The Foundation Khadimou Rassoul-North America is aimed at supporting the social and economic empowerment of the rural masses in Senegal and is pursing these specific objectives:
-the eradicate illiteracy;
-to provide social and technical assistance in terns of development's project;
-to promote self-sufficiency in agriculture;
-to rehabilitate and to protect the natural and ecosystems resources from the systematic destruction;
-to increase and improve the water supplies systems;
-to improve the health care system;
-to enhance the women's status in the urban areas and to sensitize about the gender issues in the country and reduce its gap, mostly among the children, in terms of literacy and health care;
-to develop information systems and to facilitate the flows of information and to implement exchanges programs between the rural masses and the rest of the world;
-to alleviate poverty and help to get definitely away from hunger;
-to develop the entrepreneurship initiatives and to foster the "informal sector" insertion in the economic process;
-to create and to develop youth's programs, in terms of training.
This corporation is organized exclusively for the purposes as specified in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, including, for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or corresponding section of any future federal tax code.
