African Aid Organizations

WFP
www.wfp.org/africahungeralert
The World Food Programme has its own website where you can find out how you can make donations to their famine appeal for Southern Africa and Ethiopia.

Oxfam
www.oxfam.org.uk
Oxfam International has a briefing paper on the famine. Donations can be made via the Oxfam sites in each individual country.

In the UK, contributions are accepted via Oxfam GB's special Southern Africa and Ethiopia donations pages, or by post at Oxfam, 274 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 7DZ, UK. Tel: +44 1865 313131

UNICEF
www.unicef.org.uk
UNICEF UK has launched its Southern Africa Children's Appeal to help the most vulnerable children across the region. You can also make credit card donations for work in Ethiopia and Southern Africa by phone on the 24 hour hotline 44 (0) 8457 312 312 or send cheques payable to UNICEF to UNICEF's Southern Africa Children's Appeal, FREEPOST, Chelmsford, CM2 8BR.

International Federation of the Red Cross
www.ifrc.org
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has launched appeals to help those affected in both the Horn and Southern Africa

World Vision
www.wvi.org
World Vision is also active in Southern Africa. In addition to its main website, the charity has more information on its national sites

Care International
www.care.org
www.careinternational.org.uk
Care International has up-to-date information on the famine, especially in Malawi.

CARE International UK is also accepting donations at CIUK, 10-13 Rushworth Street, London SE1 0RB, UK

Christian Aid
www.christian-aid.org
British-based charity Christian Aid has produced a special report on the situation.

Save the Children
www.savethechildren.org.uk
The UK arm of Save the Children has information on its appeal relating to the Malawi famine, and opportunities to donate.

Medecins sans Frontieres
www.msf.org
This international charity providing emergency medical care has a special report on MSF's involvement in emergency relief in Angola, as well as a donations page, with details on how to donate from different countries. In the USA, the charity is called Doctors without borders.

World Relief
www.worldrelief.org
The international charity World Relief has a special report on the Southern African famine.

Concern
www.concern.ie
Dublin-based Concern is doing emergency work in several parts of Angola and Ethiopia. Donations can be made via the web-site.

Tearfund
www.tearfund.org
The relief and development agency Tearfund has launched an appeal to help ease the devastating food crisis in southern Africa and has reports on its webpages about the situation in Ethiopia.

Action Against Hunger

www.aahuk.org
The relief and development charity Action Against Hunger is carrying out an emergency nutrition programme in Malawi. Information about the famine in Ethiopia and Southern Africa can be found on the Action Against Hunger website. Donations to the Action Against Hunger Africa Appeal can be made online or by phone 08705 100 722.

CAFOD

www.cafod.org.uk
The Catholic Agency for Overseas Development has launched an appeal for the southern African famine. In Zimbabwe it is already carrying out a large-scale feeding programme and it is helping partners in Zambia and Malawi to do the same. CAFOD is also working in Mozambique and Angola.

GOAL

www.goal.ie
The Irish aid agency GOAL is responding to humanitarian emergencies in Malawi, Angola, Ethiopia, Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo

WHO

www.who.int
The World Health Organisation has launched an appeal to fund the provision of basic health services across southern Africa for particularly vulnerable groups in parallel with the distribution of food aid. Details of this and its reports on the famine in Ethiopia are on the website.

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2122228.stm)

 

 

Algeria

Jeune Afrique

Development

 

Egypt

Sudan Human Rights Organization (SHRO)

Human Rights

Independent

Gambia

Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA)

Human Rights

Independent

Ghana

Green Earth Organization

Environment

UNEP, UN ECOSOC, UN CSD

Kenya

African Economic Research Consortium

Development

 

Kenya

African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF)

Women

UNESCO

Kenya

Environment Liaison Center International

Environment

UNEP

Kenya

Equality Now

Women

 

