Current Fellowship Organizations

African Leadership Academy
South Africa

African Leadership Academy seeks to transform Africa by identifying, developing, and connecting the next generation of African leaders.

Baylor Malawi
Malawi

Baylor Malawi provides comprehensive healthcare services, including testing and counseling services, nutrition programs, TB and cervical cancer screenings, and a Young Motherhood program addressing the needs of pregnant, HIV-infected adolescents.

Botswana Baylor (formerly BIPAI Botswana)
Botswana

Botswana Baylor seeks to increase the number of children receiving HIV/AIDS ARV therapy and provide regular follow-up care to children, parents and siblings.

Entrepreneurial Solutions Partners
Côte d’Ivoire/Rwanda

Entrepreneurial Solutions Partners (ESP) is a company which aims at enabling innovative, scalable, and profitable enterprises to build prosperity. 

Equal Education
South Africa

Equal Education advocates for quality and equality in the South African education system and engages in evidence-based activism for improving the nation’s schools. EE’s campaigns, based on detailed research and policy analysis, are aimed at achieving quality education for all. EE promotes the rights to equality and education, with the firm belief that these will enable the poor and working classes to an equal opportunity in life. EE seeks to improve the poor quality of education in South Africa by working together with communities, schools, teachers, principals, learners, parents, academics, researchers and the government.

Farming Out of Poverty
Sierra Leone

Farming Out of Poverty (FOOP) is a not-for-profit organization that works to provide farmers in rural Sierra Leone with affordable quality inputs, technology, and technical advice to increase yields.

Food for Education
Kenya

Food for Education is an African-led and women-led social enterprise that uses technology, smart operations, and logistics to deliver low-cost, nutritious meals to public primary school children. We currently serve over 50,000 primary school students every day across Nairobi, Kiambu,
Kisumu and Mombasa counties. Parents pay for these meals through a mobile money system linked to Near Field Communication (NFC) wristbands, which the children wear and ‘Tap2Eat’ in under 5 seconds to access their meals.

Our mission is to scale a model that prioritizes efficient supply chain management and sustainable sourcing, so we can continue lowering the cost of school meals. Food for Education has served over 9,000,000 meals since 2012 and is expanding to reach at least 1,000,000 public school students in Kenya by 2027.

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
Kenya

ILRI envisions a world where all people have access to enough food and livelihood options to fulfil their potential. ILRI’s mission is to improve food and nutritional security and to reduce poverty in developing countries through research for efficient, safe and sustainable use of livestock—ensuring better lives through livestock.

International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Kenya/Sierra Leone/Somalia(based in Kenya)

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is one of the world’s largest international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGO), at work in more than 40 countries and more than 25 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their communities. A force for humanity, IRC employees delivers lasting impact by restoring safety, dignity and hope to millions. If you’re a solutions-driven, passionate change-maker, come join us in positively impacting the lives of millions of people world-wide for a better future.

Lwala Community Alliance
Kenya

Lwala Community Alliance works to build the capacity of the people in and around the village of Lwala to advance their own comprehensive well-being, through programs in small-scale micro-enterprises, public health, water sanitation, and education. 

Megnacio Company Ltd.
Tanzania

Megnacio Company is an agricultural commodity trading and food processing company with over 10 years’ experience in the industry. They supply Tanzanian agricultural commodities to the world market and act as a link between Tanzanian smallholder farmers to the world with the goal of eradicating poverty, reducing inequalities, solving post harvest losses, and strengthening the global food supply chain.  

Mpala Research Centre & Wildlife Foundation
Kenya

Mpala facilitates and exemplifies sustainable human-wildlife co-existence and the advancement of human livelihoods and quality of life through education, outreach, and by developing science-based solutions to guide conservation actions for the benefit of nature and human welfare.

Pangea Global Ventures
Ghana

Pangea Global Ventures Ventures accelerates the transformation of African’s agriculture sector through support to West African agribusinesses. This transformation from subsistence agriculture to productive, profitable, innovative sector will improve food security while driving economic and job growth. Pangea Ventures identifies business opportunities with high growth potential, supports the investment readiness of enterprises and connects entrepreneurs with global impact investors.

