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Africare Bishop Walker Dinner

Africare's Major Benefit Event and
The Largest Annual Event for Africa in the United States

 

Every fall, more than 2,000 international, government and corporate leaders gather in Washington, D.C., at the Africare Bishop John T. Walker Memorial Dinner to pay tribute to leaders in fields pertaining to Africa — and to support Africare's work.

The Africare Dinner is now the largest annual event for Africa in the United States. It is a top multicultural affair, embracing all races and a wide array of cultures and nationalities from around the world. And proceeds from the event help support Africare's essential mission of improving the quality of life in Africa.

 

The most recent Africare Dinner, held on Thursday evening, October 18, 2007, saluted Africa's first elected female head of state, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, and more generally celebrated "women's empowerment Africa-wide." President Johnson Sirleaf received Africare's 2007 Bishop John T. Walker Distinguished Humanitarian Service Award.

 

Since the first Dinner in 1990, the honorees have ranged from Presidents Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, to women's activists Graca Machel and Dorothy Height, to international figures such as Colin L. Powell, Andrew Young, Bill and Melinda Gates, and Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu.

The Africare Bishop Walker Dinner was first held in October 1990 in memory of the late John T. Walker, the first African-American Episcopal bishop of Washington and the longtime chairman of Africare's Board, who passed away on September 30, 1989.

Read the 2007 event news releases

• A Night to Remember: 2007 Africare Bishop Walker Dinner Honors Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Raises $1.2 Million for Africare
• "Women's Empowerment Africa-Wide": Jen Matapi of Namibia
• LEADERSHIP SPOTLIGHT: President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia and the Road to Reconstructing a Nation
• "Women's Empowerment Africa-Wide": Edwina's Story
• Welcome, Madam President!
• 2007 Africare Bishop Walker Dinner — Thursday, Oct. 18 — to Honor Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

 

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(Updated, April 11, 2008)