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About us

Creating Hope Africa (CHA) is a bridging non-profit development platform working across Africa to enable safeguarded, integrated community ecosystems.

Creating Hope Africa connects health, skills development, food security, and livelihoods into sustainable pathways of dignity and socio-economic resilience. CHA operates as an institutional bridge between communities, delivery partners, funders, and implementation platforms, translating capital and partnerships into coherent, place-based systems that endure beyond individual projects.

OUR MOTTO

Creating a future with hope and possibility

OUR VISION

To be a trusted African development platform that enables safeguarded, integrated community ecosystems where health, skills, food security, and livelihoods combine to create long-term socio-economic resilience and dignity.

OUR MISSION

To enable and steward safeguarded, integrated development partnerships that connect health, skills development, food security, and livelihoods into sustainable, place-based community ecosystems across Africa.

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Our Values & Ethos

Creating Hope Africa is guided by a strong values framework that shapes how we partner and operate.

C

Community
- We grow together.

Rooted in local partnerships and shared ownership.

R

Resilience
- We rise through challenges.

Remaining engaged through challenge and disruption.

E

Empowerment
- We offer tools, not handouts.

Providing tools, skills, and pathways, not dependency.

A

Accountability
- We own our impact.

Acting with integrity, transparency, and learning.

T

Transformation
- We build futures, not report cards.

Measuring impact in livelihoods, independence, and contribution.

I

Inclusivity
- We make space for every kind of learner.

Designing for diversity, neurodiversity, and context.

N

Nurture
- We grow people, not just skills.

Embedding psychosocial care and holistic support.

G

Global Thinking
- We think big and stay rooted.

Linking local truth to scalable relevance.

Our TEAM

Meet the Creating Hope Team

Creating Hope Africa | Hilke Maartens

Dr. Hilke Maartens

Founder & Board Member

Creating Hope Africa | Phillip Mukiibi

Ssekitende Phillip Mukiibi

Co-Founder & Director

Creating Hope Africa | Anton Dresselhaus

Anton Dresselhaus

Co-Founder & Director

Creating Hope Africa | Alletta van Sittert

Alletta van Sittert

Manager: Education

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Our Symbol

The Creating Hope Butterfly

The Creating Hope Africa butterfly symbol represents transformation through supported growth, reflecting our belief that sustainable change occurs when people and communities are nurtured through safe, integrated pathways—moving from vulnerability to dignity, capability, and socio-economic participation.


The butterfly also symbolises second chances—the possibility of renewal, restoration, and new beginnings for individuals and families who have experienced adversity.


The diverse colours reflect the interconnected systems we work across—health, skills development, food security, and livelihoods—and the diversity of communities and partners that together form resilient, place-based community ecosystems.

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