AFRICA Seed NEWS

The Crayons Project
Classrooms Continue Collections

The Crayons Project is the most popular of AFRICA Seed's programs. Teachers have their students collect shoeboxes of used crayons and mail them to Africa.

In past years we have had some remarkable youth from different towns in different states avidly collect crayons for the Project. 

Currently, teachers contact us from all over the U.S.A. to participate. We now are offering this project to village schools in rural Uganda. We continue to serve Ghana and Sierra Leone as well.

 
Button
 

Pin

The Sponsorship Project
Preschool Education

In African countries like Ghana in the West and Uganda in the east, and South Asian countries like the Philippines, ALL schools, both public and private, require school fees.  AFRICA Seed has agreed to find sponsors for needy children whose families suffer because of the necessary school fees.

Uniforms are also required at the parents' expense, along with pencils and paper for each child.  At poorer schools they use chalk, slate and rag erasers.  Richer schools are willing to take scholarship children, and quality poorer schools could use the funds.  We invite all types of quality schools to participate to have children's fees wholly or partially paid by sponsors.

President's Message
How We Operate

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 familyhope 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 met them 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 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 of giver and receiver that informs all of us and ensures 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.