Stichting Hope for Africa Foundation
Our Fight Against Poverty
Stichting Hope for Africa Foundation aims at fighting poverty under all its forms by teaming up with African-based non-profit organisations and NGOs in order to help out women and children in the fields of health, education, culture and social development.
The direct benefits in the short-term include:
· Teaching children computer skills
· Enabling women to learn a trade: hairdressing, sowing,..
· Facilitate access to medical supplies.
· Fight diseases that decimate local populations: malaria, tbc, infections, AIDS
· Give access to staple goods and foods to improve health and hygiene.
The benefits in the long-term are:
· Economic independence and food self-sufficiency in order to reduce poverty
· Improve health and general living standards
· Create jobs, stability, economic improvement and self-affirmation especially for women.
· Protect women by teaching them a trade so that they can empower other women as well and become the pillar of their communities.
The Business
We are enabling African-based non-profit organisations to oversee projects and coordinate efforts from local populations to improve their living standards and hygiene. By sending agricultural machinery, the partners in Africa will see to it that they are used properly so that people using them can make a living out of their crops. The same goes for material for sowing and hairdressing. The women aim at becoming professional seamstresses and hairdressers so that they can live out of their craft and feed their families as well.
Our customers are as follows:
-ASSOCIATION TERRE NOTRE MERE (malaria, tuberculosis, infectious diseases)
Mr Kuagbenu Komlan
01 bp 2819 Lome
Togo
00-228-949 1573
-ASSOAPED
Mr K. D. Kodjovi-Numado
BP 308 Brazzaville
Congo
00-242-660 7779
-SECURIMED (medical supplies)
Mr M. Bitsoumani
Avenue Kabambare 1500
Ndolo-Barumbu
00-243-81-990-8463
-GIC FEDYSSOO (training of women to hairdressing, sowing)
Mme C. Y. Nlobole
bp 20202 Yaounde
Cameroon
00-237-939-0344
-ONG APDJ (training and housing of street children)
Mr Bocoum
bp 11 Diourbel
Senegal
00-221-971-1716
We work with African-based NGOs, they will work at the coordination of the help we send there.
For funding, we intend to apply to other organisations like COSHaaglanden (Cordaid, Plan Nederland, ..) and governmental organisations that sponsor international coopeartion.
Development
Short-terms benefits are:
-teach children computer skills
-learn women a trade: sowing, hairdressing
-direct access to medical supplies
-fight malaria, tbc, aids, infections
-access to staple goods and foods
Long-term benefits are:
-econimic independence and self-sufficiency
-improvements of health and living conditions
-create jobs, stability and self-affirmation
-empower women so that they can empower other women and create opportunities for each other.