About

Who We Are

South Sudanese formed Africa Life Aid (ALA) was formed in 2016, borne out of the desire to save lives devastated by years on conflict in South Sudan and the larger region. ALA’s core mandate is to alleviate and mitigate loss and reduce victims’ suffering both male and female. We also respond to disasters both natural and man-made without discrimination and focusing on restoring their livelihoods in a sustainable manner. ALA is determined to provide durable solutions through developing individual and communal capacities, and strengthening their resilience in livelihoods to better respond to shocks in their environments.

Our concept of development is grounded on addressing inequalities that are outcomes of protracted civil strife, unchecked and biased cultural practices that are the root cause of poverty. We build the capacity of communities to become self - reliant and using emergency and non-emergency assistance as a bridge to resilient communities in the long run. We strongly believe in the importance of adaptive and action research as the basis of intervention in all our thematic areas that include: Protection, Sexual and Gender based Violence (SGBV), Health, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Food Security& Livelihoods (FSL) and Environment protection and conservation, Education, Peace building and Conflict transformation, Gender and youth empowerment.

Africa Life Aid envisages tackling contextual community challenges by delivering resilience building interventions through creating proactive communities that derive own solutions to their challenges by effectively and efficiently exploiting their resources while protecting their environment. The household is our basic unit of delivering emergency and development services and bearing in mind cost effectiveness of the service.

Africa Life Aid (ALA) is a non-governmental organization, non-partisan, non-profit, non-religious organization registered with the Ministry of Legal Affairs and with the Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (RRC) in the Republic of South Sudan. We are committed to promoting better living standards at across the country from household level through integrated approaches both in emergency and non-emergency situations.

As ALA is committed to gender inclusion and empowerment, we are a women led organization. We have an independent non-partisan advisory board of professionals who have varied experience, professional training and competencies in development and humanitarian work that has been instrumental in our work. We have a competent team of skilled staff leading our country programmes. ALA has established operational offices in Juba, Terekeka and Magwi. Further, ALA has key liaison offices in Kajokeji and Mundri.

Africa Life Aid seeks partnerships to prevent, reduce vulnerability and poverty through innovative programming that utilizes resources efficiently to address community needs effectively.