About ACT Africa

OUR story

Our Mission

Saving lives Through Awareness & Education

Our Vision

Educating & Raising Awareness

ACT Africa is dedicated to Saving Lives through Awareness and Education. Our Focus is to prevent and break the vicious cycles of Gender-Based Violence and Human Trafficking, reducing the statistics. We raise awareness and education about Human Trafficking and Gender-Based Violence, providing basic assistance to victims and creating campaigns focused on prevention. Join us in our mission to bring about positive change in Africa & Globally.

Vision:

Combat the rise of Human Trafficking and Gender-Based Violence across the African continent.

Behind the scenes

About Act Africa's trustees

Hilary Leong

Chairperson / CEO

Since being a teenager, Hilary has always been involved in humanitarian work. Hilary feels that it is a calling from God and as such is heeding to that call, as God wills. Atrocities that have affected Hilary both personally as well as those in her community, have driven her to fight back for those in need. Hilary is also a certified Motivational/Inspirational Speaker, Master Life-Coach (Master NLP Practitioner) & Entrepreneur and was a finalist for the Global Woman Inspirational Award 2022 which took place in London.

2006:

CSIR Initiative

CSIR Initiative for a corporate company and raised money to purchase industrial washing machines for an AIDS Hospice Center in Johannesburg

2012

The Hadassah Treatment Centre

Part of the Management Board for The Hadassah Treatment Centre for Women.

Hadassah Centre is a healing/rehabilitation centre for substance abused, abused and trafficked women from 18 to 35 years

2017

Karabo Mokoena Foundation

Co-Founder and Director of the Karabo Mokoena Foundation

Karabo Mokoena Foundation focused on Gender-Based Violence and the social ills surrounding this by providing the necessary assistance to victims.

2019

Awareness for Child Trafficking Africa

Co-founder and Chairperson of Awareness for Child Trafficking Africa (ACT Africa) which focuses on Human Trafficking (specifically women and children) and Gender-Based Violence.

Matthew Mensah

Deputy Chairperson / Head of Communications

Matthew is an international award-winning PR and campaign strategist who over the last 12 years have done campaigns for governments, United Nations agencies and the private sector. When moving back to West Africa, Matthew was drawn to help children less fortunate & started self-funded programs that quickly got the eye of Governments and the United Nations.

Matthew began to work on campaigns such as Polio, Malaria & Orphanage campaigns which led to the life-changing Stop Child Hunger & Peace campaign in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

He is the concept creator of using African Stars for campaigns in Africa which together with UNWFP made the peace campaigns in Liberia such a huge success, bringing in his celebrity friends to help create awareness which became a trademark for many campaigns over the years.

To date, he has done campaigns in over 12 countries and behind some of the biggest Humanitarian and social justice campaigns across the continent from Stop Child Trafficking to Justice For Miners.