Transform Lives, One Project at a Time.

Imagine not having access to education, healthcare or any basic services just because you don't have a birth certificate. A seemingly avoidable problem but unfortunately it is an issue that is rife in Zimbabwe, particularly amongst the rural communities and orphans. A number of factors contribute to this issue and the result is that children cannot study further due to lack of education, preventing them from gaining employment and breaking the cycle of poverty. It costs $20 per child

There is an urgent need for safe water, phone charging and lighting in Puntland, Somalia. The OffGridBox will serve over 2,400 Somalis, who will get access to clean energy and clean water at an extremely low price with no impact on the environment. The box will employ 2 local women, and its maintenance costs will be shared with local landowners. This is an all-in-one easy-to-install system that uses solar energy to purify water and distribute energy for local dates production.

This project will help to reduce hunger and food insecurity among farmers. In Nigeria, about 3.7 million people, across16 states, are food insecure. Several factors have driven this. These include civil conflicts, large-scale displacement, rising food prices, climate change, natural resource degradation, poverty and population growth. About 9 out of 10 Nigerians cannot afford a healthy diet. The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the hunger situation, particularly impacting food supply and price.

Between 2017-2020, during hurricanes, earthquakes and a pandemic, 12,800 homes were foreclosed in Puerto Rico. We provide education, support and legal empowerment tools to families unable to pay their mortgages in Puerto Rico. "Derecho a tu casa" has been working for 6 years to provide free legal ed workshops, know your right toolkits, legal helplines, and advocacy toolkits to empower particularly women and elders at risk of foreclosures.

This campaign uplifts rural poor communities especially women and youth living in extreme poverty by breeding rabbits. Kigezi Healthcare Foundation(KIHEFO) has been supporting families by giving five females and one male rabbit.Rabbits multiply fast and only eat vegetation. One female rabbit produces an average of 60 in a year and up to 20 female rabbits can be retained for breeding. This gives the family up to 1,600 if they eat 400 they can sell 1,200 at $3 and earn $3,600 per year or $10 daily

This project will empower 800 smallholder farmers in most rural communities of the Eastern Province of Zambia with training in sustainable agriculture, farming inputs, and reliable markets for their produce. Our goal is to move 800 of these smallholder farmers from living in poverty into the middle-class status, enabling them to increase their income from the current $133 per hectare to $357 by the end of this project through the promotion of legume farming.

Inequalities created by climate change, conflict and COVID-19 threaten the lives of the families we work with. Now more than ever they need the programmes we have developed over 20 years that support every family member. Girls protected from teenage pregnancy so they finish school and have better options in life; boys given tools and direction needed to grow into responsible men; mothers kept safe in pregnancy and childbirth; men and women with life skills for growth and empowerment.

Carteret Local Food Network (CLFN) started as a grassroots movement in 2008 and received 501(c)3 status in 2016 to directly confront the issues of food equality, food security, environmental impact, health, education, and economic development in Carteret County, NC. Our Veggie Van program allows CLFN to provide low-wealth communities with access to healthy, fresh, local food at reasonable prices while creating new markets for local small- to mid-sized farmers.

Akuafo Go Solar is a Solar-Powered Drip Irrigation Model for Ghanaian Farmers in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The project is starting with the set up of a working model of the system and intends to reach 500 farmers in the region to improve and advance growing stability, as well as the full range of support needed to market products grown and preserved in the region. The project builds on research developed by a collaboration between The University of Ghana and Technical University of Denmark.

As members of Leadership Initiatives' [LI] International Internship Program, Natalie, Natalie, and Sienna have been working with LI to help create & sustain businesses in Bauchi State, Nigeria. To transform lives, the team & LI are working on training local entrepreneurs. Through this, vulnerable men and women will develop capacities in vocational & business skills to empower & equip them to escape extreme poverty.

This project trains marginally educated mothers of pre-schoolers from five different rural communities in Guatemala to promote pre-literacy skills and the value of good nutrition. Activities held in the library and at home will prepare the children for the formal education system which will reduce both drop-out and malnutrition rates, giving the children the chance of a better future.

OBAT Helpers is a non-profit organization that provides education, healthcare, food, and shelter to underprivileged individuals and families in Pakistan and Bangladesh. The organization aims to empower these communities to achieve long-term self-sufficiency and independence.