Get Involved

Whether it’s building a school, making phone calls, helping or running an event, having your club sponsor one of our calls, or just spreading the word about Aid Africa’s Children, it’s all appreciated!

Here are a few ways you can help!

Volunteer

Whether you want to help out for only a few hours a month, or work at an event, we appreciate all skills you may want to share and are open to all ideas on how you can help kids in Africa.

Donate

Fundraiser

Have fun while you’re raising money for one of our causes! Whether it’s a lemonade stand, throwing a party, baking cookies, teaching a class or having a garage sale, use your imagination on how you want to raise funds for Aid Africa’s Children!

PLedge

Instead of gifts for your birthday, you can ask friends and families to give you money to donate for your favorite Aid Africa’s Children project! One of our industrious young volunteers, donated his Bar Mitzvah gifts for upgrading the playground equipment at Sophie’s Creche!

Pledge your birthday or Bar Mitzvah money, or any event you are celebrating to a cause bigger than yourself and enjoy the gifts of giving!

SPREAD THE WORD

Volunteer

Are you interested in helping children in Africa, fundraising, organizing events in your community, or being part of our social media network? There’s a place to utilize your skills, time, or efforts to help our healthcare, food, education, clean water, or entrepreneurial projects in Africa.

Tell us how you can help and what you’d like to do!

Jacob Farkas scores big with neighborhood kids in Erasmus

Twelve year-old volunteer, Jacob Farkas, approached the Lake Forest Soccer Association and many private families to obtain soccer uniforms for neighborhoods kids in Erasmus, South Africa. He brought 50 jerseys and shorts. The kids were so very excited to receive the matching uniforms! Both Jacob and his nine year-old sister, Shayna, are young “global activists.” When Shayna was in first grade she collected 120 toothbrushes from her 1st grade class and brought them to Africa to give to needy children.

Ryan Moore Oversees Zambia School Project

Kerry Delivering Baby

Meet Kerry. She was an executive assistant at a major credit card company and a fire fighter and EMT (emergency medical technician) in Salem, Wisconsin. She never had a passport and only flew five times before volunteering to help Aid Africa’s Children on a medical mission. Kerry’s emergency medical skills were put to use delivering a baby in Tanzania.

Donate

Sewing project give dresses and dolls a new home!

Do you remember your favorite toy or doll growing up? These girls will especially when they learn that the dresses and dolls given to them are theirs to keep! Many little girls in Africa do not have dolls or a dress of their own. These dresses and dolls were sewn and donated by the women of Salem United Methodist Church of Salem, Wisconsin. Their “Dress a Girl in Africa” sewing project made 100 dresses with small dolls in tucked in the pockets. Aid Africa’s Children’s Debbie Gilliam and Kerrie Neumann, also members of Salem United Methodist Church distributed the dresses at St. Justine Centre of the Disabled in Makoko, Tanzania. The excitement and joy that these colorful dresses and dolls gave these young girls was unforgettable!

Baxter International Inc. Donates Computers

In the Spring of 2009, we opened the first and only working computer lab at Sjambok School in South Africa. These gently used computers were generously donated by Baxter International, a global healthcare company with educational software. The computer skills students learn will create job opportunities that were previously unattainable for students attending a public school.

Teachers are now required to undergo a computer training course. The computer lab has expanded its’ facilities to all school’s employees and locals in the surrounding areas. In May, 2010 Sjambok School’s headmaster agreed the school is doing well, and “no longer needs our help.” The computer lab is sustainable. He said, he will look for a new challenge for us!

Justice’s graduation day! It Takes A Village to Raise a Child.

Almost nine years ago, Justice Amadi was living in a hut in Africa with no running water or electricity with little hope for the future after a severe burn injury. Today, he lives in a prominent Chicago suburb and is a MBA graduate with a 3.5 average, working full-time and studying for his CPA exam. Justice Amadi benefited from the incredible generosity of many people and and organizations whose donations included critical medical surgeries in America, airline tickets, free room and board in America, and a 4 year college scholarship.

Justice Amadi almost didn’t make it to America. Without the efforts of Aid Africa’s Children obtaining an expedited medical visa from Senator Obama’s office, he would not have met Shriners Children’s Hospital deadline to begin medical treatment. Ryan Moore made a video of Justice asking to come to America. His host mom, Sally Moore, sent the Justice video out to hundreds of hospitals and weathered over a year of rejections until Shriners Children Hospital said, "yes!" Friends helped to get Justice’s airfare. Again, when the doors seem to be closing on Justice and his medical visa was expiring, Aid Africa’s Children helped secure a full four year scholarship from Robert Morris College in Chicago. Host families offered free room and board.

What Justice knows for sure is, he is living a life he could never have dreamed was possible because of the kindness and generosity of strangers. With his medical surgeries and MBA behind him, Justice hopes to give back to help his community, family, and generous supporters. He remains grateful to all those who have helped him on this incredible journey!

Fundraise

Do something fun to raise money for your campaign! You can have a lemonade stand, throw a party, bake cookies, shave your head, teach a class, lose weight, have a garage sale, walk for a cause.

Rebecca and Walk/Run Volunteers

Aid Africa’s Children holds an annual walk/run which has been a popular event and source of raising funds. People of all ages enjoy the exercise and fresh air while the proceeds have provided fresh water, food, medical treatment, and other benefits for African children. This year, Aid Africa’s Children’s 9th Annual Walk/Run will be Saturday, April 29 at the RecPlex. Proceeds will be used for our clean water project in Ntemba Village.

Girl Scouts Prepare to Fundraise for Clean Water

Working with groups of friends puts the fun in Fundraising! It can be a very rewarding venture for you and your friends, or church, or classmates to work on a project together. Two Girl Scout troops, the Daisy Troop 45263 (Kindergartners) and Junior Troop 40138 (4th graders) at B.J. Hooper School, in Lindenhurst, Illinois are preparing to fundraise in April, 2017 for Aid Africa’s Children’s clean water project for the Ntemba Village in Tanzania.

These Girls put the Fun in Fundraising!

Over the years, Aid Africa’s Children has been lucky enough to have the support of students who embrace “global activism” and “adopt a cause” to help our children in Africa.

One group we will forever treasure are the students at Gurnee’s Warren Township High School’s Future Leaders of America Club. They were intelligent, resourceful, organized, friendly, fun, and filled with boundless energy to help others. They not only had great bake sales, and car washes but provided great help during our annual benefit.