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Assessment of Chronic Food Insecurity in Liberia, June 2017
Background In early December 2016, FEWS NET, the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS), and the Integrated Phase Classification Global Support Unit (IPC GSU)...
Africare, African Well Fund and Batonga Foundation Launch WASH Project
BEREMBEKE (NOVEMBER 19, 2014) – Today is World Toilet Day. It may not be considered a polite dinner conversation topic, but ensuring access to clean water and sanitation facilities like latrines is...
School Children in Malawi Receive Sanitation Facilities and Hygiene Education
Africare/Malawi’s Water, Sanitation & Hygiene project has brought sanitation facilities as well as hygiene education to hundreds of school children in the Mulanje district. In addition, at this...
Africare and Peace Corps Reach Hundreds with WASH and Ebola Prevention
Sanitation & Hygiene Africare’s African field staff works directly with local communities to educate them on how to improve their health and empower them to spread improved health practices to their...
Africare Delivers $180,000 in Medical Supplies to Two Liberian Hospitals
Africare/Liberia recently delivered a total of $180,000 in medical supplies to the two biggest hospitals in Bong County, Liberia. The Ebola outbreak is not only killing Liberians directly. The fear...
What Africare is Doing to Contain Ebola – Update
Over 22 years in Liberia, Africare has used social and behavior change communication models to mobilize and work with more than 1,000 rural communities and villages. A critical aspect of these...
Africare Receives Benin Presidential Medal of Honor for Malaria Prevention Work
President Yayi recognizes Africare for significantly reducing malaria infections and deaths among children under five years old COTONOU, BENIN (October 2, 2014) – Children across the West African...
Pakistan Floods Emergency: Lessons from a continuing crisis
Summary The floods that began in August 2011 and swept across the province of Sindh and parts of neighbouring Balochistan resulted in one of the most destructive disasters that Pakistan has...
Africare completes the Ghana WASHH project
WASHINGTON DC - 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...
Burkina Faso: Guest Contributor: Peter Persell, Vice President of Operations
Forty one years ago in the small town of Tikare, Burkina Faso, I woke up to my first day as a Peace Corps Volunteer to find a bucket of water outside my door. Since Tikare had no running water, that...
Spotlight: Street kids in the DRC
The Democratic Republic of Congo is situated in Central Africa and has a population of approximately 69 million, about 47% of which (32 million) are under the age of 14. Problems with the economy,...
Angola + 8 more
American Idol visits Africare project in Angola
Africare-Angola hosted American Idol winner Carrie Underwood for a special taping of "Idol Gives Back," a program which aims to raise money and awareness for children and families living in poverty...
Help Africare beat cholera in Zimbabwe
Help Africare fight cholera in Zimbabwe by increasing communities' access to clean, safe water and proper sanitary facilities. Cholera cases and deaths are significantly increasing every day...
Sudan + 1 more
Sudan: Darfur - "On a knife-edge"
"The United Nations has described the situation in Darfur as a crisis of 'enormous proportions.' The survival of the hundreds of thousands of displaced is on a knife-edge" (BBC News, May 6, 2004)...
Zimbabwe: The Bonde family - a World AIDS Day story
Mr. and Mrs. Bonde live in Chivhaku village in Zimbabwe, Southern Africa: the region that is the world epicenter of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Every day, this family battles HIV/AIDS and its effects...
Dedicated to care: Empowering male caregivers in Zimbabwe
Africare's Male Empowerment Project in Zimbabwe is challenging traditional by increasing male involvement in home-based care services given to rural people living with AIDS. The project equips men...
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia and the road to reconstructing a nation
WASHINGTON, DC, September 10, 2007 ... November 11, 2005, was a landmark in African political history. It was the day the continent's first female head of state was elected. With 59.4 percent of the...
Africare president visits Liberia
November, 2006-- Africare President Julius E. Coles traveled to Liberia late November to review Africare's program work in the Bong and Nimba Counties. His visit centered on the status and...
Niger + 1 more
Gates Foundation grants two Africare food security projects
WASHINGTON, January 10, 2006--Africare is pleased to announce receipt of two generous grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which will support responses to drought and food crises in...