Nurturing Minds works with its Tanzanian partner–Secondary Education for Girls’ Advancement, or SEGA– to provide education for poor girls. Together we are constructing and developing the Sega Girls School, a residential eco-friendly school that provides education for bright, motivated Tanzanian girls who otherwise would not be in school. After three years of operation, Nurturing Minds is supporting  85 girls, providing them with a pathway out of poverty and a brighter future.

The school includes student and staff-tended gardens, which produce much of the fresh food for the school community. Our program also includes counseling and life and decision-making skills—instrumental in nurturing self-confidence and the social skills girls need to succeed.

By 2015, our goal is to support 200 students at the Sega Girls School and to ensure that the school will be self-sufficient through small businesses run by teachers and students.

Over the past two decades, Africa Development Corps has placed more than 700 long-term volunteers with schools and indigenous development organizations in Africa and Latin America. Through the service of these highly qualified volunteers, we have been able to train farmers in rice production techniques in Liberia, provide HIV counseling and testing in a post-conflict zone of Northern Uganda, and distribute much-needed books and school supplies to children in Tanzania and South Africa.

Africa Development Corps provides this development and relief assistance through a collaborative approach, and in so doing, facilitates the empowerment of the local community.

In Africa Panthera is creating the  Pan-African Lion Corridor that protects key lion habitat and connects core lion populations in order to preserve the species’ genetic diversity.  With our partners at the Kenyan-based Living with Lions, we developed the unique Lion Guardians Program in southern Kenya.  This program involves training local Maasai warriors to become the front line in reducing human-lion conflict.  They do this by informing Maasai cattle herders of areas occupied by lions, by helping farmers improve cattle husbandry and find lost livestock, and by discouraging lion hunting.

Hundreds of newly trained healthcare workers supported by Touch Foundation are already saving lives. Currently, we are training 900 students in eight professional specialties. Upon graduation, nurses will deliver primary care, particularly in rural areas, assistant medical officers will deliver lifesaving interventions, and pharmacists will be equipped to administer preventive and curative medications.

Our focus is presently on Tanzania, where we are learning lessons what will be applied across Sub Saharan Africa. The U.S.Government describes Tanzania as a “regional anchor of stability.”  Touch Foundation has chosen Tanzania as the anchor of its work.

• In Ethiopia and Kenya, we finance programs for thousands of homeless children, kids victimized by poverty, war, and HIV/AIDS;
• In Tanzania, we offer science scholarships to orphaned girls with a talent for math and science, but who lack the resources to pursue high quality education.
• And in Kenya, we support girls fleeing female genital mutilation and provide them with the opportunity to go school, start a business or learn a trade.

Each of our programs is guided by the belief is that Africa’s future rests with its children and that projects developed and run by local communities produce long-term results.

We inspire giving and empower others to fundraise for sustainable water solutions. We use local partners on the ground to build and implement the projects. Then, we prove every single project funded with GPS coordinates, photos, and stories from the field. In less than four years, charity: water has funded clean water solutions for more than one million people. We work in 16 developing nations around the world, most in Sub Saharan Africa.

Almost a billion people on the planet do not have access to clean and safe drinking water. We’re working to change that, and fast.

A simple solution is available: a variety of sweetpotato that is particularly rich in beta-carotene, which the body converts easily into vitamin A. Just half a cup a day of this type of sweetpotato protects the health of children and also dramatically reduces maternal mortality rates. The sweetpotatoes — called orange-fleshed sweetpotatoes— are inexpensive and easy to grow, and children love their sweet taste.

To promote the production and use of orange-fleshed sweetpotatos, the International Potato Center developed Vitamin A for Africa (VITAA), a partnership program that brings together more than 70 agencies focused on health, nutrition, and agriculture.

VITAA works at the community level, targeting mother’s groups and food-producing organizations. VITAA demonstrates the benefits of the improved sweetpotatoes through nutrition education and other programs, and encourages farmers to grow them for their families and for sale. Many people now make their living selling the sweetpotatoes. People living in disrupted areas of Africa are also benefiting from them: in northern Uganda, where violence has forced many farmers to live in protected camps, the improved sweetpotatoes are making food supplies more secure, generating income, and improving the health of their families.

Trees for the Future (TREES) is a grassroots program that helps people living on degraded land to improve their lives through environmentally sound development projects. Through our network of technicians, volunteers, and community leaders, we provide technical knowledge on agroforestry, reforestation, and sustainable development, along with planting materials. We help communities return their land to sustainable production.

TREES has worked with more than 300,000 families in nearly 12,000 communities in Africa and elsewhere. These families have planted over 60 million trees, restoring 87,000 acres of degraded land to sustainable high productivity.

In Senegal, for example, we are training farmers in agroforestry, fruit tree production, reforestation, and vegetable production. Families are seeing how agroforestry can revolutionize the way they collect firewood, fertilize their soil, feed their animals, and expand their lucrative vegetable gardens. What began as an effort to promote one agroforestry technique in one community has evolved into a district-wide, integrated agroforestry training program. We are currently training 80 families in 20 communities, and have planted over 750,000 trees through the program.