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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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