Harambee launches 2009 Fund Raising Campaign.

5 New educational projects have been selected in Kenya, Sudan, Congo, Cameroon e Mozambique. They are all promoted by African associations.

African solutions to African problems. This is the leitmotiv of the action promoted by Harambee Africa International onlus. In 2009 a new Fund Raising campaign is launched in support of 5 development projects in Sub-Saharan Africa. Education is the key, but the projects selected by the International Committee (representative of Italy, Spain, France, Ireland, Portugal and United States) aim at satisfying different needs coming from different African contexts.

In Kenya, the Strathmore University will assure adequate training  to teachers of elementary and secondary schools of Nairobi and of other parts of the Country. The courses aim at strengthening the sense of responsibility and the right motivation. The project, which will last for 3 years, will reach 50,000 teachers by involving 2,500,000 children. A demanding challenge, above all in the suburbs where the Governmental funds are scarce, salaries are low and the infrastructure are inadequate  with grave consequences even from the health and hygiene point of view. In Sudan, Canossiana Foundation will have the opportunity to increase and strength primary school thanks to the training of the teachers in the refugee camp of Jabarona, one of the most crowded of the suburbs of Khartoum. The project, which will last for 1 year, aims at reaching 43 teachers with an impact on the primary education of  1,330 children. Two maternal and primary schools, addressed to 360 children, will be realized in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The project is promoted by the Congolese committee  of AFEDI.
A different project is promoted by ASIDH (Association for the Integral Health and Human Development) in Mozambique: the project, which will last 1 year, aims at realizing a training course in nursery ( 2,281 theoric lessons and 341 on field activities) and will involve 30 nurses. The aim is to support the Health Department of Maputo city in the effort of assuring a better degree of health assistance to citizens. After the course, students will get a diploma recognized by the Ministry of Health and they will come back to the Health Units in the role of nurses. In Cameroon, Harambee wants to support APF (Association for the promotion of woman) which has been working for years in the improvement of socio-economic level of young marginalised women. The initiative, which will last 1year, aims at realizing vocational and human training courses in order to improve the skills of 33 young ladies, letting them have more chances in the labor market.