PanAfricare is an independent non-profit organization, established in July 2020, with its Headquarters in Dakar, Senegal. PanAfricare, rooted in Africare, built on technical and operational experience of Africare in order to continue to serve African population. Africare, founded in 1970, was a leading non-governmental organization committed to addressing African development and policy issues by working in partnership with African people to build sustainable, healthy and productive communities. During its fifty years, it has invested approximately $2 billion in 38 African countries.
In 2020, Africare announced a planned sunset of US operations and support the formation of an autonomous new Senegal headquartered entity named PanAfricare. PanAfricare is currently one of the most experienced development organizations of its kind in Africa, African established, African led and working across all regions of sub Saharan Africa. Though recently established, PanAfricare staff who are former Africare of a high caliber development professionals who have many years of successful project implementation.