ABOUT CSAFRICA / FOUNDERS
+ Founders
The members of this coalition are all dedicated professionals with many years of proven experience in their fields of expertise. Each member is committed to the creation of sustainable solutions within their specialty, and this is amplified when combined by the multi-dimensional quality the collective brings to the business of providing assistance to those who were not born into the opportunity so many of us take for granted. Our commitment is proven by the work we have chosen to do and the accomplishments we have already achieved.
Each contributing member to CSAfrica is a highly educated professional. Many have held corporate positions in traditional industries. Their choice to pursue work in the social-justice arena comes from a deeply grounded belief that they are doing this because they can. All participating members are dedicated to successfully achieving our goals.
+ Stephan T. McGuire of Tree Media, Los Angeles
+ NextAid, Los Angeles and South Africa
+ Empowerment Works, Venice, CA
+ Earth Rights Institute, Los Angeles
+ Necessity Housing, Los Angeles
+ Tunahaki Foundation, Los Angeles
+ The Samburu Project, Los Angeles
 Stephan T. McGuire, of Tree Media
To support and sustain civil society by developing and producing projects that disseminate progressive messages, ideas, trends in global transformation, conflict resolution, sustainability and positive cultural catalysts.
CSAfrica was founded by Stephan McGuire of Tree Media as a response to the growing urgent need to support and sustain the continent of Africa. Stephen is president of CSAfrica.
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 NextAid [www.nextaid.org]
NextAid is a Los Angeles based non-profit organization dedicated to creating sustainable solutions for African children orphaned as a result of AIDS. NextAid actively links artists, musicians and the global community with some of the most impoverished and vulnerable children on the planet. By partnering with various organizations in the production of music events and other awareness raising activities, NextAid channels emergency and long-term aid to African children in need.
 NextAid actively develops long-term solutions for children impacted by AIDS by providing educational workshops and natural building training in Africa. We identify and work with already existing community leaders and solicit local knowledge and expertise in order to offset the continued loss of African wisdom due to the unending death rates, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. By training locals in natural building, organic gardening and economic enterprise development, we are currently empowering a youth group in Dennilton, South Africa to reclaim their right to a healthy, happy, secure and AIDS-free future.
[click here for more photos from NextAid's village project in South Africa]
Lauren Segal-Avenna, Co-founder and Director of NextAid
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[http://www.empowermentworks.org]
Established in 2001, Empowerment Works (EW) is comprised of a growing global community of citizens, businesses, and organizations who understand, that by bringing the best of our resources and ideas to the table, we build a better world for humanity. A nonprofit Global Sustainabilty Think-Tank-in-Action empowering all sectors of society to work together in resolving the most pressing human and environmental security challenges of our time.
EW recognizes that the most critical challenges facing our world today (such as AIDS, poverty, climate change and over-population) are inextricably linked. EW engages its diverse network of Partners In Empowerment
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 Earth Rights Institute [www.earthrights.net]
Founding Member, CSAfrica
Earth Rights Institute is dedicated to securing a culture of peace and justice by establishing dynamic worldwide networks of persons of goodwill and special skill, promoting policies and programs which further democratic rights to common heritage resources, and building ecological communities.
Earth Rights Institute has been working with partners in Africa for the past
4 years initiating, supporting and assisting in developing successfully
working models that effectively helps rebuild communities to be socially,
economically and ecologically sustainable. Our Eco-villages in Nigeria and
the Democratic Republic of the Congo demonstrate our experience and ability
to organize programs in communities that want to develop master plan
initiatives for socio-economic development that is based on building healthy
communities and a culture of peace. Our programs include promoting
democratic rights over natural resources, economic systems that secure a
better distribution of wealth, donation of humanitarian aid, and assisting
in furthering educational and skills for local communities in Africa.
Annie Goeke, Co-Director of EarthRights [send an email] top
 Necessity Housing [www.necessityhousing.com]
Necessity Housing builds villages that are ecologically sound and culturally sensitive alternatives within the economic reach of the millions who currently cannot afford shelter. We embrace the principles of sustainable development as a key element in our effort to serve human needs while supporting the ecological underpinnings upon which all of life relies. Moreover, we are dedicated to supporting efforts that help people help themselves through the creation of entrepreneurial opportunities that reduce the need for continuous financial support.
 Our projects in Dennilton with Nextaid and in Hammanskrall with Paramount Chief Kekana will
be models for what is possible in constructing ecologically sensitive homes with local labor.
Barry Leneman, founding President of Necessity Housing [send an email] [bio]
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 TunaHAKI Foundation [www.tunahaki.org]
Founding Member, CSAfrica
TunaHAKI Foundation empowers orphans and vulnerable street children in Africa to become self-reliant, thus ensuring basic human needs, including food, clothing, shelter, education, medical care and the right to a secure future. TunaHAKI Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit currently partnered with the arts-based TunaHAKI Centre for Child Development in Moshi, Kilimanjaro region, Tanzania which has rescued over 100 children from the streets and provided them with shelter, food, clothing, medical care, education, arts training, and job placement.
TunaHAKI believes that sustainable development is rooted in self-reliance, and we empower successful grass-roots organizations in Africa which are dedicated to the care of orphans and vulnerable children to stand on their own using sustainable best practices.
Scott Fifer, Executive Director [send an email]
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 The Samburu Project [www.thesamburuproject.org]
Founding Member, CSAfrica
The first mission of The Samburu Project is 25 water wells. The biggest issue in Samburu, Kenya is not HIV/AIDS, poverty or genital mutilation. It's the lack of clean water. Samburu women walk up to twelve miles every day looking for water and often return home to their children with nothing. The water issue affects every aspect of their daily lives including health, education, finances and family dynamics. It takes approximately two weeks and $10,000 to build a well that could benefit up to 2,000 people. The Samburu Project aims to build twenty-five wells in Samburu, Kenya.
Kristine Kosinski, Founder and Director [send an email]
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