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African Family Children's Fund
African Family Film Foundation, a nonprofit educational organization, created the African Family Children's Fund to assist children at risk, and their families, in East and West Africa.
Through the fund, we actively support grass-roots projects and schools in Africa that teach children ecologically sound skills: reforestation, sustainable organic farming, and solar energy production. This page contains more information about these programs.
African Famine Alert!
Currently we are focusing our efforts on helping people at risk due to the recent locust infestation and drought, and the resulting famine and displacement of families in the West African countries of Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania and Niger. This is an emergency situation, over 5 million people are on the brink of starvation. Conditions are dire and thus we are making a special appeal for your assistance. If you'd like more information, we've assembled a set of links to recent new items on this topic.
LEARNING RE-FORESTATION  Paul Zombre and Alfred Kiba [left] water seedlings at the Loumbila village cooperative nursery, Burkina Faso, West Africa.
Raogo and Sambo Kabore [right] learn reforestation from their elder.
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SUSTAINABLE ORGANIC FARMING
Burkinabe youth are learning this technique called zai. It provides the soil with nutrients, retains humidity, resists drought, allows seeds to grow more easily and helps produce a better crop, year after year.
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LEARNING SOLAR ENERGY PRODUCTION...
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Students listen to teachers and classmates explaining a solar energy production system for an African home.
Pierre Yamleogo Balma, Assistant Director of African Family Children's Fund explains the function of solar a panel. |
Teacher Samuel Sakana takes his students to visit an African home powered by solar energy.
Water tower with well pump powered by solar energy.
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REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH
Young volunteers distribute 100 kg sacks of African grown corn to families, Kuritenga region. |
During the dry season, youth of Malgsomde village, Oubritenga region dig holes in the millet fields, filling them with organic material (grasses, animal dung and decayed millet stalks).
Students point to a drawing of the sun [left], the primary source of all energy on Earth, and a drawing of a solar panel [right]. Bowenwaogre school is in Malegomde village, Oubritenga region, 25 km north of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso's capital. Teacher Samuel Sakana and class listen attentively.
African Family provides nutrition (millet, sorghum or corn organically grown in Africa) and cotton blankets (hand-woven by African artisans) to children and their families. We engage in the redistribution of wealth while encouraging local organic farming and the ancient art of weaving cloth.
Please help us help African children and their families.
Even a small contribution can make a difference. Many small contributions as well as large contributions can make a BIG difference. Act now! |
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