FOCUS ON
AFRICAN CONTINENT
We major in Programs in South Sudan, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Zambia, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Somalia, Tanzania and Kenya that promote ownership, alleviate poverty and promote sustainability in Africa.

FOCUS ON WOMEN EDUCATION KEY PILLAR.
Focus Africa approach is built on strong partnerships. This includes: partnerships at different levels with community, NGO, research, academic, government and private sector partners, partnerships across different sectors, particularly, health, education, WASH and livelihoods, partnerships for delivery of contracts, grants and research projects. We also welcome linking with individual supporters.

FOCUS ON WOMEN EDUCATION KEY PILLAR.
Focus Africa approach is built on strong partnerships. This includes: partnerships at different levels with community, NGO, research, academic, government and private sector partners, partnerships across different sectors, particularly, health, education, WASH and livelihoods, partnerships for delivery of contracts, grants and research projects. We also welcome linking with individual supporters.

CURRENT INDICES IN AFRICA
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights, including the right to food, health, work and education. The inherent nature of every person is creative, resourceful, self-reliant, responsible and productive.

INVESTING IN AFRICANS TO DEFEAT MALARIA
With financial support from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and in collaboration with the Benin Ministry of Health (MOH) and Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM), Africare/Benin launched a pilot program in 2004 to train members of local women’s groups how to control malaria in their communities. Beginning in just two departments, Couffo and Mono, the Africare-trained women shared their knowledge with others on how to protect children under five years old and pregnant women from malaria.

COVID-19
As COVID-19 spreads, it poses a grave danger, especially in communities with struggling health systems. Vulnerable people will be hit the hardest by the outbreak: it could drive families deeper into hunger and poverty.

OUR VISION AND MISSION STATEMENTS
OUR MISSION
Focus Africa works to improve the quality of life of the people in Africa.

OUR VISION
Focus Africa is a leading non-governmental organization (NGO) committed to addressing African development and policy issues by working in partnership with African people to build sustainable, healthy and productive communities.

Focus Africa designs projects with participatory appraisals. What does that mean? Focus Africa staff, most of whom are community members themselves, work with each community to identify what development difficulties they face and what local resources are available to achieve solutions. In addition to national and corporate leaders, we consult with traditional and religious leaders when designing projects, and we react to local feedback as projects progress. We contract local companies to carry out certain project tasks, such as the construction of a community library, so local firms earn the experience and the income.

OUR WORK MODEL
WE DO IT THIS WAY
What we do throughout Africa are based on an innovative, holistic approach, which empowers women and men living in rural villages to become the agents of their own development and make sustainable progress in overcoming hunger and poverty

No Project Too Big Or Too Small for us
The vast majority of the world’s poor are women. Two-thirds of the world’s illiterate population are female. Of the millions of school age children not in school, the majority are girls. And today, HIV/AIDS is rapidly becoming a woman’s disease. Women comprise nearly 60 percent of all people living with HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa

Our aim is to overcome the deep resignation people in the developing world often find themselves in as a result of failed development initiatives. Focus Africa urges people not to wait to be rescued, but to take action now to meet their basic needs.

In order to strengthen local government, Focus Africa also works from the top down, lobbying for state and national law changes, and in some cases court rulings, to shift power to the hands of the people.

AWARD WINNING ADOLESCENT PROGRAM
Training on coping with health-related financial shocks, planning ahead to face common health expenses and getting the most out of local health care services and health microinsurance

HEALTH, HIV & AIDS
On almost all measures – from the rates of child and maternal mortality, malnutrition, HIV & AIDS and deaths by preventable diseases, to the availability of clinics and medical personnel – Sub-Saharan Africa presents the world’s most serious health problems but has the fewest resources to solve them.

WHAT WE ARE DOING
Increasingly, African leaders are making health a top government priority, and Africare knows that African nations can take control of health issues.

Africare is strengthening African health systems with community-based, capacity building interventions, and our broad expertise enables partnerships with countries facing problems of all kinds: polio, maternal and child health, HIV & AIDS, orphans and vulnerable children, reproductive health, malnutrition, tuberculosis or malaria.

INVESTING IN AFRICANS TO DEFEAT MALARIA
With financial support from the Focus Africa to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and in collaboration with the Governments and Country Coordinating Institutions to train members of local women’s groups how to control malaria in their communities. Beginning in just two departments, the Focus Africa-trained women shared their knowledge with others on how to protect children under five years old and pregnant women from malaria.

WHAT WE HAVE ATTAINED
By 2008, the incidence of malaria dropped 73 percent in the two departments despite a national increase of 65 percent over the same period. More importantly, malaria-related deaths of children under five dropped 84 percent, while the national average only decreased 18 percent.
HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment
Malaria prevention and treatment
Tuberculosis (TB) control and treatment
Maternal, newborn, and child health care
Nutrition
Water, sanitation, and hygiene

PROJECTS OVERVIEW
Focus Africa supports the health sector with high-impact, evidence-based interventions. Most interventions in the health sector are at the county level with only targeted support at the national level. We work with the Local Governments, local institutions, faith-based organizations, and the private sector on.