Explore stories of service, connection, and transformation directly from CorpsAfrica Volunteers across the continent.
What does life after CorpsAfrica service look like? For Peter Moenga, it means opening the doors of Rocky TechSavvy Computer College every morning and equipping...
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Every Friday, I sit with the Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA) group in my community as they meet to save, discuss, and support one...
Before the Intervention: Financial Dependence Alphonsine Nyinawumuntu, from Kigarama Village in Bukomeye Cell, lived in complete financial dependence on her husband. With no capital, business...
As I stepped into my host family’s home in the remote village of Naha, I couldn’t help but feel a mix of emotions. Born and...
As part of my integration into the rural community where I currently volunteer, I recently facilitated a liquid soap production training for the women and...
Jerone’s Journey: From Volunteer to CEO During his service as a CorpsAfrica/Ghana G2 Volunteer, Jerone was placed in a rural community in the Central Region,...
Ntombenhle Nonhlakanipho Shoba, a G1 CorpsAfrica/South Africa Volunteer, grew up in a rural community where she developed a deep passion for supporting rural development. Her...
When I stepped into my community as a Volunteer, I was not only bringing my skills and knowledge, I was also bringing myself. Before I...
October 10 is World Mental Health Day, and as a CorpsAfrica Volunteer, it’s got me thinking a lot about something we don’t often talk about...
In the rural village of Kenteri Kebele, Oromia Region, Ethiopia, clean water once felt like a luxury. Women and children trekked over an hour each...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Vanessa Chimutu When I first came to my site in February 2016, I was nervous, taking myself for my family and friends. It was so hard in the beginning to...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Lucy Chihana I always wanted to Volunteer. Leave home, be on my own, meet new people, and learn a new language. It was in September 2015 when I saw the...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Mr. Lusekelo Simwela The hills are alive again. It is green everywhere, from the endless fields of maize to the miombo trees covering the slopes, to the grass both long and...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Mr. Limbani Kumanga Reposted from Tobiyasi in Chiradzulu “There is no forgiveness when one who claims a superiority falls below the standard” – Frantz Fanon “We would be out of our...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Tusayiwe Sikwese My last activity as a CorpsAfrica Volunteer was to train the girls in my community in how to make reusable sanitary pads. This was well after I had...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Senegal Volunteer Mr. Hameth Ndoye Cabrousse, Sénégal 2016- 2017 Good things take time. Great things take a lot of time. The best things take the longest time. It took one month to train...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Sarah Kazira This year’s Christmas season was a bit different from all other years. I spent most of the season at a training with Age Africa and it was as...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Aissatu Pongolani It has been my awesome pleasure and great time living in the Kadewere community and working with community members. It seemed like I was going on a very...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Senegal Exchange Volunteer Mr. Adnane Sounni Nowadays many philanthropists and people interested in the development discuss how raising chicken can be a solution for people who live on less than $ 2 a...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Vanessa Chimutu Now that I have about a month to finish my service as a Volunteer with CorpsAfrica, I sat down and started to reflect on everything that has happened...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Mr. Limbani Kumanga Me: Uli ndi zaka zingati ndipo uli standard chani? (How old are you and what grade are you?) Him: Ndili ndi zaka 14 ndipo ndili mu standard 5....
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Mr. Emas Potolani In June this year, I embarked on a project to empower the women of my community in a socioeconomic development endeavor hoping to transform as many lives of...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Sarah Kazira December 5th is International Volunteers Day, and this year’s theme was “Global Applause: Give Volunteers a Hand”. This year’s International Volunteers Day was eye-opening for me as I...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Assiatu Pongolani The title above, itself, gives a person thousands and thousands of questions on how and why things happen or have been done, especially when we are talking of...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Tusayiwe Sikwese I must admit, it was quite a transition from the All-Country-Conference in Morocco (I will not dwell on this as a lot has already been said by my...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Mr. Lusekelo Simwela The name Lusekelo is hard to pronounce. So her choice of names for me was either, ‘inu'(you) or ‘abatchala’ (bachelor). I particularly hated the latter, but as she...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Maroc Volunteer Ms. Hafssa Ait Tabamoute People on my site “Tiouchi” had a very busy and outstanding summer time. It was a very special part of the year for locals to celebrate their...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Deborah Kamanga Before joining CorpsAfrica, I always had several questions in my mind about the prevalence of poverty in Malawi. I still do. Having gone through the pre-service training and...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Mr. Limbani Kumanga “Usually (villagers) know exactly what the (stranger) wants to hear them say, and they say it in the exact manner that the (stranger) expects them to say it....
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Lucy Chihana I think we all want to make a difference somehow, we all want to be remembered for something once we are gone. Gone not just because of death...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Vanessa Chimutu Never would I have thought that I would hike the High Atlas mountains of Morocco, but thanks to the All County Conference held in Morocco this happened. Firstly,...
Written by CorpsAfrica Volunteers Ms. Ndeye Awa Gueye (Senegal), Mr. Lahcen Chanchaf (Morocco), and Mr. Emas Potolani (Malawi) Hello Dear Readers, This is our first cross-country blog done by three CorpsAfrica Volunteers, Emas Potolani (Malawi),...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Sarah Kazira Mango season has just begun all over Malawi and it couldn’t have come at a better time. My community was blessed with a lot of mango trees, all...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Senegal Volunteer Mr. Boubacar Diallo From Friday, September 16 to Sunday 18, the village youth grouped as part of the l’Association Socio-culturelle pour l’Union et la Solidarité des Jeunes de Ndieulbert (ASCUS-JN) to...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Deborah Kamanga Samuel Johnson once said, “Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.” For the past two...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Mr. Limbani Kumanga “Travelling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller” -Ibn Battuta As I insinuated in my previous post, the entire 15-member CorpsAfrica Malawi team left...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Mr. Emas Potolani “Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion toward men and toward objective things” Albert Einstein...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Lucy Chihana I have always been slim and tiny. I don’t remember at any point in my life weighing much or being tall. Am just me. I am not exactly...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Mr. Limbani Kumanga “We are not here to take part. We are here to take over” -Conor McGregor I am writing this piece while seated on the veranda of my tiny...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Sarah Kazira During Pre-service training, we had a permaculture expert come and talk to us about perma-gardening, and with the way he talked, I saw myself starting a garden when...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Vanessa Chimutu I can’t say am overwhelmed but I am proud of my community. When I first had the idea about doing training in my community it was because of...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Mr. Lusekelo Simwela As a Volunteer, we are ‘armed’ with some tools that help us work and fully integrate into our communities. These tools have been helpful in my service but...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Tusayiwe Sikwese A few months into my service, I started feeling a bit lonely and I wanted a puppy. So I thought, “Hey, I will ask some of the community...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Senegal Volunteer Mr. Mama Diop A locality, whatever its nature, its ground, and its resources, needs all its living forces to develop. In other words, the development of localities is a puzzle in...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Deborah Kamanga For the past two weeks, I have been going to bed or waking up to the sound of people singing or chanting. On the first night, I thought...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Lucy Chihana This month I decided to take some days off from my site, take that vacation, get some of my things done, and visit my friends and family. I...
