletes who are committed to raising awareness about and bringing an end to the crisis in Darfur, Sudan. In a campaign leading up to the 2008 Summer Olympic games in Beijing, China, Team Darfur is not calling for an Olympic boycott … [...]