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2026: New Grants Announced

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 23:20:00 GMT

As we start a new year, we are delighted to announce the outcome of our second 2025 funding round, which awarded £446,517 to nine partners to fund projects across the world, with an additional £90,000 dedicated to emergency humanitarian response.

Existing partnerships

Trustees approved follow-on funding for existing partners who demonstrated strong evidence of the impact of their work in partner communities:

AfriKids : We continue our support for AfriKids’ “Every Child in School 2026” project in Ghana, which aims to prioritise every child’s access to education and to improve literacy and numeracy proficiency. It supports parents and the wider communities in leading lasting changes, offering activities to expand livelihood support for parents and caregivers, enhance training in climate-smart agriculture in partnership and continue advocacy for teacher-retention policies.

Consortium for Street Children (CSC): We have extended our partnership with CSC for a further two years of activities, which continue to place street-connected children at the heart of systemic change. The project will expand on the successful Kolkata initiative, deepening the capacity of duty bearers to include children’s rights in urban agendas and working to support and protect street-connected children in the city.

Fields of Life (FoL): We continue our support of FoL’s I AM GIRL project in Uganda, which prioritises economic empowerment activities such as training teenage mothers in vocational skills. This project also focuses on increasing local knowledge, awareness and service uptake of adolescent sexual and reproductive health rights, including influencing policy and legal frameworks and raising awareness of these services in schools.

Smart Girls Uganda : The Unleash Her Greatness project in Uganda will elevate the provision of skills, mentorship and innovative opportunities that create economic independence for young women and girls from disadvantaged communities. This next phase seeks to increase the focus on job opportunities through the integration of entrepreneurial and financial literacy membership, provide start-up toolkits to empower graduates to establish their own businesses and enhance the production of Ecojua Smart Bags.

Smiling Through Light (STL): The next phase will scale up STL’s provision of clean, sustainable energy to off-grid and remote communities in Sierra Leone. Through this funding, STL will be able to focus on sustainability and expand its integration of digital solutions, engaging with off-grid sales training experts to advance their energy sales and reach more communities.

Wasteaid : Pulling on lessons learnt from the first phase, this project will address waste management issues in Diepsloot and Cosmo City in South Africa. Activities will include more practical equipment for the “wastepreneurs” to get their enterprises off the ground following their practical training, in addition to increasing community engagement for greater sustainability.

New partnerships

In addition to deepening our existing partnerships, we have started working with three new partners who demonstrate strategic alignment with the Foundation’s values and priorities:

STiR Education : Focuses on teacher motivation and establishing a space for teachers to network, collaborate, share strategies and experiences and support each other. This aims to improve the professional lives of teachers in Malaka and South-Central Timor, allowing them to feel happier and more confident in their positions and, consequently, inspiring children by creating a more sustainable learning environment.

Hello World : Works to bridge the digital divide by providing connectivity, education and power to hard-to-reach communities. This project focuses on partnering with schools and marginalised communities to deliver cost-effective, scalable and community-led solutions to internet access, establishing Hello Hubs—solar-powered, internet-connected digital learning spaces with touchscreens and educational software.

Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental (SPDA): This partnership will help SPDA strengthen and scale citizen-led conservation efforts, supporting communities, young leaders, private initiatives and grassroot collectives to transform conservation in Latin America. The project focuses on working with communities to improve nursery infrastructure, produce native and productive seedlings and test restoration models that integrate agroforestry and slope stabilisation. It also concentrates on climate-adaptation and developing participatory monitoring tools to inform regional policy and education.

Humanitarian Response

Under our Humanitarian Response pillar, we are proud to continue our partnership with the British Red Cross for its Gaza Crisis Appeal, UNRWA for the rehabilitation of schools in the West Bank and UK for UNHCR towards its support of Afghan refugees.

Announcement: New Grants Approved

georgina@ea-foundation.org.uk (Georgina Awoonor-Gordon) — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 18:02:53 GMT

EA FOUNDATION: New Grants Announced

We are delighted to announce the results of our first funding round in 2025, which awarded a total of £443,770 to 10 partners to fund projects across the world.

EXISTING PARTNERSHIPS

The Trustees have approved follow-on funding for existing partners who demonstrated strong evidence of the impact of their work on partner communities.

The Board’s decision to provide further funding to Mercy Hands Europe is based on a nurtured partnership over the last four years. As one of our longest-standing partners to date, we have been impressed by their thoughtful and collaborative approach to their work. With partners IACO, they have invested in the economic strengthening of communities in the in Al-Bab District in Syria over many years, and this grant of nearly £100,000 sees the evolution of our partnership by making further investment to revive the district’s extra virgin olive oil industry.

With a grant of £15,000, AdAmi Project will contribute to deepening its invaluable support to young mothers in Bo, Sierra Leone, enabling them to build brighter futures by providing career guidance, employability training services, building stronger relationships with local employers.

Building on our previous investment in this project at the end of 2023, with this follow-on grant of £50,000, Vita will now focus on strengthening field-based activities to deepen community impact in the fuel-efficient stoves programme, ensuring sustained adoption and long-term change.

Our initial partnership with the Wonder Foundation was for the refurbishment of a kitchen providing a space to train women vulnerable to dangerous and exploitative employment, including trafficking and prostitution. Managed by their in-country partner Fundación Sirama in El Salvador, further funding of just over £51,000 goes even further to provide hospitality training courses, one-to-one mentoring and job placements with industry partners to 120 women at risk over two years.

NEW PARTNERSHIPS

In addition to deepening our existing partnerships, we are excited to announce our engagement with new partners who demonstrated sound strategic alignment:

The Board approved just under £50,000 to PEAS to further their commitment to their ‘Inspect and Improve’(I&I) programme, improving education standards for marginalized students in rural Uganda.

To the Zimbabwe Educational Trust , we committed just over £30,000 to address Zimbabwe’s birth registration crisis. The project works to improve access to birth certificates, thereby addressing barriers to accessing vital basic services which require birth documentation.

Our partnership with Shivia sees investment of nearly £35,000 in a self-sustaining model of goat rearing, empowering women and their families in the state of Bihar to increase income and improve nutrition.

Savannah Education Trust will address a major barrier of teacher attrition rates in Lawra district, Upper West Ghana. Our grant of £45,000 will facilitate the construction of vital accommodation for teachers which will serve to strengthen retention in the rural community.

It is estimated that deaf children are three times more likely to be abused globally, compared to their hearing peers. With funding of just over £44,000, DeafKidz International through their DK Defenders programme will work to improve the safeguarding and learning outcomes of 660 Deaf children (50% girls) in three schools in Western Cape and Eastern Cape, South Africa.

