History
This is the year ELMA Philanthropies was established.
What is 2005?
This ELMA Foundation supports music as a tool for social development.
What is the ELMA Music Foundation?
This Program Officer runs for 1 hour each day without fail.
Who is Ritah Akankwasa
This is the number of African countries in which ELMA currently operates.
What is 11?
This African country is home to the most languages spoken within its borders.
What is Nigeria?
This is the year ELMA Philanthropies launched the ELMA Relief Foundation to provide post-disaster humanitarian support.
What is 2011?
This is the primary focus of the ELMA Relief Foundation.
What is post-disaster humanitarian assistance, particularly for children?
This Program Officer runs for 1 hour each day without fail
Ritah Akankwasa
This strategic partnership enabled ELMA to significantly reduce the cost of pediatric HIV medication in Africa.
What is the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI)?
This is the largest African country by area.
What is Algeria?
This is the year ELMA Philanthropies established the ELMA Vaccines and Immunization Foundation, broadening its focus on global health.
What is 2012?
This program worked to scale pediatric HIV/AIDS treatment in Africa.
What is the Pediatric HIV Initiative (2009–2010)?
This team member reads over 100 books annually.
Who is Samantha Malunga.
This initiative worked to strengthen nurse training programs across Africa.
What is the Nurse and Midwife Training Partnership (2010)?
This African desert is considered the oldest in the world.
What is the Namib Desert?
This region was the original geographic focus of ELMA’s philanthropic efforts.
What is Southern Africa?
This initiative provided libraries and reading materials to schools in Zambia and South Africa.
What is the Room to Read program?
This person organized the never-ending hike during the 2019 retreat.
Who is Anne Magege
This strategic funding model was used by ELMA to scale healthcare interventions.
What are private equity investments through the Africa Health Fund?
This country hosted the African International Conference on Early Childhood Development supported by ELMA in 2009.
What is Senegal?
This was the first program funded by ELMA that focused on Early Childhood Development.
What is Ilifa Labantwana (2009)?
This partnership supported vocational training for youth in Namibia and South Africa.
What are the Katutura Youth Enterprise and Wilderness Foundation?
This team member has spent the most consecutive years employed at ELMA.
Who is Ebony Howard
This collaborative strategy was employed by ELMA to influence early childhood development policies in South Africa.
What are partnerships with the DG Murray Trust and UBS Optimus Foundation?
This is the number of countries the River Nile flows through.
What is 11?