We, UN and non-UN entities, re-affirm our determination to prevent future acts of sexual exploitation and abuse by our personnel. We note the issuance of this Statement at the High-level Conference...
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)...
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...
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...
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/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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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 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
"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)...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...