Africa is where humanity started, where civilization began. One of humanity’s big breakthroughs was working in partnership, realising that by helping each other both partners benefitted. Working in partnership, developing projects that deliver mutual benefit is what Africa’s Gift is about. It’s what we do.
Building Community Partnerships
Africa’s Gift brings an added dimension to UK community and school projects. That extra dimension is:
Meeting people, talking to people and discussing the big issues affecting all of us. not just the developing world. Being able to talk to real people, to get to know them as individuals not as figures on a TV screen or as statistics breaks through generalities and demolishes stereo-types.
The projects we support and help develop go far beyond being “charitable opportunities”. Our projects look at links between society, health, economy and the environment, and between lives in the UK and abroad. Everyone involved in an Africa’s Gift project soon recognises that whilst people in the developing world face tremendous hardships they can also teach us a lot.
A feature of all our projects, it has even been called our trademark is the realisation that this planet is home for all of us and we can all make a difference.
Our Activities
Business Projects
Working with the local community raises awareness about the business, enhances its reputation, helps to build a network of potential partners and supporters and can even help in winning business contracts. For example, some local authorities prefer to award contracts to businesses with a record of community involvement.Working with Schools
Africa’s Gift helps schools get students engaged through activity and involvement with community projects. Through the links they form with local people and with overseas communities our projects bring subjects to life, giving them relevance and meaning beyond text books and beyond the exams that have to be sat.Micro-Business
Working with partners Africa’s Gift has helped UK communities, schools and communities in the developing world develop a number of micro-business projects that focus on income generation and economic development.
