Food relief and Nutritional program

Once a month, we visit some rural communities to give food and milk  to underfed children.

We recognise that when families get into real difficulties often the best way to give them a leg up is to provide them with food, free of charge. We support the family for one to three months, or until they can get back on their feet.

The Family Assistance Program helps families who are in very difficult circumstances, making sure they have, at the very least, all the basic needs. Each family's plan has an overarching goal of eventual independence.

We provide carbohydrate food and cash support to a few families for one to three months. Importantly we stay in touch, continually assessing their progress to self-sufficiency, or their need for extra help. We also provide rental support if needed.

Micro Enterprise

Care Africa's microenterprise program is an economic generative process that supports families to break out of the cycle of poverty. Mostly working with entrepreneurial rural women, the program provides training, financial resources, and networking opportunities that increase progress and sustainable local development. The goal is to help the families generate the financial resources needed to keep their children well and in school and to contribute to the progress of their communities.

In general, African women in rural areas are managers of their household economics. They are in charge of nutritional matters  in the family, and they plan for the survival of their extended families. These women are mothers, farmers, weavers,  traders  etc. They go from one village market to another, sometimes covering several kilometers on foot each day. They work very hard to earn their living.
A well-structured micro-credit program enables rural people to break out of the cycle of poverty and dependence. Such a program recycles its resources over and over again bringing  dignity in labor.