Kenya

Kenya Human Rights Commission

Human Rights

Independent

Mali

Pan Pacific and Southeast Asia Women's Association International

Women

UN ECOSOC

Namibia

Desert Research Foundation of Namibia

Environment

 

Namibia

Legal Assistance Centre (LAC)

Human Rights

Independent

Namibia

Namibia Development Gateway

Portal

Independent

Namibia

Namibia Institute for Democracy (NID)

Democracy

Independent

Namibia

Namibia Nature Foundation

Development

 

Namibia

Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit

Development

 

Namibia

National Society for Human Rights

Human Rights

Independent

Nepal

MSNepal

Development

 

Netherlands

Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA)

Environment

EU

Netherlands

TROPENBOS International

Development

 

Nigeria

Constitutional Rights Project (CRP)

Human Rights

Independent

Senegal

African American Islamic Institute (AAII)

Education

UN ECOSOC

South Africa

African Gender Institute

Women

 

South Africa

Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC)

Development

 

South Africa

Centre for Development and Enterprise

Development

 

South Africa

Centre for Human Rights

Human Rights

Independent

South Africa

Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation

Human Rights

EU; other NGOs

South Africa

Education with Enterprise Trust (EWET)

Education

UNESCO

South Africa

Empowerment for African Sustainable Development

Environment

 

South Africa

Human Sciences Research Council

Development

 

South Africa

Olive (Organisation Development and Training)

Development

 

South Africa

South African Prisoners Organisation for Human Rights (SAPOHR)

Human Rights

Independent

South Africa

Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa

Environment

 

South Africa

World Commission on Dams

Environment

 

Swaziland

Yonge Nawe Environmental Action Group

Environment

 

Switzerland

Hijra International

Human Rights

Independent

Transnational

African Academy of Sciences

Development

 

Tunisia

International Committee of Solidarity for Political Prisoners in Tunisia (ICSPPT)

Human Rights

Independent

Tunisia

National Council for Liberties in Tunisia (CNLT)

Human Rights

Independent

Uganda

Action for Development (ACFODE)

Women's Rights

Independent

Uganda

Refugee Law Project

Human Rights

Independent

Uganda

Sudan Human Rights Association (SHRA)

Human Rights

Independent

Uganda

Uganda NGO directory

Portal

World Bank

UK

Action for Southern Africa

Human Rights

 

UK

Africa Confidential

Development

 

UK

African Affairs

Development

 

United Kingdom

Akina Mama wa Afrika

Women

 

United Kingdom

Centre for Democracy and Development

Human Rights

Independent

United Kingdom

ResourceAfrica

Development

 

United Kingdom

Sudan Organization Against Torture

Human Rights

Independent

USA

Africa Action

Development

 

USA

Africa Research Bulletin

Development

 

USA

Coalition Against Slavery in Mauritania and Sudan (CASMAS)

Human Rights

Independent

West Africa

WARIPNET

Human Rights

Independent

Zimbabwe

African Community Publishing and Development Trust

Development

 

Zimbabwe

Women in Law and Development in Africa

Women

 

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum

Human Rights

 

http://billie.lib.duke.edu/pubdocs/ngo/africa.asp

 

 

 

CHARITIES IN AFRICA

World Medical Fund
Our mission is to care for the world's most vulnerable people. We support the children orphaned by the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Malawi, working closely with the local community with our innovative village-based project. We ensure history does not repeat itself by delivering AIDS education to the schools . Our aim is to help the most unfortunate achieve dignity and meaning in their lives.

Friends of Malawi (USA)
We encourage our 900+ members, all of who have lived or worked in Malawi--mostly as volunteers, to continue their involvement with and travel to Malawi. We also provide information and encouragement to others around the world who inquire about traveling to or working in Malawi..

RIPPLE Africa
whose mission is help young Malawians reach their potential through the development of local education.

Harvest Help
Harvest Help works with thousands of farmers in rural Africa, helping them to feed their families, earn a living and become more self-reliant.

