Spotlight Projects

There are so many worthwhile initiatives in Sub-Saharan Africa that deserve attention and support. The Segal Family Foundation is fortunate to be exposed to so many worthwhile charitable organizations. These Spotlight projects share some of our favorites.

Kip Keino Foundation An ex Olympic gold medalist runner turned philanthropist. Kip Keino’s “family” currently includes orphans and his own seven children who support him in his efforts. In our last year's trip to Africa the city where he lives presented him with $1,500 & two 6 week old newborns that were left on the side of the road, therefore adding to his extended family. That is the kind of man Kip is. He’s built middle school & high schools and runs many operations to support his cause (tea farm, training center for runners, etc.). He is a “get it done guy” and our personal hero. He’s always thinking ahead, making his own building materials, arranging for electricity and water supply (with some help from NIKE). Click Here for Full Article >>
Komo Learning Centres The Komo Learning Centres (KLC) was established in 2008 as a non-profit (501c3) corporation dedicated to providing community-based educational opportunities for vulnerable and disadvantaged children in Uganda.  With the third highest fertility rate in the world, Uganda’s education system is burdened with overcrowded classrooms, a scarcity of teachers and dilapidated schoolhouses. Click Here for Full Article >>	Nyaka School for Orphans Nyaka uses a community-based approach and is committed to developing sustainable solutions to the challenges presented by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. This project is more than a school - it is a community development project initiated by the community for the betterment of the community. Click Here for Full Article >>
Tanzanian Children’s Fund They constructed a children’s village for orphans in Tanzania. This fund now specifically assisting the Rift Valley Children’s Fund with funds for ongoing support for the orphanage and to strengthen the community and assist marginalized children. Click Here for Full Article >>	Agahozo Shalom Youth Village (ASYV) They create a safe and structured residential community for orphaned children in Rwanda. The village will be a place of hope, where traumatized youth can "dry their tears" (Agahozo) and "live in peace" (Shalom). Click Here for Full Article >>
MacDella Cooper Foundation Established by former model and Liberian native MacDella Cooper Foundation (MCF) is a 501c3 international charitable organization devoted to empowering Liberian youth, especially orphans and abandoned children, by providing education and the basic necessities of food, clothing, and shelter. Click Here for Full Article >>	Nibakure Children’s Village (NCV) Provide provide orphaned children of Rwanda with safe housing, a foster family, healthcare, education, and career training. Their mission to the children of Rwanda is to “let them grow, give them hope” (Nibakure) Click Here for Full Article >>
The Lwala Community Alliance They continue to equip the people of Lwala to pursue their comprehensive well-being… physically, educationally, economically, culturally and spiritually. . .   Click Here for Full Article >>	Village Health Works Village Health Works is a collaborative effort between people who share in the vision that all people, especially those most impoverished, are entitled to quality health care in a dignified environment. Click Here for Full Article >>
Soft Power Health The Uganda Project includes three main branches: the rural primary and preventative health clinic located in Kyabirwa village, the malaria education and prevention program serving villages in three surrounding districts, and the family planning outreach program serving villages in the two nearest subcounties.  Click Here for Full Article >>	Global Health Corps GHC provides opportunities for young professionals from diverse backgrounds to work on the front-lines of the fight for global health equity in year-long fellowships. Click Here for Full Article >>
Educate! Their program, called the Educate! Experience, aims to catalyze the sequence of relationships, empowerment, leadership on a country-wide scale.  The Experience is a two-year mentoring program that empowers students to become socially responsible leaders. Click Here for Full Article >>	Beads for Education BEADS provides technical business assistance, start-up capital, school scholarships and workshops for Maasai women and their daughters. Successful businesses have enabled women to provide a better standard of living for themselves and their families. Click Here for Full Article >>
Indego Africa A social enterprise in action. Founded in November of 2006, Indego is an innovative 501(c)(3) nonprofit taking a social enterprise approach to empowering hundreds of women in Rwanda to lift themselves out of poverty. Their model is simple yet powerful... Click Here for Full Article >>	CYEC Kenya The CYEC is located in Nyeri, Kenya and is designed to help former street children in Kenya. Currently they are providing residential care for about 160 children and approximately 60 at an affiliated drop in center.  The program that they have developed is designed for education and empowerment of the youth, thereby encouraging them to imagine a better future and then create the steps for achievement of that goal. Click Here for Full Article >>
