COLORADO-BASED AID & VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
AfricAid Address: 25958 Genesee Trail Rd PMB-234, Golden, CO 80401
Tel: 720-746-1792 Email: info@africaid.com
http://www.africaid.com/
AfricAid is a non-profit organization, founded in 2000, which works to provide African girls with educational opportunities. AfricAid really began in 1996 with the dream of an eleven-year-old girl, Ashley Shuyler, who went on safari to Kenya and Tanzania. There, she witnessed real poverty for the first time. Ashley's dream was to focus on a way to help those who might not otherwise be able to afford or even have access to educational opportunities.
African AIDS Orphan Project Mount Calvary Lutheran Church
Contact: Carl Forsberg
Address: 3485 Stanford Court, Boulder, CO 80303
Tel: 303-494-1215 Fax: 303-554-1469 Email: bouldercarl@msn.com
http://www.mountcalvary-boulder.org/Ministries/africa/africa_index.htm
Based in Tanzania, this African lead project deals with care, education and prevention issues for AIDS sufferers and/or AIDS orphans. 100% of funds go to Africa. No administrative, travel or other expenses will be deducted. Volunteers are also needed for education and work trips for supported projects in the Tanzania area.
Alliance for Youth Achievement Address: 534 Commons Drive Suite 100, Golden, CO 80401
Tel: 303-526-5219 Fax: 303-526-2922 Email: info@allforyouth.org
http://www.allforyouth.org/
Helping orphans and street children around the world by partnering with innovative organizations doing wonderful work caring for and educating the children.
BCAP Embraces the World Contact: Thomas M. Hopson
Address: 2118 14th Street, Boulder, CO 80302
Tel: 303-492-3524 Email: Thomas.Hopson@colorado.edu
BCAP Embraces the World (BEW) is a group affiliated with the Boulder County Aids Project (BCAP). It was founded in 2001 by board members of BCAP along with other professionals in Boulder County to increase local awareness of the global problems as a result of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in order to obtain more support from the local community. Typically, each of us involved with BEW is affiliated with some non-profit organization overseas that works with the AIDS plight. We meet under the umbrella of BEW for mutual fundraising, educational outreach projects and general support.
BeadforLife
Address: 1143 Portland Place, Suite 1, Boulder CO 80304 USA
Phone: 303-554-5901 - Ext 101 - Patty
Email: patty@beadforlife.org
http://www.beadforlife.org
BeadforLife eradicates extreme poverty by creating bridges of understanding between impoverished Africans and concerned world citizens. Ugandan women turn colorful recycled paper into beautiful beads, and people who care open their hearts, homes and communities to buy and sell the beads. The beads thus become income, food, medicine, school fees -- and hope. It is a small miracle that enriches us all. All profits from BeadforLife are invested in community development projects that generate income and help people work their way out of poverty.
Center for African Affairs Contact: Godwin Omane, Executive Director
Address: 526 Crossing Circle, Castle Rock, CO 80108
Tel: 303-790-0150 Fax: 303-790-0150 Email: Afroaffairs@aol.com
We are a non-profit organization for the welfare and improvement of children and women in Africa.
Colorado Friends of the Lost Boys of Sudan Contact: Jean Wood
Tel: 303-441-5658 Email: jeanwood@boulderco.com
http://www.coloradolostboysofsudan.org
The Lost Boys of Sudan were among nearly 16,000 boys (ages 5-11) forced to flee from their Southern Sudan Villages in 1987 when Islamic militants attacked their villages killing most all men, women, and girls. The boys that survived have spent years in a refugee camp in Kenya. In 2001 the US government helped to resettle approx. 3,600 in the US, nine of whom have landed in the Boulder area.
Colorado-Ghana Children’s Fund
Address: 1820 Lee Street, Lakewood, CO 80202
Tel: 303-202-1979 Email: info@cgcfund.org
http://www.cgcfund.org/
A non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to moving Street Children in Ghana from the streets to schools.
