Welcome to Africa Alive Online www.africaaliveonline.com

17 million aids orphans in Africa need our help. Getrude Matshe has formed the Africa Alive foundation to provide safe homes and education for children who have lost their family to AIDS. 

The price of a cup of coffee is all it takes to send a child to school for a month. $500 can build a family a home. Whether you can spare $5 or $5,000 you are changing lives of the children in Africa.

We believe all children have potential

Our projects are developed specifically for the communities we live in, through the active participation of our members, young and old.

Unlike other programs, our goal is to keep children from large families together on their homesteads and in their communities. So, instead of supporting one individual child, your contribution goes towards helping the entire family meet its basic needs.

Our grassroots’ training program empowers the community with skills such as how to make bricks, window frames, door frames and roof times. The community builds houses for the children by applying for a micro-loan to buy the materials needed to build. On completion of the contract they are paid for the work and are then able to pay back the micro-loan. The aim is to build houses for eight children and a foster mother or family appointed caregiver such as a grandmother or aunt. The community will also learn how to sew the school uniforms and clothing for the children all our projects are aimed at empowering communities with income generating skills thus uplifting entire communities though the care for the children.

We are working together to provide social, economic and educational support for orphans and other vulnerable children within our communities.

In so doing, we are also learning from and assisting each other in the development of new skills and partnerships to improve the quality of all our lives.