SOS Children: Aids Africa
Children charity helping orphans throughout africa with latest projects in South Africa, Zambia, Swaziland

Global Stewardship Foundation, Africa
We look for and send refurbished computers to schools and children's agencies in Uganda. We are also trying to expand our program to Cameroon, Liberia, Rwanda, and Ghana in the next few years...

GondarLink
GondarLink is the first full school link with an Ethiopian secondary school. The website tells of this link but also has plenty of information on Ethiopia, its culture and its people.

EdUKaid
EdUKaid aims to enable the children of the developing world to gain dignity and future prosperity for themselves and their community by providing education.

African Children's Educational Trust (A-CET)
Small independent professional charity helping vulnerable young Africans through educational scholarships. Working through through local organisations we now support 1,000+ children and 2 primary schools.

Sponsoring African Children in Kenya Africa Christian Charity
The mission of Pamoja Child Trust, Inc. is to promote, sponsor, and assist Kenyans in developing programs that would optimize the physical, emotional, spiritual, mental and social well being of children.

Nyuma Ya Thanzi
Nyumba Ya Thanzi is a charitable trust that supports Malawian led development initiatives. We hold parties in the UK to raise money for the work our partners are doing in Malawi.

Wishkids International
a non profit organisation that is committed to bringing the best out of children in africa who have been abused or abandoned; orphaned by HIV/AIDS, and those with disabilities through services that promote respect, care, and foster compassion by valuing their human basic desires.

Catherine's Inspiration for Kids
The vision for this foundation is to alleviate suffering and help build a better future for all disadvantaged, HIV/AIDS children, and particularly orphans, in Southern Africa.

Courage To Be You International
Nonprofit Worldwide Organization. A unique educational experience that is both career-enhancing and life changing. Participation is open to anyone with the desire to help better the lives of orphaned children in Africa. International volunteers join local orphanages in Zambia

Promoting Equality in African Schools (PEAS)
PEAS is a UK charity which aims to make a sustainable, long-term difference to the lives of African children through the foundation and development of low-fee secondary schools.

Soulwork Africa
Charity relief for AIDS orphans


Women in Progress
Women in Progress works to achieve economic independence of women and alleviate poverty at a grassroots level. Women in Progress also helps people volunteer abroad.

Childaid Voluntary work Ghana
Childaid organises voluntary work in Ghana. Volunteers can teach at schools in Africa. Childaid is nonprofit organisation and is located in Holland and in Ghana.

Hope Africa
Offers support for various projects throughout Malawi. Online donations available.

Tukae
We work towards the alleviation of poverty through better Health and Education provision, and the development of sustainable economic practices.

Harvestime Company Ltd.
We provide quality basic educational and health-care services for rural communities in Ghana, especially needy children of school-going age.

Star of Hope
Charity bassed in Cornwall UK looking to help street children in Nairobi with shelter education and health'

Cecily's Fund
There are 1 million AIDS orphans in Zambia. Cecily's Fund enables more than ten thousand orphans to go to school, and trains orphan school leavers as teachers and health educators.

CraftyAfrica
We support African artisans by purchasing arts and crafts at fair prices. We then sell them and use ALL of the profit to benefit the education on rural Africans.

Billy Riordan Memorial Trust
Irish registered charity running a primary health care clinic and education sponsorship in Cape Maclear, Monkey Bay, Malawi

African Support and Assistance Project
A new charity, based at Mid-Cheshire College, dedicated to the support of education and communities in Africa. We are working with Befole Primary School in northern Lesotho to help them re-build their school.

Fondation Maisha
Homepage of a non profit organization for street children in Lubumbashi, D.R. Congo.

Build the Future
Committed to help East African children reach their potential

SUFA Stand Up For Africa
Stand Up For Africa (SUFA) is a UK based African-led organisation that support & advocate for Africans children affected by child slavery.