Consortium for Community Centered Comprehensive Child Care Corp
Contact: Susan Fox
Address: 1740 High Street, Denver, CO 80218
Tel: 303-393-8650 Email: sfoxjambo@msn.com
http://www.kilimanjarochildrenshospital.org
In 1984 the Consortium for Community Centered Comprehensive Child Care (C6) was established in Denver, Colorado as an all volunteer, tax exempt, charitable organization to raise money to build a children’s hospital in Tanzania, East Africa. As a result of our efforts, the Kilimanjaro Children's Hospital (known in Tanzania as the Selian Lutheran Hospital) was completed and serves 40 to 50 thousand patients annually. A second hospital, seven miles away in the city of Arusha, is now underway and will be known as the Arusha Lutheran Medical Centre.
DAWA Contact: Anna Manega
Address: UNA-USA, Colorado Division, 980 Grant Street, Denver, CO 80203
Tel: 303-832-4765
http://www.dawaaids.org
DAWA is a coalition of individuals, organizations and the City of Denver working to improve the health of all people, especially children in Denver and Africa.
Denver for Africa Contact: Kirstin Osgood
Address: 3231 West 30th Avenue, Denver, CO 80211
Tel: 303-475-0678 Email: info@denverforafrica.com
http://www.denverforafrica.com/
Denver for Africa is committed to causing a movement that is owned by citizens; so that we give a voice to community, a bridge to global partnerships and a foundation for bold, effective leadership.
Ecumenical Refugee Services Contact: Patricia Vorwerk
Address: 190 E 9th Avenue, Denver, CO 80203
Tel: 303-860-0128 Email: Patricia@ersden.org
http://www.ersden.org
Ecumenical Refugee Services (ERS) helps to resettle legal refugees and asylees, by providing them assistance with educational needs, family and social services, medical attention, employment, and cultural orientation. The main goal of ERS is to help refugees become self-sufficient and independent as quickly as possible
Education for All Contact: Linda Nechrony
Address: 1235 St Paul St, Denver, CO 80206
Tel: 303-863-7080 Email: EducationForAll@yahoo.com
Education for All is a Colorado project helping township schools in South Africa. We work with a variety of school programs – adults as well as youth. School library books and teaching aids are a priority. In addition, EFA is working to set up township high school computer centers.
Eleos Project Sudan Cherry Hills Community Church
Contact: Mark Purington
Address: 3900 E Grace Blvd, Highlands Ranch, CO 80126
Tel: 303-229-1044 Email: mpurington@eleosproject.org
http://www.eleosproject.org
Since 1999, Cherry Hills Community Church Discover the World teams have traveled to southern Sudan to encourage, support and deliver humanitarian aid to the people of Sudan.
HOPE Bracelet Project: Helping Organizations Promote Education
Cunningham Foundation
Contact: Betsy Wiersma
Address: 10795 E Powers Drive, Englewood, CO 80111
Tel: 720-200-0271 Email: Betsy@betsywiersma.com
http://cindybeads.com/projectmercy.htm
Artists and craftsmen from the American bead community have come together with this big idea to support vocational education, medical care and community development for Project Mercy in Africa. In 2004, 1000 HOPE Bracelets made by the Women's Skills Enhancement Program in Yetebon, Ethiopia, and featuring a special commemorative bead and clasp will be sold in Denver and on-line raising $100,000. In 2004 in Africa, participants were trained in the actual lampwork bead making thus seeding a new source of revenue. 100% of the HOPE Bracelet sales price of $100 is returning to Project Mercy. See web site for more details and link to bracelet sales.
Kenyan Children Foundation
Contact: Joanne LeClair
Address: PO Box 261116, Highlands Ranch, CO 80163-1116
Tel: 303-773-0919 Email: helpchildren@kenyanchildrenfoundation.org
http://www.kenyanchildrenfoundation.org
The Kenyan Children Foundation (KCF) was founded in 1994. Our mission is “…to impact people’s lives through compassionate involvement with Kenya’s street children.” Since its inception, KCF has committed its resources (financial and volunteers) to providing basic human needs (food, shelter, clothing, medical services) and educational opportunities to homeless and destitute children in Kenya.
