African Education, Enterprise, Infrastructure & NGOs - AfriCoWorking
Many folks want to run businesses, schools or NGOs, but don't anticipate all the challenges they will face, or even recognise they can ask online for help.
Enterprise & NGO in Africa
Africans are hugely resourceful, despite lacking hugely in resources. Low tech solutions are often the order of the day, and considerable enterprise is needed to move the dial in many areas in rural Africa.
In particular, there is very little local infrastructure, meaning social enterprise or NGO activists and organisers are needed to create at least some infrastructure.
As such, being super busy, Africans often don’t see immediate benefit from engaging in social media, except to ask for money. Of course developed world folks find this rather blunt.
However, with many Africans it’s possible with a little questioning to see they have built local NGO operations, understand projects in a basic way, and can be very useful project contacts on the ground for organisations seeking trusted and dynamic individuals to run projects on the ground in Africa.
So, almost despite these factors, volunteers to provide support to African projects are always welcome. Typically many rural Africans can only see Facebook, which is subsidised, but not much else due to web access / data packet costs. And that’s often the one person in a village who has a smart phone.
Early Years Education in Africa
There are certain folk in Africa who are leaders in early years education, like Okware Peter in Uganda.
This year, 2022, he was just invited to the USA, to talk about the work he has been doing.
In a very small way, Collaborative Leaders, an open group in Facebook, is seeking to support work like this going on in Africa. Collectively we are taking a lead from folk like Okware Peter, and then seeking to provide support to other Educator Leaders through cloud buddies and technology innovations.
Click here to visit the EYE Guides in Collaborative Leaders.
One possibility here is that crypto coins might galvanise the interaction schools have with local business communities, and this is a path being explored.
In other cases, it can be that school buildings need renovation. School fees alone may not cover these costs, but parallel entrepreneurial activity may be able to help bring in revenue that can be redirected. For example, it may be possible to pick up on travel tourism in the area, and indeed any big events being held nearby certainly bring entrepreneurial opportunity.
Volunteers to Help
The following NGO projects would be very keen to get volunteers to help, in whichever way volunteers feel most comfortable.
School building repairs in SW Lagos, Nigeria - Existing Project
Additional enterprise revenue, SW Lagos, Nigeria - New Project
Saving & Loans Microfinance, Gitega, Burundi - Existing Project
Blog Writing, Gitega, Burundi - New Project
Turning plastic bottles into house bricks, Gitega, Burundi - New Project
School building, Uganda - New Project
Regenerative Agriculture, Uganda - New Project
School girl education, Mulanje, Malawi - Existing Project
Regenerative Agriculture, Mulanje, Malawi - Existing Project
Low cost construction projects, Expert Shadow & Apprentice, Africa Wide - New Project
Skilled teaching schemes, Uganda - Existing Project
Recycled computers - Kenya, new project
To volunteer for these projects, press the button below for WhatsApp access, and let us know which project you want to help.