Environment

Trees Bring New Life to Rural Senegal

Tree planting, to halt desertification and meet a variety of basic human needs, has been a Senegalese national priority for decades. And for decades, Africare has helped address that priority. Read more >>

Villagers Push Back the Desert

During the 1990s, a major Africare program in Niger's Goure district combined environmental management and agricultural development in ways that simultaneously met the needs of both nature and humankind. Read more >>

Poverty Alleviation, Environmental Conservation

In Tanzania, Africare has worked since 1998 to reverse environmental destruction near the ecologically fragile Ugalla Game Reserve, in the Tabora region. Hundreds of villages surround the reserve, and poverty in the area has run high. Read more >>

(Updated, Dec. 17, 2007)

Of every
Africare dollar ...

93¢ goes to program services in Africa

Just 7¢ goes to administration

Africare is a private, charitable organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Tax ID# 237116952.

Africare's Approach

Africare helps Africa. A leader among private, charitable U.S. organizations assisting Africa, Africare is also the oldest and largest African-American led organization in the field — and Africa is Africare's specialty. Africare programs are in the following broad areas: health and HIV/AIDS, food security and agriculture, water resource development, environmental management, literacy and vocational training, microenterprise development, civil society development, governance and emergency response.
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