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| GAA at a Glance |
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| Our Mission |
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Global Alliance for Africa partners with local African NGOs, religious institutions, and community-based organizations to design and implement innovative economic strengthening programs with the goal of enabling communities and households to provide sustainable care and support for orphans and other vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDS.
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| Recent Successes:
Orphans and Vulnerable Children:
- Approximately 10,000 orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) provided shelter, education, access to health care, three meals per day, psycho-social support, as a direct result of small business development and entrepreneurship.
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Community Libraries:
- One Community library providing services for over 5,000 OVC operating in western Kenya
- One Community library providing services for over 5,000 ovc in Arusha, Tanzania.
- One new community library opened in Kibera slum, Nairobi, Kenya will provide services to over 100,000 people.
- One additional library already funded and planned to be built in northern Tanzania.
- Five new community libraries to be operational by the end of 2010 in Central Kenya, Liberia, South Sudan, and Northern Uganda.
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Educational Empowerment:
- 19 secondary students in Thika, Kenya supported by GAA’s Makomboki Scholarship Fund.
- 101 secondary students in Asembo Bay, Kenya supported by GAA’s scholarship fund.
- Approximately 9,700 orphans and vulnerable children in GAA programs in Kenya and Tanzania receiving primary or secondary education.
- 30 orphaned and vulnerable young women supported by GAA’s Nurses for Africa Scholarships in nursing schools.
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Economic Strengthening (the core of our work):
- Over 2,800 households receive funding and/or training for small business development which support OVC.
- Poultry Business in Kenya earns a profit of approximately $1,000 per month.
- Women’s Fishing Cooperative expands its operations and starts a ferry service on Lake Victoria with the purchase of its own boat.
- A women’s cooperative opens a new restaurant in western Kenya.
- Older adolescent orphans have been provided with funds to start their own animal husbandry businesses.
- A uniform manufacturing business provides uniforms for school children and will expand to manufacture security uniforms.
- Textile manufacturing initiatives established in Kibera slum, Nairobi, and Naivasha, Kenya.
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Health and Safe Water Program:
- Over 55 water sites funded and in operation since 2001.
- 5 new safe water sites funded and will be operational by the end of 2009.
- Liberia cholera prevention program ongoing since 2002 and has reached over 31,000 people.
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Service Learning:
- First GAA/Loyola University of Chicago service learning conference held at Loyola University Spring 2009.
- 10 area high schools participated in this conference.
- Second service learning conference planned for the academic year 2009/2010.
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Therapeutic Arts:
- More than 1,625 OVC and community children reached by the program in East Africa.
- Therapeutic Arts Training Manual completed and distributed for use by African para-professionals.
- African artists trained in therapeutic arts for pilot program in four locations during 2009.
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Vocational Training:
- More than 900 students who are orphans and vulnerable youth received vocational training at GAA’s Vijana Centre in Arusha, Tanzania since 2003.
- More than 120 students who are orphans and vulnerable youth receive vocational training at GAA’s Vijana Centre annually.
- 80 students on scholarship at GAA’s Vijana Centre in Arusha, Tanzania annually.
- 11 students trained in welding every two years.
- 4-6 female students access formal sector jobs in secretarial positions annually.
- An appropriate technology business implemented to financially sustain the centre developed 4 new products for sale in 2009; the business is run by staff and students.
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Wish List:
- 5 HP Laserjet P2055dn Printers - $399 each
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4 Dell Latitude E6500 Laptop Computers - $776 each
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1 Xerox Phaser 8860MPF high quality 4-color printing and copy machine - $4,995
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1 Upgraded Data Entry System (including database, e-Commerce capability, executive reporting, advanced e-Mail, and all upgrade training) - $6,442
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1 Used Vehicle for staff to travel in East Africa (Pajero, Toyota Land Crusier, range Rover, or other four-wheel drive vehicle) - $12,000
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1 Year's worth of pro bono graphic design services (including invitations, brochures, posters, flyers, and annual report) - estimated at $25,000
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1 Year's worth of printing costs (including invitations, brochures, posters, flyers, annual report, letterhead, etc.,) - estimated at $30,000
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Air miles for staff travel back and forth to East Africa on KLM or British Airlines - 220,000 miles x 4 trips
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1 organizational Development Grant - $500,000 (over a three year period)
The above wish list is based on an organizational development strategy that will enable the organization to enhance its administrative effectiveness, provide better services to our donors, and reach thousands more orphans and vulnerable children throughout sub-Saharan Africa in the future. If you would like to discuss any items on the above wish list, please contact Katy Egan, Director of Development and Communications.
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Quick Facts
 Incorporated: 1996 in the state of Illinois
Legal Status: 501(c)3 not-for-profit tax-exempt organization
Board of Directors: 9
Staff: 29 (24 in Africa, 5 in Chicago)
Offices: Chicago, Illinois (main office); Arusha, Tanzania; Nairobi, Kenya; and Monrovia, Liberia
Program Locations: Kenya, Tanzania, Liberia, Uganda
African Partner agencies and community groups: 21
Children in our orphans programs: Over 10,000
Cost per child: USD $3.00 - $12.00 per month (depending on location)
African Households working with the GAA Orphans Programs: Over 2,800
Successful Businesses GAA has helped to develop so that African Households and Communities can sustainably support orphans on their own: Uniform Manufacturing, Poultry Business, Fishing Co-operative, Animal Husbandry Co-Operative to name a few
National average school attendance for primary students in Tanzania: 84%
Primary school attendance for children in GAA programs in Tanzania: 97%
Youth receiving vocational training: Over 120 Annually
People benefitting from the GAA Cholera Prevention Education Program in Liberia: Over 31,000 from 2001 - present
Schools in Liberia that have adopted the GAA Cholera Prevention Program Curriculum: 27
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Nurses for Africa is dedicated to educating the next generation of nursing leaders in those Africa countries most affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Nurses for Africa provides college-level scholarships in return for two years of service in an area of need..
On May 5th Nurses for Africa hosted their second annual spring event Thaw09 at Sonotheque here in Chicago and raised over $4,000 for the Nursing Scholarship Program. A special thanks to NFA Chair Maura Capaul, Kristin and Terry Alexander from Sonotheque, Karen from Swim Cafe, Norma Rolfsen, Noel Ashby, Dierdre Boland, Kristen Ellensohn and the volunteers from Americorps for an extraordinary event! ....(more)
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