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We launched our “New Year, New AiD” fundraising campaign today! We have 40 days to raise $30,000 for 3 incredible African organizations. Who will you support? And why? #WeGive #NewAiD

Africans in the Diaspora (AiD): "The Revolution Just Got Real" →

As a member of the Somali Diaspora, I’m particularly interested in AiD’s Fundsprogram, as I think this type of initiative is an important step in responding to the NGO industrial complex that often misuses funds, and perpetuates a state of dependency that compromises African autonomy. I think the diaspora is gaining momentum, and now is the time to pool our resources together, and implement structural frameworks that can transform us into agents of change rather than dependent reactionaries. 

The Sojourner Project: "Why I Support Africans in the Diaspora (AiD)" →

An initiative that allows members of the African Diaspora to invest their social, financial and intellectual capital for social and economic change on the continent? For all of this trendy talk on “diaspora engagement” beyond the micro scope, Africans in the Diaspora walks the walk.

Zanele Sibanda, Co-Founder of AiD answers “Why AiD? Why Africa?”

Africa is the source of my ‘roots and my wings.’ It remains the place where I find both my grounding and the inspiration for me to reach forward. I have been privileged to have the opportunity to travel across the continent, and through that opportunity find energy and inspiration from the hard work and ingenuity that people use to overcome the limitations of their context. I am blown away by how Africans create opportunity where others might see hopelessness. AiD is about turning up the volume of those efforts through collective action of the daughters and sons of Africa.

Check out the AiD Team: http://africansinthediaspora.org/about/team/

Tadia, An Online Magazine for Ethiopian-Americans Interviews AiD Founder, Solome Lemma →

Solome Lemma is the co-founder of the new organization Africans in the Diaspora (AiD). Solome, who is a graduate of Stanford and Harvard Universities, was also one of the fourteen Diaspora community leaders from the Horn of Africa that were highlighted as a White House Champion of Change earlier this year. Regarding her new venture, Solome says: “We want to disrupt and re-shape the meaning of aid.” 

"There are lots of people - like me and lots of folks I know - who have been waiting for something exactly like this, who are just on the verge of rolling their sleeves up and digging in to play their parts
- so having a platform to convene like-minded folk will really make a difference."

An African in the Diaspora

"This platform is so needed. I’m feeling so many things right now that I can’t express… I look forward to supporting you and becoming part of a strong network full of like-minded people who are in love with Africa and all of it’s greatness and it’s potential."

An African in the Diaspora

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“Timely project, beautiful website, PERFECT name—let’s take aid back and own it—AiD!” — Jacqueline

"‎After years of working in and on Africa, I have realized that we leverage our passions, knowledge, and resources best when we support and amplify the social change innovations and solutions being spearheaded by Africans in Africa. To date, we haven’t had effective platforms to connect the financial, intellectual, and human capital of Africans on the continent and in the Diaspora and channel them into strategic philanthropic and social investment. AiD fills that gap."

Solome Lemma, Founder and Executive Director, Africans in the Diaspora (AiD)