Idd Rajabu Mziray is a trainer of women empowement and gender equality projects. He is also executive director of GAI Tanzania and a member of Men EngageTanzania. …

This week we introduce to you an environmental activist and social entrepreneur, Liberatha Kawamala. Her business Libe Green Innovation is one of the International partners of the World Angel Investment Forum. That’s why her adventure is also a success story that will inspire women in her country; Can you briefly…

This week we are meeting Upendo wa Mama. We talked to Rachel Monger about her projects and women with albinism. We also asked her to share her idea of volunteering in Africa and many more; Can you briefly tell us about Upendo wa Mama? Upendo wa Mama (“Mother’s Love” in…

This week we have met the team of DoGood Africa. I call them the ‘smiling face of the African NGOs’. Unlike most nonprofits and charities in Africa, they don’t use desperate images in photography to gain empathy and contributions from donors. There are only smiling and hopeful faces on their…

You are the director of a civil society organization (SCO). We know that each country has different features of bureaucracy for civil society organizations. If you are in Africa, as NGO/SCO directors you are also trying to cope with the specific challenges facing African countries. On the other hand, there…

We are starting an Activist Africa interview series with Continent Director of Africa Asia Youth Foundation (AAYFO), Chelvin Ramsamy. Can you briefly tell us about AAYFO? Founded in 2018, AAYFO is a unique amalgamation of progressive thinking Asian and African youths collaborating to forge a common goal in stimulating youth…

The project exercises a community-based child-care approach, offering support to children in the streets, slums, and from disadvantaged backgrounds. This sustainable child-care support program aims to Rescue, Rehabilitate, Re-integrate, and Re-socialize vulnerable children back into the family unit and community. The Rescue phase starts by making contact with abandoned and…

What Are The Common Ethical Issues Within Visual Storytelling? “Depiciting ‘those in need’ as incapable and passively awaiting rescue by outsiders has to stop! It’s not only unethical. It’s also inaccurate. This type of communications is antithetical to the mission of international NGO’s, and it is racist, classist, exploitative, and immoral.” Communication Strategist Jenifer Lenfter cited from @ngostorytelling

“While donating money helps those who act on our behalf, it allows us to maintain a safe distance from the people that need our support and resources and from the situations that need real reform. Activism, on the other hand, requires our direct and compassionate involvement with the people, communities, and problems at hand, and a complex understanding of our interconnectedness.” cited from @genderpressing.com