Liz Fanning Speaks at NPCA Great Ideas Forum
YouTube video produced by Frank Yates CorpsAfrica’s Founder and CEO, Liz Fanning, presented the idea of CorpsAfrica to at the Great Ideas Forum hosted by the National Peace Corps Association in Nashville, Tennessee on June 21, 2014.
Morocco World News: An Opportunity for Moroccans to Heighten the Notion of Volunteering
Written by Mona Badri “Being a former Peace Corps volunteer in the High Atlas, Liz Fanning feels the Moroccan drums beat so hard in her heart, bringing her back to a land that earned her love and respect. In 2013, she launched the first pilot year of CorpsAfrica in Morocco, modeling it after the American […]
HEC Monde Arabe: Création d’une Coopérative de Tapis à Tizi-Oussem
HEC University student organization Monde Arabe’s short film about creating a rug cooperative in a CorpsAfrica site, Tizi Oussem, produced by Hamza Rkha Chaham. March 2016. (04:29)
Morocco On The Move: Volunteers for CorpsAfrica Start in Morocco, Planned for Ethiopia, Senegal
Written by Nadia Elboubkri “Africans coming together to help other Africans—that’s the mission of CorpsAfrica, an organization modeled after the Peace Corps that gives young adults across Africa the opportunity to volunteer in their own communities. Essentially, “CorpsAfrica is committed to encouraging bolder philanthropy toward poverty in Africa.” CorpsAfrica is recruiting men and women from various […]
Morocco World News: A Great American Initiative for Reinventing Homespun Development in Africa
Written by Mohamed Chtatou “Liz, CorpsAfrica’s founding executive director, has more than 20 years of leadership, fundraising and marketing experience at non-profit organizations that focus on public education, community empowerment, environmental preservation, and international development. She served as a Peace Corps Volunteer (Morocco 1993-95) in the High Atlas Mountains, where she lived in a small Berber village […]
HESPress: أوزين مع Corps Africa لتكوين المتطوعين
تصدّر وزير الشباب والرياضة، محمّد أوزين، مراسيم اتفاقية وقعت مع منظّمة
HESPress: CorpsAfrica/Maroc Offre 10 Bourses
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Morocco World News: ‘Holbrooke Fund’ Launched in Washington to Finance ‘CorpsAfrica’ First Program in Morocco
“A special tribute was paid, on Thursday in Washington, to late Richard Holbrooke, former US top official who served as director of the Peace Corps program in Morocco on the occasion of the launch of the Holbrooke Fund for financing the inaugural program of “Corps-Africa” in the kingdom…”
NPCA World View: Seeking Insight and Advice from Senator Wofford
Written by Liz Fanning “…We had the pleasure of recently sitting down with Senator Harris Wofford, one of the founders of the Peace Corps, its Special Representative to Africa, and the Country Director in Ethiopia during the 1960s. (You can read his bio on our website at www.corpsafrica.org, along with the text of the full […]