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BOOKS
Donating Through Books
Dr. Gloria Books
Each children's book purchased at full
price generates a small donation of school supplies to a classroom in
Africa. We have Partner Schools in Ghana, Cameroon, Sierra Leone, Uganda,
Kenya, and other countries on the continent.
Click here to learn about the books.
General Donations
Why Donate
Why Not Just Give Directly to A Family?
Some individuals and families in the U.S.A.
not in the field of Development feel that they can just adopt a family in
Africa. They ask, Why Not Just Give Directly to A Family? Ask yourself,
“Would I want to be adopted?” Hard-working Africans who contribute to their
communities, whether city, town or rural, are separated from their
communities when they are ‘adopted’. African culture is a communal one, not
an individual-focused one like ours.
What does adopting an individual or family hope to achieve? Is it to
give them the money they need to do well? Certainly it can not be to help
them survive or they would not have been alive to have been met by you in the first
place. Why wouldn't you ‘adopt’ a family right here in the U.S. A.?
What would you think of a family here in the U.S.A. who took money from you? Unfortunately, our perceptions of the ‘needy’
(if that is an appropriate term) on other continents have been influenced by the ads we see by large traditional international
aid organizations. Although now it is no longer in vogue to show sad
children’s faces with flies swarming around them. These ads continue in the
same vein and have created a public with misconceptions of the true
work to be done, the true needs of people, and a healthy moral partnership-building
process that informs all of us and ensure sustained accomplishment.
Not trusting organizations to deliver the goods from donations should not
serve as an excuse to do it on your own. Reputable organizations state where
your funds go and how much of the funds go to the job and how much to
operations. AFRICA Seed's Child Sponsorship Project donations give schools
$70.00 of the $100.00 contribution. The remainder goes to operation
expenses. Donations to schools through AS are delivered in the complete
amount and we bear expenses for delivery and processing. This is also true
for Special Projects that benefit schools.
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