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Africa Humanitarian Action (AHA) is a non-governmental organization that provides relief services to countries in Africa. It was founded by Dr. David Zawde in 1994 in response to the Rwandan genocide. In 1994, the Rwandan genocide occurred. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed in Rwanda, Africa.
Gift of the Givers (founded as Waqful Waqifin) [1] [2] is a South African non-governmental organisation [3] and disaster relief group, [4] and Africa's largest independent humanitarian organisation. [5] It was established to offer disaster relief and response, together with other humanitarian work, with the aim to reach people worldwide. [6]
The United States President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief ( PEPFAR) is a United States governmental initiative to address the global HIV/AIDS epidemic and help save the lives of those suffering from the disease. Launched by U.S. President George W. Bush in 2003, as of May 2020, PEPFAR has provided about $90 billion in cumulative funding for ...
ReliefWeb ( RW) is a humanitarian information portal founded in 1996. As of July 2023, it hosts more than one million humanitarian situation reports, press releases, evaluations, guidelines, assessments, maps and infographics. [1] The portal is an independent source of information, designed specifically to assist the international humanitarian ...
The Christian African Relief Trust (CART) is an independent humanitarian agency operated by volunteers for the specific purpose of providing individual and community development and disaster relief. The company was founded in 1982 and is currently active in Africa and India. The non profit organization is based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire ...
Humanitarian aid is material and logistic assistance, usually in the short-term, to people in need. Among the people in need are the homeless, refugees, and victims of natural disasters, wars, and famines. The primary objective of humanitarian aid is to save lives, alleviate suffering, and maintain human dignity .
In this article, NGOs in West Africa will be divided into three categories: African national NGOs, African international NGOs, and non-African international NGOs. NGOs stand for non-governmental organizations. [1] These organizations are mostly non-profit and mostly work independently from the government, they have specific aims that range from ...
Humanitarianism in Africa refers to the intentions and actions of people, nations, and organizations to alleviate human suffering in Africa. Humanitarian policies have focused on improving problems in Africa such as poverty, poor-health, corruption, and ethnic/inter-state conflict. Prominent entities which engage in humanitarian action in ...