NuAfrica is a non-profit humanitarian volunteer organization founded in 2008 by three American entrepreneurs whose ancestry is from Africa and India. For them, forgetting human beings in intolerable conditions was not an option. Witnessing extreme poverty earlier in life equipped these individuals with the desire to help underserved impoverished communities of the world.
The organizational vision is to provide impoverished people life’s basic self-sustainment necessities. First and foremost, lack of safe drinking water, life’s most important resource, is the root cause of hunger, disease, and poverty throughout the developing world. NuAfrica believes that ‘every human deserves clean water.’ In many developing areas, women and children are responsible for gathering the families’ water each and every day. To immediately impact their lives, NuAfrica initially focuses on making clean water available locally by digging solar-powered water wells. Based on the belief that ‘education leads to self-sustainment,’ a second and parallel focus is to teach. Equipping adults with agricultural training needed for socioeconomic development and arming children with literacy, paves the way for self-sustainment.
NuAfrica’s work has begun with the landlocked West African country of Mali, home country of Indiana resident and philanthropist, Kamafily Sissoko. According to United Nations figures, Mali is the third poorest country in the world. Moved by Sissoko’s statement that “children in [my country] walk 7 miles each way to get drinking water,” in 2008 and 2009, several Americans, including the founders, visited rural Mali villages. These experiences were life-changing for every person involved. They resulted in volunteers’ promise to help, as well as the creation of NuAfrica.
About Mali. Mali is a peaceful and stable African democracy in dire need. Geographically, it is twice the size of Texas. The adult literacy rate is only 19%. And, this is a real statistic: 72% of Malians live on less than $2 per day.
With a little money and equipment, NuAfrica can avail Malians the means to dig wells for clean water and to develop their African homeland’s natural resources. This is all they ask for: “No things: just water.” With the help of American contributors, teachers, and gardeners traveling to Mali, along with the Mali government’s matching education funds, NuAfrica is already impacting thousands of Malian lives. 100% contributions go directly to impacting life.
It all begins with water and education. And, it is very easy to help.
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