Generation Rwanda The project provides Rwanda's most talented orphans and vulnerable young people with country's most comprehensive university scholarship. Their goal is not only to provide access to higher education to those least likely to attend university, but also to empower the next generation of Rwanda's leaders. Click Here for Full Article >>	Gardens For Health International The GHI model represents a sustainable alternative to food aid packages, which can bring immediate results but offer little incentive for self-sufficiency. Gardens for Health aims to improve the health and socioeconomic status of Rwandans living with HIV/AIDS by equipping them with a different kind of package. Click Here for Full Article >>
We Care Solar We Care... promotes safe motherhood and reduction in maternal mortality in developing regions by providing health workers with reliable lighting, mobile communication, and blood bank refrigeration using solar electricity. Maternal mortality worldwide accounts for more than half a million deaths a year; 99 percent of these occur in underdeveloped countries. Click Here for Full Article >>	Powering Potential In March '06 after a safari, tourist (Janice Lathen) introduced herself in Swahili to the Banjika students who burst into excited applause. This enthusiastic response to someone who spoke their language stunned Janice and she was filled with a sense of being deeply appreciated. Click Here for Full Article >>
Access: Wind Access: WIND aims to help Kenyans produce their own electricity by teaching local people how to build their own wind powered generators.   Click Here for Full Article >>	Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE) Their mission is: "To improve the quality of life for people in developing countries". By putting the approach into practice, they launched "she28" to generate discussion and to address women's lack of access to affordable, eco-friendly, sanitary products and services for menstruation. Click Here for Full Article >>
One Acre Fund One Acre Fund's growth & accomplishments are the result of the hard work of farmers and an incredible team of staff, volunteers, board members and supporters.  Click Here for Full Article >>	Teach A Man To Fish The organization works to support schools and education programs in developing countries to offer a better quality, financially sustainable education to the most needy. Click Here for Full Article >>
Building Tomorrow Inc. BT chapters and supporters provide challenge grants to communities equal to land and construction materials for a new academy while local community members & family and friends of future BT students volunteer 20,000 hours of their time to construct each academy. Click Here for Full Article >>	Echoing Green Echoing Green invests in and supports outstanding emerging social entrepreneurs to launch new organizations that deliver bold, high-impact solutions. Click Here for Full Article >>
Free the Children Through leadership training at home and community development projects abroad, Free The Children empowers youth everywhere to make a difference. From one boy's story of courage to a global movement, their story shows that children have the power to change the world. Click Here for Full Article >>	Women For Women Women for Women International believes that access to knowledge and voice, plus access to and control of economic resources, leads to lasting change for women.  Click Here for Full Article >>
Planned Parenthood Dedicated to reproductive freedom and knowledge. They have expanded existing programs in Kenya, Ethiopia and Nigeria for a cost of only $10.00 per girl. Their focus will result in 30,000 women getting contraceptives and sex education Click Here for Full Article >>	Habitat for Humanity Since its founding in 1976 by Millard and Linda Fuller, Habitat for Humanity International has built and rehabilitated more than 300,000 houses with partner families, helping house more than 1.5 million people and becoming a true world leader in addressing the issues of poverty housing. Click Here for Full Article >>
BRAC USA World-renowned, Bangladesh-based non-profit organization, BRAC USA’s mission is to raise awareness of BRAC’s successful community development model, mobilize resources and cultivate business partnerships to support BRAC’s global expansion. Click Here for Full Article >>	Invisible Children All programming is a partnership between those at Invisible Children and those in the Ugandan community. Focus on long-term goals that enable children to take responsibility for their future and the future of their country. Click Here for Full Article >>
Foundation Rwanda A small organization making a LARGE impact in Rwanda. They are focused on helping the estimated 20,000 children born as a result of rape during the 1994 genocide, as well as their mothers. Click Here for Full Article >>	Gondobay Manga Foundation Founded by Isaiah Washington, Gondobay Manga Foundation's vision for the people of Sierra Leone is to reach sustainability - one village, one region, and one country. Click Here for Full Article >>
AfriCan Cafe The Afri-CAN Café Co-operative marks a paradigm shift in aid development. It translates charitable intent into a sustainable business enterprise-one that can work anywhere in Africa. Click Here for Full Article >>	John McAslan Foundation The John McAslan Family Trust seeks out and supports initiatives that make a direct difference to people’s lives. It does this through collective participation and by sponsoring a wide range of Social, Education, Environmental. . . Click Here for Full Article >>

