Our missions
We recognise the necessity of access of those primary needs and to promote wellbeing, emancipation and privileges for all citizens.
Our communities we are aiming to serve will have the rights to enjoy the basic (though high quality) comfort progressing throughout upcoming generations.
Our objectives would mainly be to work with communities for their betterment and to leave a blueprint with a deep, positive and meaningful impact for the future.
Our organisation 1FORAFRICA advocates for a community social responsibility, through participation, engagement; a type of responsibility where people become economically and socially active, healthy, and productive actors and originators of their environment.
CREATING STABLE AND AFFORDABLE SHELTER FOR FAMILIES
Providing families with a place of shelter equals to the care of their safety from local environment and offering a sense of retreat where unity meets growth.
According to the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, shelters and stable households are fundamental for the health and safety of an entire family, the child development and provides opportunities for its owners.
With an estimated population of 1.3 billion people for an area of 30.4 million km2, Africa is home to about 17% of the world’s population on 22% of the planet’s land.
According to Jeune Afrique, Africa’s escalating young population and high rate of urbanisation are two realities behind the steadily rising demand for affordable housing.
In context of global poverty, insufficient supply is at the origin of real social problems in the continent. The report released by the United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN- Habitat) in the year 2015 is showing the alarm over the failure to meet aspirations for widespread human development. One of the most serious questions about Africa’s future is what can be done to speed up housing construction.
The challenge to meet the goal of affordable housing is therefore the complexity that characterizes the value chain. Governments, non-governmental organizations, the
private sector and international organizations can work together to overcome these obstacles.
Flexibility is very important for companies involved in housing construction in conflict zones or in large-scale mining operations where housing needs to be built quickly. Prefabricated housing, along with new sanitation and energy facilities, provide an affordable solution for thousands of people.
Contrary to the harsh reality where traditional “Western” models of construction have yet to reach the affordable housing ladder. It is therefore incumbent on all stakeholders to work hard to resolve structural issues such as the freeing of land, the exorbitant price of materials and poor infrastructure.
How would 1FORAFRICA address this challenge?
We believe in the power of the community and its eagerness to better their lifestyle and wellbeing.
Our missions would target;
– the development of a self-sufficient property sector, both to provide luxury premium and affordable housing for families.
– the provision of well-equipped flats with high top technology equipment such as solar panels, air conditioning systems and so many other ergonomic features.
We ensure sustainable development by supplying jobs to implement self-sufficiency in favour of tenants.
Operating as a business entity will allow us to invest in the population in Africa to, firstly, bring awareness and educate the citizens on the importance of a sustainable development in the continent and nurture a collaborative innovation strategy towards our targeted industries.
PLANNING AN INNOVATIVE, HEALTHY & SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS
The Global Report on Food Crises 2020 was released before the recent global crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic, and therefore didn’t account the impact on vulnerable people in food-crisis situations.
The report is the result of a joint, consensus-based assessment of acute food insecurity situations around the world by 16 partner organizations.
It numbered around 135 million food-insecure people in crisis or worse across 55 countries and territories in 2019.
More than half of the affected population were in Africa with 73 million people against 0.5 million in Europe.
The report reflects on how Africa has been affected by key drivers of acute food insecurity such as conflict/insecurity, weather extremes, desert locusts, economic shocks and COVID-19.
Therefore, based on such alarming numbers and situations, it is a community duty to gather on a knowledge sharing platform (online, or external) and innovate with systems, products and/or service that will not only fight against shortages of food, but also create jobs to families and communities and innovate within the agribusiness sector.
The new report from the McKinsey Global Institute, entitled Africa at work: Job creation and inclusive growth highlights three methods on how agriculture could lead to the creation of stable jobs on the continent, by;
- – Utilising uncultivated land
- – Focussing on labour-intensive crops
- – Developing agro-processing industries
1FORAFRICA is eager to take part of this challenge via innovative and thriving ways to accelerate the development of this sector.
Our response: the vertical farming.
This new practice which started its implementation in the 2000s, it is one of the most innovative approaches that can be tapped into as part of an effort to grow fresh, healthy, nutritious and pesticide-free food for consumers.
This is a practice of growing crops in vertically stacked layers. It often incorporates controlled-environment agriculture, which aims to optimize plant growth, and soilless farming techniques such as hydroponics, aquaponics, and aeroponics. Some common choices of structures to house vertical farming systems include buildings, shipping containers, tunnels, and abandoned mine shafts.
Although, vertical farming has its own financial barriers at the beginning of its instalment, the benefits are numerous and worth it, to name a few:
Stable crop yields / Protection from outside conditions / Crop yields all year long / Protection against pests / Fewer crop losses / Increase in profits / Protection from animals & invasive plant species / Ability to grow all kinds of plants / Savings in water / Vertical farming can be fully organic / Fewer crop imports needed / More efficient land use / Less habitat destruction / Energy generation through composting.
