Here at Embrace Africa, we have a passion for helping the African community socioeconomically develop and flourish. To support this vision, we support and promote issues including girls’ rights, empowerment, and education. By reaching out to these economically deprived, at risk and abused individuals, we help both children and families living in areas of instability find resolutions. The empowerment of girls and women in Africa is essential to their transformation into powerful leaders able to walk in the fullness of their potential. We do not seek to give a fish, but rather to give a fishing rod.

Given the many obstacles individuals face in Africa, we collectively work together in breaking the cycle of poverty and violence. Our programming promotes a culture of prevention and provides individuals with the life skills necessary to be self-sustaining and independent. Empowerment is a lifetime investment that all will perpetually benefit from, therein bettering lives, communities, nations, and the world. The following are specific initiatives Embrace Africa facilitates: Grade K-8 (Primary School) Education Puling Families out of Poverty through Economic Empowerment Collaborating and Supporting Access to Secondary School Education Supporting Economic and Social development in Youths and Women Promoting Healthcare, Economic Development, and Community Outreach in Rural Villages.

We provide solar lamps to children so they can be able to learn in the night. 95% of our children comes from homes without electricity; this has greatly affected their learning. At night, many families use dangerous kerosene or paraffin lamps which release harmful carbon. Besides being a fire risk, carbon from these lamps affects eyes especially in young children. Replacing kerosene or paraffin lamps with portable, affordable solar lights saves money, enables children to have more study time at night, improves their health, makes homes safer and saves the environment from harmful black carbon. During the day, solar lamps are left outside to absolve sunlight in order to be used later in the night. This ensures that children sit down to complete homework and they can walk safely in the house without stumbling on items making their evenings enjoyable.

For many people in the developed world, buying sanitary pads is as easy as buying bread and milk. But this is not the case for millions of girls and women in Sub-Saharan Africa. They are at a permanent disadvantage as they are forced to stay at home as they are unable to afford this basic necessity. In very poor areas, like rural Africa, the $2 needed for a package of pads is worth 2 days of work. The cost of sanitary ware and towels is beyond the reach of most young women and girls, who in Africa are the majority of the unemployed and those living in poverty. Many girls would rather miss a week of school a month than deal with the embarrassment of going without protection or making due with inadequate substitutes like newspaper and rugs. A girl absent from school for four days in 28 days (month) loses 13 learning days equivalent to two weeks of learning in every school term. In an academic year (nine months) a girl loses 39 learning days equivalent to six weeks of learning time. A girl in primary school between grades 6 and 8 (three years) loses 18 learning weeks out of 108 weeks. Within the four years of high school a girl can lose 156 learning days equivalent to almost 24 weeks out of 144 weeks of learning in high school.

We feed over 300 children daily who would otherwise sleep on an empty stomach.