WIDOWS & CHILDREN OF AFRICA
WIDOWS & CHILDREN OF AFRICA
HELP THE WIDOWS TO HELP THEIR CHILDREN
empowering
widows
WACHAF provides counseling and training to empower widows, a group amongst the most vulnerable in Africa. Today, African village women survive on less than $1 a day. Together we have the power to change that. In Africa, empowering women goes hand in hand with giving them the tools and ability to work and become self-sufficient, so they can make lots of change by investing in their communities and families.
We train women to start sustainable businesses donating money to each and using local natural resources to start business and create products that can be sold in the international market. Women and youth are the waters that sustain our community. Together with its supporters, WACHAF provides hand up for women and youth to help them create ripples of lasting change – for themselves, their families and their community.
EDUCATING CHILDREN
WACHAF provides funding for the children of widows and also orphans to complete their education.
Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworkers can become the head of the mines, that a child of farm workers can become president of a great nation.” Nelson Mandela.
We believe that every child has the right to, and deserves, an education. Irrespective of that child’s background or gender, all children should be supported in attending school and acquiring the skills and qualifications necessary for a healthy and prosperous life. The education of disadvantaged children and orphans is at the core of our work.
Many barriers to education such as poverty, gender and lack of educational resources exist in the countries where we operate and prevent poor children from going to school. In many African countries, education even at primary school is not free, and is a barrier that stops many disadvantaged children and orphans from receiving an education.
We are committed to supporting each child to completion of their education, from primary and secondary schools and where possible up to university or other tertiary education.
With your support, you can help to educate a disadvantaged child who may otherwise be forced into child labor or marriage in order to support their family.
enriching
communities
‘‘No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.’’
Nelson Mandela
The community is central to the approach of WACHAF in the countries where we operate, WACHAF works with well-established African Christian Churches and Organizations that share the same vision of supporting people in need and are able to operate well managed and comprehensively monitored projects in partnership with us.
