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THE WORK OF CORPSAFRICA AND STARTING AN NGO CATALYZE MAGAZINE | 9 B Y : B A R B Q U A I N T A N C E , V I C E P R E S I D E N T A A R P , E N T E R P R I S E A W A R D S A N D L I Z F A N N I N G , F O U N D E R & E X E C U T I V E D I R E C T O R A T C O R P S A F R I C A Liz Fanning: It's like the Peace Corps, but we give college-educated, young Africans the chance to serve like Peace Corps volunteers in their own countries. We have a month of preservice training, and then it's 10 months of living in a remote high poverty community with local people. Their role is unlike the Peace Corps in that our volunteers go to their sites with no preexisting agenda. We train them in human-centered design, which is sort of a structure to the facilitation process and problem-solving tools to help the local people identify their highest priority development needs and to come up with a project to address that need. The volunteers help the communities implement that project by connecting them to resources. I think the most important lesson our volunteers take away from their year of service is humility. It's really about not being the savior themselves. They are not going to change the world themselves. These projects don't happen by the volunteers. They happen through them. Their role is to be the facilitator and the liaison, and really give ownership to the local people. So it's really gotta be about what the local people want. That's probably the most important aspect of CorpsAfrica, the most important core value, but it's also about locals helping locals. Local people, helping local people rather than the outside saviors coming in, being the ones with all the answers and all the funding. We're also committed to creating a culture of philanthropy in Africa. So that development efforts are also locally owned and locally led.
THE WORK OF CORPSAFRICA AND STARTING AN NGO CONTINUED... Barb Quaintance: What advice would you give to people who, not necessarily people who want to do the work you do, but who are passionate about an issue or committed enough that they want to begin their own work? Liz Fanning: I never wanted to start an NGO. I always thought there were too many NGOs in the world and, you know, maybe go find an NGO that does something similar to what you do and see if you can work with them to do it rather than starting your own thing, which just brings on so much additional headache, I guess, and bureaucracy. For us, there really wasn't an organization we could go to and nobody was doing it. If you don't believe in it with your heart and soul, it's not gonna work because it takes that kind of commitment and don't-give-up tenacity. I think that is the key ingredient. Purpose Prize CATALYZE MAGAZINE | 10
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