The Africa-Canada- Education Foundation (ACEF) is a mandated to provide education and educational services in the areas of art and culture, digital literacy and continuous/adult education, sustainable development, social justice, and global citizenship. Its services serve the African community as well as the community at large. Additionally, ACEF supports new immigrant and refugee students and their families in Canada by providing settlement services, educational materials, and programmes, including digital literacy, continuous/adult education, and access to quality education. Geographically, the ACEF’s mandate extends across the whole of British Columbia, Canada, and globally. Finally, ACEF provides educational resources, such as school supplies and scholarships to under-served rural students in Africa.
With its motto “Education is a right and not a privilege,” ACEF seeks to promote the principles of social justice in education, namely fairness, equality, equity, inclusion, non-discrimination.

OUR VISION
Our vision is motivating, encouraging, and empowering youths to realize, attain and actualize their full human potential, in order to become all-rounded, well-informed believers in, and practitioners of, global citizenship.
OUR MISSION:
To encourage, enable, and support youths and children from under-served families, refugees, and new immigrants in British and rural Africa to go and stay in school through the provision of scholarships, the mobilization of resources, social justice-informed activities, such as public advocacy forums, symposiums, workshops/webinars, art, and cultural performances, exhibitions, and education. Additionally, we aim to promote pride and cultural competency and literacy in African, African-Canadian, and Global African cultures, and to preserve and revitalize cultural heritage through music, dance, spoken word, theatre, storytelling, and visual arts.
OUR VALUES: Education is, must remain a human right and universal mandate informed by the global social justice principles of fairness, equality, equity, inclusion, and non-discrimination, and guided by the aphorism: “It takes the entire global village to raise its children.”
MANDATE
• To promote education in the areas of art and culture, digital literacy, continuous education, sustainable development, social justice, and global citizenship.
• To organize African language and mother tongue classes
To support, create, and manage educational and literacy programmes, including the provision of scholarships, school supplies/educational materials, and other resources for new immigrant and refugee students in Canada, as well as under-served pupils rural Africa
• To raise awareness and advocate and promote both local and international right to education of boys and girls.
• To organize conferences, workshops, public forums on art, cultural, sustainable development, global justice, climate change, and environmental issues
• To research, publish/disseminate knowledge in the realms of multidisciplinary arts, social justice and civic education, sustainable development, ecological justice, and climate change.
• Organize annual African Heritage Quiz and Spelling Bee Contests
• To build and sustain partnerships, networks and alliances with communities, organizations, and individuals with similar goals in Canada and around the world.
• To hold annual youth art and annual cultural festival to promote pride and cultural literacy African and Black culture through music, dance, spoken word, theatre, storytelling, and visual arts.
• To support and actualize the principles of the UN Decade for People of African Descent: Recognition, Justice, and Development.
• To support and actualize Goal Four of the UN Development Programme: Quality Education

PROGRAMMES AND SERVICE
• Afri-Canada Art and Digital Literacy Programme
• Annual Art and Cultural Festival (AfroFest)
• Annual African Heritage Quiz and Spelling Bee Contests
• Continuous Education Programme
• Settlement services
• Feeding the the hungry, homeless, and deprived.
• Aklowa Scholarship Programme
• Social Justice in Education Advocacy Programme
• African and Mother Language Programme
• Gender Justice Programme
• Sankofa Communication Network (Sankofa News)
• Global Africa Classroom
• Annual United Nations Decade for People of African Descent Public Forum
• Annual Goal Four of the United Nations Development Symposium

Projects
Our ongoing projects are the Africanada Art and Digital Literacy Centre (AfriCanada Community Centre (africa-canadaeducationfoundation.org)) and the Sankofa Senior Digital Literacy Program (Sankofa Senior Digital Literacy Program (africa-canadaeducationfoundation.org)).
Rayhan Vocational Training School, in Cape Coast, Ghana: Providing educational materials to orphaned girl students.