Period poverty remains a key barrier to girls staying in school. Designed by their in-country partner COFCAWE, with our grant of £23,000, All We Can and partner will ensure sustained access to menstrual hygiene products and knowledge on menstrual hygiene management for 5,000 vulnerable girls in Busoga, Uganda, empowering them to stay in school, pursue their education & break the cycle of poverty.

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New Partnerships Announcement

georgina@ea-foundation.org.uk (Georgina Awoonor-Gordon) — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 21:50:39 GMT

We are delighted to announce our new funded partners from our grants round in September 2024. For this round, we specifically sought to collaborate with organisations working tangibly to address environmental challenges. In addition to the focus on environmental sustainability, we provided follow-on funding to an existing partner, Global Girl Project, and responded to several global humanitarian appeals as outlined below.

Investing in community-driven solutions to environmental challenges

Welcoming five new partners Foundation Director, Georgina Awoonor-Gordon reflected that ‘We intentionally set out to engage dynamic organisations with demonstrable community-driven approaches and look forward to learning from our new partners and deepening our impact in this space.’

Please find below a summary of our new partnerships:

CoalitionWILD

Project Summary: Supporting CoalitionWILD’s commitment to fostering equitable conservation where communities, wildlife, and ecosystems thrive in harmony, through investing in young conservation leaders.

Location: Global

Grant amount: £40,000

Guardians Worldwide

Project summary: Investing in a reforestation project of the Reserva Ecologica Fulkaxo, a 517-hectare Atlantic Forest reserve established by the Fulkaxo indigenous people of Northeastern Brazil.

Location: Brazil

Grant amount: £50,000

Humanity & Inclusion

Project summary: Supporting a sustainable demining and reforestation project in Colombia, working to protect and restore land by detecting and clearing landmines, and returning the land to the communities to ensure it benefits both the people and the planet.

Location: Columbia

Grant amount: £45,020

WILD Foundation

Project summary: Working with the Yawanawa indigenous people to bring a large section of the Western Amazon under better care, management, and supervision.

Location: Brazil

Grant amount: £38,884

World Land Trust

Project summary: Supporting World Land Trust and partner FUNDAECO to expand Cerro San Gil’s Full Conservation Zones in Guatemala, contributing to the protection of over 3 kilometres of undeveloped forested shoreline.

Location: Guatemala

Grant amount: £ 26,697

Follow-on funding

Further funding has been provided to enable our existing Global Girl Project to deepen impact of its leadership programme as follows:

Project summary: To continue delivery of a dynamic leadership education programme to over 1,100 girls (aged 13 - 21 years) living in some of the most marginalised communities in the Majority World; deliberately working in overlooked geographies and ensuring the change agenda is driven by the girls themselves.

Location: Global

Grant amount: £50,000

Emergency Response

The Board approved funding towards the following humanitarian appeals this cycle:

UK for UNHCR

Appeal: Sudan famine

Grant amount: £20,000

British Red Cross

Appeal: Gaza

Grant amount: £15,000

UNRWA

Appeal: Gaza flash appeal

Grant amount: £15,000

African Children's Fund

Appeal: Kenya floods - school kitchen renovations

Grant amount: £7,500

War Child

Appeal: South Sudan floods

Grant amount: £20,000

A Safer Place

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 10:37:30 GMT

In January this year, the EA Foundation awarded £25,000 to the Refugee Council towards its Refugee Advice Project (RAP). Last month, our Communications volunteer Yasmin Comez accompanied EA Foundation's Director Georgina Awoonor-Gordon on a visit to the Refugee Council at their offices in East London. Here, Yasmin reflects on the visit and the impact of our funding.

It’s difficult to turn on the TV or any media platform without hearing about the harrowing journeys that people take, against the odds, to escape persecution and to seek refuge in the UK. The riots in the summer were a sad reflection of the discrimination and misconceptions that many refugees face upon arrival in the UK. I was keen to learn more about the challenges faced and the support provided by the Refugee Council.

For example, many people may not know that when a person has been granted refugee status, this immediately puts them at risk of homelessness and destitution as they are required to shift from their asylum support to seeking mainstream welfare support. This often means families moving from temporary accommodation within 28 days and starting the process of accessing any financial assistance, in a new country where they have limited or no support systems.

This is usually where the Refugee Council’s Refugee Advice Project steps in. In addition to providing housing advice to support refugee clients out of homelessness, through our funding over the first six months of the project, the amazingly dedicated team has supported over 97 clients through a range of critical steps. These include ensuring that children start school, that families can access healthcare, food and clothing banks, setting up bank accounts, challenging poor decision-making by local authorities and referring clients to receive other specialist support from organisations such as Helen Bamber Foundation (which supports survivors of trafficking and torture) and legal advice centres.

The team has supported people like Noor (name changed to protect confidentiality), a woman in her mid-30s from Asia, who was suffering from complex mental health issues as a result of trauma and was struggling to engage with homelessness support services. On the day of our visit, we met another client of the project, Eric, who is from Central Africa and had to flee due to the dangerous political situation in his home country. Speaking with Eric was nothing short of inspiring. He had been homeless and spoke of the invaluable support he has received from the Refugee Council. He is now settled and actively seeking employment and expressed his keenness to start giving back productively.

The team anticipate that recent chances to immigration policy in the UK will increase the number of people being granted refugee status and potentially facing homelessness. This is likely to result in an upsurge in demand for their services, so they are preparing a triage system to ensure that they provide adequate support to new and existing clients and make referrals where needed.

Upon reflection of our visit, I am profoundly grateful for the opportunity to meet the remarkable individuals at the Refugee Council and the courageous people they support. The dedication and compassion of the team are inspiring, as is their unwavering commitment to providing refuge and hope to those in need. I feel privileged to have heard the stories of how the charity has supported individuals who have faced unimaginable challenges. By the end of my visit, it was clear that the Refugee Council provides vital services and the partnership with EA Foundation ultimately serves to ensure that refugees can live safe and fulfilling lives.

Note from EA Foundation: Kindly note that we mainly fund work in low and medium-income countries. Funding for work in the UK is by exception only.

New Grants Announced - September 2024

georgina@ea-foundation.org.uk (Georgina Awoonor-Gordon) — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 14:27:49 GMT

Our Continued Commitment to Under-served Communities

Trustees are excited to announce funding of over £1.3m to new projects across the globe.

Richard Bronze, Chair of the Board noted: ‘As Trustees, we remain inspired by the ongoing commitment of our funded partners across the globe, working tirelessly to address a multitude of social injustices. We continue to learn and grow through our partners and look forward to seeing the impact in the lives of the communities we work with.’

