Ubuntu Education Fund
Helps South Africa’s orphaned and vulnerable children access higher education and employment by providing world-class household stability, educational, and medical support from cradle to career.Ubuntu Education Fund is a grassroots organization that has developed a model for raising children in the disadvantaged townships of Port Elizabeth, operating out of the 25,000 sq foot state-of-the-art Ubuntu Centre. “Ubuntu” is a Xhosa philosophy that implies human interconnectedness: I am because you are. As our patron, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, often says of this belief system, “It speaks to the very essence of being human. My humanity is caught up, inextricably bound up, in yours. A person is a person through a person.”
Today, Ubuntu has over 2,000 children on the pathway out of poverty, with 132 of our students on scholarships at university.
Ubuntu has built an integrated system of medical, health, educational, and social interventions to help orphaned or vulnerable children succeed in the worlds of higher education and employment.
A network of community members and supporters has built Ubuntu into a blueprint for culturally appropriate, community-based development. Ubuntu has redefined the theory of “going to scale.” Rather than expand geographically, Ubuntu has drawn a seven-kilometer perimeter around a community of 400,000 people. Our story is about depth, not surface area.
Our mission is simple, all-encompassing, and radical: to help raise township children by providing what all children deserve—everything.
Contact Information
New York Office
Ubuntu Education Fund
32 Broadway
Suite 414
New York, NY 10004
U.S.A.
T: (646) 827-1190
F: (646) 485-0924
E: info@ubuntufund.org
www.ubuntufund.org
Zwide Township Headquarters
Ubuntu Education Fund
P.O. Box 14526
Sidwell 6061
Port Elizabeth, South Africa
T: +27 (0) 41 409-2700
F: +27 (0) 41 409-2763
Financial Information
Ubuntu Education Fund is classified as a 501(c)(3) organization. Click below to view our most recent independent audit and IRS Form 990.
Banner photo: Children in front of the Ubuntu Centre.
Photo right: Ubuntu provides life-saving HIV support services and essential educational resources for 40,000 orphaned and vulnerable chidren in the townships of Port Elizabeth.
Photo left: Ben Nyathi Junior Primary Students are empowered by their educational resources.
Video: The Ubuntu Centre
Here is what your donation can do:
- $10 feed a child for one week at summer camp.
- $100 provide food parcels for one family for a month.
- $1,000 fund 25,000 HIV/AIDS information cards.
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To donate to this member charity by check, please print our designation form and mail it with your check to
Aid for Africa
P.O. Box 8734
Topeka, KS 66608
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