Crazy Love Africa is a global sisterhood that seeks to make lasting, systemic change. We believe women deserve our effort, attention, respect, and love. We work with vulnerable women in Uganda, empowering them with micro-business grants, sisterhood support circles and by making artisan Fair-Trade crafts so they can provide sustainable incomes for their families. Our programs focus on long-term, structural change that will move women and their children out of poverty and stigma and into a sustainable, thriving livelihood.
We are currently building the Crazy Love Africa Community Center to transform the lives of our sisters and their families in Uganda now and for generations to come. The three floors of our community center provide both income for our CLA community to sustain itself for years to come in Uganda and the community space for our programming. We invite you to join us in building our dream. Your generous donation will help us reach our goal of funding the completion of our Community Center in 2024!
Ugandan Board of Directors at CLA Community Center Construction Site, Aug 2023
Construction Site During Youth Ambassador Trip, Aug, 2023
Youth Ambassadors at CLA Community Center, Aug, 2023
Thank you for being a part of this DREAM come true for our Crazy Love Africa family!
Crazy Love Africa has a mission to serve, restore, empower, and strengthen vulnerable women in Uganda. As a result, we will touch the children in their care, through education, community, and sustainable job creation. By working alongside women as global sisters, we create change, while addressing inequality, and strengthening families, and communities.
After adopting 4 children from Ethiopia and Uganda who were orphaned by AIDS, the mission to empower mothers living with HIV grew in the hearts of the Wiederholt family. In 2014 Crazy Love Africa was born. Jess Wiederholt, happily married to Ben since 2001, is the mother of 7 children. Samuel, Luke, and Abe joined the family 1st by birth. Abiti was then adopted from Ethiopia in 2011. Joselyn and Joseph were adopted from Uganda in 2013 and Lillian adopted from Uganda in 2014.
“Our eyes were opened to the injustices surrounding women living with HIV in Africa. HIV was not killing these young mothers. Instead stigma, poverty, fear, hopelessness was taking these women from their children. We had to do something about that.” Jess began reading about micro business grants and ways to give women hope through empowerment and community. What started as a way for the Wiederholt family to empower a few women and keep their children involved in the villages where they were born has evolved into a beautiful movement of empowering women and strengthening entire communities. Through creating safe cooperatives, providing training, and teaching skills, our Crazy Love Africa sisters are now leaders in the villages where they live. “We are giving women opportunities and elevating their voices.”
Organization name
Crazy Love Africa
2019
Tax id (EIN)
84-2201439
Category
Community Improvement & Capacity Building, Education, Employment, Health Care, Youth Development, Food, Agriculture & Nutrition
Organization Size
Medium Organization
Address
6750 E EXPOSITION AVEUG
CO, US