The African Leadership University provides higher education for a higher purpose. Founded to put excellent and affordable higher education in Africa within reach of all passionate and driven students, ALU is among top African universities dedicated to equipping graduates with the skills, acuity, and vision needed to succeed as ethical, entrepreneurial leaders.
Baylor College of Medicine Childrens Foundation Eswatini’s mission is to provide high quality family-centred pediatric and adolescent health care, education and clinical research in Swaziland.
Botswana Baylor seeks to increase the number of children receiving HIV/AIDS ARV therapy and provide regular follow-up care to children, parents and siblings.
Farming Out of Poverty (FOOP) is a not-for-profit organization that works to provide farmers in rural Sierra Leone with affordable quality inputs, technology, and technical advice to increase yields.
Food for Education is an African-led and women-led social enterprise that uses technology, smart operations, and logistics to deliver low-cost, nutritious meals to public primary school children. We currently serve over 50,000 primary school students every day across Nairobi, Kiambu,
Kisumu and Mombasa counties. Parents pay for these meals through a mobile money system linked to Near Field Communication (NFC) wristbands, which the children wear and ‘Tap2Eat’ in under 5 seconds to access their meals.
Our mission is to scale a model that prioritizes efficient supply chain management and sustainable sourcing, so we can continue lowering the cost of school meals. Food for Education has served over 9,000,000 meals since 2012 and is expanding to reach at least 1,000,000 public school students in Kenya by 2027.
Global Health Informatics Institute (GHII) is a non-profit based in Malawi and currently one multi-country project targeting 15 African countries. Their mission is to develop the next generation of biomedical informaticians and engineers using a unique service learning approach to create interventions at the intersection of science, engineering and global health. GHII has a strong emphasis on capacity development and local solutions to problems.
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is one of the world’s largest international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGO), at work in more than 40 countries and more than 25 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their communities. A force for humanity, IRC employees delivers lasting impact by restoring safety, dignity and hope to millions. If you’re a solutions-driven, passionate change-maker, come join us in positively impacting the lives of millions of people world-wide for a better future.
Lwala Community Alliance works to build the capacity of the people in and around the village of Lwala to advance their own comprehensive well-being, through programs in small-scale micro-enterprises, public health, water sanitation, and education.
Mpala facilitates and exemplifies sustainable human-wildlife co-existence and the advancement of human livelihoods and quality of life through education, outreach, and by developing science-based solutions to guide conservation actions for the benefit of nature and human welfare.
Tanzania Education Corp, (TEC), was formed in 2009 to partner with Tumaini Schools to provide a top tier education to over 1,100 Tanzanian students in pre-primary through the end of high school. TEC has provided funds to build two campuses and to provide an innovative curriculum to supplement the Tanzanian curriculum.
The mission of Tech Care for All is to sustainably transform health outcomes in Africa and India by addressing the upskilling needs of healthcare professionals (HCPs) across the cadres.
The Rwanda School Project provides high quality secondary education in Rwanda. Their Rwamagana Leaders’ School offers a secure and nurturing school environment that transforms vulnerable youth into future leaders and problem solvers who champion environmental sustainability and social change.
The USAP Community School is a residential 11th and 12th grade, Cambridge A-levels, boarding school that educates high-achieving, low-income Zimbabwean students to excel at the world’s top universities and return home to build society. USAP Community School was founded by Education Matters, a non-profit educational trust. We opened in January 2020, building from the USAP program, a college access program that has helped hundreds of Zimbabweans access higher education abroad over the last two decades. We focus on delivering a well-rounded education, including success in A-level sciences, a rigorous humanities core curriculum, training in research methods and community-based problem solving, as well as whole student development through extracurriculars, our Honor Code, and Quaker roots.
WARC Africa’s mission is to progress to a world in which poor people can use the best of technology to generate conscious economic growth. They work to develop smart business models to enable farmers to access the best available machinery, agricultural practices, and technical advice in a way that is economically beneficial for all parties.
In 1999, a group of Princeton alumni, faculty, and staff launched Princeton in Africa as an independent affiliate of Princeton University inspired by the University’s informal motto, “Princeton in the Nation’s Service and in the Service of All Nations.” In 2010, the program opened up to include graduates of any US accredited university in order to meet the growing demand from host organizations and allow more young professionals access to the unique opportunities afforded by PiAf. During the past 20 years, we have placed over 600 Fellows with more than 100 organizations in 36 countries, while developing more strategic partnerships across Africa and creating more opportunities for our alumni community to engage with the continent and with one another.