Afroland Central Foundation

Fighting Poverty

Fighting Poverty

Under Article 25 of the United Nations 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights clearly states that Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing, medical care and necessary social services.

AfroLand Central Foundation works with Africa's poorest to transform lives. But what do we mean by “Africa's poorest?” And how do we move forward?

Why Poverty?

AfroLand Central Foundation knows hunger affects everything for the world’s poorest. We believe no one should have to live with hunger and the damage it does. That’s why we're working for a world in which no one dies for want of safe, quality, nutritious food.

Our Role

We are specialists in tackling hunger with the most vulnerable people in Africa’s poorest places. For more than 5 years, we’ve been developing and delivering practical, intelligent, sustainable solutions that have transformed lives. We combine our expertise with local knowledge.

The Problem of Poverty

To reverse decades of progress in the fight against poverty, is Africa’s biggest health problem.

According to a report from the United Nations food agencies, 690 million people in the world’s population go to bed on an empty stomach each night.

795 million people do not have enough to eat and the vast majority of them live in developing countries. We believe that no one should have to live with hunger and the damage it does.

Lack of food jeopardises the wellbeing of families. Mothers are forced to reduce the number of meals children eat. Families replace nutritious foods like vegetables and beans for staples like corn and millet. Without the right nutrients, children can’t grow up healthily, adults don’t have enough energy to work and people’s immune systems are weak, turning common infectious diseases into killers.

Wrong Choices

Poverty forces people to make wrong choices that push them further into poverty. Parents take their children out of school to work. Families eat seeds that should be preserved for the next harvest. These choices make vulnerable people even more vulnerable. When disaster strikes, it’s the poorest communities already exposed to hunger and disease who suffer the most.

Long Term Effects

Hunger prevents communities from escaping poverty. The long term effects of hunger go beyond health. Poor nutrition leads to poor performance in school and fewer opportunities. Children’s brains will not fully develop and their bodies will be stunted. This has a devastating long term effect on families, communities and countries.

In Depth

AfroLand Central Foundation’s mission is to help people living in extreme poverty achieve major improvements in their lives which last and spread without ongoing support. To achieve this mission, AfroLand Central Foundation engages in long term development work, responds to emergency situations, and seeks to address the root causes of poverty through our development education and advocacy work.

Education must be accessible and free for everyone.

To help break the cycle of poverty, we must provide educational opportunities that will bring life changing differences to Africa.

AfroLand Central Foundation calls for a firm stance in fighting to end hunger across Africa.

AfroLand Welfare Act 2027 Mental Health Decree 2027

Historical Awareness Responsibility

Afro Union (AU)

World Health Organisation (WHO)

AfroLand Central Foundation (ALCF)

The overall well being, health and prosperity of all people within a community of the Afro Union.

1) What type of groundwork must be established before this type of working together can occur?

2) What factors can get in the way of collaboration and cooperation?

Highlighting the extensive and continuing damage that colonialism has done to the African people globally and continues today with neoliberal policies in revealing the deeper psychological damage on the individual psyche of the global African family resulting in a pervasive alienation in all aspects of its environmental surroundings.

AfroLand Central Foundation provides an opportunity to recognise historical awareness that has significantly destroyed the quality of life of Africans over the years, and to double our commitment to tackling the current and future health challenges confronting Africa.

In addition to AfroLand Central Foundation’s firm commitment to helping Africa restore its health challenges, slavery had a profound and devastating impact on African human lives. It lead to significant and disabling mental health problems, as well as generational cycles of crisis, hardship and loss.

This report reviews the existing research evidence on the mental health impact of enslavement and the efficacy of specific mental health treatment approaches. It identifies gaps in existing knowledge and thereby makes specific recommendations regarding future research priorities. We hope that it represents the first stage in a collaborative, international project to develop effective models of therapeutic care for all African’s who have suffered slavery, wherever they are located in the world.

They may lack the self confidence to take action in their own interests, living with the shame and stigma of their status as slave survivors. They might also suffer from PTSD due to the trauma inherent in living in slavery, with all the violence and exploitation.

The effects of unresolved trauma on the behaviours of blacks that is transmitted from generation to generation is a strong connection to poverty and slavery driven.

AfroLand Charity Foundation, the supporters of the global Pan African family, and the Afro Union to review the continual challenges confronting African persons of African descent globally.

This would show that pan Africanism is a developing ideology that can meet the dynamic changes occurring in the world.

Pan Africanism can be described as the universal and abiding doctrine of global African liberation. It was born in the diaspora in the wake of the Atlantic slavery of over 80 million Africans and reflected the hunger of the enslaved Africans to overcome their dispersal, dispossession and dehumanisation and condemning Arab slavery and its accompanying racism towards African people. Arab slavery predated the European driven Atlantic slave trade by centuries.

It was pointed out that Arabs came from Asia to inhabit North Africa and in all Arab countries where Africans were a minority where they faced racist discrimination and Arabisation. Arab countries must compensate with due reparations for the damages inflicted on African people as demand for reparations from Western nations is pursued vigorously by some countries.

