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For Inter Press Service, AfricAid Executive Director, Jessica Love, shares highlights from focus groups GLAMI conducted to evaluate a four-month radio pilot program. Designed to reach girls enrolled in their mentoring programs, the radio show actually achieved so much more, serving as a catalyst that…
In this piece for the Denver Post, long-term supporter and 2019 Art & Soul honoree Curt Harris writes about Evergreen Rotary’s role in helping AfricAid get its start years ago. “Some might think climbing Kilimanjaro five times a little strange, and they might be…
Ten years ago, the Kisa Project was born. Kisa means “story” in Swahili, and is a two-year leadership course that prepares girls in their last two years of secondary school to attend university and create positive social change in their communities. Through the Kisa…
AfricAid has hit the airwaves! If you’re a Comcast subscriber in the Denver area, be on the lookout for our brand new PSA, airing now through December 31 across all Comcast platforms. We couldn’t be more grateful for this opportunity, and for the spotlight…
For the last decade, Applewood Seed Co. has generously supported AfricAid’s work to provide robust, locally-led mentorship initiatives that cultivate confidence, improve academic and health outcomes, and promote socially-responsible leadership skills. In this blog post for International Day of the Girl, Applewood Seed Company…
In Tanzania, AfricAid partner GLAMI has done the almost unthinkable: at a time when so much justified concern exists about girls not returning to school in the wake of COVID, they saw a return rate of more than 99% of girls in their mentoring programs…
AfricAid is delighted to announce that Erin Saade has been named President of the AfricAid Board of Directors. Ms. Saade has served on the Board since 2015. Ms. Saade was introduced to AfricAid by AfricAid founder Ashley Shuyler Carter and saw, firsthand, the power…
8.24.20 -AfricAid is proud to announce that we have joined Girls Not Brides, a global partnership of more than 1,300 civil society organizations from over 100 countries committed to ending child marriage and enabling girls to fulfill their potential. Members of Girls Not Brides are…
7.13.2020 – AfricAid Executive Director Jessica Love writes about the importance of focusing on soft skills during July 15 World Youth Skills Day. Read the Story
Thank you for helping us keep Scholars safe. Thanks to support from the generous AfricAid community, Scholars and Partner Schools were able to receive handwashing stations and other materials desperately needed to keep students safe when schools aross Tanzania reopened on June 29. Mbokomu…