Member Charities
Our member charities are absolutely tiny compared to those you will be familiar with, yet their involvement is deep and highly targeted. They often were set up after a trip to Africa that left their founders profoundly touched by the poverty they witnessed and may be even more by the resilience they encountered. They are involved in all the issues that make poverty so rooted and difficult to get out of on your own. Lack of education and training, bad health, remoteness, degrading environment, exodus of the young to the towns, the list goes on and on. But there is hope, progress and for millions it comes through the growing number of partnerships they develop with small charities, their volunteers, with you. Go and find out what our members are up to, get inspired, get involved.
Breakthrough Foundation is an organisation that specialises in bringing hope to people affected by HIV/Aids in Kenya. We partner local groups in providing food, fees for a secondary school education. We also provide general health education and HIV specific training through seminars and workshops.
Founded in February 2003, The Friends of Kadzinuni exists solely to help transform the village of Kadzinuni in Kenya into a self sufficient wealth generating community.Based in the village of Keyworth, a few miles south of Nottingham, our Hon. Patron is Joanna Lumley OBE. Our logo, the walking giraffe, sums up our aspirations, moving forward, aiming high.
The Kanga Project supports the Rural Women Development Association, a grassroots organisation in Tanzania that focuses on rural women’s empowerment. We fund training in issues prioritized by the women. We offer micro-loans for economic opportunities. We fund hostels for girls so that they can get a secondary education.
Kiota supports KIWOHEDE, a grassroots organisation working across Tanzania for the rights, health and development of vulnerable women and children. Kiota is the Swahili word for nest, representing the save haven that the KIWOHEDE centres provide.
Village-to-Village supports positive and sustainable livelihoods, helping two grassroots organisations in Tanzania and Uganda. We work with people living with and orphaned by HIV/AIDS, facilitate programmes aimed at improving education and sponsoring and expanding knowledge on sustainable agriculture.
PEPAIDS supports SAPEP, an NGO alleviating poverty and HIV/AIDS in Zambia. Working in rural areas, where poverty is compounded by people too ill to work or provide for their families, AIDS Action Clubs empower communities to pull together and help the vulnerable prosper.
Livingstone Tanzania Trust is a grassroots charity that alleviates poverty through education, at both the school and community level. We are guided by community needs and ongoing sustainability and have developed a variety of programmes to address these issues in the short and long term.
Mustard Seed Project is working with the community of Mgongeni, an urban slum in Mombasa, Kenya to empower the people to take action to improve their environment and basic facilities. Through training, education, improved healthcare and better services they will take control and provide a better future for their families.