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On the occasion of Africa Day, the radio program Tres Mundos, Solidaridad de Radio 5 RNE, interviewed Lola Serra, co-founder and partner of Afrikable, to share with the audience what we have been doing in our project in Lamu to Empower women.
We appreciate their interest in our project and we hope you like it!
Click here, if you want to listen the complete program, in which they interview another Spanish ONGD that works in Ethiopia.
Translator: Celi Pecorelli.
"Two and a half months have passed since I returned from Lamu, and still had not be able to write a word and if someone asks me the reason I don't know what it is, I suppose it will be the same for which I couldn't make an album, or for which I still cannot explain much of what it feels... This b...
“Afrikable trained her, and in Afrikable’s opinion, she is good, natural, happy and warm-hearted. Lola, Merche, Raquel, Cris, Mr Big, Khadija, Grace, Joyce, Dorkas and the kids (I remember especially Rahima, a cutie of a girl) are good, natural, joyful, simple, welcoming… Afrikable offers much fo...
Hello, my name is Maka and I am 14 years old. Before discovering Afrikable, I helped my mum take care of my younger siblings, clean, wash clothes and sometimes cook. I could not go to school and could not read or write. Since my mum got sick because of her recent pregnancy and our dad left us, I had...
Mariamu Thomas has been working for Afrikable for more than 2 years. Her life before, she says, was not that bad. She made bracelets and sold them in the market. She sometimes made a lot, and sometimes a little, but she could earn €40.00 per month. Her husband has another house in Amboseli, and ever...
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I still remember that day at the library when Carmen Guijarro called us to tell us the news... It has been granted!!!... We did it!!!... Finally the women’s workshop would…
Afrikable is a Spanish charitable organisation, registered in the National Register of Associations under number 1/1/594088 and in the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation for Development (AECID)'s Register of Non-Governmental Organisations under number 2033.
In Kenya our association is called Afrika Able Organization and is registered with Kenya's NGO Coordination Board under number 10976.