Rwanda Community Works They transform communities by concentrating on two vital components of sustainable development: wealth and health. Their revolutionary approach creates new, profitable businesses that provide jobs for Rwanda’s poor while building management capacity and expertise among the country’s largely female workforce. Click Here for Full Article >>

Spark MicroGrants Each MicroGrant impacts communities in two ways: it directly alleviates a pressing social problem through the funded project & empowers community members to design and implement their own solutions. Since the community controls planning and spending, the projects are locally appropriate, effective and highly efficient. They guide them through a two-month grant development process, after which the project is implemented. Click Here for Full Article >>

 

Other Projects Of Interest “Highlighting Causes – Making A Difference”

Sullivan Foundation The Leon H. Sullivan Foundation empowers underprivileged people worldwide by promoting the principles of self-help and social responsibility.  These goals are the articulation of the vision of the Reverend Leon Howard Sullivan. www.thesullivanfoundation.org

Taia Peace The charitable arm of Taia, LLC, was formed in 2007 with a focus on Sierra Leone and with a single aim: to assist rural communities in overcoming the so-called "resource curse." From Angola to Zimbabwe, Ghana to Guinea, Liberia to the DRC, Africa is rich in natural resources, yet largely absent is economic development of a level commensurate with what that resource potential might suggest. www.taiapeace.org

En Classe This one liner is the reason the "En Classe" foundation was founded. Where do you start if you are a "rich expat" living in a country like Congo, deprived of everything? Congo is one of the poorest countries in the world and education is in a miserable state. The "En Classe" foundation is convinced that the only effective way to help development is to start improving primary school facilities. Then every child's development can be stimulated positively at a young age. www.enclasse.org

Georges Malaika Foundation Georges Malaika Foundation (GMF), a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to unlocking the potential of young African girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) through education. www.gmfafrica.org

Madieu Williams Foundation The foundation’s project (MWF) is located on the outskirts of Freetown, Sierra Leone. Madieu was born and raised in Sierra Leone, moving to Maryland at age 9. He was the NFL’s Man of the Year in 2010, announced during the Super Bowl. SFF is officially funding the Healing Hands Foundation, which is a partner of MWF, and helping them to build a secondary school. www.madieuwilliams.org

Jack Brewer Foundation JBF Worldwide focuses on the empowerment of women and children living within impoverished and underdeveloped communities through the implementation of initiatives that enable food security; provide access to educational resources; and foster local enterprise. www.thejackbrewerfoundation.org

Macheke Sustainability The Mission of the project is to empower the community of Macheke (Zimbabwe) with counsel, resources and training that lead to sustainable living practices. www.monmouth.edu/institute_global_understanding

Aid Tanzania AID TANZANIA is a non-profit organization based in the U.S. assisting Tanzanian children obtain an education and Tanzanian women develop a vocational skill. They concentrate on helping the Maasai people of the Ngorongoro District. www.aidtanzania.org

Charity: Water Most of us have never really been thirsty. We’ve never had to leave our houses and walk 5 miles to fetch water. We simply turn on the tap, and water comes out. Clean. Yet there are a billion people on the planet who don’t have clean water. www.charitywater.org

Scientific Roets Within the spirit of the African Renaissance, they assist local, district, provincial and national authorities and other development agencies to achieve their community and enterprise development goals. www.scientificroets.com

Life Project for Africa The Mission of LIFE PROJECT FOR AFRICA (LPA), is to save life and give hope to the poor in Africa, through services that promote HEALTH, provide EDUCATION, tackle POVERTY, provide HOMES (Shelter) to the homeless, and support ORPHANS and vulnerable children among the very poor communities. www.lifeprojectafrica.org

Hope for Limpopo Project's activities consist primarily of financing works that provide education, basic diet and nutrition counseling, public awareness, and medical care for impoverished children and adults living in the rural areas of South Africa. www.hopeforlimpopo.org

A Child for All, Inc. The organization's vision is to bring hope to Mali's vulnerable Children by securing for them a brighter future through the delivery of our programs: nutritious food, health care, safe shelter and education. www.acfacorp.org

Niapele Project The Niapele Project’s mission is to promote sustainable strategies for the empowerment of vulnerable children, through the development of community-based initiatives.  www.theniapeleproject.org

ZAMCOG Zamcog's goal is to establish a self-sustaining route, through education, for children who can transform themselves from being those who have no hope, to being those who are the hope for Zambia's future. www.zamcog.org.uk

WorldTeach WorldTeach partners with governments and other organizations in developing countries to provide volunteer teachers to meet local needs and promote responsible global citizenship. www.worldteach.org

WWO Their vision is to transform the lives of orphaned children by taking them out of anonymity and helping them to become healthy, independent, productive members of their communities and the wold. wwo.org/page

