Welcome

World Council of African Family is a nonprofit and a board-led civil society organization. The registered Head Office of the Council is in the Capital of Ethiopia and Africa, Addis Ababa. WCAF has also some other branch offices in different five African countries.
Beyond headquartered and other branch offices, WCAF has regional offices in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Middle East dividing the world in to six zones. These continental and regional offices are opened to organize and lead the already existing offices and the coming ones.

The following are the main objectives of the Council:

  • It will work to prioritize the rights and security of families at the global level. It will advocate!
  • It will give annual high-level recognition and awards at national and international levels for exemplary families. The objective of this award is to create other successful African families that follow in their footsteps. Our aim is to support the effort to realize a prosperous Africa.
  • It will provide self-development and capacity-building training that would build the capacity of the youth; organize entertaining and educational (edutainment) tours and seminars. It stirs participants for positive work, encourages enhanced success; provide social and psychological as well as trade and investment consulting and advisory services concerning families
  • It will work to produce new inventors/innovators and entrepreneurs across Africa. It will operationalize an organization named the National Entrepreneurs Centre for Africa.
  • It will give high-level “Ambassador of Culture” recognition and award for individuals and organizations that promote African culture and history. The program will be held annually at national and international levels. This in turn creates a chance for further prosperity of African history and culture.
  • It will initially build an African cultural center in Ethiopia, the capital of Africa. Then it will expand this to selected capital cities in the five zones. Consequently, it will open a center to promote African culture and history in friendly countries that are true partners of Africa. This way, it promotes the culture and history of Africa and Africans to build the continent’s positive image.
  • It will establish a research center that will strengthen African history, culture, philosophy, heritage, values, and social interaction as well as the continent’s past and present relations with friendly countries.
  • It will organize a festival called African Family Week that is unique in its nature and novel. The event will be held for consecutive seven days. It will ceremoniously be held on an annual basis. it will be celebrated at global levels in selected countries through the organization of the Head Office. This will create an opportunity for Africans to meet in unity as one family for common objectives. In this exhibition, members of the Council who come from across the world get to know each other. They will discuss African current affairs. They will exchange cultures. Business people will provide their products and services to visitors.
  • It will annually commemorate May 25, African Freedom Day (Africa day), the day the Organization of Africa Unity was founded along with its children, people of African descent, friendly countries’ citizens, and institutions that share its objective. It will commemorate the price paid for freedom. Instill heroism in the generation. It will create awareness that this freedom has to be repeated in the economic realm too. Motivates its citizens for this grand objective.
  • It will conduct public diplomacy activities that maintain the interactions Africans have among themselves as well as others. For instance, it will link the trading community with traders, the academic community with academics, the artist community with artists, and others in line with their professions and field of work.
  • We Africans long to see prevailing peace, justice, and democracy in our countries. We want to see a prosperous, strongly unified Africa whose sovereignty is respected. We will directly or indirectly contribute to Agenda 2063 which was crafted to achieve these grand aims of us, Africans. The Council’s objectives listed under Article 4 and presented in main points are based on aims to realize “The Africa We Want.” Therefore, we promise to contribute our responsibilities as our Council’s vision is intertwined with Agenda 2063. And, we will do it!
  • In collaboration with international organizations and individuals who share the Council’s visions for knowledge transfer, it will establish an institution called, “World Knowledge Bank of Africa” and create an opportunity of industry linkages for universities across the world that share our vision; provide professionals with rich skills and extensive experience that can consult governments, institutions, and investors in different fields.
  • In collaboration with bodies that share its vision, it will establish the National Museum of Africa and the Presidential Library and Archives of Africa.
  • It will provide inclusive community-wide services by mobilizing volunteers from various professions and jobs.
  • It will organize annual national, continental, and global students’ competitions and award ceremonies;
  • It will establish a separate institution where African scholars and their institutes can meet like a family, and conduct researches that resolve Africa’s problems. It will also create an opportunity for them to share their experiences.
  • It will establish an international information and call center that will work to connect African families separated because of different reasons.
  • It will establish print and electronic media that promote the good images of Africa and Africans and be a voice of African families and organizations in different continents. An African television station with multiple channels working 24/7 will also be an influential outlet broadcast in various international languages.
  • It will conduct all other activities that are not indicated in this article but go along with the Council's objective.

Contact Us

HEAD OFFICE

Addis Ababa:
headoffice@worldcaf.org

Branch offices

Addis Ababa: - ethiopia@worldcaf.org
Abuja: - nigeria@worldcaf.org
Cairo: - egypt@worldcaf.org
Luanda: - angola@worldcaf.org
Pretoria:- southafrica@worldcaf.org

Regional Offices:-

Australia:- canberra@worldcaf.org
Belgium:- europe@worldcaf.org
Brazil: - southamerica@worldcaf.org
China: - asia@worldcaf.org
UAE: - middleeast@worldcaf.org
USA: ¬- northamerica@worldcaf.org