Africa Educational Trust
Many children in Africa will never get the chance to go to school and learn to read or write. This is a denial of their human right to a basic education. AET increases access to learning and enhances the lives of thousands of children and young people in regions of Africa where formal structures for education are absent or have been broken down by conflict and civil war.

ISOSS - International SOS Society
Free Medical Care and assistance for the disabled in Ghana, West Africa

Igbo Charitable Association Inc
A charitable organization delivering community level poverty alleviation support to people in Eastern Nigeria and creating employment opportunities for young people in all of Africa.

United Afrik
is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, public organization whose mission is to empower NGO /NPO to become committed to their mission and vision and promote understanding of challenges facing local and rural NGO/NPO in the most poorest countries and specially in Africa.

JAM International Foundation
Registered Canadian charity currently supporting a local community school that offers almost free education to orphans and/or street children.

Harvest of Hope Self-Help Community Center (HHSCC)
HHSCC is a charity organisation working with AIDS affected orphans and disadvantaged children providing them with basic needs and building their life skills through early childhood development activities. HHSCC also works with the community in the fight against HIV/AIDs and drug abuse.

TLC Ministries
Looking after the abandoned babies of Gauteng.

Helping Hands Healing Ministries, Inc.
A charity helping the poorest of the poor with educational, medical, social, and spiritual needs so that as they are empowered they can, in turn, help others as well.

Helps International (HINT) Cameroon
We help improve on the social and economic well-being and health of the poor in the society through education, skills development and job creation.

A.S.A.P
Aid and Supplies to African People
This website is designed to raise awareness and funds for the children who attend St.Matthews Primary School in Kanamai, Kenya.

Christian African Educational Services
Our mission is to improve the lives of those in need. Because children and youth are the hope of the future, we believe in investing in them by providing education, training and leadership.

Save the Rhino International
Save the Rhino International is the leading rhino charity in the UK. Our aim is to ensure the survival of rhinos in the wild.

The Open Arms Trust / Open Arms Infant Home
a charity set up in Malawi a few years ago to look after babies orphaned by the AIDS epedemic that has ravaged this beautiful country

Action of Solidarity for Scientific Knowledge and Research (ASK)
a nonprofit organization involved in assisting Developing Countries, particularly in Africa, to create an environment that promotes development of knowledge and scientific research.

Hope for Africa International
a Christian Non Profit Organisation providing education supporting to Orphans and Vulnerable Children through Community Schools.

Africatravelmart
Africatravelmart works with tour operators and safari companies to provide custom made tours and sales of curios in support of job creation for the unemployed

A Glimmer of Hope
A global charitable foundation which aims to help the women, children and poor of rural Ethiopia - by providing basic social services such as health, education and water.

Somali Poverty Relief and Rural Development Organisation
a registered charity in England. The charity was established to give education to the Somali children in Somalia, to provide clean water and basic health care. Membership is open to any individual who is interested in furthering the objectives of the charity.

Link Community Development
Link aims to improve prospects of disadvantaged children and their communities in Africa. We believe education is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty.

Akany Avoko
an excellent project just outside Antananarivo, Madagascar, that shelters abandoned children and provides them with a stable life and education. It also works on conservation, using low-tech solutions available locally. Future plans include community tourism projects.

Friends of Mulanje Orphans (Malawi)
Charity formed to help the orphaned children of Mulanje, Malawi. Supporting them with food, shelter, health, education, development, love and care.

VolunteerAfrica
Give young people the opportunity to spend up to three months working alongside villagers on locally initiated community development projects.

The International Association of Lions Clubs District 404, Nigeria
In-depth understanding of the tenets of Lionism Memebership drive through "Each one bring one" Inititiave Cancer Awareness Campaign as the CORE Project

Friends of the Gambian African Christian School
UK registered charity set up for the advancement of education and other charitable purpose for the benefit of the children of the African christian school

Abaana Ministries
Charity helping Children in Africa. Raising funds for Schools and Hospitals. Getting Youth to help Youth. Sharing God's Love.