Village Hope Core International Village Hopecore International's mission is make microloans to 1,000 family-based enterprises in the village of Chogoria, Kenya. www.villagehopecore.org

Princeton in Africa Princeton in Africa develops young leaders committed to Africa’s advancement by offering yearlong fellowship opportunities with a variety of organizations that work across the African continent. www.princeton.edu

Mitengo Carbon / Green Knowledge Institute The Green Knowledge Institute (GKI) is a knowledge hub designed to facilitate the development of the African carbon market by building awareness, technical expertise and knowledge-sharing networks through targeted programmes designed for, and in conjunction with, government ministries, parastatals, NGOs, CBOs, private sector actors, and the media. http://thegki.webs.com

Medical Relief Aliance MRA is a 501c 3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to improve the health and quality of life of familiesliving in sub-Saharan Africa . www.mra-africa.org

Lift Up Africa Lift Up Africa is a US nonprofit with an extensive network of partners and projects in East Africa. www.liftupafrica.org

Leading Ladies Network They strive to develop and nurture a network of socially conscious women leaders that will bring positive transformation to Africa and the rest of the world. www.leadingladiesnetwork.org

Kenya Education Fund Their mission is to provide disadvantaged students in Kenya, and their schools, with support and educational resources so that they may improve their communities and break the cycle of poverty in Kenya. www.kenyaeducationfund.org

ICSEE The ICSEE provides technical assistance, consulting on program design and development, and training. Local organizations also often need help in locating financial resources that they work to provide. www.the-icsee.org

Bugerere Education Support BESO was formed by an individual concerned about the orphans, vulnerable children and the rural suffering youth and women. http://besoug.org

Development In Gardening DIG is a 501(c)(3) organization with a mission to improve the nutrition and health of HIV-affected and at-risk populations through sustainable gardening. www.reaplifedig.org

All for Africa SFF partners with All for Africa by investing in the beneficiary palm oil trust. We have purchased 4 trusts and hopefully they will be passed to the charities of our choice. http://www.allforafrica.org

Crossroads Springs Africa, Inc. A small, but committed not-for-profit that is supporting an orphanage/school in Hamisi, Western Kenya. It serves 320 children orphaned by AIDS with education (Kindergarden-Grade 8), 2 meals a day, health care and clothing. http://www.crossroadssprings.org

Blue Marble Dreams (Blue Marble Ice-Cream) Jennie and Alexis are leading a project called "Blue Marble Dreams," Rwanda's first-ever ice cream shop.  Sweet Dreams will debut in Butare, Rwanda’s “second city.”  Through this pioneer operation, Blue Marble Dreams will: 1) Build an ice cream production and retail operation; 2) Train and employ genocide widows, orphans and other economically/socially vulnerable individuals; and 3) Create a consistent stream of demand for local dairy farmers and support this demand through the development of a robust market for ice cream. http://www.bluemarbledreams.org

Titagya Schools Titagya Schools is the only non-profit organization focused on expanding early educational opportunities throughout northern Ghana. They build and operate schools, administer a scholarship program, and promote best educational practices with other private and public institutions.  The work is founded on the belief that every child is entitled to begin life on a strong academic footing.  They hosted the grand opening of our first pre-school for 50 students in November 2009.  Within the next year they plan to expand the school to include a kindergarten and to build 1-2 more sets of pre-schools and kindergartens.  Their goal is to provide high-quality education at a modest cost to students throughout rural districts in northern Ghana.  www.titagyaschools.org

Through the Eyes of Children Through the Eyes of Children began as a photographic workshop in 2000, conceived by photographer, David Jiranek, and inspired by the founder of the Imbabazi Orphanage, Rosamond Carr - an American woman living in Rwanda since 1955. Using disposable cameras, the children originally took pictures for themselves and to share with others, exploring their community, and finding beauty as the country struggles to rebuild. www.rwandaproject.org

Ubuntu Education Fund This organization provides lifesaving HIV support services and essential education resources to more than 40,000 vulnerable children and their families in a seven kilometer radius in the Township of Port Elizabeth, South Africa.  The organization has been in existence for approximately 10 years and their goal is to provide comprehensive support for the community for a sustained period of time.  The organization was started by two men, Jacob Lief and Malizole “Banks” Gwaxula in 1999. http://www.ubuntufund.org

UJA Federation of New York For the past nine decades, they have been feeding, housing, and providing services to those who need them most — in New York, in Israel, and around the world. They are young at heart and whatever your age, they welcome you. www.ujafedny.org

Sustainable South Bronx Environmental Justice Solutions through innovative, economically sustainable projects informed by community needs. http://www.ssbx.org