We are pleased to present a summary of our new funded partnerships:

Able Child Africa

Project Summary: Testing a new approach of focusing on parents of children with disabilities (CwD) to address the barriers they face

Location: Kenya

Grant amount: £49,084

For more information on Able Child Africa’s work, please visit: https://ablechildafrica.org/

ADD International

Project summary: Piloting a Global Disability Leadership Academy for young disabled people to support their leadership journey

Location: Uganda, Bangladesh

Grant amount: £35,000

For more information on ADD International’s work, please visit: https://add.org.uk/

Afrikids

Project summary: Delivering the 'Every Child in School' programme – a catalyst for education reform in the overlooked and marginalised communities of Northern Ghana

Location: Ghana

Grant amount: £27,867

For more information on Afrikids’ work, please visit: https://afrikids.org/

BE REEL

Project summary: Providing education for women in Gambia, previously uneducated or with minimal education, to enable them to run microbusinesses to improve their self-sufficiency and contribution to family income

Location: The Gambia

Grant amount: £28,940

For more information on BE REEL’s work, please visit: https://www.bereel.org/

Chance for Childhood

Project summary: Promoting Inclusive Education in Greater Accra

Location: Ghana

Grant amount: £75,547

For more information on Chance for Childhood’s work, please visit: https://chanceforchildhood.org/about-us/

Concern Worldwide

Project summary: Building community resilience and sustainable community led solutions for improved access to safe water and natural resource management Location: Liberia

Grant amount: £47,000

For more information on Concern Worldwide’s work, please visit: https://www.concern.org.uk/

Fields of Life

Project summary: Improving sanitation and hygiene for over 19 thousand adolescent boys and girls across 32 schools and addressing barriers to accessing education for teenage mothers

Location: Uganda

Grant amount: £45,680

For more information Field of Life’s work, please visit: https://fieldsoflife.org/

Frank Water

Project summary: Working with over 10 thousand people in the drought-prone Indian state of Maharashtra to support them in sustainably managing their limited water resources

Location: India 18

Grant amount: £63,281

For more information on Frank Water’s work, please visit: https://www.frankwater.com/

Health Poverty Action

Project summary: Enhancing the quality and accessibility of Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health services in the pastoralist communities of Dolobay

Location: Ethiopia

Grant amount: £37,943

For more information on Health Poverty Action’s work, please visit: https://www.healthpovertyaction.org/

Mercy Hands Europe

Project summary: Establishing a dedicated healthcare and protection centre in the Qabbasin – Al-Bab area of Aleppo Governorate, with a strong focus on the well-being of women and children

Location: Syria

Grant amount: £49,558

For more information on Mercy Hands Europe’s work, please visit: https://mercyhandseurope.org/

Mumba Children's Project

Project summary: Providing vulnerable school children, female youths and women of rural Zambia with a source of water, an income generating activity and source of nutrition, enabling them to become productive and self-reliant

Location: Zambia

Grant amount: £16,000

For more information on Mumba Children’s Project work, please visit: https://mumbachildrensproject.org/

Railway Children

Project summary: Preventing 400 children arriving alone and vulnerable at two of Delhi’s major railway stations from slipping into street life

Location: India

Grant amount: £35,000

For more information on Railway Children’s work, please visit: https://www.railwaychildren.org.uk/

Shared Interest Foundation

Project summary: Reducing the poverty levels of 75 economically vulnerable women with disabilities in Burkina Faso through establishing a sustainable, organic vegetable production enterprise

Location: Burkina Faso

Grant amount: £41,044

For more information on Shared Interest Foundation’s work, please visit: https://www.shared-interest.com/gb

Smart Girls Uganda

Project summary: Scaling training for 100 youth in non-traditional STEM trades and distributing 1,000 Solar Smart Bag ((menstrual hygiene kit/backpack)

Location: Uganda

Grant amount: £47,553

For more information on Smart Girls Uganda’s work, please visit: https://www.smartsgirls.org/

Smiling Through Light

Project summary: Utilising digital innovation and implementation of Pay as You Go (PAYG) Solar Home Systems to rural communities in Sierra Leone through a network of female sales agents

Location: Sierra Leone

Grant amount: £30,000

For more information on Smiling Through Light’s work, please visit: https://www.smilingthroughlight.com/

Sophia Akash Foundation

Project summary: Delivering inclusive and equitable training for 200 marginalised women to adopt sustainable farming practices

Location: India

Grant amount: £50,000

For more information on Sophia Akash Foundation’s work, please visit: https://www.sophiaakashfoundation.com/

Syrian Forum

Project summary: Transformative project designed to uplift women in northwest Syria by equipping them with essential digital skills crucial for the modern workforce

Location: Syria

Grant amount: £49,000

For more information on Syrian Forum’s work, please visit: https://syrianforum.org/

Tackle Africa

Project summary: Using the power and popularity of football to reach 1,000 adolescents and young people with the Sexual Reproductive Health knowledge

Location: Zambia

Grant amount: £40,065

For more information on Able Child Africa’s work, please visit: https://tackleafrica.org/

Their Future Today

Project summary: Pioneering the first foster and alternative care/kinship centre for children currently in institutional care settings

Location: Sri Lanka

Grant amount: £50,000

For more information on Their Future Today’s work, please visit: https://www.theirfuturetoday.org/

UK for UNHCR

Project summary: contribution to the Middle East Appeal

Location: Middle East

Grant amount: £20,000

For more information on UK for UNHCR’s work, please visit: https://www.unrefugees.org.uk/

United World Schools (UWS)

Project summary: Strategic partnership - delivering quality education and expanding school infrastructure over three years

Location: Madagascar

Grant amount: £319,209

For more information on United World Schools’ work, please visit: https://uwsglobal.net/

WasteAid

Project summary: Empowering marginalised and underserviced communities to recover the value of waste from within their communities and help lift themselves out of poverty

Location: South Africa

Grant amount: £45,000

For more information on Wasteaid’s work, please visit: https://wasteaid.org/

Women for Women International

Project summary: Supporting 200 marginalised women in Plateau State to build pathways out of poverty via a holistic approach to tackling multiple social, economic, and cultural barriers to women’s progress

Location: Nigeria

Grant amount: £50,000

For more information on Women for Women International’s work, please visit: https://womenforwomen.org.uk/

Unleashing the Power of Women and Girls

Thu, 11 Jul 2024 11:45:46 GMT

Georgina Harding
11 July 2024

Our partnership with The Cycle UK and Sanitation First India is one of our longest. An initial grant in 2021 has evolved into a deeper strategic partnership and increased investment in their work.

In this blog, their CEO Georgina Ella Harding gives a snapshot of the value of flexible funding in achieving their goals.

