Vanguard
July 2026
CORAfrica expands community development through education, healthcare, livelihood programmes
An account of the Community Education Centre model, our partners, and our alignment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
In the news
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From CORAfrica · 5 August 2026
CORAfrica marks twenty years of impact in Nigeria and the USA.
Twenty years on, CORAfrica gathered its trustees, partners, donors, volunteers and beneficiaries in Abuja on 5 August 2026, and celebrated in New York and Pennsylvania too.
In the press
ThisDay
July 2026
CORAfrica expands access to education for children in rural communities
On a new classroom block at John Stilley Secondary School, Victoria-Ikom, and a six-classroom block at Adagom 3, Ogoja.
The Investigator
July 2024
Nigeria’s hero priest fighting poverty with community education interventions
A profile of Fr. Peter Abue and CORAfrica’s community education work against rural poverty.
National Catholic Reporter
May 2024
Catholic-run CORAfrica aims to fill learning gap fueled by poverty in Nigeria
Valentine Benjamin reports from Ogoja on the schools, the empowerment programme and the families behind the numbers.
Orient Daily News
January 2023
NGO trains 1000 C’River refugees, migrants in agribusiness
On the programme that trained 1,000 refugees, migrants and displaced people in agribusiness in Cross River State.
ThisDay
September 2021
CORAfrica trains 1,000 refugees, others on agribusiness
On the training delivered with UNHCR, the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture and the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta.
CrossRiverWatch
September 2015
Community Champion: how a Catholic priest is empowering orphans in Cross River State
An early profile of Fr. Peter Abue and the founding work of CORAfrica.
CrossRiverWatch
November 2014
US Country Representative of Children of Rural Africa rounds off visit to Cross River
Coverage of the American board’s visit to the projects in Cross River State.