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.

Exemplifying the creativity and community impact of our conservationists’ work, the Painted Dog Conservation project in Zimbabwe has turned a deadly threat to wildlife into a successful entrepreneurial venture for local people. They employ local men as anti-poaching scouts. Patrolling approximately 12 miles a day, 6 days a week, the anti-poaching teams have dismantled more than 12,000 snares used to kill wildlife.  At a nearby arts center, talented local artists transform the snare wire into impressive animal structures. Sold worldwide, the sculptures provide financial security for the artists and communicate the critical need to protect Africa’s remaining painted dogs and other wildlife. WCN also focuses on protecting the elephant in Kenya, cheetah in Namibia and Botswana, okapi in Congo, lion in Mozambique, and Ethiopian wolf.

• home visits,
• medications for opportunistic infections,
• nutritional assistance and vitamin supplementation,
• antiretroviral therapy,
• prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV, and
• support for orphans and vulnerable children.

HTH was founded in the spirit of social justice to promote health as a human right. Our mission is to support community-based health programs for the poor and to share lessons and build solidarity through global partnerships. Through these partnerships, our ultimate goal is to develop and expand community-based health care systems that provide the highest possible standard of treatment and support for poor people living with HIV/AIDS.

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.

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.

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.

World Bicycle Relief specializes in large-scale, comprehensive bicycle programs. We provide management of the supply chain, technical knowledge, and logistics expertise.  The bicycles we distribute are specifically designed to withstand years of hauling heavy loads over Africa’s rough terrain, and we ensure that they can be locally repaired and maintained for prolonged use.

World Bicycle Relief:

• Works directly with suppliers to ensure that the bicycle design is the highest quality and that all bicycles are culturally appropriate.
• Employs local people to assemble and distribute bicycles.
• Partners with local community-based organizations.
• Trains field mechanics in maintenance and repair and to set up systems to supply spare parts.
• Evaluates the impact of bicycles in communities and improves programs accordingly.