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Social Norms
After nearly 28 years, The Communication Initiative (The CI) Global is entering a new chapter. Following a period of transition, the global website has been transferred to the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, where it will be administered by the Social and Behaviour Change Communication Division. Wits' commitment to social change and justice makes it a trusted steward for The CI's legacy and future.
 
Co-founder Victoria Martin is pleased to see this work continue under Wits' leadership. Victoria knows that co-founder Warren Feek (1953–2024) would have felt deep pride in The CI Global's Africa-led direction.
 
We honour the team and partners who sustained The CI for decades. Meanwhile, La Iniciativa de Comunicación (CILA) continues independently at lainiciativadecomunicacion.com and is linked with The CI Global site.
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Volunteers For Africa ICT Programme - East and Central Africa

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Volunteers For Africa (VFA) is an organisation that enables individuals and organisations to share skills and materials with and alongside people in need to build capacity and promote international relations and action. The organisation's ICT programme helps to build ICT capacity and access.
Communication Strategies
The ICT programme of Volunteers for Africa works with schools, hospitals and other institutions catering for the less fortunate in society such as the disabled. This programme reviews and contracts volunteers for training of host institutions in various areas of ICT.

"With the advent of the information age, VFA has tried to ensure all people are able to access necessary equipments and donations...."

The mission of VFA includes:
  • Initiate community based projects aimed at assisting local people to achieve their development objectives. These include projects to build dams, schools and community polytechnics, and health centres.
  • Assist needy projects, organisations and persons to gain needed equipment.
  • Create partnerships and networks between projects, CBO's, NGO's and corporations for the sake of resource sharing.
  • Promote the spirit of voluntarism.
  • Assist Africans to gain meaningful work experience through volunteer placements within Africa.
Development Issues
Technology, Economic Development
Partners

ECOTERRA International - Regional Office for East and Central Africa, Oneworld, Korean NGO Programme, Go Abroad, Friends of Mpigi Forests CDO, Serengeti Stop Over, Idealist, Kibera Community Programme

Sources

VFA website on May 26 2004