American Friendship Foundation

The Nissi School in Cité Soleil opened in October 2011 providing education and hope for the children and families in the area. The first year was 1st grade only, each year we have added one more grade level. In 2017 will had our first graduates of the 6th grade,...

CRISIS WITHOUT PRECEDENT The civil war in Syria has sharply divided the country multiple ways, the main groups are: Assad’s Shia government backed by Shia states. Syrian Sunni Arabs, the largest demographic in Syria, rebels against Assad’s Shia government. ISIS...

One of the greatest challenges for the modern world is how to provide safe water to its expanding population. Over half of the world’s hospital beds are occupied by people suffering from illnesses linked to contaminated water, whilst every year more people die from...

The city of Canaan is the fastest growing community in Haiti. The Haitian government moved people here from Port-au-Prince after the devastating earthquake in 2010. This community is set on a barren hillside lacking water, tillable land, and lacking any...

Natural events like earthquakes, tsunamis, typhoons or mud slides, give us a glimpse of how powerful the forces of nature are and how little control we have of our lives when they happen. Nepal was hit with a 7.8 earthquake.  It is impossible to describe the extent of...

AFF is proud to contribute to building and ongoing operations of schools around the world.  AFF partnered with other Non-Profits to build a school in central Nicaragua.  This school uses the curriculum of the Nicaraguan Department of Education and is operated through...

Life is a struggle in Cambodia at the best of times.  During the dry season the land is scorched, and covered with cracks.  Dust fills the air, and water becomes scarce.  Women and children must carry water from ever more distant sources.  And then the rainy season...

Since 2008, The American Friendship Foundation (AFF) has played a key role in the development of a physical therapy clinic in southern Morocco.  The AFF partners with an international humanitarian aid organization and a local association for the disabled to bring help...

In the Indore area of Central India there are 12 leper colonies.  The people living in these communities are sweet-spirited hard-working people that have been hit with a disease that is crippling physically and that has taken away their ability to live a normal...

In Afghanistan, two of the most deadly health risks are unsafe water and inadequate sanitation. Responding to these problems in 2002, AFF began a partnership with an Afghan NGO to construct wells with clean drinking water in many communities in Central Asia. AFF has...