Our Mission
To identify, incubate and invest in long road private sector solutions for Sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest social and economic problem - eradicating poverty; we purposively use low-volume, high-cost tourism as a revenue tool to pay for the initiatives.
Our Vision
To revive deteriorating and abandoned UNESCO World Heritage Sites into modern, world-class destinations, where money spent in and around the site (think hotel, restaurant, coffee lounge, retail shops) stays in the host country.
Our Time
We swarm locals with everything they need to think big. Then we open our Rolodex to do it. Locals opine the plans and pick the partners that matter most. Ideas of what, where and how to spend time are not definitive, but they are beautifully opinionated. This way each destination around the destination has its own story.
Discover Africa's Heritage
Explore the rich tapestry of Africa’s UNESCO World Heritage Sites through our interactive map, detailed site profiles, and virtual tours. Learn about the unique history, cultural significance, and conservation challenges of each site.
Victoria Falls Zambezi River
Victoria Falls is a waterfall on the Zambezi River in southern Africa, which provides habitat...
Dougga or Thugga
Victoria Falls is a waterfall on the Zambezi River in southern Africa, which provides habitat...
Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela
Victoria Falls is a waterfall on the Zambezi River in southern Africa, which provides habitat...
Our Mission
Africa is home to a diverse array of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, each telling a unique story of the continent’s history, culture, and natural beauty. From ancient pyramids and medieval cities to breathtaking landscapes and unique ecosystems, these sites are invaluable treasures that must be preserved. Our mission is to:
- Protect: Implement sustainable preservation strategies to safeguard these sites against threats such as environmental degradation, climate change, and human activities.
- Promote: Raise awareness about the importance of these sites and the need to protect them for future generations.
- Support: Collaborate with local communities, governments, and international organizations to ensure the effective management and conservation of these heritage sites.
Building something more than great pictures.
Our Commitment
Preservation Africa Fund is the only private organization in the U.S. and Africa unapologetically and exclusively committed to reviving the Continent’s pre-colonial magestry.
Our model takes stressed and threatened Cultural UNESCO World Heritage Sites, surrounds them with compassionate protection and intelligent, sustainable management, and funds them with sensitive, low-volume, low-impact, high-end tourism in order to revive them to their rightful in the origins of modern-day math, science, construction, and engineering.
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Our Strength
We team up with governments, NGOs and even rivals to capture transformative economic benefits through high-level collective impact because we believe in the power of holding hands. (The founder is a Robert Fulghum junkie).
Our profits swarm locals with what they need to manage and operate the sites as well as competitive SME clusters around them (think art
gallery, boutique hotel, coffee lounge). Everything about our work is
designed so that by 2030 local businesses in or around Cultural UNESCO
sites thrive out of poverty with paradigm links, not to each other,
but to those with significant purchasing power.
Then, we slip away.
Building something more than great pictures.
Our Philosophy
Preservation Africa Fund is unashamedly focused at building something more than great pictures. We immerse UNESCO destinations in local culture and place heritage in the context of the world we live in because we believe the experience will amplify the soul. Our DNA bends towards the passions of the well-traveled with a laser-focus on 100% economic retention