More than 100 health emergencies still occur in Africa annually, including outbreaks of cholera, yellow fever, meningitis, measles and malaria. These emergencies still pose a significant threat to the health, well being and the development of Africa.

AfroLand Central Foundation continues to work within the humanitarian settings to provide governments and partners with the strategic leadership, evidence, tools and technical support to strengthen a collective response to mental health and enable a transformation towards a better mental health for Africa.

Mental health considerations require time, resources and expertise, and we are committed to ensuring they are a priority in our work concern.

According to the United Nations article on Mental Health and development, it clearly states the following:

Persons with mental and psychosocial disabilities represent a significant proportion of the world’s population.

Millions of people worldwide have mental health conditions and an estimated one in four people globally will experience a mental health condition in their lifetime. Almost one million people die due to suicide every year, and it is the third leading cause of death among young people. Depression is the leading cause of years lost due to disability worldwide. Mental health problems, including alcohol abuse, are among the ten leading causes of disability in both developed and developing countries. In particular, depression is ranked third in the global burden of disease, and is projected to rank first in 2030.

Persons with mental and psychosocial disabilities often face stigma and discrimination, as well as experience high levels of physical and sexual abuse, which can occur in a range of settings, including prisons, hospitals and homes.

The economic cost of mental health problems is vast, while reasonable investment in mental health can contribute to better mental health for people. Poor mental health is both a cause and a consequence of poverty, compromised education, gender inequality, ill-health, violence and other global challenges. It impedes the individual’s capacity to work productively, realise their potential and make a contribution to their community.

There is growing recognition within the international community that invisible disabilities, such as mental health is one of the most neglected yet essential development issues in achieving internationally agreed development goals.

The only way for Africa to be totally free is to be freed from mental slavery and restoring psychological health. Empowering the Afro Union to enact laws and spend money for the common good of the public.

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Progress Towards Sustainable Development Goals

Addressing The Root Causes of Poverty.

This was possible as economic growth reached more and more parts of Africa. In the continent, more than half the population lived in extreme poverty a generation ago. But after two decades of growth, the share in extreme poverty more than halved across the continent of Africa.

Poverty was not concentrated in Africa until recently. In 1990 more than a billion of the extremely poor lived in China and India alone. Since then those economies have grown faster than many of the richest countries in the world and did much to a reduction of global inequality. The concentration of the world’s poorest shifted from East Asia in the 1990s to South Asia in the following decade. Now it has shifted to Sub-Saharan Africa. The projections suggest the geographic concentration of extreme poverty is likely to continue. According to the World Bank forecasts 87% of the world’s poorest are expected to live in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2030 if economic growth follows the trajectory over the recent past.

Ending extreme poverty is a priority for AfroLand Central foundation. We aim to eradicate extreme poverty with the guidance of the African Union.

Living in poverty means a life of struggle and deprivation.

Children living in poverty lack access to their educational and medical rights.

Without education, children grow up being unable to provide for their own children.

And without a good health care system, Children grow up being unable to get basic medical assistance and care.

Living in poverty also means not being able to afford a doctor or medical needs.

Extreme poverty is not only about low income but also about what people can or cannot afford.

The root causes of poverty aren’t only lack of access to water, food, shelter, education, or healthcare.

Poor governance, conflict, exploitation, and domestic violence also create poverty. These inequities not only lead a person or a society into poverty but can also restrict access to social services that could help people overcome poverty.

To get out of poverty, we need opportunities such as education, clean water, medical facilities nearby, and financial resources. Without these basic rights, poverty becomes a cycle from one generation to the next.

If families are too poor to send their children to school, their children will have a difficult time earning an income when they grow up. If a community lacks clean water, women will spend much of their day gathering water instead of earning an income. If medical facilities are far away, a parent loses income every time they take a sick child to the doctor.

Natural disasters and conflict can add to the cycle of poverty. When a natural disaster occurs an impoverished community without functional public institutions, families are more vulnerable and often lack basic resources to recover, thus further entrenching a community in poverty or jeopardising one that had recently emerged.

AfroLand Central Foundation plans to help end extreme poverty by identifying the cause of poverty in a particular community and then determining what needs to change. Because poverty looks different in various places and is caused by different reasons.

In partnership with the community members, AfroLand Central Foundation determine the desired outcomes for that community and identify key steps to reach that outcome. The desired outcomes might be the same for many communities, but the path forward depends on the context and the resources available.

Perhaps infrastructure needs to be improved with new schools, medical clinics, or access to clean water. Or maybe, people need more economic resources to help boost their income so they can better provide for themselves and their families. Regardless of the solution, to ensure poverty doesn’t return, the work must be sustainable. So, the community must be involved in each step.

To end extreme poverty, Africa has to make much progress in reducing poverty.

AfroLand Central Foundation is working on the underlying causes of poverty, so children and the community can prosper.

Hunger and food security, clean water, health, quality education, economic empowerment, disaster relief, and child protection.

As one of the active humanitarian organisations in the continent, we have the infrastructure, experience, and relationships needed to equip communities to create lasting change and better the lives and well being of the future inhabitants.