For 25 years, Harambee Centre has fostered partnerships, friendships, and life-changing connections across USA and African cultures to create a sustainable and better world for thousands of children, women, families, and their communities in rural Africa through mutually beneficial cultural exchange initiatives in healthcare, small businesses, and education scholarships. Learn more.
We foster educational, healthcare, community engagement, and service projects that improve lives in rural Eastern Africa, educate Pacific North-westerners about Africa, and pull together Pacific Northwest and East African communities.
We provide access to education, healthcare, and community resources to women and children, and their families so they can reach their full potential, dream big, and become leaders. We offer opportunities for our community members to connect with the diverse peoples and cultures of Africa through educational activities and cross-cultural trips.
More confident, successful, educated youth in rural Kenya and Uganda.
Chwele community members in rural Kenya have better access to healthcare and community services.
Pacific-northwesterners are more knowledgeable of and better connected with the peoples and cultures of Africa.
Ready to pull together with us to elevate lives and communities?
Contribute to the scholarship program
Help us empower talented underprivileged students to become the future leaders their communities need. Your support fuels their education, unlocking potential and creating lasting change.
Help a Teen Mother Gain Life Changing Vocational Skills
Give a young mother the opportunity to attend a vocational skill-building program that will give her better options for financially supporting her family and contributing to her community.
Become a Sister School
Transform your students’ awareness and inspire them to take action. We can connect you with a school in rural East Africa and help foster international understanding, awareness, and friendship.
“Harambee Centre changed completely how I viewed my education.”
“I always struggled in school being dyslexic, seeing studying as a burden rather than an opportunity. The Harambee Centre’s cultural exchange programs introduced me to students in Uganda who changed my perspective on education. They wanted to go to school and walked great, dangerous lengths everyday for the opportunity. Today I am grateful for my education, I love school, and am pursuing a Masters Degree in Geneva Switzerland.”
- Cameron
“Harambee has impacted my life directly, personally, starting at St Andrews where Harambee provided a good environment for studying.”
“Thank you to everyone that has supported Harambee work through your kind donations. Being in a school where you have literally all the resources that you need to excel as a student, that really helped me so much and I took the best advantage of that. I believe through the support you give to Harambee we'll help so many kids get a better life - change from a life where they are thinking about poverty and failure in life, to life where they are thinking about succeeding and creating positive change.”
- Robert
“We donate because we are all connected as humans and we are confident that the funds are well managed.”
“I love that Harambee works with a specific community in Kenya to improve the lives of the people in that community.”
- Judy
With your help more women, children, and their families can have access to education, healthcare, and community services that will improve lives, elevate communities, and strengthen international relationships and cross-cultural understanding.
