C.D. Glin lends a hand - literally - at the Matema Potato Growers Cooperative, a grantee of the USADF in Zimbabwe.
Africans Aren't Waiting for a Handout - They're Moving Forward
Images of impoverished people, perhaps in refugee camps, waiting listlessly for international assistance to save their lives, are a staple of global media coverage. The president and CEO of a U.S. government development organization sees a different Africa - one where local creativity, resilience and entrepreneurship are transforming communities, even amid a pandemic, and where respectful assistance goes a long way to support those efforts.
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Africa: Poor Communities Are Adapting, Reimagining the Future Amid Covid-19 - C.D.Glin
allAfrica, 16 July 2020
Covid-19 has changed the world, but African communities are working to innovate in the face of the crisis. One of the institutions participating in discussions with African… Read more »
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Africa: USADF Launches COVID-19 Response and Resilience-Building Program: USADF C.A.R.E.S
USADF, 20 April 2020
Today, the United States African Development Foundation launched the USADF C.A.R.E.S COVID-19 Program to build resilience among African enterprises and entrepreneurs while… Read more »
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Africa: USADF Creates Pathways To Prosperity - President and CEO C.D. Glin
USADF, 9 March 2020
Hundreds of North American, European, and African investors and potential investors gathered in the U.S. state of Florida last month, alongside government officials, utility… Read more »
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The Turkana area of northern Kenya, a county bordering South Sudan, Uganda and Ethiopia, is known as the cradle of humanity and for Lake Turkana, the largest desert lake in the ... Read more »
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Joyce Kamande and Samuel Rigu, who met at university, are using their childhood experiences on small, struggling farms to help other rural farmers. They have built Safi Organics, a ... Read more »
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Two young scientists and entrepreneurs in West Africa show how ambition and determination - and a little support - can transform plastic waste into jobs, education and hope for ... Read more »
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Nigeria's Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF) and the United States African Development Foundation (USADF) have launched a five-year partnership to address youth unemployment ... Read more »
