In 2010, a severe drought caused one of Niger’s worst food shortages in history. In 2011, the prolonged lack of rain caused another poor harvest and initiated a nationwide crisis year. Mercilessly, when rains finally came in 2012,
Field Messages
Fecal Matters
When Africare and Tanzania’s Ministry of Water conducted water quality tests at 15 target schools in the Dodoma Region, each school’s water source was found to be contaminated with fecal matter or coliform bacteria, an indicator of fecal pathogens.
Pressing Palms into Pride: Empowering Communities to Care for Vulnerable Children
Who looks after children when their parents die?
Zondoma Food Security Initiative
Project: Zondoma Food Security Initiative Phase II
Funders: USAID
Timeframe: 2005-2010
Africare Completes the Ghana WASHH Project
On April 20, 2011 in the Wassa Amenfi District of Western Ghana, Africare-Ghana held a commissioning ceremony in celebration of the completion of the Ghana Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene for Health (WASHH) Project, which was funded by a generous donation from President Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize Award.
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Changing Lives Through Clean Water – Africare partners with President Obama’s Effort to Improve Lives in Africa
Clean water is the gateway to good health and development. This is why Africare, using the Nobel Prize monies generously donated by President Obama, launched the Ghana Water Access, Sanitation and Hygiene for Health (WASHH) Project in the Wasa Amenfi West District of Ghana on September 1, 2010.
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Africare Launches Obama Water Project
Washington, D.C. – More than 800 government representatives, district chiefs, traditional leaders, heads of institutions and community members gathered in the Wassa Amenfi West District of Ghana on September 1, 2010 to witness the launch of the Ghana Water Access, Sanitation and Hygiene for Health (WASHH) Project.
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Empowering and Caring for Orphans and Vulnerable Children
Project Title: COPE – Community Based Orphan Care Protection and Empowerment
Funders: USAID/PEPFAR
Time Frame: 2005-2010
Educating and Empowering Vulnerable Women
Project Title: WISE – Women’s Initiative for Sex Education and Economic Empowerment
Funders: Japan Social Development Fund and World Bank
Time Frame: 2004-2009
A Dream Realized
Even if I died today, I would die the happiest person.
-Jovia Tumuheirwe, Caregiver