Tafarki Foundation

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The Tafarki Foundation is an African charitable foundation created to fund the healthcare needs of Africa through programs such as Pharmacists for Africa, Nurses for Africa and Physicians for Africa. It was founded in 2005 with grants from Moses Tafarki and his family who hail from Yakasawa, Nigeria. It is headed by a Board of Trustees chaired by Rafael Rodriguez. The Foundation also awards scholarships to recipients called Tafarki Scholars. Its grants help to support health related projects such as the Tafarki Health Project.

The poor and deteriorating state of healthcare in Africa, especially the rampant spread of AIDS in many countries, is of great concern in the modern world. The Tafarki Foundation attempts to address these health issues head on.

The Tafarki Foundation promotes ideas that help local communities address problems of poor health, malnutrition, hunger, poverty, disease, homelessness, and child abuse affecting the African continent. Victims of these circumstances have been called by some 'the forgotten people.'

Through its work, the Tafarki Foundation brings indigenous solutions to indigenous problems.

Through PFA, NFA and PhFA, The Tafarki Foundation challenges indigenes of African in general and members of these local communities to take a leading role in finding local solutions to these global problems.

The Tafarki Foundation offers incentives to help communities begin to find ways to deal with these global problems locally. The Tafarki Foundation believes that for solutions to last, they must be indigenous.

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