How to Help Sick Children in Africa

Donations help to buy medicine for Africa's sick children.

A simple act of giving can impact the lives of sick children in Africa who do not have the basics of life -- good medical care, clean drinking water, food to eat or a bed to sleep in. Disease impacts the lives of many children whose parents have died from debilitating diseases. Some children are afflicted with the very maladies that claimed their parents' lives. Charities offer much-needed relief to the suffering sick children of Africa.

Instructions

1. Form an African Sick Children Charity Group. Run a survey of your friends and acquaintances who may want to join you in raising funds for Africa's sick children. Schedule a formal meeting to gain more ideas about raising funds.

2. 

   Obtain a not-for-profit 501(c) status for your charity foundation.

   Establish a foundation whose overriding responsibility will be to find verifiable organizations working in the interests of sick children in Africa. Obtain a Not-for-Profit 501(c) status for the foundation. Members of the foundation should include at least one attorney and an accountant who will interview African organizations and choose appropriate groups in Africa that your charity group will support.

   The foundation must use strict covenants to govern African aid groups whose reputations must be flawless. The foundation should be allotted a sizable endowment fund from which it will issue funds. African sick children must be the sole recipients of donated funds. No member of the foundation should have a for-profit business affiliation with African organizations that distribute aid to African sick children. The foundation must consult with the executive committee when there is a need for increased funds.

3. Create an executive committee whose chief responsibility will be to allocate funds to the foundation. Members should not serve dually on the committee as well as the foundation. The committee members' reputation should be without reproach. The executive committee must prepare disbursement statements that reflect transparent expenses.

   Overall summaries should reflect what services the funds have covered and how the donation has impacted care of the sick children in Africa.

4. 

   The board of governors must meet to discuss aid to Africa's sick children.

   Institute a board of governors if your charity group becomes a fairly large organization. Schedule a monthly meeting of the board of governors. The executive committee must prepare financial statements and obtain medical reports from African medical institutions entrusted with childcare under the auspices of the foundation.

   Staff at the African organizations must be qualified and trained in delivering care. The African organizations are to submit monthly reports, which the Executive Committee will summarize and distribute to the Board of Governors.

5. 

   Donation of clothing helps sick children to be appropriately dressed.

   Publicize your charity group's work. Request aid from corporations. Ask for the public's support in a clothing and toy drive for sick children in Africa. Make this a splinter group of the charity, and specify a place where people can deliver used clothing to the charity group. Start an affiliated laundry service that will employ local people in need of jobs. Their duties will cover laundering, ironing and folding donated clothes. The items must be packed and delivered in boxes to the African organizations via shipment following approval by your foundation. Delivery must be confirmed.

References

• Kabiza Wilderness Safaris: What Can I do to Help the children of Africa?
• Global Giving: Preventing Childhood Malaria Deaths in Mashegu