Friends of Africa 2021 Christmas Gift Appeal
Our Christmas shop is now open! Join us in helping children and young people across Africa and at home. Our gifts make a substantial and long term impact on those we work with, creating employment opportunities, learning new skills and having lots of fun along the way.
Each gift purchased goes directly to the partner and the project as outlined. Please make one (or two) presents this Christmas a Friends of Africa Christmas gift.
LuLu Project, Mwanza Tanzania
The LuLu project helps teenage girls to discover their talents, plan their futures, start small businesses, and make beautiful handcrafts.
The girls meet twice a week, for 10 months to undergo training which focuses on supporting all aspects of a young girls life. The training includes life-skills, financial literacy, handcrafts, entrepreneurship, health and relationships. The groups identify leaders and each girl has a mentor. The LuLu project builds on three pillars for life: cooperation (ushirikiano), courage (uthubutu), and creativity (ubunifu).
The picture of the hand holding the pearl refers to our own hands that are blessed with talents of great price; being able to write, to show someone the way, to comfort, and to make beautiful things.
When you make a purchase from our website we will post you out the following for each gift purchased:
A beautifully designed gift certificate which you can hang on your Christmas tree
A handmade Christmas card made by the young women from the LuLu project
An envelope to give you the option of purchasing this as a gift for a family member or friend