Featured Projects
We provide resource identification and coordination, fiscal sponsorship, travel planning and coordination, and consulting for select projects. Donate online now to our current projects:
Current Projects
BaoBao Festival
West African Dancing and Drumming Festival that educates, entertains and builds community, through artistic performances and educational events.
Ghana Education Alliance
A project of the 1000-voices African singing community, supporting the Christ Family Academy elementary school in Ghana.
Ghana Opportunity Fund
Supporting education and lab-in-a-box science curricula development in Ghana
Here are a few highlights from recent years:
Hope Again Uganda Children Soldiers Conference
August 27-29, 2008
110 fomer child soldiers met in Uganda at the Hope Again Uganda conference, including girls and boys, young women and young men ages 14 to 26. Africa Centre was honored to help local Boulder student Zack Gross make his vision into a reality. Africa Centre provided fiscal sponsorship and coordination support to Zack, as he and his team raised over $35,000 in funds and hold the conference in Uganda. (Video and article)
Alexander Dawson Africa Program & Exhibit
March 2007
Students and teachers at Alexander Dawson School chose Africa as the theme for a week-long session in March 2007. Africa Centre provided coordination of a museum exhibit as well as helped identify drumming teacher and caterer, and other resources for the week.
Books for Africa
Ongoing
The students and teachers of Alexander Dawson School collected 6,000 quality books, with the fiscal sponsorship and coordination assistance of the Africa Centre. The Africa Centre developed guidelines for appropriate books, helped identify publishers for textbook donations, and coordinated the travel for the group of 13 students and 10 parents that distributed the books and soccer balls, and built desks for twelve schools in Kenya in July 2004. Other recipients include schools in Ghana and Uganda.
Africa Extravaganza
February 2004
University of Denver
Provided materials, posters, and cloths for table displays by region. Helped coordinate performers and caterers. LogoLigi dance troupe performed at the event.
Africa in the Rockies
April 5-6, 2003
University of Colorado, Boulder and Boulder Museum of Contemporary Arts
With a grant from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the University of Colorado's Laura DeLuca and the Africa Centre partnered to publish the Directory of Colorado Africanist Resources, provide seminars for 60 K-12 teachers on the first day, and a second day open to the public to introduce African cultural resources to the community.