CorpsAfrica among 175 Commitments to Action Announced at CGI 2024

NEW YORK | September 26, 2024 – Washington, DC based NGO CorpsAfrica is pleased to be included among the 175 new Commitments to Action announced this week during the 2024 Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting. The Commitments will address climate resilience, global health equity, the protection of journalists, humanitarian crises, and other pressing global challenges. Launched by President Clinton in 2005, CGI has built a community of doers who are taking action to make a tangible difference in people’s lives around the world.

CorpsAfrica’s Commitment to Action will focus on the growth of the Pan-African Volunteer Exchange – an initiative with an ambitious goal of deploying over 500 Exchange Volunteers over the next three years. The project will provide Exchange Volunteers with the opportunity to serve a second year in another African country, after serving an initial year as a CorpsAfrica Volunteer in their home country. Already being tested in nine countries to date, this ambitious growth opportunity builds on CorpsAfrica’s proven scaling methodology from 10+ years of refining the core “home country” Volunteer experience. The commitment is to fund the deployment of the Exchange Volunteers while expanding the number of African countries in which they serve. Entire countries in which Volunteers serve are impacted by the work they perform through such projects as the building of health clinics, expanding access to fresh water, and educational enhancement activities. CorpsAfrica Volunteers work with local communities to discover what project the community needs, and are bespoke to each community. The initiative will strengthen on-the-ground impact and advance a more knowledgeable and cohesive pan-African perspective for the continent’s future leaders.

Partners will provide monetary resources to create infrastructure in each new country to support the influx of Exchange Volunteers and help design and execute service projects in the communities in which they serve. The Pan-African Volunteer Exchange, which will total $16M to implement, has raised $7 million to date, with an additional $9 million yet to be secured. Read more about the CorpsAfrica Pan-African Volunteer Exchange here.

When fully funded and implemented, the 175 new Commitments to Action launched at CGI 2024 will have a positive impact on the lives of more than 285 million people. Collectively, when fully implemented, these commitments will facilitate:

 More than $400 million dollars of funding to support historically excluded
communities and businesses.

 More than 275,000 people with improved access to educational materials.

 More than 11.7 million people with access to health services.

 More than 435,000 people with access to maternal/newborn health services.

 More than $54 million dollars of goods distributed for humanitarian relief or
disaster response.

 More than 7.3 million metric tons of CO2 equivalents reduced or avoided per
year.

For more information on to support the CorpsAfrica Pan-African Volunteer
Exchange initiative, contact [email protected] or [email protected]

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About the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI)
Founded by President Bill Clinton in 2005, the Clinton Global Initiative is a community of doers representing a broad cross section of society and dedicated to the idea that we can accomplish more together than we can apart. Through CGI’s unique model, more than 10,000 organizations have launched more than 4,000 Commitments to Action — new, specific, and measurable projects and programs – that are making a difference in the lives of more than 500 million people in 180 countries.

About CorpsAfrica
CorpsAfrica recruits and trains educated African youth as volunteers to live and work in rural, under-resourced communities in their own countries. Operating on the core belief that African youth are the Continent’s greatest resource, the organization places volunteers in remote communities for up to one year to facilitate small-scale, high-
impact projects that are identified by the community, many of which are related to health, economic empowerment, and climate change. CorpsAfrica has hosted over 900 volunteers and operates in ten African countries. For more information, visit corpsafrica.org.