To ensure that at least one child in every village in Africa is educated to a good standard, trained to be an ethical change maker, with good links to the outside world and the means to communicate with them.
To see these children grow up with the means to eliminate poverty through social enterprise and minimize the chance of famine through planning and good development,
To help the removal of abuse of children’s and women’s rights in rural Africa through raising awareness of international standards amongst these target children,
To develop thousands of young people with a vision for a new prosperous, democratic Africa where children can flourish.
Social Enterprise Africa is a Community Interest Company founded in 2008 interested in bringing the power of social enterprise into Africa. We do this by finding young people in villages and slum districts and rural areas who have a passion to develop their communities. We work with Chrysalis Limited in Uganda, who are registered as a company limited by guarantee (no shares) and the Chrysalis Foundation, a Ugandan charity interested in rural development.
In the above photograph, Ssuuna Francis has returned this year to the village school where we found him in 2009 – he’s the one in white in the middle – and he started a running club there this year, two years after we found him on our travels in the rural areas.
Francis will this year, with your support, develop a biogas project in the same village, which will help so many children reduce the daily chore of collecting firewood and also help protect against deforestation in the environment.
Francis, 16, is one of 20 young people aged 11-17 that we have trained up since 2009, who are ready now to give back to their home communities, initially in small ways but, in time, in ways that will transform the lives of hundreds of villagers.
In return for all of our support, he will be farming two acres of melons in rural Uganda, which can be sold for the sustainability of his schooling and to help us establish a sustainable base to develop our project and help ensure investors' money remains secure.
You can hear more from Francis on his blog Change is coming in Uganda.
Francis is one of 20 young people we have been supporting these past two years and we have another 40 that we have chosen to support in 2012, with through our melon share issue.