Project Africa

Project Africa 2010

Real People, Making a Difference.

Project Africa 2010 is a Nestlé employee initiative dedicated in assisting the improvement of the standard and quality of living for children housed at Kumasi Children’s Home – Ghana, West Africa.

The Project Africa team formed as a grassroots pilot volunteer initiative in 2007. And in March 2009, the team embarked on their first project alongside Habitat for Humanity in Ghana. The Project Africa team spent some time at Kumasi Children’s Home, an orphanage supporting approximately 120 boys & girls.

Whilst there, they spent a full day cleaning the entire orphanage. The team also hand delivered stuffed toys to the infants and a bag full of school necessities for each child, and purchased sorely needed new mattresses for each bed. With their first hand experience seeing the plight of the orphans and their living conditions, the Project Leader Renée Enman and team members vowed to return to Kumasi Children’s Home with a single-minded goal of raising funds to help refurbish and rebuild parts of the orphanage. This is now Project Africa 2010.

Through the support of Nestlé Australia and Corporate Partners the team have raised $100,000. The Project Africa 2010 Project Leader will take a team of seven Nestlé Australia Employees to Kumasi, Ghana where they will spend two weeks in February 2010 completing this phase of their Project.

Current Living Conditions

Click here for a video showing an example of the living conditions.

Click here for a video showing another example the living conditions.

We would like to thank our Corporate Partners who are supporting this great initiative.

Project Africa 2009

In March 2009 an idea that originated with an employee at Nestlé Australia came to life in Ghana, Africa. A team of 6 Nestlé Australia and 7 Nestlé USA team members came together to work alongside Habitat for Humanity (HFH). HFH is an organisation which aids developing and disaster-struck areas by assisting in building homes for those in need - for example, with the development of new housing for areas affected by Hurricane Katrina in the USA.

Seeing the impact that HFH’s work is having in our world drove the Project Leader, Renée Enman, to establish an international network of Nestlé employees who would be willing to donate their time to help.

Renee called her initiative Project Africa 2009 - Real People, Real Possibilities.

The team recently returned from their 2 week trip in the Ashanti Region of Ghana, where they built three homes in the KyeKyewere community, a 5 hour drive north from the capital Accra. The Project Africa team worked alongside a building crew of tradesmen from the local community who helped the Nestlé volunteers develop new skills in carpentry, rendering, cement mixing, brick laying and roofing - all done with hand tools!

The KyeKyewere people share one water well which is a 5 to 6km walk in a community made up of 150 families, most of whom have no electricity. It was a very humbling experience to see the difficulties that they endure on a daily basis, and to see how grateful they were for the team's assistance.

The team also spent time at Kumasi Orphanage and the Nestlé Australia team rallied the KyeKyewere community building crew and together they spent a full day cleaning the entire orphanage. The team also purchased sorely needed new mattresses, as well as delivering a bag full of school necessities for each child.

Quick Facts on Ghana

Population 23.5 million
32% live on less than US$1 a day
30% of children in the north are malnourished
13% of children living in the capital of Accra, are underfed
More than one-third of Ghana's economic output is agricultural with Cocoa its largest export

Project Africa Nestlé Australia Team

Renee Enman - Project Leader
Nestlé Australia