International Reconstructive Plastic Surgery - Ghana
IRPS wishes to help Ghana become self sufficient in reconstructive plastic surgery provision within the next five years. To help achieve this, the IRPS requires to raise funds to pay for: new hospital equipment, training courses in Ghana, training doctors in Scotland, providing amenities for nurses and the expenses of consultant surgeons visiting Ghana.

East Africa Education Development Programme
EAEDP is run entirley by volunteers who believe the future peaceful development of our world stems from education and a basic understanding of humanity across ethnic, cultural, political and religious diversities. For a pre-set contribution towards a child's education; you pre-set your odds of winning a range of quality incentive prizes

Potato and Products Aid Alliance To Africa
PATA will work to bring food and nutritional supplements to people in need.

BooksForAfrica.com
helps donors buy books for children in South Africa. Payments are made to existing online retailers. Books are dilivered directly to end users.

Beads for Education, Advancement, Development and Success
BEADS in conjunction with the African Conservation Center in Kenya has developed a two pronged effort to help the Maasai women and their families in Isinya, Kenya

Harambee Schools Kenya
Harambee Schools Kenya aims to improve the basic infrastructure of poor rural primary schools in Kenya, and to provide them with basic materials, especially textbooks.

Help an African Schoolchild Trust
The Aim of the charity is to improve the living conditions and the educational standards and facilities in a number of Zambian and Tanzanian communities.

Malawi Health Care Support UK
MAHECAS UK raises money in the UK which is used to help improve medical services in Malawi.

AvRICA
AvRICA is a non profit charity based organisation, dedicated to providing a wide range of aid assistance via aviation to the people of Africa who are less than adequately served by modern health and welfare resources. Totally reliant on donations, we disburse resources where they provide direct help or indirectly support the work done by other agencies in the region

Ajed
Ajed organises different activities for youngsters like work camps, a stay in a guest guestfamily and education programs in a perspective of international solidarity - website in English and French

Out Of Afrika
In the world of high technology Out of Afrika has seen the opportunity to use the powerful medium of the internet to reach a global audience and bring hope to needy children living in rural Kenya

CARE International
CARE began working in Ethiopia in 1984 to distribute food during a famine and has continued to provide assistance since that time. Right now CARE needs your donations more than ever - Helping people in need throughout Africa

Associazione Dialogo
We are an italian non-profit organization. In Africa we organize campaigns and courses focused on adult and children literacy.

The Voluntary Workcamps Association of Ghana
VOLU organizes 3-4 week volunteer workcamps helping poor communities in Ghana.

Plan International UK
a child-focused, long-term development organisation which, for more than 60 years, has helped millions of children, and their families, throughout Africa and the world.

Feed S.A.
Feed SA is a charity whose main object is to generate funds to alleviate and help combat the escalating problem of hunger in South Africa.

Oxfam International
Current Ethiopia crisis appeal - Oxfam is committed to fighting poverty and related injustice in Africa and around the world.

Messiah Ministries
The mission of Messiah Ministries is to care for orphans, street children, widows and other vulnerable members of society through education, skills training, shelter, health, spiritual guidance and reintegration.

The Life in Africa Foundation
Images, true stories and concrete ways to make a low-cost but lasting impact on the lives of the African poor.

Tennis For Africa Association
Sport charity association, having the aim at supporting African suffering children through the promotion of tennis and solidarity. Famous tennis players are cooperating with us...

Hospice Africa
Helping to establish Hospice Care in Africa - aims to provide or support the provision of palliative care to terminally ill cancer patients in the African setting with a model day care hospice ,a home care based service within a 20km radius of Kampala, an education programme for health care professionals and volunteers, in the skills of palliative care.

ISISA Charities
is a non-profit charity support organisation which was founded to procure international support on the World Wide Web for those in need. The ISISA concept is supported and audited by Arthur Anderson and Associates who are also the Trust Account Administrators.

