What is Humanitas Africa?

Founded in 2000, Humanitas Afrika is an African-Czech initiative based in Prague, the Czech Republic. It is purely a non- governmental organisation with no political or religious underpinnings. Indeed it remains the only pan-African organisation in the Czech Republic that is dedicated primarily to matters of Africa including the Diaspora. Humanitas Afrika aims at helping to source funding for the education or retraining of needy children and school drop outs in Africa. It is also actively engaged in small-scale project activities that seek to empower women and other vulnerable members of society such as the unemployed youth.

In the Czech Republic itself, the projects and programmes of Humanitas Afrika are tailored to raise awareness on African issues and culture within the local Czech society. By working with schools, for instance, Humanitas Afrika is able to bring Africa closer home to the youth through workshops on different aspects of African culture. At the beginning of 2005 the organization also launched an African Resource Centre with library services on everything African for the benefit of the reading public.

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