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  Volunteers For Africa (14 Apr 2010 10:29 GMT)

  Dear Sir, Madam,
  
  Volunteers for Africa Organization (VFA) was registered in the year 2001 in Kenya under the NGO Coordination Act (1990). VFA operates in Eastern Africa promoting volunteerism for sustainable development amongst poor and rural communities in the region; implementing development projects; and training communities and partners in development methodologies. Since its inception in 2001, VFA has striven to network people, grassroots organizations and resources within and outside Eastern Africa for sustainable development in the key areas of natural resources conservation, health and social development. VFA is run by a secretariat (Board of Directors) based in Nairobi. VFA implements its programme activities through effective partnership working with community members, groups, organizations and supporters drawn from within Eastern Africa and abroad.
  
  The aim of VFA is empowering and strengthening local institutions and communities’ capacity to eradicate poverty, hunger and disease.
  
  Its mission is to fight poverty and disease in Africa. VFA seeks to network people, organizations and resources in Eastern Africa for sustainable development in natural resources conservation and social development. VFA works mainly with community based groups and organizations in Eastern Africa assisting them acquire technical, human and financial resources from all parts of the world. It links them with other community groups and organizations, volunteer agencies, local and international volunteers, government agencies, and donors. This way VFA contributes towards poverty alleviation, promotion of active citizenship through voluntarism, and the overall socio-economic empowerment of grassroots populations in Eastern Africa.
  
  
  We have also been linking volunteers in East Africa for many years now. Since the year 2002, we have been receiving and linking volunteers to projects in the region, most of them working in the fields of Environment (conservation projects), community projects, health projects, IT, media and sports, working with wildlife, teaching (as well as TOEFL), Language, sports coaching, hospitality as well as working with orphans and vulnerable children. Our placements have combined service and tourism, including travel, expeditions, adventure, tours, xtreme expeditions and xtreme sports, among other adventure programmes.
  
  We have successfully placed over 50 volunteers from mainly Europe, on small scale, and now want to do volunteer placement and recruitment on a large scale. This is because there is a great demand for our programmes in East Africa. Presently we have 309 requests for volunteers to serve in rural and urban areas of East Africa. This is one of the reason why we are getting in touch with you, to see how we could together work in promoting volunteerism among your networks to organizations in East Africa, as well as support the various education, health and environment programmes that we run with rural women, children and youth in the region.
  
  
  We would be happy to discuss this further with you, and most probably we will come-up with an amicable procedure for moving forward with the partnership. We are very optimistic that this is an opportunity we all want to be part of. We are happy to send to you our profile. You may also learn more about us by visiting our website at http://www.volunteerforafrica.org.
  
  Of keen interest to us is your capacity building, education and sustainable development programme all of which mirror very well with what we do. We are happy to partner with you to establish similar projects in East Africa, where we can learn from your initiatives elsewhere.
  
  Looking forward to sharing more details on this initiative as soon as possible.
  
  Yours faithfully,
  
  Nicholas Ngece
  Director
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  Volunteers For Africa (27 Oct 2009 13:45 GMT)

  Your work on environment in Africa sounds very interesting. Your engagement in the Chad is also very good. We as an organization want to extend to you invitation to partner with us in our work in Kenya. We have a vert flamboyant environmental department which would be very useful to your work, and to create a partnership with. Please be in touch and we can agree on any means of engagement. Regards VFA MAnagement Team in Africa.