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JFK Service Award Recipients 2022: Liz Fanning

Peace Corps: Five JFK Service Award Recipients Embody Commitment and Connection

Written by Adrienne Benson “…Currently, Liz is CorpsAfrica’s executive director. Her instinct for community development is summed up by something someone wrote in her nomination: ‘One of the core foundations Liz implemented was for Volunteers...

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Morocco World News: OCP Group Embraces Mastercard Foundation as Major Donor to CorpsAfrica

Written by Oumaima Latrech “With the Mastercard Foundation having invested $17 million to expand the presence of CorpsAfrica Organization in Africa for the next three years, OCP Group has pledged to support the organization’s plans...

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Boston University: CorpsAfrica Adapts the Peace Corps Model to Build Resilience in Rural Africa

Written by Marc Chalufour “In the early 1990s, Liz Fanning spent two formative years as a Peace Corps volunteer in a small Moroccan village in the High Atlas mountains. She studied the impact of human...

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The New Times: How Pig Farming is Enabling Rural Communities to Fight Poverty

Written by Michel Nkurunziza “Justin Nyandwi, a resident of Ngeruka sector of Bugesera District had never realized that little resources can lead a one living in poverty to build self-reliance and into entrepreneurship until volunteers...

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VOA: Daybreak Africa

Jackson Mvunganyi interviewed Liz Fanning on the COVID-19 response work the CorpsAfrica Volunteers did in Morocco, Senegal, Malawi, and Rwanda…

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Miatho Times: CorpsAfrica for Job Creation Drive in Malawi

By Chaweya Mzembe “CorpsAfrica/Malawi a Non-Profit Organisation that focuses on volunteering on Community-led development says it is planning to work with the Government of Malawi in establishing a national youth volunteering program. According to Country...

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Emanate International: Interview with Liz Fanning and Arthur Nkosi

Sasha Nicolle, Founder of Emanate International, interviewed Liz Fanning and Arthur Nkosi. (The 47-minute interview starts after a 95-second overview of CorpsAfrica). June 2021 (49:57)

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Peace Corps Worldwide: Talking with Liz Fanning About CorpsAfrica

Written by John Coyne “…I started CorpsAfrica to build on the enormous success of the Peace Corps. When I was in a PCV, I met many educated young Moroccans who would ask me if they...

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AARP: Liz Fanning Named a 2021 AARP Purpose Prize Fellow

By AARP “…Some countries in Africa are among the poorest in the world. In several where we work, nearly half the population lives below the poverty line. Meanwhile, Africa is rich in underutilized talent, with...

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New York University: NYU Changemakers: Liz Fanning Named an NYU Alumni Changemaker of the Year

By Bridgette Austin (GAL ’04) “…Liz Fanning founded CorpsAfrica based on the vision that talented African youth could serve as agents rather than beneficiaries of positive change in their own countries. The locally led, locally...

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