Embrace Africa is a team of Christians from the United States and Africa who have come together to touch and change lives
for children and their families in rural villages of Sub-Saharan Africa. Since 2010, we have carried out missionary and
evangelical work in the poorest regions of Africa. Moreover, we have witnessed the desperation that children in Africa have
to undergo due to poverty, lack of basic needs, disease outbreaks, child labor, early marriages, wars, female genital
mutilation among myriads of other challenges. In the last few decades, most countries in Africa have experienced a decline
in educational standards. Political instability and a crisis in many regions have led to children being recruited to fight in the
militia and other fighting forces. In some places, children have abandoned education to go into petty business and child
labor In Rwanda; nine-year-olds are heads of households. In Nigeria, they are street hawkers. In Sierra Leone, they are
veteran soldiers. In Botswana, they are HIV positive. In Kenya, 13-year-old girls are wives.
Embrace Africa comes at a time when children from African villages are crying for help. We respond to Jesus Christ’s call to
love and serve the poor. We seek to emulate the Good Samaritan, whose compassion transcended ethnic lines and religious
orientations. We serve all people in love regardless of race, faith, ethnicity, and gender.