Orphans & Vulnerable Children

Caregivers and Vulnerable Children Learn to COPE

The Community-Based Orphan Care, Protection and Empowerment project, or COPE, helps children, their caregivers and their communities ― comprehensively — in Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. Read more >>

Southern African Youths Say "YES!" to an AIDS-Free Life

With Africare's support, youths in the Southern African nations of Malawi, South Africa and Zambia reached out to their peers under the Youth Empowerment and Support, or YES!, program. Read more >>

"Africare Is a Parent to Me"

For the past decade, Africare has provided AIDS orphans and other vulnerable children with scholarships to the Rwentobo High School in Nyanga, Uganda. Read more >>

(Updated, Jan. 4, 2008)

Of every
Africare dollar ...

91¢ goes to program services in Africa

Just 9¢ goes to administration

Africare is a private, charitable organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Tax ID# 237116952.

Africare's Approach

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 programs are in the following broad areas: health and HIV/AIDS, food security and agriculture, water resource development, environmental management, literacy and vocational training, microenterprise development, civil society development, governance and emergency response.
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