The Charity

Practical help for Africa will be provided by the creation of a network of Health Centres throughout Africa, which will offer primary healthcare, awareness, education, information, dietary advice and counselling for AIDS.

After the opening of our first One-Stop Health Centre on 26th October 2002 in Okpanam - Delta State, Nigeria, we are inviting companies with vested interests in sub-Saharan African countries, to adopt and build their own Support For Africa One-Stop Health Centres in rural areas in countries of their own choice. We are grateful to Intels Logistics Management Ltd for being the first to promise two one-stop Health Centres, one in Angola and another in Rivers State of Nigeria.

It is one of our strongest principles to bring the local communities to realise their responsibilities for themselves and to encourage them to develop ways (commercial or otherwise) to make the running of the Health Centres self-sufficient after an initial short two-year period, in which they are wholly supported by the charity. In this way we hope to be able to galvanise each community we enter to create a viable and long lasting solution to their own health care.

The awareness campaign includes global publicity through sponsored high profile events, one of which was the televised "Reaching Out For Africa" Concert by a 3000 strong Gospel Choir and celebrities at the Royal Albert Hall on March 10th 2002. Also Patti Boulaye, Founder/President of Support For Africa organised and led the much televised 5000 gospel singers at Her Majesty the Queen's Golden Jubilee Procession on 4th June 2002. This was followed by Michael Jackson's public support of the work done by Patti and the Charity on 14th June 2002 during his visit to London.