Expansion of Ford’s Innovative College Program to Africa


06/30/2015

Ford Motor Company Fund is extending the Ford College Community Challenge (C3) to Africa, offering colleges in four nations the inventive worldwide system that engages understudies to enhance their groups through manageability ventures. "Training is a foundation of Ford Fund's dedication to a superior world"



Passage Fund, the charitable arm of Ford Motor Company, will contribute more than $100,000 to dispatch the C3 program in Africa. Under the system, understudy drove group tasks will be picked in Ghana, Kenya, Morocco and South Africa that address discriminating neighborhood needs and make a more practical spot to live and work.

"Instruction is a foundation of Ford Fund's dedication to a superior world," said Jim Vella, president, Ford Motor Company Fund and Community Services. "Through projects like Ford C3, we have the capacity to help quicken instructive development, and enable understudies to end up transformative operators of progress in their groups."

Presentation of the C3 project expands on Ford's expanding group vicinity in the Middle East and Africa locale. "As we extend in Africa, we are conveying on our dedication to make a superior world by enhancing the groups where we work together," said Jim Benintende, president of Ford's Middle East and Africa (MEA) district. Portage is working together on the system with Enactus, a worldwide NGO that unites understudies, scholastic experts and business pioneers why should conferred utilizing entrepreneurial activity to enhance lives.

As a feature of the C3 program, college understudies are obliged to take the initiative part in all parts of their task, from configuration to execution. Venture degree is basically boundless, and advancement and inventiveness are effectively supported. Potential regions of center incorporate option vitality, ecological supportability, horticulture, versatility, water protection or financial improvement.

In the course of recent years, Ford Fund has given more than $1.7 million to understudy groups granted Ford College Community Challenge (C3) gifts. In 2014, the C3 system extended globally interestingly, joining forces with Enactus to incorporate groups in Brazil and China. Portage Fund contributes more than $8 million a year in training activities, 33% of its yearly monetary backing

Enactus prepares 1 700+ college programs in 36 nations. A yearly arrangement of territorial and national rivalries gives a discussion to groups to showcase the effect of their effort endeavors and to be assessed by administrators serving as judges. National champion groups development to the prestigious Enactus World Cup to experience magnificence in rivalry, coordinated effort and festivity. The 2015 Enactus World Cup will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa 14 – 16 October.
 
About Ford Motor Company  
Portage Motor Company, a worldwide car industry pioneer situated in Dearborn, Michigan produces or disseminates cars over six landmasses. With around 194,000 representatives and 67 plants around the world, the organization's car brands incorporate Ford and Lincoln. The organization gives monetary administrations through Ford Motor Credit Company.
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