Lalmba Address: 7685 Quartz Street, Arvada, CO 80007
Tel: 303-420-1810 Fax: 303-467-1232 Email: lalmba@aol.com
http://www.lalmba.org
Lalmba is an African word meaning "A Place of Hope". We are a group of committed professionals who search out the most remote parts of Africa in which to work - places where other organizations have chosen not to work. We specialize in providing medical care to people who have no place else to turn, and to orphan children who recognize us as their family now. Our work is not easy - but it certainly is rewarding.
The Mali Assistance Project
Contact: Karen Marx
Address: PO Box 20902, Boulder, CO 80308-3902
Tel: 303-415-0106 Email: info@maliassist.org or maliassistance@comcast.net
http://www.maliassist.org
The Mali Assistance Project (MAP) was founded in 1999 to help the villagers of Foutaka Zambougou, Mali, West Africa and surrounding areas to survive immediate crises of famine, drought and disease, and to build a sustainable infrastructure for their future health and economic stability.
One World Running (formerly Shoes for Africa) Contacts: Mike Sandrock or Ana Weir
Address: PO Box 2223, Boulder, CO 80306
Tel: 303-473-1314 or 303-828-4391
Email: anaweir@yahoo.com or sandrock@boulderrunning.com
http://www.boulderrunning.com/oneworldrunning/
Since 1986, a group of runners in Boulder, Colorado, has collected, washed and sent new and “near-new” athletic shoes, T-shirts and shorts, along with medicine and school and art supplies to needy athletes and children around the world. The group is a 100-percent volunteer organization.
Peace Corps Office on the CU-Boulder Campus Address: UMC 1B72A, Campus Box 207, Boulder, CO 80309-0207
Tel: (303) 492-8454 Email: peacecor@colorado.edu
http://www.peacecorps.gov
Peace Corps is an organization that sends volunteers to Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, South Pacific, Carribean, Central and South America. The volunteers work in a field of their choice, such as education, health care, sustainable agriculture, business/nonprofit development, info tech, engineering, forestry, HIV/AIDS awareness, and much more. The Peace Corps will pay for ALL expenses, including travel, room, board, monthly stipend, health and dental care, and also award the volunteer an additional $6000 at the end of their service.
Peace Corps (Denver)
Address: 1999 Broadway Suite 2205, Denver, CO 80202-3050
Tel: 800-424-8580 Fax: 303-844-7010
http://www.peacecorps.gov
Peace Corps is an organization that sends volunteers to Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, South Pacific, Caribbean, Central and South America. The volunteers work in a field of their choice, such as education, health care, sustainable agriculture, business/nonprofit development, info tech, engineering, forestry, HIV/AIDS awareness, and much more. The Peace Corps will pay for ALL expenses, including travel, room, board, monthly stipend, health and dental care, and also award the volunteer an additional $6000 at the end of their service.
Peace Initiatives International-Africa (PII-A)
Contact: Karambu Ringera
Address: 2101 E Harvard Ave #108, Denver, CO 80210
Tel: 303-282-0877 Email: ringerambu@yahoo.com
http://www.pii-a.com/
Peace Initiatives International-Africa works with grassroots communities to overcome devastation of conflict and disease in Africa and further peace and justice issues on the continent.
Project C.U.R.E. Address: 9055 East Mineral Circle Suite 110, Centennial, CO 80112
Tel: 303-792-0729 Fax: 303-792-0744 Email: projectcureinfo@projectcure.org
http://projectcure.org
Since 1987, Project C.U.R.E. has delivered donated medical supplies and equipment to the most desperately ill and needy people in more than 100 countries around the world. Project C.U.R.E. is a registered trademark of the Benevolent Healthcare Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, humanitarian relief organization that collects medical surplus and donates it to developing countries.
