AfricAid
AfricAid is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that supports girls’ education in Africa in order to provide young women with the opportunity to transform their own lives and the futures of their communities. It was founded in 2001 by Ashley Shuyler, who had traveled to Tanzania in 1996 and witnessed the country’s enormous educational needs while there.
Since its inception, AfricAid has raised over $600,000 in its efforts to help support the educational needs of girls in Africa. With these funds, AfricAid has provided educational opportunities for thousands of students in nine schools across northern Tanzania. Specifically, AfricAid has provided over 200 secondary school scholarships, built classrooms at three overcrowded schools, started a school lunch program, provided computers for vocational training, and supplied textbooks, school supplies, and other classroom materials to needy Tanzanian schools. Most recently, AfricAid has expanded its reach to establish a new, countrywide teacher training initiative aimed at improving the quality of teaching in Tanzanian classrooms, and is also in the early stages of helping to facilitate a new program that will educate and train Maasai women to become assistant medical officers in their rural villages.
AfricAid is headquartered in Golden, Colorado in the United States.