Kingdom Ministry Trust
HYN community projects; Charity, Feeding schemes, mental health support centres , frail care, long-term psychiatric care, charity, housing and crisis support. We need volunteers.

David Anderson Africa Trust
Supports education and training in African countries with the aim of contributing towards human resource development and effecive public administration

Water for Children Africa
is a Charitable non-profit organization dedicated to providing safe water for children living in rural villages on the continent of Africa

Earthwatch Institute
An international nonprofit organization which supports scientific field research worldwide through its volunteers and scientists working together to improve our understanding of the planet. On a rotating basis, teams will help teach villagers to improve their sanitary conditions; help treat villagers; maintain client records and observe counseling sessions; assist the lab technicians with specimen examination; compile statistics for the final report; and maintain the camp site.

East Africa Medical Assistance Foundation
a volunteer nonprofit organization based in North Oaks, Minnesota. We are dedicated to recruiting volunteers to provide medical education and training, medical equipment, and medical care in East Africa, and to raising funds to help support our efforts.

Amensty International South Africa
A leading world-wide human rights organization based on voluntary membership. Involved in several campaigns against human rights violations in South Africa since the 1960s.

African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF)
The people of sub-Saharan Africa face numerous health threats: epidemics, civil war, population growth and environmental damage. Health infrastructure is often scant or non-existent. For 40 years, AMREF has worked with local communities to research and alleviate the region’s health problems.

FARM-Africa
been working with poor rural African farmers and herders since 1985. We aim to make a lasting difference to their lives by providing practical help, enabling them to produce more food for their families.

Joliba Trust
The Joliba Trust works with one of the poorest farming communities in the world: the Dogon people of Mali, with whom we have a long-term commitment and work directly with their people through their own community support structures, with they themselves deciding the things that are needed most.

Trade Aid
We are a UK registered education charity. Our aim is to create sustainable employment through training local people to run The Old Boma at Mikindani in Tanzania

Kabissa - Space for change in Africa
Do you work in the African non-profit sector? We want to collaborate with you! Become a member and get free Internet services including web space and e-mail accounts. Collaborate with us to help organisations working in the African non-profit sector to better take advantage of the Internet and ICT to achieve their own objectives.

Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard
We are the Relief Organisation of the Order of Malta in South Africa. We run 12 charitable projects: 1. A health care centre & Hospice, 2. A Children's Home, 3. A Pre-Primary School & Crche, 4. A Community Development Centre, 5. A First Aid & Emergency Service, 6. A Feeding Scheme for malnourished infants, 7. A social club for senior citizens, 8. An AIDS Education Programme, 9. A Poor-Sick Fund, 10. A Bursary Fund, 11. A Relief Fund, 12. A Disaster Relief Service.

Trojan Horse Productions
We specialise in making quality videos for charities and NGOs that help them with fundraising, training and profile raising. We are currrently working on a series of films about examples of conflict resolution in different African countries.

The Luke Society
An organization supporting indigenous Christian health professionals with a vision to provide medical care, through community health education, clinics and pharmacies.

Cameroon Education Corporation
The mission of the Remedial Comprehensive Secondary School (RCSS)is to re-orient youths who have fallen out of the main stream of education in Cameroon through remedial education, while concurrently training them in vocational, technical, and small business careers, enabling them to become self-sufficient, upstanding citizens who can assist in the economic recovery of the nation.

Friends of Africa Relief and Development Agency
Sierra Leone Program - a not-for-profit human service charity committed to helping students, orphans, unaccompanied children and low-income families at risk in fifteen chiefdoms in the Eastern Province of war-torn Sierra Leone in West Africa

Guinea-Forum
Promotion of democracy, freedom of expression and speech, and economic development in Republic of Guinea-Conakry

SPW
SPW trains young people from the North and the South to work together on 4-10 month health education and environmental programmes in rural Africa.

 

(http://www.africaguide.com/charity.htm)

US AID

http://www.usaid.gov/locations/sub-saharan_africa/