Microenterprise

"The Most Successful Microcredit Activity in Northern Mali"

In recent decades, many well-managed local credit facilities have arisen in the southern Mali. In northern Mali — where villages are widely dispersed, where desert-like conditions prevail, where poverty is even more severe — they have not. Read more >>

Small Loans, Big Differences

William Dube is a farmer in Limpopo province, South Africa. He grows herbs such as chamomile, basil, jasmine and eucalyptus. Until 2002, he made little profit and thus remained trapped in subsistence. Read more >>

Results in Guinea-Bissau

Between 1989 and 2000, Africare supported microenterprise development in outlying areas of Guinea-Bissau, one of the 10 poorest countries in the world. And the work got results. Read more >>

(Updated, Dec. 19, 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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