“ Here at The Cycle, we've been on an incredible mission for over 25 years to empower women and girls through sustainable WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) solutions and life-changing menstrual health education. During that time, we've constructed safe eco-toilets, restored precious water bodies, delivered period education classes, run menstrual disorder clinics, and tirelessly advocated to end gender inequality.

None of these achievements would have been possible without the generous support and partnership of organisations like EA Foundation. Over the past three years, they have provided us with vital flexible funding that has allowed us to significantly extend our reach and deepen our life-changing impact.

What makes this grant so special is that it came with a deep understanding of the importance of capacity funding. Rather than dictating exactly how the funds must be spent, they trust our team to split the funding as needed between sanitation projects, training programmes, and operational support for both our UK and India offices . This has meant that, for example, we have been able to recruit a monitoring and evaluation expert, strengthening our capacity to demonstrate impact.

This flexible, grassroots-led approach has empowered us to drive critical projects based on the specific needs of the communities we serve. With EA Foundation's backing, we've been able to expand into some of the most marginalised and aspirational districts of Tamil Nadu, India, bringing sustainable sanitation, clean water, and essential menstrual health education to areas that desperately require it.

The trust placed in us is truly invaluable. In addition to crucial financial support, they have also fostered strategic introductions to help our organisation grow and connect with new networks. They've visited the projects in India, enabling them to see our work first-hand, learn and get to know our hard-working on-the-ground staff.

The partnership has enabled the implementation of several transformative initiatives in recent years. In Padur, we established a long-awaited birthing unit to provide a safe, hygienic environment for mothers to deliver. The centre caters for some of the most vulnerable women in the communities. Alongside this project, in the hamlet of Masima Nagar, we constructed a women's community WASH complex to finally give residents access to clean water and sanitation facilities. For this year, we’re about to kick-start a project in another school in Tamil Nadu (in the village of Veeracholan) to bring WASH and menstrual education to young students.''

EA Foundation awards over £600,000 in funding to 18 partners

Fri, 23 Feb 2024 16:39:08 GMT

Georgina Awoonor-Gordon
23 February 2023

We are excited to announce that in our first structured call for proposals, Trustees have approved funding for 18 projects totaling £613,155.

Full details of the individual grant awards are listed below.

UK-registered charitable organisations were invited to apply for funding for work aligned to one or more of our strategic pillars . We received over 450 applications for projects both in the UK and internationally. Whilst we were surprised by the volume of applications received, we recognise that, sadly, this reflects the current global economic crisis in addition to the shrinking of available funding.

We received proposals for a diverse range of projects globally, and ultimately, the Board approved funding for work that demonstrated a mix of the tightest fit to strategy, highest impact, and value for money. Applications were reviewed by an assessment team guided by our grant-making criteria and wider due diligence checks.

The huge demand and diversity of applications received provided the Board with an opportunity to test our strategy and further underline our key priorities. More information on how the learning from this round will affect future grant-making will be shared shortly.

In the interim, we have also been able to compile a sound pipeline of credible projects which means that, due to limited internal resources to manage another open round, the Board has taken the decision to run the next funding round by invitation only. Applicant organisations from the recent funding round which have been identified for the ‘pipeline’ list will be contacted directly and invited to apply for the next funding round which will launch in March. Please do not apply for the next round unless invited, as your proposal will not be considered.

Unfortunately, due to the volume of applications received, we will not be able to provide bespoke feedback on unsuccessful proposals from the last round. We appreciate that this will be disappointing to many organisations, and sincerely wish you success with your ongoing fundraising efforts.

New Funded Partnerships

We are very pleased to welcome several new funded partners alongside a few existing ones. Georgina Awoonor-Gordon, EA Foundation’s Director shared: ‘It’s inspiring to see our grants portfolio expand as we increase our investment into projects making a tangible impact in the lives of some of the most marginalised communities globally. We very much look forward to working with and learning from our funded partners.’

Please find below a list of approved grants this cycle. We hope to share more information throughout the year(s) on progress towards desired outcomes:

AdAmi Project

Amount awarded: £10,000

Summary: Working with vulnerable young mothers (aged up to 25) in Bo district, Sierra Leone, to: a) complete their education b) move towards employment or engage in enterprise c) gain the confidence and knowledge needed to make informed and positive life choices, and d) build supportive communities

Location: Sierra Leone

Africa Research Excellence Fund

Amount awarded: £23,925

Summary: The grant is to fund a remote programme for up to 20 post-doctoral African researchers, with the aim of building participants’ basic understanding of post-doctoral academic grant writing. Africa has only 20 Health Researchers per Million Population, compared to other WHO countries, e.g., Europe has 246 Researchers per Million Population. This phenomenon is one of the major causes of loss of human capital and marginal utilisation of the local knowledge economy in the African continent.

Location: Africa-wide

African Adventures Foundation

Amount awarded: £10,000

Summary: Addressing access to sanitation, 'Not Just a WASHroom' will see the construction of 12 new accessible latrines and six new urinals at three schools in Woe, with access to clean piped water installed. Each school will benefit from four new handwashing basins, and a large cubicle will be provided for girls to manage menstruation in privacy, with the facility to wash reusable sanitary pads. Additionally, a group of teachers will be trained in making reusable sanitary pads, and with sewing machines provided through this programme.

Location: Ghana

Alive and Kicking

Amount awarded: £45,876

Summary: Supporting activities which offer pathways out of poverty for refugees and their families by upskilling 30 refugees to set up their own micro enterprises producing and repairing sports balls.

Location: Kenya

APT Action on Poverty

Amount awarded: £20,000

Summary: Funding for a skills development programme to increase the capacity for climate smart, market orientated vegetable production among South Sudanese refugees in Palabek Refugee Settlement.

Location: Uganda

British Refugee Council

Amount awarded: £25,000

Summary: Funding for the Refugee Advice Project, supporting new refugees to access sustainable income and housing – crucial stepping stones out of poverty. Through end-to-end casework, the project supports clients across London to access a) Emergency accommodation (night shelters, hosting schemes, interim local authority accommodation) b) Hostel, housing co-operative, housing association and supported accommodation, and c) Temporary and long-term local authority housing.

Location: UK (London)

Consortium for Street Children

Amount awarded: £50,000

Summary: Street Connected Children and Young People (SCCYP) project in Mombasa addresses access to basic education which acts as a barrier to livelihoods off the street. Public schools are ill-equipped to meet the needs of SCCYP. This project aims to make unsafe, unsupported, and excluded SCCYP safer, with better access to services and a greater sense of belonging in their community. The project will provide sustainable routes off the street by improving literacy and numeracy, and providing support to enter and remain in education, including moving to secondary and higher education.

