Africare

Non-profit OrganizationsDistrict of Columbia, United States501-1000 Employees

Africare is a Washington, D.C.–based nonprofit focused on improving the quality of life for people in Africa. It centers its work on community engagement, capacity building, and locally driven behavior change, often through innovative public-private partnerships that equip communities with knowledge and tools for sustainable development. Its core technical strengths lie in agriculture and health, with projects designed to leverage local resources to address development challenges and advance cross-cutting goals like economic development, nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene, women's empowerment, and youth engagement.

Founded in 1970, Africare operates as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and has carried out thousands of projects across 36 African countries, benefiting tens of millions of people. In the United States, it conducts public outreach, and it has a long-standing partnership with USAID dating back to 2008 to support improvements in village water quality and related hygiene and food-security initiatives.

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