MAMA-Africa Foundation welcomes you to our website to meet our partners and to learn about our activities. The women and children whom you will meet here are the raison d’être of our Foundation:

To enable a better quality of life for women and children whose lives have been affected by HIV in rural Sub-Saharan Africa.

There are some 11 million AIDS orphans in Sub-Saharan Africa, many of whom are in child-headed families. A child lacking at least one parent is defined by WHO to be an orphan in the African context. The family provides the basic structure for learning and growing up to be a responsible adult; without the family, the future for the children is bleak. MAMA-Africa provides the children with hope for a brighter future.

Why focus on women? Women are the caregivers in African society. Women have undertaken the care of children orphaned by AIDS in rural villages. The UN and other organizations have shown that the most effective tool to bring about change and to reduce poverty is the empowerment of women. MAMA-Africa supports women and their efforts to care for children in their village.