Amitofo Charity Association
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The Amitofo Charity Association is a Taiwanese based Buddhist charity organization. Our primary goal is to build orphanages to care for and educate orphans in all 53 African nations. Although we will be funded mainly by Far Eastern Buddhists and well as overseas Chinese Buddhists, we will also raise funds in South Africa and other Western countries.
Our three basic goals are:
To assist, care for and educate children and teenagers in great need – especially orphans in Africa.
To promote world peace and protect the environment
To help propagate the Buddha Dharma throughout the world
In 2001 we established the Malawi Amitofo Care Centre, near Blantyre. By 2008 it is providing care and education for nearly 300 orphans. We also provide basic necessities for more than one thousand orphans and care givers in community based organizations in the surrounding area. We have already purchased the land for a second care centre, near Lilongwe in Central Malawi, which will include a high school and a vocational training college
In Zimbabwe we have erected 15 buildings to house orphans as part of the Zimbabwe Amitofo Care Centre. This first phase will accommodate more than 200 orphans when construction is complete. The opening ceremony will be hopefully held in the Spring of 2008.
We are now building Care Centres in Lesotho and Swaziland. We hope that in the near future these centres will help many orphans and contribute to the local community.
Our provisional long term plans include building one orphanage each year. Each orphanage will include an administrative centre, children’s residences, teenager’s residences, kindergarten, primary school, middle school, library, health centre, play ground, sports fields, activity centre, vocational training centre and a Buddha Hall. We will assist local people improve and develop their villages through community based organizations. Within two years we will start constructing a Buddhist Seminary to accommodate 600 students. The first phase will provide living, recreation and study facilities for 100 students.
The headquarters of ACA is in South Africa, in Johannesburg. The HQ is primarily a Dharma Centre for teaching Pure Land Buddhism in South Africa, but will eventually house our central administration office, a training centre for staff members, and retreat centre.
2008/03/29
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Accept greeting from Cameroonorphanage Association
Since the UN conference on environment
and development, sustainable development has remained elusive for many
African countries. poverty remains a major challenge and most
countries on the continent have not benefited fully from the
opportunities of globalization, further exacerbating the continents
marginalization .Africans efforts to achieve sustainable development
have been hindered by conflicts, insufficient funds, insufficient
investment due to lack of capital, unsustainable debt burdens,
historical declining levels of official development assistance and the
impact of HIV\AIDS. Most of the youths who in future might give a
helping hand and remedies to an extent are dying of hunger. Please
help us out of these constrain and difficult situation facing our
society
Eradicating poverty is the greatest global challenge facing
the world today and an indispensable requirement for sustainable
development, particularly for developing countries. Although each
country has the primary responsibility for its own sustainable
development and poverty eradication and the role of national policies
and development strategies cannot be overemphasized ,concerted and
concrete measures are required at all levels to enable developing
countries to achieve their sustainable development goals as related to
the internationally agreed poverty related target and goals. come to
think of it how can a country attained it goals when most of its
youths are dying of hunger and malnutrition .there are so many youths
seeking for your kind gesture and donation which can help them to have
at least one meal a day. Just think of what your contribution whether
in kind or in cash can do to these vulnerable children. We are in need
of some basic equipment like clothing, learning materials, TV sets,
kitchen equipment, buses and foodstuff. Remember any donation you
give will greatly change the life of so many orphans in our society.
Regard
DINGA
phone:00237 75043359
00237 74754150
B.P 8716 YAOUNDE
orphanage.charity@gmail.com (paypal)
www.cameroonorphans.tk
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