Stories from ForAfrika
Photo Essay: Women of Africa
Thursday, 13 July 2023
ForAfrika’s chief photographer, Sulette Theron reflects on her journeys around the continent and the women she has met along the way:
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Trio in South Sudan chooses Africa
Thursday, 13 April 2023
Taking responsibility: Abeba Amene where she feels most at home – with communities in Africa Despite being known as one of the most neglected countries on earth, our humanitarian workers remain Abeba Amene could have had a successful career in international development in the United Kingdom, having studied there. But, she says: “Africa is where
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Water eases Awuru’s pain and serves a whole community in Uganda
Tuesday, 21 March 2023
The 68-year-old used to have to walk 15kms from home to get water from the river and battled to carry much back with her, so had to do the long walk every day.
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Dercia wonders what her home is like after Cyclone Freddy hit
Thursday, 09 March 2023
Escape: Dercia Jose Maunze managed to walk to safety in a neighbouring village after torrential rain caused flooding in Mabote The young student escaped the rising waters, but her village was cut off when roads were washed away Dercia Jose Maunze’s life was turned upside down when Cyclone Freddy hit her small village in the
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Cyclone Freddy uproots Maria’s crops
Tuesday, 07 March 2023
Destroyed: Maria Nguila stands among her decimated cassava crops The full-time farmer is still reeling from the damage the tropical storm wreaked on her land Maria Nguila is devastated. The 57-year-old farmer from Vilankulo in Inhambane province, Mozambique watched as Cyclone Freddy decimated her crops last week. The heavy rains caused flooding; waterlogging her groundnut
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ForAfrika responds to Cyclone Freddy
Tuesday, 07 March 2023
En route: Roads were blocked by trees that had fallen over in the tropical storm, delaying ForAfrika’s team delivering essential supplies On 24 February, Cyclone Freddy hit the coast of Mozambique as a tropical storm. Heavy rains and flooding ensued. ForAfrika was prepared for the fallout. When Cyclone Freddy made landfall in Mozambique, ForAfrika was
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Love ForAfrika
Tuesday, 14 February 2023
Love is: having a little sister to hug In very tough and often heartbreaking contexts, love and compassion for our fellow human beings is what keeps us going. Love is also what allows mothers to walk vast distances to find treatment at a malnutrition clinic or fathers to search for a better source of water,
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ForAfrika saves the lives of gunshot patients – and delivers new babies
Monday, 30 January 2023
The good nurse: Lillian Achirochan consults with a patient at the Pibor Health Care Centre. The centre in now under ForAfrika’s management Inter-communal conflict in South Sudan in December left 60 dead and many more injured and displaced. ForAfrika’s clinic staff stepped up to the task and took on emergency cases The lone teenaged gunshot
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Indigenous aid organisations have what it takes to put Africa on the road to success
Wednesday, 30 November 2022
Dr Mary Okumu: ForAfrika senior director and head of the technical unit Along with saving lives and livelihoods, Africa’s homegrown non-governmental organisations have an important role to play in establishing platforms for economic development and smoothing the way for the private sector to invest. Africa is a continent brimming with economic opportunity, one that would
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ForAfrika appears on a global stage at COP27
Wednesday, 09 November 2022
Bone dry: Isak Pretorius, ForAfrika CEO in Angola which is experiencing the worst drought in 40 years. Farming is now a futile pursuit for many. Climate change is a threat multiplier in Africa, the most vulnerable continent to its effects This week, world leaders have congregated in Egypt for the 2022 United Nations Climate Change
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