The clinic provides immunizations, training for community members in basic healthcare and common disease prevention, HIV/AIDS testing and education, and a number of innovative preventative health programs based on local needs. It is also the only clinic in the region that provides care to newborns. FIMRC also supports community groups that work with men, women, and children to directly influence the health and well being of families within the area.

FIMRC’s volunteers come from universities, medical schools and the medical profession. Volunteers travel to the clinic each year to support and expand the ongoing efforts of the organization through creativity and diverse skill sets.

Namono Lakeri, a widow and mother of five in Uganda, is one of our success stories. Namono received a WMI loan for about US$125 (300,000 shillings) to expand her second-hand clothing business. With the extra income her business now generates, she is able to send all of her children to school. Namono even has enough money left over to enjoy little luxuries, like milk for tea, which were beyond her reach before.

WMI issued its first microloans in January 2008. As of April 2011, we have issued more than 2,500 loans to women in more than 150 villages with a 100 percent repayment rate.

Focusing its current efforts in rural Uganda and Kenya, the WMI loan program is run entirely by local village women. As an end-goal, it seeks to transition experienced borrowers into independent banking in their country’s formal economy.

Tostan’s program is a platform upon which communities build many successes: they become healthier and more prosperous; they decide to abandon female genital cutting and child marriage; they participate in grassroots democracy; and women emerge as dynamic leaders.

Tostan’s innovative “organized diffusion model” extends these impacts to entire social networks, often reaching 10 people for every one person trained. Most importantly, all of these successes are community-led and community-owned, making Tostan’s program one of the most sustainable in the region. Tostan’s program has been implemented in 10 African countries in 22 African languages.

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.

Our model engages the local community which raises 10 percent–$1,500–of the overall cost of each classroom. The remaining 90 percent, or $13,500 per classroom, is paid through partner organizations like us. Each classroom serves 40 children, year after year.

Africa Classroom Connections also leads regular “Learning Tours” to South Africa and supports a small Stay in School Fund to help students with unexpected expenses that impede continuing in school.

Africa Classroom Connection’s board of directors covers all administrative expenses, which ensures that 100 percent of donations support our work in South Africa, allowing us to help the maximum number of students possible.

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.

Its hostel program cares for and houses more than 150 of the neediest orphans and provides non-residential assistance to 120 additional children. Cabrini Ministries provides safe shelter and essential food, clothing, and schooling required for these children to survive.  More importantly, they provide the love and spiritual support that all children need to grow and thrive and that so few children in this country receive. Their guiding principle is to work as “co-parents” with the child’s family in order to foster existing family ties, and thereby strengthen the entire community fabric.

Although Swaziland is one of the smallest African countries, with a population of just under one million people, 40 percent of the population has HIV/AIDS and thousands die of AIDS-related illnesses each year.  More than 80 percent of Swazi children live without one or both parents, and there are some 200,000 orphan children.

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.

Empowering families to feed, clothe, and shelter their children is a critical component of combating child slavery.  We provide microloans to mothers for building businesses so they can support their families.  In addition to education, Sanctuary of Moses Missions funds wells to provide clean water to villages, and supports clinics with medical supplies. Our goal is to continue sustainable support in Adjohoun through the addition of a trade and technical center and clinic in Kpomasse.