“Serving Africa”
Promoting Community Service in Africa

FestAfrica is proud to support the work of the following non-profit organizations operating between the United States and Africa. Please support their causes by learning more about them, donating money, your time, in-kind supplies, volunteering and spreading the word about their efforts.

United Movement to End Child Soldiering in Uganda (UMECS)UMECS is a non-profit organization that supports secondary school and higher education for children and youth affected by conflict together with school-based peace education and counseling and guidance programs, and helps to build a culture of peace to prevent new wars.  The organization seeks solutions to problems that foster self-sufficiency, have systemic implications, and are sustainable.

www.endchildsoldiering.org

DrUMM is a non-profit, philanthropic organization that is committed towards improving medical care in developing countries through the performance of collaborative medical projects.Please visit our website at. We have a few projects in the works for 2009 in Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria and Eritrea

www.healingdrumm.org

Shaping Destiny is a non-profit organization committed to reaching out in love to disadvantaged children , widows and poor communities providing education and job training, healthcare, food, shelter, recreation, spiritual growth. Our short term goals are to provide these basic needs but not to end there. As part of meeting future needs, Shaping Destiny will develop and implement training models that teach local Africans to develop sustainable healthcare systems, sustainable income generating activities for widows and other poor people so as to empower change their communities.

www.shapingdestiny.org

The Africa Environmental Watch champions issues of environmental concerns that focus on eco-preservation, conservation of natural resources, and protection of public health. Liberia Environmental Watch (LEW) is a nonprofit, non-governmental organization serving as an advocate for Liberia's environmental management towards national sustainability. LEW is devoted to achieving maximum environmental soundness through educational awareness, ensuring the protection of the environment [water, air, forest, land, and wildlife] and preserving as well as conserving natural resources now on the brink of extinction.

www.africaenvironmentalwatch.org

The mission of Free Education for Africa Inc is to make a positive difference in the lives of children in Sierra Leone and neighboring Africa countries; primarily through educational assistant. The goal/purpose: Is to help rebuild the educational system in African countries that have been devastated by years of civil war; especially Sierra Leone and Liberia. We are going to give these children (pre- K - 12th grade) access to required functional education. The objective/business:
(A.) Rebuilding schools,
(B.) Build a public Library
(which African countries do not have.)
(C.) Providing school supplies to needy children, such as (pens, pencils and textbooks, notebooks, chairs and desks, computers and uniforms).

www.fefainc.org