08/08/2012
AFROCOD Executive Director, Vincent Mughwai at the AGOA conference "Enhancing Africa's Infrastructure for Trade"
Currently, the organization has its operations in the East African communities of Tanzania but it also seeks to expand its work to other parts of Africa.
AFROCOD is a not-for-profit organization that promotes, facilitates and supports grass-roots participation in socioeconomic development in undeserved-communities in Africa. The organization's duties include the challenge of working to promote quality primary and secondary education for young boys and girls by providing them with educational supplies and financial assistance to meet their education
08/08/2012
AFROCOD Executive Director, Vincent Mughwai at the AGOA conference "Enhancing Africa's Infrastructure for Trade"
Big news - On Monday, AFROCOD's Director of Finance, Phillip Lwiza received word from the IRS that AFROCOD has officially been registered as a 501 (c) 3 charitable organization. We at AFROCOD would like to thank Phillip for his hard work, and would like to invite others to share their words of encouragement as we finalize other ways for you to show your support.
Further information regarding this development will be available shortly.
Speaking about development with the Chairman of the Board, Justin Hume
This morning, Afrocod submitted their IRS form 1023, applying for 501 (c) 3 tax exempt status in the US! This is a big step forward towards becoming more active and attracting further support, and it means that your donations will soon be tax deductible! Thanks to Phillip Lwiza for his hard work in filling out the paperwork.
Visit www.afrocod.org in the coming days to see our most recent press release, as well as a video interview with Afrocod Executive Director Vincent Mughwai and Chairman of the Board, Justin Hume
12/11/2011
AFROCOD celebrates 50 years of Tanzanian Independence! 9 December 1961 - 9 December 2011!
12/11/2011
TEDx speaker David Damberger on the necessity of building accountability and local capacity in the development industry today
http://www.ted.com/talks/david_damberger_what_happens_when_an_ngo_admits_failure.html
David Damberger: What happens when an NGO admits failure | Video on TED.com TED Talks International aid groups make the same mistakes over and over again. At TEDxYYC David Damberger uses his own engineering failure in India to call for the development sector to publicly admit, analyze, and learn from their missteps.
12/11/2011
Afrocod Executive Director Vincent Mughwai and Director of Finance Phillip Lwiza talk about grassroots development with Baba Wesley Grey on his Brooklyn-based radio program:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/grassrootsholistichealth/2011/11/28/grass-roots-socioeconomic-development-in-africa #.TtRRrYmxuLc.email
Grass-Roots Socioeconomic Development In Africa Today we have two distinguished guest from TanzaniaEast Africa.Vincent MughwaiFounder and executive director of AFROCOD and Adjunct Professor of Internatinal Nov 27