Note: The menu shows the 36 African countries where Africare has worked, not the other African countries.

 


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South Africa

Africare has assisted the South African people with a wide array of programs meeting needs to redress the imbalances of apartheid and to improve basic living conditions among the rural poor. The South Africa Career Development Internship (CDI) program — Africare's first assistance to the people of South Africa, begun in 1989 — improved training and employment opportunities for hundreds of black South Africans attempting to enter the corporate mainstream. A major program in democratic governance, at the highest national levels, followed during the 1994-96 transitional years. In numerous places in South Africa, Africare established community-based computer-training centers, called "digital villages." Africare has also focused on agricultural production and support to small, rural entrepreneurs — for despite its high levels of multinational corporate investment and its sophisticated urban areas, South Africa has a vast rural population that is as desperately poor and needy as the people in most other countries continent-wide. And since 1999 Africare has carried out extensive programming to address the crisis of HIV/AIDS in South Africa.

Current Africare assistance to South Africa:

  • Food production
  • Management of Agricultural Development Trust
  • HIV prevention
  • Medical treatment and psychosocial support for people living with HIV or AIDS
  • Assistance to AIDS orphans
  • Africare HIV/AIDS Service Corps

           

           

(Updated, Dec. 18, 2007)