Vertical farming may be a quite promising future food source since space can be used quite efficiently to produce large amounts of vegetables and fruits.
Africa is known to be a land of wealthy resources and we are aiming to expand food availability on a low cost and within the continent, whilst generating more jobs for communities.
IMPLEMENTING AN ECO-FASHION AND ETHICAL BRAND ACCESSIBLE TO ALL
Sustainable fashion can sound as quite an oxymoron as fashion is usually understood to be fluctuating and tied to business models based on continuous replacement of goods and sustainability, understood as continuity, longevity and resourcefulness.
1FORAFRICA is more interested in sustainable clothing which refers to fabrics derived from eco-friendly resources, such as sustainably grown fiber crops or recycled materials. It also refers to how these fabrics are made. Historically, being environmentally conscious towards clothing meant buying clothes from thrift stores or any shops that sell second-hand clothing, or donating used clothes to shops previously mentioned, for reuse or resale. In modern times, with a prominent trend towards sustainability and being ‘green’, sustainable clothing has expanded towards reducing the amount of clothing discarded to landfills, and decreasing the environmental impact of agro-chemicals in producing conventional fiber crops (e.g. cotton).
Through the use of recycled materials for manufacturing of clothing this will provide an additional realm of economic world profit.Sustainable clothing will provide a new market for additional job opportunities, continuous net flow of money in the global economy, and the consumption reduction of raw materials and virgin resources. Source reduction or reducing the use of raw materials and virgin resources can ultimately reduce carbon emissions during the manufacturing process as well as the resources and carbon emissions that are related to the transportation process. This also prevents the unsustainable usage of extracting materials from the Earth by making use of what has already been used (i.e. recycling).
As the clothing industry has one of the highest impacts on the planet, we are looking for a drastic impact and cut in the high-water usage, the pollution from chemical treatments in clothing processing and erase inequalities that fashion industry brings and promote diversity and inclusion.
PROVIDING QUALITY EDUCATION FOR ALL THROUGH INNOVATION
The Accra 2018 edition of the WISE (World Innovation Summit for Education) estimated that by 2050, more than half of the world’s population growth will occur in Africa and the continent will also be home to 40 percent of all children in the world. Providing quality education to equip youth with the tools to tackle current and future challenges and drive social and economic growth is therefore a global imperative. According to the Minister of Education of Ghana (2018), Hon. Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, access and quality of education should be interdependent, observing that an estimated 90 million African children are currently out of school.
“Quality without access will lead to inequality and exclusion; access without quality will limit the potential and would not bring [about] the desired results,” Minister Prempeh said.
Following the ambition evoked in this summit, 1FORAFRICA is looking to innovate the education system, by building a strong knowledge-sharing platform for stakeholders and creating a collaboration space with and for our upcoming communities.
In order to develop and transform the current state of education, 1FORAFRICA thrives to invest in monitoring and evaluation procedures to assess and ensure top- leading education for a future generation of leaders and innovators.
Quality education can refer to a redefinition of curriculums and/or teacher trainings as much as it participates to social mobility, hoping to avert achievement gaps (between girls & boys – dropout rates primary, secondary and tertiary education) and ultimately reduce poverty.
Ayodele Odusola, the lead editor of the report and UNDP’s chief economist says “to address education inequality, governments must invest heavily in child and youth development through appropriate education and health policies and programmes.”
Providing quality education would also involve for the parents to be part of their children’s development by supporting them throughout their education and engage them in extracurricular activities, local youth and community groups.
1FORAFRICA aims to create affordable schools to fight against illiteracy, give every child a better education and as much experiences as possible to develop their critical thinking skills, guide them to leading careers and opportunities on the job market.
BUILDING SUSTAINABLE PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEMS CHANGE
Africa is still disproportionately affected by infectious diseases that put a significant burden on economies.
1FORAFRICA is aiming to create partnerships within a community of researchers, scientists and clinicians in universities, professionals of public health institutions, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and international entities to assess and proact accordingly to disease threats and epidemics, guided by programmes, policy making and data-driven audits.
The reason why it has become an imperative to focus on improving both healthcare cost and quality in Africa is that its neglect affects the education sector when malnutrition, stunting and poor health contribute to increased school absenteeism and dropout rates, lower attendance rates, parental disengagement and overall decreases in cognition.
Although Africa has been represented by many as a place of poverty, isolation and rural living. The continent itself is seeing beneath its deficiencies and is currently looking forward to take another positive look and accordingly to their environment.
It is estimated that six of the world’s 10 fastest-growing economies are in Africa; for the period 2014-2050; significant growth generated with the information and communication technology (ICT) revolution rapidly increasing connectivity across the continent, which also benefits the health sector.
The partnership strategy among actors a fore mentioned will enable 1FORAFRICA to provide new hospitals, equipment and professionals responding to this vital need. With our 2021-2050 agenda being focussed on the job creation, this initiative should help families to be self-sufficient in provisions of treatments.