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Exchange Visits
Africa Rising is building a network of learning and sharing among effective grassroots African organizations.  A critical way of strengthening ties in the network is to arrange visits and face to face meeting between organizations.  June 2010 was an exciting time of seeing Africa Rising partners connect. Read more...
WOMEDA Success Stories

Mary Muhara, Africa Rising's East Africa Liason, visited WOMEDA and met with four beneficiaries of WOMEDA's services. Here are their personal stories of how WOMEDA's legal counsel changed their lives. Read More...

NACWOLA Memory Books

Through the efforts of Africa Rising and several partners, Ugandan women will start a business to generate income for their families and contribute to the psychosocial support of other HIV positive women. Read More...

African Leaders Speak
At the first annual Africa Rising networking meeting which took place July, 2009 in Nairobi Kenya, African leaders spoke. And Africa Rising was there to listen.
Duke University students at the Millenium School

Africa Rising works by extending the networks of the organizations we support. This summer we did this for the Millenium School in Mityana, Uganda. With guidance from Africa Risin, some faculty and staff of Duke University’s Global Health Institute created a summer project that would benefit the Millenium School and some Duke students who would carry out the project. Eight Duke students traveled to Uganda for two months.

A quick response for internally displaced people

Nairobi Chapel, a church in Nairobi, has worked successfully for many years to transcend ethnic differences within its congregation. When the ethnic violence broke out in Nairobi, people’s homes were destroyed and many camped as refugees on land near Nairobi Chapel. The church and its daughter churches began immediately to care for the internally displaced people, taking some into their homes, providing others with food and meeting other basic needs.

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Origins | The Raising of Africa Rising

In 2002 a Kenyan business woman was expanding her horizons by getting a theological degree in Nairobi. For a course practicum, she spent time with women infected with HIV in one of Nairobi’s slums called Kware. It sounds like a rock quarry because it was one.

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