The remarkable SOS Environnement will be our primary resting spot in Senegal. Working out of one of that country’s novel ecological communities, the NGO harvests algae to produce food, textiles and wax. The organization employs sixty local harvesters/divers and grows all of its own food (organically!). Its philosophy is based on the intersection of the [...]
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Monthly Archives: April 2009
NGOs in Cameroon
April 28, 2009 – 2:11 am
Our first stop in Bamenda will be to the Goodness and Mercy Mission, a faith-based NGO providing sustainable support for poverty alleviation with a particular focus on gender equality. From there, we will trek to the Hope Foundation, a remarkable small NGO that has sustained progress on many fronts. Please visit their website to read [...]
NGOs in Burkina Faso
April 25, 2009 – 4:04 pm
The bulk of our time in Burkina Faso will be spent at the Association Relais-Jeunes in Bobo-Dioulasso. The Association funds and runs a vocational institution for female children who would otherwise not have access to an education. A French group’s support blog is here. We are excited about this opportunity. All images © Association Relais [...]
NGOs in South Africa
April 25, 2009 – 3:58 pm
The What Took You So Long team will couple with Hoops 4 Hope in South Africa. This organization, active in South Africa, the United States and Zimbabwe, teaches life skills through basketball. More than 10 000 young people in South Africa and Zimbabwe have attended H4H’s workshops and several stay to build courts, recreation centres [...]
NGOs in Namibia
April 25, 2009 – 3:49 pm
The TOV HIV/AIDS Orphans and Vulnerable Children Organization is a truly remarkable organization that has achieved great things on a tight budget. Focussed almost entirely on HIV/AIDS victims, the group has established a school, a sustainable garden and a thriving volunteer program. Please consider visiting their donations page. Beautiful Kidz is a strongly faith-based organization [...]
NGOs in Mauritania
April 24, 2009 – 2:08 pm
La Fondation Moktar Ould Daddah The foundation is a social service organization which promotes the memory and continuation of the social work of Mauritania’s first President, Moktar Ould Daddah. http://www.fmod-rim.org/fondation.html
Moroccan NGOs
April 24, 2009 – 12:17 am
In Marrakesh, our first stop will be at 48 Derb Jdid Bab Doukala, that is, the Atfalouna Association! Atfalouna employs 14 educators/administrators and 3 volunteers, houses and educates 48 orphans and teaches another 436 who otherwise live at home. They do this on an annual budget of only £52,000, including salaries, health care and educational [...]
Get involved – with your wallet
April 23, 2009 – 10:56 pm
Why Your Company Should Get Involved: 1. Connect to an organization that appeals to young, passionate and adventurous people around the world. The What Took You So Long Foundation brings intrepid foreigners to distant areas of Africa to team up with non-profit civil society leaders on their local projects. The type of personality that undertakes [...]
Sponsorship: How to support our movement
April 8, 2009 – 8:29 pm
$ The WTYSL-Movement is sourcing for corporate and private sponsorship. The money raised will contribute to the fund that will support the organizations we will visit and work with on our African expedition this summer. Corporate sponsorship packages are available. You can sponsor a variety of projects, specific NGOs or particular stages of our expedition. Selon [...]
