The Challenges
We can only help the people of Africa work on overcoming the challenges they face if we are engaged with those challenges. Please read through the information and see why, and how, we have to act now to give the people of Africa the means to develop themselves and their communities.
HIV / AIDS
We know how to overcome AIDS. We know how to prevent millions of needless deaths. We know it can be done with urgent sustained and strategic action.
Bill Clinton
Female Genital Mutilation
Female Genital Mutilation has nothing to do with culture, tradition or religion. It is a torture and a crime, which needs to be fought against.
Waris Dirie
Child Soldiers
In counselling sessions they said they had only killed small children. They believed that made it a smaller sin.
Valerie Msoka
Malaria
Malaria kills over a million people in Africa each year; the majority are young children. Around 10,000 women die each year from problems associated with malaria infection during pregnancy. This tragedy need not happen.
Tony Blair
Famine
More than 30 million people are now at risk of starvation in southern Africa and the Horn of Africa. All of these predominantly agricultural societies are also battling serious AIDS epidemics. This is no coincidence: AIDS and famine are directly linked.
Kofi Annan
Poverty
My heroes are those men and women who have committed themselves to fighting poverty wherever that is to be found in the world.
Nelson Mandela
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