Guitars For Africa continues in its mission to provide musical instruments and education to the children of Africa by partnering with Abel Mogaka and his impactful initiative, Divine Love Music Talent. Abel offers free guitar, singing, piano, and general music lessons to his students in Kibera, the biggest and poorest slum Nairobi, Kenya. Children learn on donated instruments (many by Guitars for Africa), with the goal of giving opportunities and structure to their lives.  The organization also provides meals and other necessities.  Guitars For Africa is proud to support Abel and his students.

We are so pleased to announce the recent delivery of Fender guitars to Les Echos de Sahel, a school in Nouakchott, Mauritania. The guitars were presented to students by Ambassador Larry E. André, Jr., U.S. Ambassador to Mauritania.

This is our first delivery outside the nation of Swaziland, and it continues our core mission of bringing quality musical instruments and education to the children of Africa. A great big thanks to Jeff Van Zandt and Fender for their continued support, as well as everyone who has contributed to our efforts to make these deliveries possible.

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On July 23, many of Austin’s most renowned guitarists joined together with Fender to celebrate Guitars For Swaziland’s first shipment of instruments to the AIDS orphans of Swaziland. The group, which gathered at SoundCheck Austin , included Eric Johnson, Denny Freeman, Monte Montgomery, Redd Volkaert, Bill Carter, Chris Maresh, and GFS founder Stephen Doster, among others. It was truly incredible to see so many greats from Austin’s musical community stand alongside the first 20 guitars bound for Swaziland.

Fender has generously supplied all of the acoustic guitars, as well as the extra strings necessary to keep them sounding fantastic for years to come. We are also incredibly grateful for the contribution of Latin Percussion, which provided a variety of percussion instruments for this first shipment to Africa.

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Denny Freeman	Charlie Sexton	Redd Volkaert	Eric Johnson	John X Reed
Gurf Morlix	Will Sexton	Van Wilks	Terry Lickona	David Holt
Joe Priesnitz	Patrice Pike	Roger Allen Polson	Bobby Mack	Randy Weeks
Chris Maresh	Monte Montgomery	Jeff Van Zandt	Dale Watson	James and Sara Stevens
Steven Fromholz	Scrappy Judd Newcomb	Bill Carter	Malford Milligan	Rob Meurer
Mark Hallman	Ruth Ellsworth Carter	Barbra Nesbitt	Tommy Elskes	Anthony Farrell
Chris Searles				Dylan Phillips
Andy Barham				Hunter Perrin
Dony Wynn				Brannen Temple
Jay Sims	Greg Izor		Tim Flannery	Wayne Nagel
Andy Salmon	Kim Harrigan		Louie Ortega	Teal Collins
Larry Harteker	Mary La Touf		Melinda Doster	Michael David
Greg and Maureen Engle	Speedy Sparks	Will Indian	Bob Cheevers	Tom and Teala Hurley
Bill and Gerry Schoening	Philip Gibbs	Josh Zee	J.J. Johnson	Ernie Durawa
Peggy Sue Honeyman-Scott	Wayne Salzmann II	Cash Edwards	Kerry White	Nick Buxton
		Gretchen Barber		Brent Guilbault