Location: Kenya

EduSpots

Amount awarded: £44,666

Summary: The Catalyse Leadership Programme aims to enable 40 community-based volunteers (‘Catalysts’), to catalyse change in their communities through their leadership of up to 40 community-owned library-education spaces (‘Spots’) that EduSpots has worked with communities to create since 2015. The programme will impact the educational opportunities of an estimated 10,000 learners using the Spots, enabling them to have access to quality practical educational opportunities and learning resources.

Feed the Minds

Amount awarded: £48,777

Summary: Follow-on funding for the Tanjona Livelihoods and Biodiversity Project supporting 90 women in Mandrosoa in silk production. This project seeks to build the capacity of women in Mandrosoa and Andrangana for long-term poverty reduction and sustainable development by a) promoting protection, conservation, and restoration of the mangrove forest, b) equipping women with skills to carry out economic activities (agriculture, fishing, silk production), in line with annual seasonal calendar, and c) training women in specialist silk production, value- addition, supply chain participation and commercialisation.

Location: Madagascar

Global Girl Project

Amount awarded: £30,000

Summary: Providing leadership education to over 700 girls (13 - 21 years) living in some of the most marginalised communities in the Majority World (Global South), focusing on overlooked geographies and providing educational opportunities for girls often unable to access other programmes due to extreme poverty & social exclusion.

Location: across Global Majority

MAITS

Amount awarded: £23,000

Summary: To embed and integrate lifesaving and life-changing Community Health Worker (CHW) training into the fabric of partner organisations across Pakistan. The project will enhance the quality of life for children living with neurodevelopmental disabilities in low-resource countries by fostering local expertise and strengthening community capacities from within. It will train a) at least 50 CHWs at level 1 and b) at least 6 CHW at level 2. It will also work to foster a culture of excellence by supporting standout level 2 trainers to ascend to Master Trainer status. Each CHW, over an estimated decade-long career, will enrich the lives of approximately 100 children with special needs and their families.

Location: Pakistan

Practical Action

Amount awarded: £49,974

Summary: Supporting smallholder farmers (SHF) in Gwanda District, Matabeleland Province to adapt to the effects of climate change on poverty, family food and nutrition security and household sustainable livelihood. This will be achieved through access to solar powered irrigation, and regenerative agriculture production methods. Furthermore, the funding will enable the farmers to tap into underground water resources and sand-dams will provide year-round.

Location: Zimbabwe

The Baytree Centre

Amount awarded: £50,000

Summary: Follow on funding for Sparking Futures, an employability program specifically designed to support the most marginalised young women, aged 14 to 22 years in London to overcome socio-economic barriers such as poverty and deprivation, combining mentoring, theory-based workshops and practical events to make learning accessible, engaging and fun for everyone involved.

Location: UK (London)

UK for UNHCR

Amount awarded: £31,950

Summary: Supporting UNHCR’s Emergency Fund, to enable timely response to future humanitarian crises across the world.

Location: Global

United World Schools (UWS)

Amount awarded: £40,554

Summary: Enabling 250+ children in two communities of the highly remote Andavadoaka region of southwest Madagascar to gain literacy, numeracy, and essential life skills through quality, inclusive primary education. Through training and support for local teachers and education staff, it will also provide vital capacity and system strengthening for quality education delivery in this rural region.

Location: Madagascar

Vita UK / New Hope

Amount awarded: £50,000

Summary: The Empowering Communities for Sustainable Cooking and Forest Conservation project aims to significantly impact climate change mitigation, reduce greenhouse gas emissions from household cooking, and deforestation through the widespread adoption of fuel-efficient cooking stoves with community-led initiatives, fostering sustainable practices, and enhancing the well-being of rural communities.

Location: Ethiopia

Women and Children First

Amount awarded : £23,000
Summary : Women and Children First aims to expand its proven methodology of mobilising community health groups run by trained local women to bring people together to identify their most critical problems and find impactful, sustainable solutions – thereby saving and changing lives. This project aims to scale-up this approach by expanding the work to Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Location: Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda

Wonder Foundation

Among awarded: £36,433

Summary: Local partner Fundación Sirama has since 1970 provided education and skills-based training to over 500,000 women. They aim to empower 250 women annually who currently have no access to education and are vulnerable to dangerous and exploitative employment opportunities, including trafficking and prostitution. They offer a comprehensive eight-month hospitality training courses combining theoretical and practical training, followed by job placements with industry partners. This funding will support the renovation of their kitchen, critical to the successful delivery of the courses and in effectively reaching thousands of marginalised women at risk.

Location: El Salvador

Bee-coming the Change with Mercy Hands Europe & IACO

Tue, 14 Nov 2023 09:29:30 GMT

Yas Comez
14 November 2023

As some of you may recall, we partnered with Mercy Hands Europe and IACO to fund a project that supported beekeepers and farmers in the Aleppo region of Syria. We are pleased to share with you that we will be continuing this partnership and have approved to provide funding for the second phase of this project!

Beekeeping was a traditional industry in Syria and Al-Bab district before the war, producing honey, royal jelly, natural wax and propolis. 10 years of conflict have led to the collapse of the local economy and significant population displacements, both within the country and to neighbouring countries. The many years of instability have provoked a decrease of bees in the region, as well as less biodiversity. Bee colonies have been destroyed or neglected, with an 86% decrease in many rural areas. However, thanks to a successful fundraising campaign and IACO's technical expertise in agriculture – they were able to successfully launch a beekeeping training project in Al-Bab from April 2022 to March 2023 for 50 beekeepers. Due to the amazing feedback they’d received on this project, Mercy Hands and IACO have decided to continue by training a further 50 people – which will equate to 100 trained beekeepers in total by the end of the second phase!

The next phase of this project will focus primarily on the functioning of the artificial insemination center for queen bees, more sustainable methods of bee feeding, and the importance of the biodiversity of flowers and plants (which are necessary for pollination and bee health). A greenhouse will also be made available to the farmers and beekeepers, to ensure they are able to cultivate flowering plants each season.

The project will impact 400 people’s lives directly, with 100 of the people being beekeepers and 300 who are local farmers that are currently practicing beekeeping and will benefit from the distribution of plants. The 100 beekeepers are comprised of 50 beekeepers from the initial first phase of the project, with the additional 50 becoming new beekeepers who will be trained. Within this secondary phase, Mercy Hands and IACO aim to obtain gender equality by ensuring that 25 of the 50 beekeepers are women. The project will also indirectly impact 20,000 people’s lives!

We’re delighted to be supporting another phase of the beekeeping project. Stay tuned for the latest updates!

Turning the Tide: Empowering communities through river cleanup and dignified employment

Tue, 03 Oct 2023 07:49:16 GMT

Yas Comez
3 October 2023

We’re very pleased to announce that we have recently started an exciting new partnership with Practical Action, supporting their project which works to provide dignified employment through gathering and recycling floating waste in the Padma River, Bangladesh.

