What We Do

WHAT WE DO

Walking alongside the next generation.

Young people need more than a single intervention at a single moment in life.

Growth takes time. Formation takes relationships. And flourishing takes a community.

OneLife Africa therefore walks alongside children, youth and emerging adults through important stages of their journey.

EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT

Strong beginnings.

The earliest years help shape a child’s future.

We invest in children, families, caregivers, and learning environments to help create strong foundations for learning, healthy development, dignity, belonging, and future opportunity.

EDUCATION & SCHOLARSHIPS

Opening doors to possibility.

Talent and potential are everywhere. Opportunity is not.

OneLife helps young people access quality education while providing the encouragement, mentorship, and relationships they need to navigate their educational journey.

We see a scholarship not simply as funding for school, but as an investment in a young person’s future.

MENTORSHIP & DISCIPLESHIP

Life is formed in relationship.

Young people need people who will stay.

Our mentors listen, encourage, challenge, pray, model faith, and walk alongside young people through questions of identity, relationships, decisions, faith, purpose, and adulthood.

At the center is an invitation to know and follow Jesus and discover what it means to live faithfully in the world.

PURPOSE & SERVICE

Discover your gifts. Use them for others.

We help emerging adults develop character, practical skills, vocational direction, and the capacity to serve.

Through experiences such as LEAD, young people are prepared not simply to seek positions or status but to understand their lives as gifts that can be used for others.

Grow with God’s people.

Go into God’s world.
Serve for God’s glory.

COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION

Young people are part of the solution.

We refuse to see young people merely as recipients of assistance.

They bring ideas, creativity, faith, energy, relationships, and an intimate understanding of their communities.

We create opportunities for young people to participate in service, problem-solving, reconciliation, community initiatives, and the flourishing of the places they call home.

OneLife Africa Promotes:

Personal Responsibility: Through mentoring, life skills training and financial support, young people are empowered to take responsibility of their own future. OneLife Arica comes alongside not only the student, but also the family or guardians supporting the student in efforts to empower families and restore relationships. With this approach, we place a high emphasis on parental or guardian responsibility in working with OneLife Africa so that students look to their families as their providers instead of our organization. Graduation day for the student is still a proud moment for the parent or guardian in the student's life, with OneLife Africa being simply a vessel in the background used to help empower the family unit to reach that success together.

Financial Accountability: We believe that every resource entrusted to us has a potential to transform lives. To be good stewards, we use donations for their intended purpose, carefully reviewing programs, keeping our overheads low and reporting to our partners in a timely manner.

Community Engagement: As we serve in under-served communities, we use personal ralationships to encourage partnerships that promote mutual dignity and respect as opposed to benefactor relationships that leads to dependency.

Tribal Reconciliation: A life of discipleship leads to transformation in thoughts, relationships, and actions; we equip young people from diverse backgrounds by promoting unity, belonging and forgiveness between different people groups.

Strategic Approach: We equip young people who understand local realities with leadership skills, encouraging them to serve in their communities by initiating and reviewing development programs to ensure that they offer practical and effective results.