Cause

Philanthropy & capacity building

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Julie S.

Program and Development Assistant

Our mission

CorpsAfrica will help create a culture of public service within developing nations by giving volunteer participants the opportunity to apply their skills and energy toward helping their fellow citizens overcome extreme poverty.

What we do

Modeled after the successful Peace Corps and AmeriCorps programs in the United States, CorpsAfrica would recruit men and women from developing countries of Africa to move to high-poverty communities within their own country for six months to two years and create small projects that eliminate barriers for economic growth and prosperity.

CorpsAfrica volunteers will be a diverse group of people – all ages, sexes, income levels, expertise, etc. After being selected through a rigorous screening process and an intense three-week training program in the capital city and on site visits, CorpsAfrica Volunteers will move to their sites where they will live with host-families, learn the local dialect, participate in day-to-day activities, and become trusted members of the community.

They will engage the local people in conversations and facilitate community meetings to help identify and address their changing and complex needs in education, health, small business development, urban planning and infrastructure, agriculture, the environment, and more. The volunteers will then help the communities determine their priority needs, design and implement projects to address those needs (which will be supported by a special fund of the CorpsAfrica project), and then perform a comprehensive impact evaluation analysis.