George and Rosemary Willard
were invited to visit Burkina Faso, West Africa
in 1990, knowing nothing of the needs of Africa. They found the people of
Africa requiring urgent help, particularly for the orphaned and abandoned
children whose parents had died through AIDS,
They returned to England and set up the charity A.F.R.I.C.A. To work for the
people of Africa.
Some seventeen years later they have visited and worked in nine African countries
with orphans, destitute children and adults.
For the past 13 years they have worked extensively in Uganda. At present they
are busy establishing a new development which is still in the early stages.
This village will include a church, clinic/hospital, office, school, housing for abandoned children, mothers home and mission house. There are also plans for a vegetable farm to enable the village to become self supportive which will also be able assist the surrounding community. The clinic is the only free clinic in the surrounding area.
For the past six years the charity has also brought a Children's Choir to the UK.
The latest project is in Cape Town, South Africa,
working amongst the squatters camps, feeding and caring for the orphans.