Your continued support is empowering small businesses. Our microfinance or microcredit loans give individuals a helping hand to get their businesses going or to help them grow their existing businesses.   Katimu is one of the small business owners that recently benefited from a microfinance loan.  

In this video, she expresses her gratitude for the microfinance loan that will help her start her business.

Your continued support is enabling students, like Saffie and Mohamed, to complete their education. Saffie received financial support and school supplies for class 5 (or 5th grade).  She enjoys social studies and hopes to become a nurse when she grows up.   Mohamed, who is also in class 5,  received financial support and school supplies for this school year as well.  His favorite subject is mathematics and he hopes to become a teacher when he grows up. 

Thanks so much for your support which helped us purchase the Rasberry Pi 3 computers.  You can see some of the computers and one of them in operation in the included photos.

We are in the process of doing some software updates before shipping them out. This will include some software from the Web Unplugged site - http://oer2go.org.  

We are extremely grateful to two volunteers who have worked on this project. They have been amazing.

Thank you for your support in our ongoing efforts to reverse deforestation in Freetown, Sierra Leone. It is currently the dry season in Freetown so the next set of seedlings will not be planted until mid-May. We have targeted areas that can be seen in the photos below.

Your support has helped Sarah grow her business. With the microfinance loan she received, she is now selling fast food and is supporting her family.  In the video, she tells us

Hi, my name is Sarah and I am one of the beneficiaries of Develop Africa microfinance loan. I have been part of the scheme for one year now. I was in the provision business, but I changed to fast food  because it is growing faster than the coal and provision business

Many families live in extreme poverty in Freetown.  Thanks to your support Marion, a struggling young mom, was provided with a range of items including two dozen eggs, two boxes of cornflakes, a tin of Ovaltine, sugar, two rolls of milk and some funds to cover other needs such as rice.

 We are delighted to share with you that Develop Africa is an organization that is vetted by GlobalGiving and was a top-ranked organization in 2017! 

Poverty prevents millions of Nigerian youths from going to college. Thanks to your generous support a scholarship was awarded to Chiamaka through our partner organization in Nigeria, S.M.I.L.E. 

She tells us in her own words how much this scholarship meant to her.

While the funds raised were not enough for Momoh to purchase a taxi cab, he is thankful for the support he has received and is moving forward with his small business venture.   His goal is to be able to purchase, register and insure a taxi cab. He will then use the proceeds from his taxi service to support his family.

hanks to your donations we were able to provide more malaria tests to children in Sierra Leone. While mosquito bed nets provide very effective protection against malaria during the night, they do not protect children from exposure to mosquitoes in the early evening (before bedtime) when mosquitoes are active. Malaria causes unnecessary sickness, hospitalization, and deaths which can easily be prevented.