ELMA's Guide to Year-End Giving with Masana wa Afrika
November 22th, 2023
Kawempe Home Care, Uganda
This Giving Tuesday, put these remarkable community-based organizations at the heart of your holiday giving!
Meet seven organizations within Masana wa Afrika, an Africa-led foundation supporting organizations working to ensure African children thrive.
Your contributions will help to provide essential services to children and their families such as support to children with disabilities, and access to quality healthcare, early childhood education, and programs empowering girls and women.
Kawempe Home Care - Uganda
Founded in July 2007 by dedicated health professionals, Kawempe Home Care operates in the slums of Kawempe division in Kampala city, Uganda. The organisation provides medical services for poor and vulnerable patients living with HIV/AIDS, TB, and cancer. Additionally, it runs a home for children living with cancer, addressing critical healthcare needs in the community.
Kwakha Indvodza - Eswatini
Kwakha Indovodza’s innovative model encourages men and boys to become active allies for gender equality, social justice, and well-being. Through mentoring programs, the organisation engages with boys and young men on gender-related issues linking them to health and psychosocial services. Operating in four regions in Eswatini, Kwakha has expanded its reach to over 3,000 boys and men, fostering positive change in attitudes towards gender equality.
Lesedi Educare Association - South Africa
Lesedi Educare is an accredited Early Childhood Development (ECD) resource and training organisation based in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Through comprehensive, community owned and managed ECD centres, they are providing quality early education access to children, especially those with special needs. Lesedi also provides mobile ECD services to 640 children in the community and offers training to parents and caregivers in at-home care best practices. To date, they have trained 260 ECD practitioners who have supported more than 6,100 children.
Life Concern Organisation - Malawi
Life Concern Organisation has been empowering their community, particularly women and girls, in Rumphi district in the northern region of Malawi since 2008. Each year they reach over 3,000 children and adolescents by providing HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment programs, sexual and reproductive health services, economic and psychosocial empowerment of girls, women, children, and those living with disabilities, and by increasing access to quality education.
St. Vincent De Paul Community Development Organisation - Kenya
By providing access to essential services for children and families living in Kibera, Kenya’s largest informal settlement, St. Vincent’s is building a community in which children and their families can thrive. St. Vincent’s provides early childhood development, education, healthcare, nutrition support, business training, and runs a rescue centre for abused and abandoned children.
Tiny Tim and Friends - Zambia
Tiny Tim and Friends is one of the few providers of specialist pediatric HIV services in Zambia. Their clinic, which sees over 1,000 patients each year, offers medical, nutritional, and psychosocial support to HIV+ children and pregnant women. Tiny Tim and Friends works in communities across Lusaka providing HIV testing and prevention services, with an emphasis on the prevention of mother-to-child transmission as well as counselling and support groups.
Youth for Development and Productivity (YODEP) - Malawi
YODEP has been providing essential services to children and young people throughout Malawi’s Zomba and Mongochi districts since 1998. The organisation addresses the educational, health, and child protection needs of over 30,000 children and youth living in their communities. Their programming includes comprehensive health services, early childhood development and secondary school support, youth development and leadership skills training, and advocacy.
Thank you for being a champion for African children.
Together, we can build a future where every child thrives.
