For 48 years, Esther Phiri has lived a mostly difficult life. However with the help and support of African Enterprise (AE), Esther now has the chance to turn her life in a different direction. Born in 1975 in the eastern province of Zambia, Esther was unable to attend...
AE is grateful to God for the progress we have witnessed in our Mathare Women Project and the Soweto Kayole Clinic. It's incredible to see disadvantaged women given opportunities to sustain themselves, and to witness lives transformed through the provision of health...
AE's participation in Ethiopia's Emergency Response Program and the Sewing Project for Vulnerable Women has been an answer to prayer and a genuine blessing. The benefits of both are being felt by entire communities. Our first round of graduates from the sewing program...
Ministry Update - March 2022 Thanks to your ongoing support, our AE teams have enjoyed some wonderful success in our outreach programs across Africa. By the grace of God, our Togo farming project has begun, with participants preparing the land ready for seed planting....
It is wonderful to see the progress of Community Transformational Groups (CTGs) across Africa. The Rwanda model has been such a success that AE is now looking to incorporate it across all 11 national teams. Members generally come from some of the most impoverished and...
In 2002 AEE Rwanda piloted the first Rwandan self-help groups (SHGs, also known as community transformation groups), adapting the successful Indian SHG model to work locally. Since then, with its partners, AEE Rwanda has brought the transformational power of SHGs to...
The inspirational story behind the word ‘harambee’ The Swahili word harambee means ‘all pull together’. The word appears on Kenya’s coat of arms as the nation’s official motto. More than that, harambee describes an unwritten law of generosity engrained in the Kenyan,...