By Yewande Ogunnubi

Doing it for Africa is a project being pioneered by Heart of Healing,
a cape Town Based NGO. The project is aimed at creating an African
volunteer network. One of the aims will be connecting NGO's and
related projects in Africa through an accessible volunteer network.

To do this, a team of six South-African youth have committed
themselves to forming a Pan-African Social and Volunteer Tourism
network. The core mission is to cross Africa from South to North,
working and giving their time and energy to those who require it,
whilst profiling NGOs and related projects they visit.

By documenting the profiles, research and experiences on this
journey, on the 'Love to Africa' interactive web portal (which is
being developed), they aim to create:
· Volunteer tourism network;
· Put African corporate social investment (CSI) opportunities on the
map;
· Map out exciting routes for others to follow.

The young people will profile a wide variety of NGO's, working
projects and socially responsible investment opportunities and make
them accessible to the world by placing them on the map. The profile
format would be designed to match the NGO resource requirements with
the possible volunteers' contributions and skills - resulting in the
best outcome for all involved in the network.

This is a profound project that would definitely help to advance
human and social development in Africa. This is however a pilot
project and therefore the first leg would be mapping route from South
Africa through the following countries: Namibia, Botswana, Zambia,
Mozambique, Malawi, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Sudan, Egypt,
Libya, and Tunisia.

We require contacts from INGOs, NGOs, CBOs, and FBOs in these
countries who would be interested in working with us to do this
mapping and be the reception points for the team of young South
Africans navigating the route.

The benefit of this project is enormous to the NGOs community in
Africa at large, volunteers, corporate organizations, and the various
communities visited and i encourage you to be part of it.

For more information you can contact:
lovetoafrica@heartofhealing.org
yewande@heartofhealing.org.za