Women for Women in Africa (WFWIA) is an Australian-based, volunteer-run charity creating lasting change in Kibera—Africa’s largest slum—through the power of education and training. Imagine growing up in a place where over one million people live in an area that is 630 acres (the size of 10 MCG fields), where families of up to 10 people are crammed in to mud and tin huts with no running water, elec
tricity or any type of a sewerage system. This place is called Kibera, one of Africa’s largest slums on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. You would imagine that in Kibera hopelessness prevails above all else in the minds of its inhabitants....but this is not the case. These are people who are full of the most heartwarming hope, strength and determination to do all they can do, and not only for themselves, but for their whole family, as they strive to move away from the slums of Kibera. People who, if they could just be offered that initial helping hand would make their own difference to the world. WFWIA provides this hand. As the organisation continues the grow it currently has 260 sponsored students who are guaranteed a primary, secondary and post secondary education, a growing number of students who are able to attend a newly built informal school on the edge of the slum; women from the slums are receiving skills training and hundreds of men, women and children have been assisted with medical care. WFWIA believes that it is not about pity, it’s about making a difference. For information on how to support this cause please go to the website or contact the organisations wonderful creator Marguerite Ryan at [email protected] or Michael Buckley at [email protected]. WFWIA is a Member of ACFID- a self-regulating body of Australian NFPs. We abide by the ACFID Code of Conduct, found at http://www.acfid.asn.au/code-of-conduct/code-of-conduct .
