Africa - Thousand Currents

Reciprocity. Self-determination. Process.
African knowledges.

Thousand Currents partners in Africa center community and the environment.
We work to support our partners by being a part of an ecosystem that is building African diaspora philanthropy through community engagement and grantmaking.

Our Partners - Africa

Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement of South Africa (ABM)

South Africa

African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB)

South Africa

Amadiba Crisis Committee

South Africa

Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF)

Nigeria and South Sudan

Institute for Young Women Development (IYWD)

Zimbabwe

La Via Campesina International Operative Secretariat (LVC IOS)

Global

Nous Sommes la Solution/We Are the Solution (NSS)

Burkina Faso, Senegal, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Guinea & Mali

South Durban Community Environmental Alliance (SDCEA)

South Africa

Surplus People Project (SPP)

South Africa

Zimbabwe Smallholder Organic Farmers' Forum (ZIMSOFF)

Zimbabwe

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Our Catalyst Partners - Africa

ATTAC Maroc

Morocco

Kenyan Peasants League (KPL)

Kenya

L'Observatoire Tunisien de l'Economie (OTE)

Tunisia

Malawian Union for the Informal Sector (MUFIS)

Malawi

Participatory Ecological Land Use Management Zimbabwe (PELUM Zimbabwe)

Zimbabwe

Rural Women’s Assembly (RWA)

South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Swaziland, Malawi, Madagascar, Mauritius

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African solidarity in action through community, solidarity, power and radical transformation

Thousand Currents is committed to advancing a culture of diaspora philanthropy that is rooted in solidarity and self-determination. Our diaspora program, Africans in the Diaspora (AiD), networks Africans on the continent and in the diaspora to pool financial resources, knowledge and skills to support the work of the Thousand Currents Africa program.

Our Story

Founded in 2012, AiD envisioned a self-reliant Africa. Co-founders Solomé Lemma, Stephanie deWolfe and Zanele Sibanda created AiD as a platform to connect Africans in the diaspora and on the continent committed to African-owned, -driven, and -led transformative change.

AiD emerged as a crowdfunding platform to demonstrate the powerful impact that collective resources, skills, and ideas pooled from Africans—both on the continent and in the diaspora—can have at the grassroots level.

A two-year incubation partnership with Thousand Currents highlighted the two organizations’ shared enthusiasm to learn from indigenous practices and a shared vision for self-reliant African communities. The two organizations merged in 2017, making Thousand Currents the first US-based funder to rearrange its structure to include diaspora engagement.

As a project of Thousand Currents, AiD now sits in the Africa project of the organization. In 2020, AiD relaunched with an updated mission to take forward the visions that AiD’s rich and fruitful history carries.

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Stories of our partners' impact

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