“Familiarity breeds contempt” is an idiom attributed to Geoffrey Chaucer. Yet sadly, it is just as relevant – and painfully true – today as it was when Chaucer wrote it in 1386. Most of us have been guilty of it: not showing enough sympathy when our partner has a cold; glazing over when a friend […]

In 2020, Network for Africa would like you to hear from some of the amazing team of people who have worked with us on many of our projects, beginning with Dr. Barbara Bauer. Why do you do this? I wanted to do humanitarian work from the age of 14 when I read The Other Side […]

Not many charities say their aim is to close down. But Network for Africa’s vision is making a world where we are no longer needed. That is why we focus on training local people to run our projects. We don’t use our resources to send a non-African to do the job that an African could […]