Bangladesh is confronted with a significant challenge in managing its waste. The country produces approximately 800,000 tons of plastic waste annually, and the local authorities require additional support to handle this issue. The Padma River, a major waterway running through the nation, has unfortunately become a disposal area and a major route for various types of floating debris – which eventually making its way into the ocean.

The project aims to collect and categorise floating debris in the Padma River, including materials such as plastics, metals, wood, fabric/clothing, and more. These items will be transported to specialized facilities for further processing, value addition, and repurposing. Organic materials will be sent for composting, while plastics will undergo sorting based on their grade. The highest-grade plastics will be immediately repurposed and returned to the market. Lower-grade plastics (typically destined for landfills) will be subjected to a process called pyrolysis. This process involves high-temperature heating in a vacuum, transforming them into high-quality oil, crucial for maintenance in the shipping industry, and black carbon used in manufacturing print cartridges.

This project will impact 2,000 people’s lives by securing stable jobs and incomes, in the municipalities of Faridpur, Satkhira, Magura and Jashore in Bangladesh. Other benefits include cleaner air alongside a cleaner environment for over 1.9 million people, a major reduction in the open burning of plastics that led to emitting carbon in the atmosphere, and a reduction in the open disposal of plastics (and other materials) of up to 70%!

Other donors include DANIDA (Danish International Development Agency), with core support from Practical Action itself. We thank you for your continued interest in our work and will be sure to keep you updated on the project’s development.

World Population Day 2023

Thu, 13 Jul 2023 07:37:05 GMT

Yas Comez
13 July 2023

Although women make up nearly half of the global population, they continue to face significant inequalities. In spirit of World Population Day (11th July), we wanted to highlight our commitment to this year’s theme of ‘’Unleashing the power of gender equality: Uplifting the voices of women and girls to unlock our world’s infinite possibilities.’’

As you may recall, we funded a brilliant project with our charity partner – Sanitation First India/ The Cycle which directly addressed health needs of the women in numerous ways.

Firstly, part of the project is called ‘Happy Periods’, where Sanitation First supply period packs for the young girls at a local school in small town in the Tamil Nadu state. To strengthen menstrual cycle support, they also provide training to both girls and boys to enhance knowledge of menstrual cycles. Within the same school, toilet facilities have been built for the girls and boys to improve sanitation for the young children.

Within the same funding, a new maternity block was built in the primary health centre of Padur, serving 35 remote villages in the Kanchipuram district – providing a facility that enables mothers to safely give birth to their babies.

We mentioned in our blog post back in February that we visited the community of Masimanagar where over 150 families have no access to toilet facilities – highlighting the need for sanitation facilities in this area. We are delighted to share with you that we have now approved funding to support Sanitation First India in this project!

The project sets out to support the community through a series of interventions. These will consist of constructing a women’s sanitary complex that includes a WC for the elderly, pregnant and physically challenged, a manual incinerator to dispose of menstrual waste, adequate bathrooms, dedicated wash areas and handwashing facilities, and an overhead tank & rooftop rainwater harvesting system connected to recharge well. Alongside this, training for men, women, boys, and girls in the Happy Periods Curriculum will be provided – as well as sustainable menstrual kits for the women and girls. Lastly, a committee known as the WASH committee will be formed and trained on how to take care of the operation and maintenance of the sanitary complex.

This will support the community of Masimanagar by significantly improving access to safe sanitation facilities for the vulnerable tribal community and capacitate them to use it with safety and dignity, ensure zero waste discharge on the environment, ensure sustainable use of assets created through the trained WASH committee, enable training for men, women, boys and girls on adolescent health and wellbeing – demonstrating mutual respect for one another, and create a reduction in substance abuse through peer leadership and motivation.

This project will promote greater support for many in the community, especially the women and girls. Through partnerships with organisations like Sanitation First / The Cycle, we strive to ensure that women’s voices and needs are placed at the centre of community debate and development. We look forward to sharing updates with you as the project develops!

Kicking it up a gear with World Bicycle Relief

Mon, 26 Jun 2023 07:20:41 GMT

Yas Comez
26 June 2023

Another inspiring project to share with you all! We are aiding in the funding of a fantastic project to support the Mobilised Communities programme in partnership with World Bicycle Relief. This project aims to addres mobility needs in three rural areas of Malawi – Zomba, Lilongwe and Kasungu.

Another inspiring project to share with you all! We are aiding in the funding of a fantastic project to support the Mobilised Communities programme in partnership with World Bicycle Relief. This project aims to address mobility needs in three rural areas of Malawi – Zomba, Lilongwe and Kasungu.

More than one billion people in rural areas amongst low-income nations lack access to reliable roads and affordable transportation. That equates to one out of every eight people in the world and includes 70% of Africa’s rural population.

The project will set out to benefit many people by distributing over 200 rugged Buffalo Bicycles across the rural communities in Malawi named above to both male and females students. This should result in improved attendance, reduced lateness, and a reduced travel time to schools. Alongside this, the households of these students will benefit from improved transportation to goods and services. The holistic mobilised communities model that guides this project will also help families, individuals and entire communities move themselves out of poverty, increase productivity, increase and diversify household incomes and improve education & health outcomes.

We are delighted to be working with World Bicycle Relief, as this project aligns with all four of our core causes! Keep your eyes peeled for further updates regarding this project as it develops. If you would like to know more about the charity, then please click here.

Empowering the Agricultural Population of Amhara, Ethiopia – with Mercy Hands Europe!

Thu, 11 May 2023 14:56:13 GMT

Yas Comez
11 May 2023

We are delighted to share with you yet another tremendous project that we have recently agreed to fund, and you might recognise the name of the partner too!

We are supporting this new project with our existing partner, Mercy Hands Europe, and a new local implementation partner, Agri Service Ethiopia. The project is designed to empower and improve the livelihoods of the population (especially women) of six food insecure districts in the Amhara region of Ethiopia. This will be achieved by promoting sustainable agriculture practices and rehabilitating degraded land over the next two years.

This project aims to directly benefit 400 people (310 women and 90 men) along with around 4,500 indirect beneficiaries in the wider community. We were really impressed by the thoughtful design of this complex project, which is informed by the decades of experience that Agri Services Ethiopia has in empowering rural communities. This aligns well with our priorities of poverty relief and sustainable development. The project combines multiple activities organised under two broad objectives and a cross-cutting focus on female participation.

The first objective is reduce poverty and financial hardship of the 400 direct beneficiaries through integrated food security interventions. The starting point will be to establish community learning forums to facilitate learning and information sharing. Smallholder farmers will be supported to diversify seeds and improve soil fertility via compost and pest control. Many participants will receive livestock and associated training. Finally, 50 participated will be trained and supported in beekeeping practices, creating a lovely link to our previous project with Mercy Hands Europe in Syria.

