Giving Back to Africa

Giving Back to Africa: $6,200 to scale its participatory service leadership program for elementary school students in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Students research urgent community needs then develop action-oriented service projects to address identified challenges. Youth assume roles of community educators and change agents through presentation of a local knowledge fair. During the course of the grant, Giving Back to Africa continued to refine its curriculum and explore partnership with other schools to expand the program. As an important element of these efforts, GBA hired an additional a Congolese staff member to build organization capacity in the DRC.