Ashinaga Sénégal

Ashinaga is a Japanese non-profit organisation that provides educational and emotional support to young people who have experienced the loss of one or both parents. In the past 50 years, Ashinaga has supported more than 100,000 students, with this success in Japan allowing for the expansion of Ashinaga’s activities internationally in 2001 before the launch of the Ashinaga Africa Initiative (AAI) in 2014. The Ashinaga Africa Initiative is an academic leadership programme with the mission to contribute to Sub-Saharan Africa’s expanding role in global development through increasing access to higher education abroad for students who are committed to returning home, or to the region of Sub-Saharan Africa, to initiate change, innovation, and development.

The Ashinaga Sénégal office was created in 2015 and is responsable for running the Study Camp for students from francophone Africa in order to prepare them for their university studies abroad.