Empowerment = Freedom

Our Mission

We exist to empower entire communities. To do this, we work alongside local organisations, leaders and individuals, and form partnerships with amazing people around the world who can bring expertise and resource. We do this because we believe that together we have all the skills and resources needed to build a fairer world.

Empowerment means the freedom to pursue our unique and wonderful potential.

What we achieved last year

• We provided water for 15,000 people

• We provided hundreds of reusable sanitary packs (and trained women to produce more). A simple solution to making school accessible to girls

• We built latrines and provided WaSH training for hundreds of families

• We helped teachers access basic training - improving education for hundreds of students for years to come

• Our scholarship programme supported many students on their way through secondary school and into higher education or full-time employment

• We ran holiday programmes that provide young people with essential life skills

• We funded a library and literacy programmes

• We helped fund new school buildings

• We worked with schools to create sustainable operational models 

Projects

We run a variety of projects depending on needs and opportunities of the communities we partner with. Here are just a sample of some of what we have been involved in.

Scholarships

Our ultimate goal is to tackle the causes of poverty in a sustainable way rather than simply relieving its symptoms. Equally, we want to ensure that poverty is not a deciding factor in a child’s future.

Our job is to uncap the potential that exists in Gituamba; that is how a lasting difference will be made. A good education does just that and allows young people to become what only they can imagine.

Teacher training

Many of teachers we work with have little or no formal training, feel ill-equipped and have little confidence in teaching. They are some of the most generous people we’ve meet, often working without pay and free using their own resources to help the next generation.

By helping teachers to develop their pedagogy skills, we can have a huge effect on their confidence and the quality of education the students receive. We have also seen that parents are more likely to pay, even a small amount, for their child to attend better equipped schools. So by training the teacher, we also help make the schools more financially viable.

Water, Sanitation & Hygiene

The lack of clean water is responsible more deaths than all the violent conflicts combined. It is also responsible for children missing out on education and precious funds are often needed to buy packaged water, rather than invested in education our food.

We have worked with the community of Cotton Tree to provide two clean water pumps - changing everything. As a result the community has more money to invest in other necessities, more children are at school and even the local economy is growing as entrepreneurs take advantage of increased footfall.