Current Projects

Adopt a Student Program

The Adopt a Student Program is designed to connect individual sponsors in the US with students in Uganda.  For a little over a dollar a day, an individual or a group can pay for a student’s schooling for a year. Among other things, this includes tuition, uniform, textbooks, and a mosquito net. As college students, we understand the value of education, and we know that the best way we can help the inhabitants of sub-Saharan Africa rise out of poverty is to provide them with a solid and consistent education.  Please see the Adopt a Student page for more information.

Livestock Project

HFA has helped fund Livestock for Livelihoods, a community-based livestock project sponsored by Alliance Africa in cooperation with FINIDP in Uganda.

Improving Life at Home, Giving Life Abroad

HFA members have always been involved in reaching out to our local community as well as abroad.  In the spring of 2009, we visited the Oxford Boys and Girls Club, where we asked the students to write letters to our sponsored students in Uganda.  Those letters were successfully delivered in June.  We hope to continue projects like this to foster a relationship between our local community and our friends abroad.

TOMS Shoes Events

For every pair of TOMS purchased, they give a pair of shoes to a child in need.  HFA has worked with TOMS to host three events on the Ole Miss campus.  We put on two shoe painting events first in the spring of 2008 and then in the fall of 2008.  In the spring of 2010, we hosted a TOMS Barefoot Walk, aiming to raise awareness on campus.

Benefit Concerts

Hope for Africa has put on three benefit concerts, one in the spring of 2007, one in the fall of 2008, and another in the fall 0f 2009.   Thanks to the help of HFA members and local musicians, these events have been hugely successful.

Art Sale/Silent Auction

HFA has also raised funds through various projects such as art sales and silent auctions.  Thank you to the local artists and businesses that have helped with these efforts.

Ole Miss International Social Justice Conference

In the fall of 2009, Hope for Africa presented the first Ole Miss International Social Justice Conference.  We hosted a variety of local and national organizations on our campus to spread the word about their causes and to share ideas with one another.  The event featured to panel discussions, one about effectiveness of aid locally and abroad and another about volunteering abroad.  The conference culminated with a screening of Invisible Children’s latest documentary.

Invisible Children Events

Invisible Children is a documentary series with the goal of raising awareness about the situation in war-torn Northern Uganda.  HFA has hosted screenings of these documentaries in coordination with Invisible Children.  HFA also hosted a “Displace Me” event modeled after the events Invisible Children held around the country in an effort to raise awareness about refugee camps in Northern Uganda.

HFA Yard Sale

Hope for Africa has hosted two yard sales that were both hugely successful.  These modest undertakings have proved to be fantastic ways for us to raise funds.  All leftover items from the yard sales were donated to Angel Ranch in Oxford.