Canada Rural Folk of Africa Foundation is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to fighting poverty in poor rural communities across Africa, giving hope for a better future to rural folks, helping them attain sustainable livelihoods.
The organization was created in January, 2009 by a philanthropic group of people who saw the need to do more than just help their immediate families in Africa but rural communities at large attain sustainable livelihoods.
With the AIDS+HIV pandemic wreaking havoc in Rural areas across Africa, frail grandmothers and female children were left to fend for orphans with little or no resources, the nearest clinic is a 35km walk away, safe and healthy drinking water a luxury. Somehow they would still manage to smile, the African smile!
Grandmothers were getting together and forming co-operatives, sewing, knitting and sending orphans to school, feeding them. Heartbroken and touched by such resilience, we decided to help out by sponsoring children to get an education; helping these community based programs and embarked on an ambitious program to build clinics in rural areas across Africa.
They decided to make a difference now so these kids and rural communities would be able to make a difference tomorrow. This saw the birth of Canada Rural Folk of Africa Foundation, incorporated in Canada as a not-for-profit organization in 2010 and another Chapter registered in Zimbabwe as the Rural Folk of Zimbabwe Foundation. They are currently working on establishing Chapters in Zambia, Malawi, Kenya and Ghana.
Here at BCG we salute you for your work in Africa, to learn more about the Canada Rural Folk of Africa Foundation visit www.ruralfolksofafrica.org and follow them on Twitter @RuralFolksAfric.