Project Mercy Contacts: Noel and Tammy Cunningham, Cunningham Foundation
Address: 10795 E Powers Drive, Englewood, CO 80111
Email: Tzheart@aol.com
http://www.projectmercy.org
International relief ministry serves and has served African people over the last 25 years. Originally, Project Mercy provided emergency relief and relocation assistance to Ethiopian refugees. Their work now meets the needs of refugees in seven additional countries: Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Djibouti, Ivory Coast, Liberia, and Sudan, and also provides community development and self-help programs for people with desperate needs in Africa.
RhythmRide for Zimbabwe Contact: Loren Mach
Address: PO Box 249, Eldorado Springs, CO 80025
Tel: 303-480-8878 Email: loren@zimwalk.org
http://www.zimwalk.org
RhythmRide for Zimbabwe is a 2000+ mile cycle tour along the Pacific Crest Trail from Canada to Mexico to raise awareness and monetary support to help fight poverty, starvation and AIDS in Zimbabwe. I will be sharing the beautiful Zimbabwe Shona music along the way on my journey. 100% of the money raised will be donated to the following non-profit organizations The Village Health Project, Nhimbe for Progress and Shungu DzeVana Trust.
United Children's Fund Inc
Address: PO Box 20341, Boulder, CO 80308
Tel: 800-615-5229 Fax: 303-469-4339 Email: United@unchildren.org
http://www.unchildren.org
United Children's Fund provides financial assistance and humanitarian support to people living in some of the poorest regions of Sub-Sahara Africa. Assistance is focused on those living in the remote villages and rural areas where very little international and other outside aid is available. Since 1994, United Children's Fund has provided food, clothing, medical equipment and services, educational opportunities, housing, village workshops regarding AIDS education and prevention, and care for those suffering with the disease.
Urgent Action Fund Address: 1123 Spruce St, Boulder, CO 80302
Tel: 303-442-2388 Fax: 303-442-2370
Email: urgentact@urgentactionfund.org
http://www.urgentactionfund.org
Urgent Action Fund is committed to a vision of human rights that is fully inclusive of the experiences and perspectives of women and girls. The Fund is both a grant maker and an initiator of programs, engaging in a range of activities to equip women’s human rights activists with the resources necessary to respond to emerging conflict or crisis.
Village by Village
Address: PO Box 1669, Nederland, CO 80466
Tel: 720-564-9612 Email: villagebyvillage@earthlink.net
A non-profit organization dedicated to training Tanzanians in becoming practitioners of Life Healing, a comprehensive and natural form of healthcare we have been practicing for nearly 25 years. Training will begin in the village of Usa River. After training, we will then help establish a teaching clinic, which will become a professional clinic run completely by the Tanzanians.
Water for People
Contact: Steve Werner, Executive Director
Address: 6666 W Quincy Ave, Denver, CO 80235
Tel: 303-734-3490 Fax: 303-734-3499 Email: swerner@waterforpeople.org
http://www.waterforpeople.org
Water for People is an international nonprofit development organization committed to the long-term impact on increased access to safe drinking water and improved sanitation and health. Water for People helps the most impoverished people worldwide improve their quality of live by supporting sustainable drinking water, sanitation and hygiene projects. Water for People and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have formed a unique partnership called Water for Africa. The work of Water for Africa aims to help the growing number of urban poor in the unplanned and informal settlements of African cities obtain safe drinking water.
World Extremities
Address: 3992 Riviera Grove Suite 200, Colorado Springs, CO 80922
Tel: 719-237-3258 Email: worldextremities@adelphia.net
http://www.worldextremities.org
Our goal is to reach out to amputee mine victims throughout the most needed places in the world including Ethiopia, Kenya and Angola. We provide them with resources to obtain prosthetics and rehabilitation services in their locations. We also provide food for the families of these victims.