We are UAA ... working hard and doing our part to ensure that peace and equality are accessible globally. We work with disadvantaged women and children in Africa.  We provide programs that grant School Supplies, Give Women Access to ITT Job Training, Micro-Financing, Advocate against Gender Based Violence and work to grant wishes for Orphans .... please continue to support us... like... share... add your voice to  a world movement towards peace and equality!

       We are United Aid for Africa a registered 501(c) non profit organization that fights hard on behalf of the disadvantaged women and children of Africa. We are doing our part to make sure all human beings are given opportunity to the benefits of a  life in peace. Most of the time that means providing support to accessing an education , job skills training, or advocating against gender violence, in order to prevent exploitation and battle against poverty

We meet a lot of people along the way. A lot  like you who want to help and those who need the help. We are based in North America and in Africa and work with African Embassies to ensure those who need our help the most get it. That is how we ended up in Man, a western village in the Ivory Coast.  And that is where we met “THE LITTLE ANGELS OF MAN”  ... please support these little angels by donating today : you can text UAA to 28594 if you live in the US, or you can follow this link to donate

Music video by Kofi B performing Mo Bro Wa

National Community Service

Over the past two decades we have also seen a growing body of research that indicates volunteering provides individual health benefits in addition to social ones. This research, which is presented by CNCS in a report titled “The Health Benefits of Volunteering: A Review of Recent Research,” has established a strong relationship between volunteering and health: those who volunteer have lower mortality rates, greater functional ability, and lower rates of depression later in life than those who do not volunteer.

Comparisons of the health benefits of volunteering for different age groups have also shown that older volunteers are the most likely to receive greater benefits from volunteering, whether because they are more likely to face higher incidence of illness or because volunteering provides them with physical and social activity and a sense of purpose at a time when their social roles are changing.

Some of these findings also indicate that volunteers who devote a “considerable” amount of time to volunteer activities (about 100 hours per year) are most likely to exhibit positive health outcomes. READ MORE

Solar Power and Electricity: Only one third of the African population have access to electricity. Yet it is so critical for the development of communities, for industrialization, and of course for health and education.

The Foundation For The Development of Africa

Unlike fossil fuels (coal, gas, oil), SOLAR ENERGY is renewable, is clean and is inexhaustible.
Solar power in Africa has the potential to provide all of the world's energy, by using only a small portion of the Sahara Desert (for example: the "Desertec project" in North Africa is a proposal to provide 15% of Europe's energy from the desert).
Many African countries receive on average 325 days per year of bright sunlight. This gives solar power the potential to bring energy to virtually any location in Africa without the need for expensive large scale grid level infrastructural developments.
See the Map: the distribution of solar resources across the whole African continent is fairly uniform, with more than 80 percent of the continent's landscape receiving almost 2000 kW•h per square meter per year.
Africa needs ambitious financing for renewable energy projects of all sizes in order to stimulate investment, maintain rapid economic growth and provide universal energy access around the continent. According to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Africa could achieve widespread prosperity by concentrating on renewable energy projects for rapid expansion of electrical services.

United Nations Development Program

Over the past decade, Sub-Saharan Africa’s impressive economic performance has resulted in marginal poverty reduction, with the proportion of people living on less than US$ 1.25 a day decreasing from 56.5 percent in 1990 to 47.5 percent in 2008.

Africa also boasts a mixed record on the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), the eight internationally-agreed targets which aim to reduce poverty, hunger, maternal and child deaths, disease, inadequate shelter, gender inequality and environmental degradation by 2015.

Africa has sustained progress toward several MDGs and is on track to achieve the following targets by 2015: universal primary education; achieving gender parity at all levels of education; reducing HIV/AIDS prevalence among 15-24 year olds; increasing the proportion of people with access to antiretroviral drugs; and enhancing the proportion of women in national parliaments.

Other targets are unlikely to be met. These include reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, slowing down the loss of biodiversity and achieving full and productive employment. Other targets, such as access to safe drinking water and reducing hunger, will only be partially met if efforts are not stepped up.

If you are anything like me... the last word you want to hear right now is CHRISTMAS... but we here at UAA collect Christmas wishes and we collect support from people like you in order to grant these wishes! We go to and meet orphans in Africa to ask them for their wish....normally they ask for simple things  like a stuffed toy to cuddle. For kids who don’t have much in the way of possessions and family, this little wish could mean the world of support to these kids. Please follow this link for more information - or - donate here, every little bit counts! You can also text UAA to 28594 if you are a US citizen!

BBC News Africa

More than 60 people have been killed in ethnic clashes in Sudan's arid Darfur region, over land producing gum arabic, the police have said. The gum is a food additive, used in soft drinks, and an adhesive. The deaths are the result of an ongoing dispute between two ethnic groups in South Darfur, over pasture and acacia trees, from which the gum is cut.