Projects
The ordinary people doing extraordinary projects in Africa are numerous. In each one of the 20 countries I travel across, I will visit one such project. The idea is to increase awareness of each project in press and on-line with articles accompanied by photos and a short video.
Projected Arrival Date:
December, 2009
Status:
Visited - Read the story
Ted Reilly and his family have been helping to preserve Swaziland’s wildlife for decades.
- Read the storyProjected Arrival Date:
December, 2009
Status:
Visited - Read the story
Since 1995 Mozambique’s artists have been transforming objects of war into art pieces
- Read the storyProjected Arrival Date:
December, 2009
Status:
Visited - Read the story
A nonprofit helps to provide and maintain vehicles for doctors and nurses in rural areas.
- Read the storyProjected Arrival Date:
December, 2009
Status:
Visited - Read the story
Cape Town’s annual Minstrel Parade celebrates and helps to define a local community’s identity
- Read the storyProjected Arrival Date:
January, 2010
Status:
Visited
The elegant sculptures of Okahandja craftsmen
Projected Arrival Date:
January, 2010
Status:
Visited - Read the story
A Grass Roots Organization Struggles to Protect Africa’s “Oldest People” from Government Policies
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January, 2010
Status:
Visited
An Artist Vision keeps Zimbabwe Looking into the Future
Projected Arrival Date:
January, 2010
Status:
Visited - Read the story
Projected Arrival Date:
February, 2010
Status:
Visited - Read the story
Projected Arrival Date:
February, 2010
Status:
Visited - Read the story
Tunaweza musical band struggles for recognition in Dar es Salaam.
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April, 2010
Status:
Awaiting Visit
Psychologists (U of SF, Radio Benevolencija) use PSSD programs to study and help overcome the aftermath of the mass genocide.
Projected Arrival Date:
April, 2010
Status:
Awaiting Visit
Rehabilitation of child soldiers from Lord’s Resistance Army (World Vision).
Projected Arrival Date:
May, 2010
Status:
Awaiting Visit
An organization helps people accused of witchcraft.
Projected Arrival Date:
May, 2010
Status:
Awaiting Visit
A Canadian organization (CASS) runs a rehabilitation and integration center for ex-slaves freed from years of fighting in the Sudan’s civil war. How widespread is slavery in Sudan and the region?
Projected Arrival Date:
June, 2010
Status:
Awaiting Visit
project not yet identified.
Projected Arrival Date:
June, 2010
Status:
Awaiting Visit
A leprosy village clinic (TLM, Leprosy Mission International) trains leprosy patients invocational skills.
Projected Arrival Date:
July, 2010
Status:
Awaiting Visit
A European CARITAS distributes food to the hungry after a plague of locusts and drought.
Projected Arrival Date:
August, 2010
Status:
Awaiting Visit
A Muslim-Christian vocational training (IFIC) center run by White Fathers offers to educate the communities about one another.
Projected Arrival Date:
August, 2010
Status:
Awaiting Visit
An orphanage for local kids (Oneness Hearts Tears, CARO) is run by a Hindu founded organization. How well does it fit in?
Projected Arrival Date:
August, 2010
Status:
Awaiting Visit
Many aid workers left Mauretania because of killings and kidnappings in spring of 2009. What happened and why?
Projected Arrival Date:
September, 2010
Status:
Awaiting Visit
When the Spanish left in 1976, they left several church buildings that served the Spanish colonists. Now the only guardians of the old churches are priests that care for the structures. How do they interact with the local community?
Projected Arrival Date:
September, 2010
Status:
Awaiting Visit
A Benedictine monastery is the last such institution in the North of Africa. It is a refuge for the last two survivors from the Algerian monastery of ’Notre Dame de l’Atlas,’ where a massacre took place in 1996. What is the future of the last such institution in the region?
