Africa
Where Kershaw’s Challenge first began.
Arise africa
Our 2024 Project with Arise Africa is to build classrooms, a basketball court and soccer field at McDonald Brown School, and help support the Feeding Program.
Our friendship with Arise Africa pre-dates Kershaw’s Challenge. In recent years, our commitment has been towards the McDonald Brown School, a community school near Arise, serving 350+ local children, many of whom are in the Arise Africa Child Sponsorship Program. The school continues to grow and thrive. The addition of a basketball court and a soccer field plays into the big picture – making school a safe haven and refuge for kids during the school day and after. Longer hours on the school premises affords Arise Africa additional opportunities to feed the kids another meal. We have seen time and time again the blessing that comes with sports – and our friends at Arise believe the addition of these activities would enhance their ministry outreach.
Action in africa
Our 2024 Project with Action in Africa is to assist with their kitchen renovation and fund the feeding program.
We are thrilled to welcome our newest partner, Action in Africa, to the Kershaw’s Challenge family this year! Their work in Uganda is a community-based non-profit that serves the people of Uganda. AIA’s mission is to advance the social, personal, and economic development of children, youth and adults in Uganda through greater access to education and other life-changing resources.
AIA functions out of a Community Center, where they operate all of their programs, including: Primary Partnership Program (education program to supplement educational opportunities of primary-age children), after school program, secondary and university scholarship programs, women-to-women program.
Their kitchen at the community center is in need of an update, as it feeds 500 children a day! We are excited to support this renovation AND fund the feeding program.
BEB
Our 2024 project is to help with the expansion of Children’s First Software in Zambia, Tanzania, Malawi.
It has been an honor to partner with Both Ends Believing (BEB) for multiple seasons. Their work is truly one-of-a-kind. BEB’s mission is to radically fix and change the global child welfare system – working in Africa and Latin America to identify and profile every child living in institutions and orphanages. BEB seeks to work hand in hand with the child welfare ministries of African and Latin American governments by addressing their pressing need—building and supporting a sophisticated software platform (Children First Software) that creates electronic records of individual children, giving them an official identity and laying the foundation for the planning placement (into a home) phases of software. BEB is fighting for children who are lost in the orphanages and institutions around the globe. Their mantra is that “Every child deserves a family.”
We have worked closely with BEB in the Dominican Republic, Ethiopia and Nigeria to fund the start-up of the software in these countries. We are excited to continue partnering with them to support “the next frontier” of Zambia, Tanzania and Malawi.
International Justice Mission
Our 2024 project with IJM is to help equip the IJM Ghana office for rescues and restoration.
Our partners with IJM continue to face new challenges with their work in Ghana. The prevalence of child labor trafficking on Lake Volta is rampant and IJM is determined to put an end to the injustice.
Our partnership in 2024 is to equip the IJM Ghana office and local partners to enhance investigation services and improve overall justice system performance through Investigations and Law Enforcement Development to rescue victims of slavery, restrain traffickers in Ghana’s fishing and cocoa industries and restore survivors to safety and strength. Until all are free, the work of IJM continues.