I Want To Help Africa, Inc

Our humanitarian relief efforts support African solutions to African problems. African solutions often are much effective, implementable, long-lasting and much less expensive than solutions imposed by non-African cultures, social systems, or value systems. African solutions also maintain the dignity and self-worth of the disadvantaged people being helped, encouraging them to value themselves, their own ways of doing things successfully, and aiding them to help themselves as much as possible.

Our strategy is to engage those in the United States and elsewhere, through talks, newsletters, and social media, for monetary contributions, donations of goods and services, and volunteer support for specific projects through which we provide humanitarian relief to Africa.

Our organization has an extensive network of local volunteers and supporters, primarily in Zimbabwe and Zambia, to locate and verify individuals and organizations in need, and to ensure that humanitarian supplies and contributions are delivered to those genuinely in need. Two of our Board members are native Africans who have been very active in humanitarian and charitable activities in their countries.

To date, we have shipped to Africa over six full shipping containers, and thousands of pounds of relief and humanitarian aid consisting of food, clothing, blankets, shoes, books, school supplies and other educational materials to Africa, primarily to rural Africa. In addition we have aided in the construction of schools, the building of simple water wells, the protection and promotion of girls at risk, the building of libraries and many smaller projects. Our aid and activities have benefited thousands of orphans, students, families, and villages in rural and suburban areas.

While continuing our core areas of humanitarian support, we are currently focused on providing maize seed this fall to as many families and orphanages in Zimbabwe as possible, to help avert some of the starvation of 8.5 million people in that country, as predicted by the United Nations World Food Programme.