Water

Safe Water, Good Health

"When Africare came in, a remarkable change began taking place," observed the leader of one Malawian village where Africare had improved the water supply. Read more >>

School, Villages Gain New Wells

About 60 primary school children in Chanombo village, Malawi, go to Matsewa Primary School, which is about 2 kilometers away. Beginning in 2001, the school had no clean source of water. Read more >>

A Permanent Cadre of Local Water Technicians

During a major drought in the early 1990s, Africare mobilized what became the largest emergency water program in Southern Africa. And the program had an even more important result. 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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