Suicidal Brain Drain & Brain Waste
  • More than 20000 African professionals are leaving the continent
    each year. The DV lottery, the Canadian, British, Germany, Australia
    etc Skilled Worker programs are continuing to drain Africa's most
    useful resources - skilled Africans. Read more:

  • In some countries 4 out of the top 5 African high-school students
    are presently abroad - out of Africa with little or no intention to
    return: Read more:

  • 70 to 90% of Asylm applications in Europe are denied. Many of
    those who succeeded have given false information  and have either
    lost all their certificates, or passport to their country of origin or are
    dehumanized and trapped between worlds - with no hope to return.
    Read more in From Dust to Snow  and amnesty International


  • Thousands of Africans are homeless or leave in squats or
    abandoned houses or cars and  in Europe and the U.S: Read more:

  • 200,000 children a year are victims of child trafficking in West Africa.
    Read more
Disturbing Facts
Very Disturbing Facts
Most Disturbing Facts
  • In 2006 alone, more than 6000 Africans died on the way trying to
    reach Europe from Africa. Watch how thousands of Africans loose
    their lives trying to reach their 'Heaven on Earth": Read more;
           Kingsly's crossing


  • Many Africans die on their deportation flights and Racism or have
    been trapped with no hope either to be ever granted legal status or
    to ever return (tantamount to death); Read more in From Dust to
    snow and an example here:

  • Ignorance: Most of the African families, which make the decision to
    send a relative abroad do not even know the realities of life abroad
    or that their relative they have not heard from in a long time is
    already dead;                       and understand more

  • Ignorance: Most Africans do not know what to do not know how to
    participate in solving their own problems. Ignorance is the worst
    form of poverty
Bad: African brain
drain/waste

Africa's most valuable  
(human) resources are
bieng drained or
wasted
The Problem?
Worse: Brain waste

Thousands of Africans
are increasingly dying
in their quest for a
dream life abroad
Worst: Ignorance

African's are ignorant
about  the realities,
consequences and
hence potential
solutions
ARA's solution?

Inform (Tell Africans the facts) and transform (Help Africans find
solutions to the problem)


Inform Strategy:

a) An HIV/AIDS intensity level sensitization campaign using

  1. ARA publications
  2. The African Renaissance Ambassador Debates
  3. Travel abroad preparedness information service in partnership with
    travel agencies, airlines, international examination boards, foreign
    embassssies and other good-will partners (African or non-African)
    like you
  4. Education:To properly manage migration and find effective
    solutions to the brain drain at national level, migration must
    become an object of study, mainstreamed into all national
    development planning agendas, to create migration managers,
    Africans who have an in-depth knowledge of the subject, its
    benefits and pitfalls, so that Africa can manage African migration
    and turn it into a positive tool for development.


b) Disseminating an African Renaissance Ethos (DARE) Campign to
help Africans

  1. get rid of the slavery, appartheid and colonialism mentality,
  2. provide an alternative dream for Africans: Overwhelming voted by
    Africans to be the African Renaissance: Read more in From Dust to
    Snow
  3. build a globally beneficial renaissance generation of Africans
Life in Europe for Africans:
Photo Journal BBC
Africans attempting risky sea
journeys to reach Europe
Poverty Kills; ignorance is the worst form of poverty;
Join ARA in saving Africans' lives through information
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