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| Last updated on August 14, 2008 |
The mission of Africa's Children's Fund is to assist under-served children and their families in the United States, the Caribbean and Africa to improve the quality of their lives and civic contribution through educational, affordable housing, nutritional and medical programs.
Description:
Through our agency, ACF works to build ties, remove barriers, and promote success among and between youth and their families. Our organization has assisted over 40,000 children and their families through various programs listed below that we have implemented:
AIDS-Orphans Project - provides HIV/AIDS prevention education to youth and adults and also provides supportive services to orphans and their families affected by AIDS (Atlanta and Africa).
Project EXCEL - provides tutoring, mentoring, prevention education, nutritional, therapeutic and leadership, life and employability skills training to youth and their families (Atlanta).
Harmony Village Housing Program – provides affordable/transitional housing and supportive services to homeless/low income families (Atlanta)
Gift of Books – a program in which we collect and ship books to help build or rebuild libraries in disadvantaged communities (Africa and the Caribbean).
Harmony Children's Center - A center designed to provide housing, food, education, training, healthcare, and other services to orphans and other vulnerable children (Nigeria).
History:
Africa's Children's Fund history begins in 1993 with Victor Mbaba, President & Founder. It is his past that compels him to work so diligently to ensure the future of Africa's children both here in Atlanta and abroad. Growing up in Nigeria, during a period of severe civil unrest, Mbaba's education was disrupted for three years. In 1967, his village was bombed leaving him orphaned and his family homeless and transient. These painful memories spurred Mbaba on to secure to the best of his ability, the best and brightest future for Africa's children by creating Africa’s Children’s Fund, whose sole mission is to implement and support development and relief programs.
Africa's Children's Fund (ACF), a private nonprofit 501 C-3 organization headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. was founded in 1993. Mbaba, who has worked with children for over twenty years, saw a critical need to motivate and support families and communities to nurture and support all children. Since its inception, ACF has developed and implemented programs that positively impact the lives of children in the U.S. as well as several countries around the world. ACF’s youth and family development programs include tutoring, mentoring, youth leadership training, affordable housing, books donation & library development, HIV/AIDS intervention, and scholarships for orphans.
ACF has an administrative office located at 4470 Chamblee-Dunwoody Road, Suite 350, in Atlanta and program facilities located at 2270 Flat Shoals Road in Riverdale and 600 Mountain View Drive in Stone Mountain. Our programs also operate in schools, recreational and community centers throughout Metro Atlanta. The ACF book repository and warehouse is located at 41 Industrial Way in Grantville, Georgia.
Contact people:
Office fax number: (770) 413-1350
Address:
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4470 Chamblee-Dunwoody Road, Suite 350
Atlanta, GA 30338
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Web Site: http://www.africaschildrensfund.org
Directions:
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Going I-285 North/West
Take I-285 N toward Greenville/Chattanooga
Take the N. Peachtree Road exit- Exit 30- toward N. Shallowford Road/Chamblee-Dunwoody Road
Merge onto Cotillion Drive
Turn right onto Chamblee-Dunwoody Road
Turn left into the Kroger Shopping. . . (more) |
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Youth (ages 7-17)
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