Canadian Samaritans for Africa is dedicated to empowering African women through sustainable, grassroots initiatives. By providing microcredit loans, education, and vocational training, we enable women to lift their families out of poverty, start businesses, and lead community development. Our programs foster self-reliance, dignity, and long-term growth, directly benefiting over 50,000 women and their families.
Your support fuels these efforts, helping African women build brighter futures for themselves and future generations. Together, we create lasting change
Building on the Assets of the African Woman
About Us
How We Care, and What We do
We believe that Africa needs solidarity and collaboration not pity and sympathy.
We are determined to support asset based grass roots goals than needs-based interventionist approaches. In order to realize this, we reach out to African women and rural communities, religious groups and non-religious organizations to promote educational initiatives, capacity-building, women empowerment, and rural water and sanitation projects
Our Current Projects
The Abia Town Widows Empowerment Foundation
The Abia Town Widows Empowerment Foundation (ATWEF) is committed to empowering widows in Abia, a community in Southeast Nigeria, with a population of around 8,000. Among them, 283 accredited widows
The Abor Nwunekaihe Development Foundation
The Abor Nwunekaihe Development Foundation, based in Enugu State, Nigeria, was established with the purpose of harnessing the collective talents, resources, and knowledge of individuals from the Abor community, both locally and in the diaspora. The foundation is dedicated to creating sustainable change by empowering the people of Abor, especially women, to break free from the cycle of poverty through skill development, economic opportunities, and community support
Our Mission
We are a faith-based registered international charity working with rural women in five African countries. Our mission is to find where God is present in the lives of poor and vibrant communities.
Make a Donation
CSA is entirely run and staffed by volunteers. Every dollar you give goes to the African women we support.
Our Projects
Our projects provide food security, water and sanitation, micro-credit, skills development, and women’s rights education, advocacy and support.
Food For Thought
It is simply a myth that poverty cannot be conquered. Worldwide poverty can be overcome if people all over the world realize that our destiny is tied. When someone in any part of the world dies of hunger, a part of me dies; if the environment is wounded in any part of the world, something of who I am is hurt; if someone somewhere in the world is humiliated and abused by poverty and unhealthy living conditions, my human dignity is also abused. What is required for poverty to remain in the world especially in Africa is for Africans to give up hope and non-Africans to treat the poverty of Africa as if it did not matter to world peace and prosperity. – Stan Chu Ilo
Latest News
Canadian Samaritans for Africa Partners with Engineers without Borders-USA to provide Water for Adu Achi Community of Nigeria
The Daily Illini covered the story of the Canadian Samaritans for Africa’s partnership with Engineers Without Borders to provide clean water in Adu Achi. Read the article here
Recent Projects
Watinooma Women Association in Kaya (Burkina Faso)
Canadian Samaritans for Africa started a partnership with the women of the Watinooma Association in 2019 by giving the opportunity to the first cohort of 30 women to open small