About Us

(Photo: Adam  Finck)

Africare helps Africa. A leader among private, charitable U.S. organizations assisting Africa, Africare is also the oldest and largest African-American led organization in the field — and Africa is Africare's specialty.

Africare's programs address needs in five principal areas:

Complementing and extending our work in those focus areas, Africare supports programs in:

Africare now reaches families and communities in 19 countries in every major region of Sub-Saharan Africa, from Senegal to South Africa and from Chad to Mozambique. Since its founding in 1970, Africare has delivered more than $1 billion in assistance — over 2,500 projects — to 36 countries Africa-wide.