sentences:  Since its founding in 1984, AWEPAA has worked by implementing parliamentary capacity building programmes in Africa.The organisation's primary orientation, being established for and by parliamentarians, was to mobilise politicians, from democratically elected European parliaments, against apartheid.The organization grew from a small group of members in 16 national parliaments and in the European Parliament in September 1985, to some 1000 members in the early 1990s.