Foundation Alliance for Africa

Together with the Hanns R. Neumann Foundation, the Max and Ingeburg Herz Foundation and the Rossmann Foundation, the Kühne Foundation established the "Foundation Alliance for Africa" in 2021. Each of the four charitable foundations contributes its specific knowledge and experience from different areas of development work to joint projects to improve living conditions in the project countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The Kühne Foundation supports the cooperation with its logistics expertise.

The first project started in May 2021 in Ethiopia, where prospects are to be improved in two rural regions, particularly for young people. The Kühne Foundation works directly in the project regions as well as with universities in the regional centers and in Addis Ababa. Training courses on topics such as agricultural logistics and entrepreneurship as well as research projects are carried out jointly. The total budget amounts to EUR 12 million for an initial period of four years. Ultimately, 70,000 youth are expected to benefit directly and indirectly from the project's measures.

A second project began in Tanzania in 2023. Like in Ethiopia, SAfA Tanzania pursues a cooperative approach in which the Kühne Foundation takes on the task of training and further educating the young target group in the fields of logistics, transportation and sustainability. In the area of research and training of local trainers, the Kühne Foundation also cooperates with two universities in Tanzania. Both projects are carried out in close cooperation with and supported by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development of the Federal Republic of Germany (BMZ).