Educational Nonprofit Blog
Our educational nonprofit blog features relevant topics and highlight stories of key youth, educators, and staff from the field. In addition to participants stories, we also accept blog submissions that align with our mission
2020 Impact Report – Building | Leading | Emerging
We are proud to present our 2020 Impact Report,”Building Skills and Resilience, Leading through Adversity, Emerging Stronger Together,” with the numbers and stories to prove how youth in rural Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda communities have stepped up throughout 2020.
Alumni Stand Out On World Youth Skills Day 2021
Asante Africa program participants demonstrated ingenuity and tenacity by starting local, small-scale businesses to support their families and help ease difficulties experienced by their communities during the pandemic. #WYSD21
Celebrating the positive impact of fathers
This Father’s Day, Asante Africa Foundation is celebrating the positive impact dads have on their children’s lives; empowering their kids to grow into healthy, happy women and men through sacrifice and hard work.
Small Steps to Great Entrepreneur Outcomes
Leakey Lenamotina is a successful entrepreneur and leader with a humble background near Maralal, Kenya. Leakey credits much of his current success and business skills to Asante Africa Foundation.
Jack Dorsey’s $3M Funds Girls’ Ed in Sub-Saharan Africa
Jack Dorsey’s #StartSmall initiative dispersed $3 million in grants. This funding was allocated to four grassroots organizations focused on breaking down educational barriers for women in sub-Saharan Africa.
Girls’ Education is Essential to Combat Climate Change
The World Bank and environmental nonprofit organizations agree that educating girls could be a game-changer in the quest to solve the problems presented by climate change. Unfortunately, in rural Africa, the evidence suggests that major climate-driven events cause young girls’ education to suffer.
LEI Program Inspires a New Student Venture: Fish Farming
LEI Program Inspires a New Student Venture: Fish Farming April 6, 2021 At Magamba Secondary School in Tanzania, fish farming is creating quite a stir. Students from neighboring schools, even some colleges, and community members come to see the fish ponds that...
Young Africans Respond to COVID-19 Through Their Innovations
Youth driven innovations have spanned from all corners of the African continent to address issues such as awareness, reaching out to the disabled and needy, using robotics for disinfecting, diagnosing, and policing, safe and fast testing and contact tracing.
Education As A Pathway To Promote Gender Equality And Women Leadership
East African women are emerging leaders in their communities. They are modernizing their rural villages by representing their viewpoints and affecting change around them. These young women in leadership are empowered by Asante Africa’s educational programs where inspiring women leaders.
New Partnership with the Embassy of Japan in Kenya
Nairobi, Kenya — — The Embassy of Japan in Kenya contracts a grant to Asante Africa Foundation for the construction of classrooms and toilets at Oloorng’anayio Primary School. In accepting this grant, Asante Africa Foundation will continue its investment in education, with an emphasis on girls’ education.