OUR MISSION, MANDATE, AND PHILOSOPHY
ABOUT US
- The Africa-Canada- Education Foundation (ACEF) is a British Columbia-registered non-profit organization mandated to provide education and educational services in the areas of art and culture, digital literacy and continuous/adult education, sustainable development, social justice and global citizenship. Its services serve the African community as well as the community at large.
- Geographically, the ACEF’s mandate extends across the whole of British Columbia, Canada, and globally.
- Additionally, ACEF supports new immigrant and refugee students and their families in Canada by providing settlement services, educational materials and programmes, including digital literacy, continuous/adult education, and access to quality education.
- Finally, ACEF provides educational resources, such as school supplies and scholarships to under-served rural students in Africa.
- With its motto “Education is a right and not a privilege,” ACEF seeks to promote the principles of social justice in education, namely fairness, equality, equity, inclusion, non-discrimination.
OUR VISION
Our vision is to motivate, encourage, and empower youths to realize, attain, and actualize their full potential, and to become all-rounded, well informed believers in and practitioners of , global citizenship.
OUR MISSION
To promote pride, cultural competency, and literacy in African, African-Canadian, and Global African cultures, and to preserve and revitalize cultural heritage through music, dance, spoken word, theatre, storytelling, and visual arts.
OUR VALUES
Education is, and must remain a human right and universal mandate informed by the global social justice principles of fairness, equality, equity, inclusion, and non-discrimination, and guided by the aphorism: "It takes a village to raise its children."
OUR MANDATES
To promote education in the areas of art and culture, digital literacy, continuous education, sustainable development, social justice, and global citizenship.
To organize African language and mother tongue classes
To support, create, and manage educational and literacy programs, including the provision of school supplies/educational materials, and other resources for new immigrant and refugee students in Canada, as well as under-served pupils in rural Africa
To raise awareness and advocate and promote both local and international right to education of boys and girls.
To organize conferences, workshops, public forums on art, cultural, sustainable development, global justice, climate change, and environmental issues
To research, publish/disseminate knowledge in the realms of multidisciplinary arts, social justice and civic education, sustainable development, ecological justice, and climate change.
Organize annual African Heritage Quiz and Spelling Bee Contest
To build and sustain partnerships, networks and alliances with communities, organizations, and individuals with similar goals in Canada and around the world.
To hold annual youth art and annual cultural festival to promote pride and cultural literacy African and Black culture through music, dance, spoken word, theatre, storytelling, and visual arts.
To support and actualize the principles of the UN Decade for People of African Descent: Recognition, Justice, and Development.
To support and actualize Goal Four of the UN Development Programme: Quality Education
Our History-Founded as
Canada-Africa Foundation for Rural Education (CANAFRE), its mandate included the education of underserved but bright African Canadian students by collaborating with the Ghanaian-Canadian Association of BC in organizing fundraising events to support the GCABC's Youth Scholarship Project in British Columbia.
CANAFRE was formed in 2011. Working in collaboration with the Delta-based Afretech, the Ghanaian-Canadian Association of BC, Kwantlen Polytechnic University's Social Justice students, it has since provided scholarships to over 15 students in Ghana, as well as donated over $15,000 worth of educational materials and equipment, refurbished computers, backpacks, math sets, pens, pencils and other important supplies.
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