What is
the Africa Foundation?
The Africa Foundation for
Human Rights and Tolerance (AFHRT) is a registered non-profit
organisation and was formed to promote and help expand
two vital programmes for the furtherance of tolerance
and human rights in Africa. These programs are: Youth
for Human Rights and Operation:
Drug-Free Earth.
(Click to visit their respective pages.)
With far greater support these
programmes will deliver improvement to communities,
cities and countries currently wracked with drug and
human rights abuses.
The Foundation will seek
to provide the energy for the implementation of these
programmes into the rest of Africa.
Goals:
• To provide
easy-to-understand human rights education to
adults, youth and children so that
they are able to grasp
what fundamental human rights are
as aligned with the
United Nations Universal Declaration of
Human rights
and any Bill of Rights or Charter for
their own country.
• To see that violations of human
rights are effectively
combated, focusing on the issues of children,
drugs
and morality.
• In alignment with the goals of the
International Foundation
for Human Rights & Tolerance,
the Africa Foundation
espouses the same ideals.
1. Youth for Human Rights
International and the whole
Human
Rights campaign.
2. It drives and supports
the Foundation for a Drug-Free
Earth
and its campaign.
Purposes:
• In order
to achieve our goals, the Foundation aims to be
one of the most prominent entities
dealing with the matters
of morals, drugs and human rights
and tolerance.
• To have allied with the programs,
eminent and high
profile persons with verifiable human
rights/charitable/
community service records for the
furtherance of the goals.
• To serve as a conduit for communication
lines in
promoting and disseminating information
regarding
the campaigns.
• To solicit funding for the expansion
and effectiveness
of the approved campaigns. To ensure
effective
controls, transparency and accountability
for all
funds utilized.
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| “Where,
after all, do universal human rights
begin?
In small places,
close to home – so close and
so small that they cannot be seen
on any maps of the world.
Yet they are the
world of the individual person; the
neighborhood he lives in; the school
or college he attends; the factory,
farm or office where he works ...
Unless these rights
have meaning there, they have little
meaning anywhere. Without concerted
citizen action to uphold them close
to home, we shall look in vain for
progress in the larger world.”
Eleanor
Rooseveldt
Chairman of
the United Nations |
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History of the Foundation
The Foundation was
established in 2005, and is associated with the
international Foundation for Human Rights and
Tolerance (founded in 1997) and the European Foundation
for Human Rights and Tolerance (founded in 2004)
as well as the Foundation for a Drug-Free World.
It is a non-profit, non-sectarian, apolitical
organization dedicated to making human rights
and tolerance a reality in today’s troubled
world.
The Foundation has
established partnerships with the Limpopo Government,
the National Youth Commission, Gauteng Education
Department, City of Johannesburg and others to
see to the implementation of these successful
programs.
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