ZanaAfrica empowers Kenyan girls to graduate from school and gain financial freedom through the delivery of a simple, scalable solution – the sanitary pad. Over 800,000 Kenyan girls miss up to 5 days of school per month due to lack of pads. Your donation helps address this inequality. By delivering pads, along with reproductive health education and community empowerment, ZanaA gives girls the opportunity to pursue
their dreams.
What your donation covers?
- $10 provides sanitary pads for a single girl for a year
- $100 provides sanitary pads for ten girls for a year
- $250 provides health education for over 100 girls
for a month
- $500 provides support for the world’s first long-term study on the impact of sanitary pads on girls’ education
- $1000 provides sanitary pads for an entire school
for a year
All financial contributions are tax-deductible.
Online donations are handled through PayPal.
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Frequently asked questions about giving:
- What is social enterprise?: Different people define it differently, but generally it is an organization that has a triple-bottom-line solution – financial profit, environmental gains, and social value – as central to its operations. Another way of saying this is to create market-based strategies to achieve social and environmental purposes. By creating a business model for social and environmental missions, it helps to insure financial sustainability to keep benefiting people and the planet.
- Are you a non-profit?: Yes, American Friends of ZanaAfrica (AFZA) is a 501(c)3. registered 501(c)(3) public charity under 170(b)(1)(a)(vi) of the IRS code. Our Employer Identification Number (EIN) is 26-1358805. We are not yet registered in the U.K but have plans for that in 2011.
- Will I get a tax-deduction on my donation? Yes, if you are American, we are qualified to receive tax deductible donations, bequests, devices, transfers or gifts under section 2055, 2106, or 2522 of the IRS 501(c)3 code. All donations qualify for tax deductions. In Kenya, ZanaAfrica Group is a company limited by shares, with ZanaAfrica Centre a company limited by profits. We are in the process of registering a non-profit, but it can take two years and doesn’t end up saying a whole lot about the integrity of an organization in management of resources.
- How much overhead do you have?: In the USA, about 4% of our contributions go to things like fundraising, dealing with legal issues, paying bank charges, and filing our taxes. Generally we try to get these met through separate donations or as part of grants, so that 100% of your individual contributions can benefit Kenya.
- When did you get your non-profit status? We received the IRS determination letter in February 2009, which gave us retro-active 501c3 status back to November 2007, which means we are a public charity.
- Do you have annual reports? Yes, and they are readily available upon request. If enough people ask, we’ll put them online.
- If I want to write a check or send a bank or wire transfer, how do I do that? Checks can be made out to “American Friends of ZanaAfrica” and sent:
To make a bank or wire transfer please contact us