The second objective is to provide the participants with 80 hectares of land, rehabilitated through an integrated watershed development approach to make them resource productive. Two springs will be developed to create access to drinking water, which will be managed by the community forums. 110 fuel efficient stoves will be distributed to reduce deforestation and the burden on women. Heads of households will be trained for four days on agroecology, agroforestry practices, tree planting and management.

The EA Foundation is the leading funder for this two-year project, which will also be supported by several other organisations! We are delighted to be sharing this news with you all and very much look forward to keeping you updated as the project develops!

Project Update: The Baytree Centre are sparking brighter futures!

Tue, 07 Mar 2023 15:48:40 GMT

Yas Comez
7 March 2023

We are thrilled to present another update on one of the brilliant projects we are supporting! This time, it’s from the Baytree’s Sparking Futures Employability Hub for girls aged 14-20 in South London. We awarded a grant at the start of 2022 to help the Baytree Centre establish a new employability hub and the project has now been running for a year.

Over that time, 90 girls have benefitted from the hub and taken part in 580 hours of development training. The original target was to help 60 girls and young women, which has been overachieved by 50%!

Due to the funding provided by the EA Foundation, a unique programme has been developed that supports the girls and young women in six key areas:

Skills
Exposure and networking
Routes to employment
Practical support
Rights and civic responsibility
Financial literacy

The programme is delivered through various elements of provision. These include weekly personal development sessions, monthly employability workshops, 1-to-1 mentoring with career champions, work experience bootcamps and career insight days, and opportunities to volunteer within their communities. Below, are some of the recent highlights from the project so far: To celebrate Black History Month, a career panel was hosted where the girls were joined by five successful black women from different sectors spoke to discuss their career journeys. The women were April Jackson, Sareeta Domingo, Lily Naadu Mensah, Antoinette Yetunde Oni and Temi Adedoyin.

A career fest was attended with the main focus being hospitality – enabling girls to practice a variety of skills such as mocktail making and serving customers in a high-pressured environment. The girls took part in a workshop collaboration with the WOW Foundation (Women of the World). This provided the girls with the opportunity to learn about different creative careers and how to become a creative freelancer. 21 girls have benefitted from 1-to-1 career guidance, alongside bespoke practical support to write a CV or apply for jobs through the career champions programme that’s offered. There is a Youth Council made up of 14 active and engaged councillors who meet twice a month on a Friday and are involved in the planning & decision-making process across the service. This is inclusive of the 2 new peer mentors and the 1 youth support worker that Baytree has hired from the group of girls themselves!

An exciting 7-week financial literacy programme has just been launched! This means that 18 girls will gain both the skills and knowledge to manage their money and work towards building their personal capital.

These are just some of the many wonderful activities that are being carried out at the Baytree’s Sparking Futures Employability Hub! The project has also involved developing strong relationships with various partner organisations, 12 of which have already helped deliver employability opportunities with more planned in the coming months.

The Baytree Centre has been monitoring the results of this project and a strong majority of participants report having improved understanding of career opportunities and how to pursue them as well as improved workplace skills. Two-thirds also indicated they have met people who provide them advice or support to secure a job through the project. The project is delivering lasting benefits in the shape of better employment opportunities.

Given these successes, we are also extremely pleased to announce that we have agreed to provide a further £10,000 of funding to continue the project beyond the initial year, providing even more girls and young women with targeted employability and personal development opportunities. The Baytree Centre will also use this time to ensure the Sparking Futures Employability Hub is on a financially sustainable footing for the long term.

Experiencing the Impact: Visiting the Sanitation First India Funded Project

Wed, 01 Feb 2023 15:01:58 GMT

Yas Comez
1 February 2023

One our our trustees, Amrita Sen, and I had the amazing opportunity of being able to visit the first set of projects funded by the EA Foundation that were completed last year and to see them with our own eyes. In a word…WOW!

The projects were carried out by Sanitation First India and the work they’ve completed is incredible. First we set off to Mamallapuram, a small town in the Tamil Nadu state of India, where the foundation funded brand new toilet facilities for a school. We met some of the young girls from the school, where Amrita made a small but mighty speech.

Part of the project we have supported is called ‘Happy Periods’, whereby Sanitation First supply period packs. The period packs are procured from Real Relief. The period packs last for a total of three years and up to 200 uses. Just when you thought this initiative couldn’t get any better – they are now in the midst of creating packs that last up to five years! Alongside the packs, they provide training to both girls and boys regarding menstrual cycles. We had the privilege to give out some of these packs to the girls and see how much they were appreciated.

Next, we visited the new maternity block built in the primary health center of Padur. We met some of the mothers that have safely given birth due to this project, and their healthy babies! We even had the fortune of meeting the first mother to safely give birth to a beautiful baby boy in the ward. Of course, we had a little cuddle too. Prior to the construction of this maternity block, the new mothers would have to share facilities with other patients of the hospital without any separation. They also had to walk down a long corridor to use the closest toilet, which could be a struggle after having just given birth. The new maternity block includes a private toilet facility, as well as three new beds dedicated solely to new mothers, helping improve the care and dignity of their birth experience.

Whilst we were around Mamallapuram, we also visited the tribal community of Masimanagar where over 150 families have no access to toilet facilities. This demonstrated the scale of the need for sanitation facilities in this area that Sanitation First wants to address and we will be continuing the conversation about how we might be able to contribute.

We would like to give a special mention to Priya, Nisha and David from the team of Sanitation First India and The Cycle in the UK. It was an honour to meet people who are so dedicated to helping to improve other people’s lives, one day at a time. We would like to say a special thank you to them for showing us around and allowing us to step into their world for a day, it was a true privilege, and we are completely taken back by how many lives have already been impacted through these projects.

We are excited to explore how we can continue our partnership with The Cycle / Sanitation Firs t India in the future, so stay tuned!

New Year, New Project!

Tue, 10 Jan 2023 14:41:19 GMT

Yas Comez
10 January 2023

We’re excited to begin the New Year with the funding of a brand-new project: Building and kitting out a library hub at Rowa Primary School in the Mutare Rural District in Zimbabwe. The project is being completed by the African Children’s Fund in conjunction with their partner Mwana Trust.

The African Children’s Fund is a UK charity that was established to benefit under-served children. They work with grassroot partners in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. The main aim of the charity is to enable every child to gain access to education.

Rowa Primary School does not currently have a library and the literacy resources available to pupils are limited. The library will encourage a reading culture through weekly class reading sessions and it will be used to advance the education of the students by developing life skills. It will also provide a resource for the wider local community.