Tanzania Education Corporation
Tanzania

Tanzania Education Corp, (TEC), was formed in 2009 to partner with Tumaini Schools to provide a top tier education to over 1,100 Tanzanian students in pre-primary through the end of high school. TEC has provided funds to build two campuses and to provide an innovative curriculum to supplement the Tanzanian curriculum.

The Rwanda School Project
Rwanda

The Rwanda School Project provides high quality secondary education in Rwanda. Their Rwamagana Leaders’ School offers a secure and nurturing school environment that transforms vulnerable youth into future leaders and problem solvers who champion environmental sustainability and social change.

USAP Community School
Zimbabwe

The USAP Community School is a residential 11th and 12th grade, Cambridge A-levels, boarding school that educates high-achieving, low-income Zimbabwean students to excel at the world’s top universities and return home to build society. USAP Community School was founded by Education Matters, a non-profit educational trust. We opened in January 2020, building from the USAP program, a college access program that has helped hundreds of Zimbabweans access higher education abroad over the last two decades. We focus on delivering a well-rounded education, including success in A-level sciences, a rigorous humanities core curriculum, training in research methods and community-based problem solving, as well as whole student development through extracurriculars, our Honor Code, and Quaker roots.

Warc Africa
Ghana

WARC Africa’s mission is to progress to a world in which poor people can use the best of technology to generate conscious economic growth. They work to develop smart business models to enable farmers to access the best available machinery, agricultural practices, and technical advice in a way that is economically beneficial for all parties.

Our History

In 1999, a group of Princeton alumni, faculty, and staff launched Princeton in Africa as an independent affiliate of Princeton University inspired by the University’s informal motto, “Princeton in the Nation’s Service and in the Service of All Nations.” In 2010, the program opened up to include graduates of any US accredited university in order to meet the growing demand from host organizations and allow more young professionals access to the unique opportunities afforded by PiAf. During the past 20 years, we have placed over 600 Fellows with more than 100 organizations in 36 countries, while developing more strategic partnerships across Africa and creating more opportunities for our alumni community to engage with the continent and with one another.

Testimonials

The International Rescue Committee has been so fortunate to have had a longstanding relationship with Princeton in Africa since our very first Fellows landed in Rwanda in 1999.  Whether it was Emily or Renee in 1999 or the 110 Fellows across 14 IRC countries over the years, we have been blessed by the relationship, the quality of the Fellows and the impact on what IRC does on the ground every single day.

Brian Johnson
Chief Human Resources Officer
International Rescue Committee

My fellowship has been the most impactful personal and professional development opportunity of my life. I wanted a post-college experience that would push my limits, expand my comfort zone, and help me discern the next steps in my career journey. And this has been the case.

Ryan Elliott
2014-15 Fellow
Baylor Pediatric AIDS Initiative in Lesotho

I can honestly say that this year has changed my life and my view of what’s possible for the future. Princeton in Africa isn’t just a one-year fellowship, it’s an introduction to a particular way of life and a new way of thinking about the world. I feel like so many doors are open now that I never would have considered before.

Katie Fackler
2010-11 Fellow
UN World Food Programme

My Princeton in Africa fellowship was everything I could have hoped for and much more. The myriad of experiences makes my head swim, and it has strengthened my desire to help underserved populations worldwide.

David Bartels
2006-2007 Fellow
Baylor Pediatric AIDS Initiative

Princeton in Africa was an invaluable experience for me. I learned an infinite amount through my work and through living in Uganda. I also realized that I want to continue working on African issues as long as I can.

Alexis Okeowo
2006-2007 Fellow
The New Vision

The International Rescue Committee’s experience with Princeton in Africa has been exceptional. Each Fellow brings excellent writing and analytical skills as well as unique interests and passions that enrich the program and the field office environment. We were so pleased we expanded the program to more field offices.

Susan Riehl
Human Resources, IRC

The Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation has been working in Africa for over 11 years through its Secure the Future program.  One common theme in all aspects of program implementation is having passionate, energetic individuals on the ground who can think outside the box and then transfer the skills for sustainability.  The Princeton In Africa Fellows have been a huge asset in this regard and our programs and patients have been better for it.

John Damonti
President, Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation