"Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract-sustainable development- and turn it into a reality for all the world's people." - Kofi Annan
Right Now:
Spring 2012 finds our members visiting projects in Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. A new school building is near completion in Northern Uganda.
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Dem. Rep. of Congo
Ethiopia
Ghana
Kenya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mozambique
Nigeria
Rwanda
Senegal
Tanzania
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Background
The Colorado Coalition for African Empowerment is comprised of seven non-profit organizations that are scaling up based on their collective successful empowerment projects in fifteen African countries.
Our Mission
The Coalition strives to empower impoverished sub-Saharan African families and orphaned children by creating holistic and sustainable projects that result in self-support through collaborative fundraising and grant efforts.
A Colorado Non-Profit
The CCAE is a Colorado registered 501(c)(3) organization that is comprised of talented, passionate (and unpaid) volunteers, who are professional leaders in their fields. Those fields represent journalism; marketing; theology; law; Nursing; accounting and business; along with engineering; teaching; construction; shipping and IT. As an organization we strongly beleive that we can learn from and help each other, and that through working together we can accomplish a much greater task.