AfricAid has been a youth-focused organization from its very beginnings, and is proud of the work that its many youth organizations do on behalf of young boys and girls in Africa. Additionally, AfricAid Clubs have sprung up all over the nation, in locations as diverse as Utah, Georgia, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, as well as many in Colorado.

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Colorado Academy’s AfricAid Club

Colorado Academy’s AfricAid Club, founded in 2001, is one of AfricAid’s most enthusiastic — and productive — supporters. Through its annual fundraising event and its school supply drives, the Club has provided funding for dozens of scholarships for young girls and for the construction of classrooms in Tanzania.

AfricAid Kid’s Team

The AfricAid Kids’ Team (AKT) is a group of young, dedicated AfricAid supporters that is working to helping instill more of a service mentality in youth in the US. AKT’s unique fundraising events, and the Uhuru Bracelets they sell as a signature AfricAid item, have proven to be a significant fundraising force for AfricAid.

Littleton Rotary Interact Club

After hearing Ashley Shuyler give an AfricAid presentation at the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) in the summer of 2003, a member of the Littleton, Colorado Rotary Interact Club was inspired to get his chapter involved in AfricAid’s mission. Sponsored by the local Rotary Club, the Littleton Club is the only Interact Club that is community and not school based. The members come from local high schools in the Denver area, and the Club supports various international and local charitable causes, such as UNICEF and Samaritan’s Purse’s Operation Christmas Child. The Club has helped collect school supplies for AfricAid by asking individuals or businesses for donations, and the supplies have found a much-appreciated home in various schools in Tanzania.

Fairview High School AfricAid Club

The AfricAid Club at Fairview High School, in Boulder, Colorado, has been a long-time supporter of the work of AfricAid. It undertakes school supply drives every year, collecting much-needed school supplies for shipment to the schools supported by AfricAid in Tanzania. It has also raised funds for AfricAid, and most recently hosted an AfricAid booth at the Boulder Creek Festival, distributing information about AfricAid to the festival-goers, taking contributions and selling Maasai jewelry, as well as AfricAid’s signature Uhuru Bracelets, to help fund the Losinoni School Lunch program.

Fairleigh Dickenson University

It’s not every college professor that will ask her students to concern themselves with the education of other students on the other side of the world–while still going on with their own studies–and it’s not every college student that will accept such a challenge. But as part of her course, The Global Challenge, New Jersey’s Fairleigh Dickenson University’s Professor Joan Desilets has done exactly that for the past several years. Asking her students to think about what they could do to help the mission of AfricAid, her classes have undertaken projects such as meeting with the Tanzanian Ambassador to the United Nations, and his wife, to learn more about the educational needs in Tanzania, collecting school supplies and fundraising on behalf of AfricAid, using innovative methods such as running an AfricAid Café every Sunday morning to serve brunch to 150 graduate students! Inspired by these efforts, Professor Desilets and several of her colleagues have even sponsored their own AfricAid scholarship for a student in Tanzania!

Uhuru Circles

In addition, AfricAid has developed the Uhuru Circles concept as a way for individuals to combine their personal visions of philanthropy with social, educational and engagement occasions and opportunities that will directly benefit girls’ education in Africa. See how you can form a Uhuru Circle and Get Involved!