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Africa Foundation is registered
in South Africa as a non-profit organisation and has Public Benefit
Organisation (PBO) status. Our mission is to facilitate the empowerment
and development of people living in or adjacent to protected areas
in Africa, by forging unique partnerships between conservation initiatives
and communities. We work in specific rural communities surrounding
Conservation Corporation Africa's (CC Africa) conservation areas.
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Our projects fall under
the categories Education, Health Care and Income-Generating Activities
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Education
enables people to break out of the poverty trap and enhance
the quality of life for themselves and their community. We build
preschools and classrooms, develop bursary programmes, teach
environmental awareness and build capacity in our communities,
conduct vocational training and facilitate adult education programmes.
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Health Care is a key to progress - to ensuring human dignity and security. We build and equip clinics and support their operation, run HIV/AIDS awareness programmes, provide health care information and counselling, and help provide clean water.
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The
scourge of unemployment in rural communities can be tackled
by identifying and empowering entrepreneurs, whose small, emerging
enterprises can be an effective means of job creation. We identify
opportunities and help start-ups, but in particular, we stimulate
the potential for income generation through a highly successful
skills training programme, and through access to technology.
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Opening Word
Dear Africa Foundation Friends and Family
I’d like to take this opportunity to say how delighted I am to have being given the opportunity of serving as Africa Foundation’s new Managing Director from October 2007. I am excited and privileged to be able to contribute to the future of this remarkable organisation; an organisation that, in its sixteenth year, continues to bind together meaningful human empowerment with environmental conservation.
I am keenly aware that we are reliant on you, as our most valued friends and supporters, to help us achieve our mission. In this season of giving, I’d like to convey my sincere gratitude to all our supporters for their generous and thoughtful gifts over the past year – thank you very much!
On this note, I’d also like to say thank you to James Currie, Africa Foundation’s outgoing MD, who has immigrated to the United States with his family. James will continue to be part of our extended family, working with CC Africa in the United States, and participating in our international fundraising efforts. We thank James for his incredible service to Africa Foundation and wish him the very best in this new chapter in his life. Hamba kahle bhuti.
Having spent my first few weeks on the road, meeting AF staff and CC Africans and visiting innumerable projects in East Africa and South Africa, I was struck by two irrepressible feelings: I was profoundly moved by the nature of AF’s community development work: meaningful empowerment underpinned by our abiding belief in consultation – and I also bristled with excitement about the incredible opportunities that await us. We are poised to continue and deepen the facilitation of real and meaningful difference in the lives of Africa’s rural people, while simultaneously conserving land and wildlife. The inexorable tie to an economic engine, in the form of CC Africa lodges, completes the eco-tourism model – and demonstrates that the “care of the land, care of the wildlife, care of the people” model (pioneered by CC Africa in 1991) is more relevant than ever.
Naturally, our immediate work still focuses on the “people” of the model. I hope you enjoy reading these uplifting and unforgettable stories of the people with whom we work - stories which were made possible by supporters like you.
With warm regards, and on behalf of the team
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