Breadline Africa is a charity

Charitable organization

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 established to help the poor and the vulnerable to help themselves and break the cycle of poverty in Africa

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

. Breadline Africa is a non-profit charity organisation aimed at collecting donations from all corners of the globe to help those in need and break down the cycle of poverty. It does this by raising funds both overseas in the UK, Ireland

Ireland

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 and the Netherlands

Netherlands

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, and also in South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

 . Breadline Africa has a close relationship with the CWD, Catholic Welfare and Development of Cape Town, out of which it originally grew. However, BLA now provides funding to projects throughout the other provinces of South Africa as well as neighbouring countries like Lesotho

Lesotho

Lesotho , officially the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a landlocked country and enclave, surrounded by the Republic of South Africa. It is just over in size with a population of approximately 2,067,000. Its capital and largest city is Maseru. Lesotho is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. The name...

, Malawi

Malawi

The Republic of Malawi is a landlocked country in southeast Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the northwest, Tanzania to the northeast, and Mozambique on the east, south and west. The country is separated from Tanzania and Mozambique by Lake Malawi. Its size...

, Namibia

Namibia

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 and Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...

. It favours small projects which have grown out of community support, which are locally managed and have beneficiaries in their governing structures.

Since 1993, Breadline Africa has worked closely with many well respected philanthropic organisations and charitable projects.

Breadline Africa's Goals:
From the head quarters in Cape Town

Cape Town

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, South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

, Breadline Africa feeds an ever increasing amount of people on a day to day basis.

The organisation's main focuses are:

• Alleviating Poverty in Africa
  Poverty in Africa
  Poverty in Africa refers to the lack of basic human needs faced by certain segments of African society. African nations typically fall toward the bottom of any list measuring small size economic activity, such as income per capita or GDP per capita, despite a wealth of natural resources...
  
  
• HIV/Aids and Aids Orphans
• Education In Africa
• Crisis Counseling and Social Work
• Disabilities
• Malnutrition and starvation in Africa
• Unemployment and Skill Development
• African Youth Development

History

Breadline Africa started when a group of community and social workers living in Africa

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

 wanted to bridge the gap between Africa and Europe

Europe

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 and raise funds for the poor .

Their experiences in Africa meant that they were able to put the concerns of the communities around them into context and understand the problems that the people of Africa

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

 faced on a day-to-day basis. From there they could better identify community projects that could easily succeed with just a little help.

The community and social workers proposed the idea of an alliance

Alliance

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 to their European friends - one that would prove to benefit their common cause.

Within the year, a board of trustees was established and Breadline Africa was launched in 1993.