Helping Feet is a non profit organization that focuses on Economic Growth to Fight Poverty and Strengthen Democracy in Africa by assisting young African adults in promoting entrepreneurial thinking, job creation, business planning, and management skills to launch successful business careers. It focuses on the value statement that "It is better to teach a person to fish rather than simply hand them a fish."

This is done by fostering a business exchange program that takes into consideration the cultural dynamics prevalent in each society between American and African participants of the program. This program focuses on some key business themes/objectives such as:

• Community-based micro-business opportunities and hands-on practical business training projects.
• Training participants on designing, developing and executing localized business opportunities.
• Taking ownership of business decisions.
• Transparency and accountability in business and government.
• Persistence and perseverance in business.

The program is an ongoing program that involves:

• Identifying and pre-training of potential candidates in Africa.
• Working with our program officers in Africa to select 10 to 20 participants at a time for a U.S. based fellowship program.
• A six-to-ten week U.S. based fellows program on business development that features both individualized and group learning and practice activities which develop technical and leadership skills plus cultural sensitivity.
• Follow up after the program to assess the quantitative and qualitative results using data collection instruments like surveys, questionnaires, social networking, etc. Also, by the actual demonstrated business results from our participants.

Our activities are funded through public donations and contributions and we appreciate any donations in cash or any kind that support the activities of the organization.


Helping Feet is a nonprofit public benefit corporation, incorporated as a 501c3
  2905 N. Sepulveda Blvd A233
  Manhattan Beach, CA 90266

Thank you for your very kind donations