About Direct Connections To Africa

Our purpose is to help provide villages in Africa with educational supplies, scholarships which enable children to continue elementary and secondary education, creating and fostering recreational programs, promoting job development, and helping to meet medical needs by directly connecting an individual from our adopted African villages with you, an individual from our community.

 How did "Direct Connections to Africa get started"?



Mary Ellen Carter was visiting Malawi, Africa with her husband. While her husband was involved with judicial education, she visited a nearby village to deliver medical and educational supplies. There she connected with Sarah, one of the village grade school teachers. Mary Ellen felt overwhelmed by the incredible gratitude for what she believed were modest gifts of pencils, paper and crayons. She was amazed to learn that just one pencil and one piece of paper were considered generous gifts and that the school had virtually no supplies.

When Mary Ellen came back to America, she, Sarah and Sarah's husband, Charles continued to correspond with their new friends in Africa. One of Sarah's earliest letters told Mary Ellen that children of the village had heard the school had received supplies and Sarah was excited about all the children coming to school. This inspired Mary Ellen to begin sending boxes on a regular basis. She was truly amazed to discover that what she considered to be modest gifts are a determining factor as to whether students can actually attend school versus dropping out.

Gradually, the gifts sent grew in frequency and variety. Forty dollars of seeds helped with the starvation problem for the season. Plastic stopped rain permeating the huts. Modest medical supplies made an enormous difference.

Sarah and Charles had been walking 18 kilometers to email Mary Ellen and the gift of a computer allowed their entire village to communicate to the world. Connections grew and Americans have begun to embrace the very simple concept of directly connecting to villages in Africa.

One person at a time "Direct Connections" to Africa has blossomed through the goodness of people like you who care to make a difference one person at a time, one village at a time.

How much is a life worth? Whatever you are able to do will make a difference.

OUR PURPOSE...

...is to help provide villages in Africa with educational supplies, scholarships which enable children to continue elementary and secondary education, creating and fostering recreational programs, promoting job development, and helping to meet medical needs by directly connecting an individual from our adopted African villages with you, an individual from our community.

One person at a time, one gift at a time, one commitment to a basic concept: Sharing is caring.


 

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