The library hub will contain fiction and non-fiction books, together with newspapers and magazines. The funding will enable the purchase of an extensive collection of textbooks aligned to the new Zimbabwean curriculum, reducing the need for students to share outdated editions. Alongside this, there will be three computers – one containing the library database, with the other two being used for research purposes. These computers will have internet access and be connected to solar panels.

We are thrilled to be working with the African Children’s Fund, as this project perfectly aligns with one of our four core priorities – education. If you would like to know more about the charity, then please head over to https://www.africanchildrensfund.org/

Project update: Mercy Hands Europe and IACO have been bee-sy!

Wed, 21 Dec 2022 14:32:27 GMT

Yas Comez
21 December 2022

We would like to take the time to update you about one of our funded projects: Beekeeping in Syria. Since this project was initiated, our partners secured additional funding that has allowed them to increase the number of direct beneficiaries to 50 instead of 40 and expand the project in several other ways.

Here’s a timeline of what’s been happening for the last few months:

July – The entirety of this month was dedicated to the purchase, preparation and distribution of the beekeeping kits for the beneficiaries. The team worked with local craftsmen to begin production of the wooden beehives – promoting local knowledge and participating in the regional economy.

August – 250 wooden beehives were distributed, with each beneficiary receiving five. The beekeepers met and decided there would be three cooperatives. These would be located in Al-Bab, Bizaa and Qabasin. Now that the cooperatives had been established – logos, stamps, and banners of each cooperative were developed. The last achievement of August was the manufacturing of electric honey extractors. These machines enable extraction of honey whilst keeping the honeycomb intact, which can then be reused by the bees to generate more honey.

September – This was the training month of all 30 members from the board of directors from the three cooperatives. The training included financial management, strategy planning, internal administration and communications. This enables the board members to formulate the rules and legal structure for their cooperatives. Further to this, offices were rented and equipped with the necessary furniture. September also saw drafts of the honey jar labels being prepared!

October – 4,000 honey jars were purchased, and the honey jar stickers were finalised. October also involved training on excessive use of pesticides and how to fill and package the honey jars. IACO visited 22 beekeepers and found 18 of them had bees in good or excellent conditions.

November – What an exciting month this was! The stickers for the honey jars were printed and honey jars filled – all in preparation for the honey fair. The fair was held in Al-Bab city and took place across three days. This was the first fair of its kind in the past 10 years due to the conflict that’s been taking place in Syria. Around 2,000 visitors attended, getting a chance to taste honey and learn more about the process. Many local media outlets covered the fair. Arrangements are now being made for the beneficiaries to visit Gaziantep, Turkey early in the new year where another honey fair will be held.

Due to all of the ongoing success of the project, Mercy Hands are able to do more than they originally set out to achieve.

That summarises the latest updates from a wonderful project! We love receiving regular updates and seeing how our funding is impacting and changing lives for the better. We can’t wait to see what is achieved from this project in its final few months! Keep your eyes peeled for more updates.

Education in Nepal with United World Schools

Wed, 16 Nov 2022 14:06:15 GMT

Yas Comez
16 November 2022

How incredible would it be to fund an entirely new school for a community? Well, we’ve done just that through our latest donation to United World Schools!

United World Schools (UWS) is an international charity that focuses on providing sustainable and quality education. Their mission is to improve, through education, life opportunities for children living in remote and marginalised communities in Cambodia, Myanmar and Nepal.

Our grant will fund the construction of the UWS Laligurans school in the remote Nepalese village of Pipal Bote in the Sankhuwasabha district. Alongside this, our funding will cover the first five years of the school’s running costs until it is ready to transfer to government control! This will provide a permanent educational resource for a village that currently has no school locally, the closest being a two-hour walk away in the town of Okherbhote.

We are delighted to fund such a project that will substantially improve lives and which correlates with one of our four core priorities – education.

We hope this project will impact and add value to many lives and we will share the process of along the way. We are thrilled that we get to fund such projects and share the joy of seeing lives changed for the better with you.

We are also looking forward to working in partnership with the amazing team from UWS. If you would like to know more about the charity, then please head over to https://www.unitedworldschools.org/

Feed The Minds - Sustainable Silk Production

Tue, 25 Oct 2022 12:58:32 GMT

Yas Comez
25 October 2022

We are truly delighted to announce our latest charitable partner: Feed the Minds!

Feed the Minds is a UK-based international development charity, with a vision of living in a world where people have equal opportunity to live a full life. They pursue this goal through education and promoting adult literacy.

Our donation will fund a project to empower a women’s association in Mandrosoa village, Madagascar to establish a sustainable silk production value chain to increase incomes in the community and promote the protection and restoration of the mangrove forest of Bombetoka Bay.

We decided to fund Feed the Minds and this project because it aligns with three of our four funding priorities – education, poverty reduction, and sustainable development.

We are very excited to be a part of this life-altering project and cannot wait to share the progress along the way! If you would like to know more about the charity, then please head over to https://www.feedtheminds.org/

Healthcare in the DRC

Tue, 03 May 2022 09:10:25 GMT

Richard bronze
3 May 2022

We are contributing to a project to construct and equip four healthcare centres in the Kiambi region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and provide training to local healthcare staff. These facilities will serve over 30,000 people living in the area.

This project is being led by Concern Worldwide , which has over 20 years’ experience working with communities in the DRC. This project will expand upon existing work to improve basic infrastructure in Kiambi.

Construction of the facilities is progressing well and we look forward to them being inaugurated and starting to benefit local communities later in 2022.

Beekeeping In Syria

Fri, 22 Apr 2022 09:10:25 GMT

Richard Bronze
22 April 2022

We are pleased to be funding a project to support beekeepers and farmers in the Aleppo region of Syria, an area heavily impacted by the long-running civil war.

Work started in early April to provide training and equipment to rehabilitate beekeeping activities and empower the local community. In addition to the direct economic benefits to the beekeepers and their families, this should indirectly benefit thousands of farmers and biodiversity in the region.

The project is being led by Mercy Hands Europe in partnership with IACO and aligns to our poverty relief and sustainable development funding priorities.

Sanitation Facilities in India

Fri, 19 Nov 2021 10:10:25 GMT

Richard Bronze
19 November 2021

We recently approved our first grant applications, to Sanitation First , which provides sustainable sanitation facilities to communities in India. The funding will be used to provide a maternity unit serving 35 remote villages in the Kanchipuram district and a toilet facility for a school near Chennai.

These projects align with several of our funding priorities by providing basic services, embracing sustainable development and, in the case of the school project, promoting education (by raising attendance rates, particular among girls).

Construction work has now started on the maternity unit and we are excited to follow the progress of these projects and see the benefits they will provide to the communities they serve.