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Growing up as a child in Africa is a real challenge inasmuch as most people live on less than one U.S. dollar a day. The extreme poverty creates a breeding ground for diseases and the cost of full course treatment of disease such as Malaria puts a strain on the family finance. This vicious cycle diseases and poverty has a negative financial impact on the community, the village, the region and ultimately on the country.
The Education and Healthcare sectors are impacted to such a great extent that culturally induced behaviors, such fatalities have a strong hold on our people.
Increasingly, the international community and countless Non-Governmental Organizations are paying attention to the plight of our continent. Yet we Africans appear only sporadically if not seem entirely absent from the forefront of the global fight against the poverty and disease that cripples our nations. Much has been done for us and more need to be done by us: Children and Hope of Africa.
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Grateful Afrika, as its name implies, was conceived as a gesture of gratitude on behalf of all Africans who have benefited and continue to benefit from the various programs and assistance provided by Non Governmental Organizations, institutions and governments around the world.
Grateful Afrika aspires to give the children of Africa the opportunity to assume a leadership role, in the global quest for a better Africa. Only Africans can bring the cultural perspective required for the buy-in of our people in terms of programs that best capture and exploit the potential of our great nations.
Our ambition is to bring about a sustainable positive change and dynamic growth through education, information, and disease prevention. Together we will prevail as our mission to restore dignity and hope to Africa the birth place of civilization is one both noble and divine.
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