Projects

Senegal

Education / Community Development

Education and leadership support for adolescent girls

The project aims to provide adolescent high school girls in rural Senegal with access to education and leadership skills to become agents of change in their community.

Kenya

Education

Building literacy and bridging the digital divide

The project aims to expand the curriculum and capacity of the Flying Kites Teacher Training Center.  It will also provide access to technology training, resources, internet, and EdTech software, in order to enhance teacher performance, improve student outcomes in literacy and numeracy, promote digital literacy, and nurture the development of 21st century skills.

Liberia

Education / Environment

Youth empowerment through quality education and sport

The project aims to provide full scholarships to 35 low income students, over five years, at the LEAD Monrovia Football Academy. Scholars are student-athletes who demonstrate leadership ability in the classroom and on the pitch, excel academically, participate regularly in community service, and embody LEAD MFA’s core values daily.

Ethiopia

Community Development / Environment

Forest restoration and sustainable livelihoods

The project aims to enable 1,000 people in the Gamo community who live near Lake Chamo and Lake Abaya to replenish local forestry and create sustainable livelihoods for themselves.

Kenya

Education

Girl’s empowerment program

The project aims to support weak, poor out-of-school and in school marginalized girls, to access quality education and vocational skills relevant for improving the quality of their lives.

Niger

Health / Environment

Humanitarian assistance in remote areas of Niger

The project led by the Sahara Conservation Fund (SCF) aims to provide humanitarian assistance to pastoral communities living in remote areas of Niger.

Mali

Health / Environment

Community-based circular waste management

The project aims to support three peri-urban communities, in Bamako, to develop and establish a community-based circular waste management model.

Niger

Education

Access to secondary school for children from nomadic communities

The four –year project aims to expand Rain for the Sahel and Sahara’s (RAIN) existing “Lower Secondary School Homestay Project”, to an additional 80 under-resourced children from 17 isolated rural communities in the Agadez region.

Tanzania

Education / Community Development

Empowering street connected girls

The project aims to empower street-connected girls and young women with the tools they need to secure a sustainable income, enabling them to support themselves and their dependents.

Uganda

Health / Education

Improving access to education, nutrition and agroforestry

This project builds on successes and evaluations, with the local communities, of the Agroforestry program previously funded in 2019. It aims to improve access to education for 200 (predominantly) female students through the provision of bicycles, and educate 1,500 school children and 1,000 parents and community members on agroforestry, environment, climate change adaptations, protection of local biodiversity and nutrition.

Kenya

Health / Education

Access to secondary education and opportunity

The project aims to address the root cause of generational poverty amongst youth in Mombasa, through access to education and opportunity. More specifically, 30 high-potential students (15 girls and 15 boys) from low-income families will be supported in their last two years of high school education along with mentoring on soft skills that will support the youth to excel in their education and future professional careers. 

Kenya

Education / Community Development

Supporting people with a mobility impairing disability

The project aims to support people with mobility impairment in achieving long-term self-reliance, economic empowerment, financial inclusion, and social inclusion in Mombasa and Nairobi Counties. It also aims to change the narrative around People Living With a Disability (PLWD), usually perceived as powerless and a burden to society.

Kenya

Education / Health

Masaai Mara Adolescent Health Services

The project led by CHASE Africa in the Maasai Mara region of Kenya, builds on a previous project that successfully promoted access to reproductive health knowledge, information and services for adolescents and youth.

Tanzania

Education / Environment

Women-led beekeeping enterprise

This innovative project aims to establish a women-led beekeeping and honey production enterprise to mitigate human-elephant conflict.

Tanzania

Education

Education through technology

The project aims to enable 446 girls and 350 boys (ages 13-16) from two public secondary schools, in Karatu district, to have access to information technology, computer studies, global information resources, and training.

Rwanda

Health / Education

Land for women

The project aims to establish two new climate-smart agricultural cooperatives in Gasabo District, for 60 destitute women farmers, enabling them to become the legal owners and managers of the land they are farming.

MadagascarNew

Education / Environment

Supporting agricultural colleges

The project aims to improve conditions for young people undergoing initial training at four Fékama agricultural colleges in Madagascar. Over a 2-year period, this initiative will enable 460 young people (30% girls), aged between 14 and 18, to benefit from optimal training.

TanzaniaNew

Health / Education

Sustainable environmental protection

The project aims to increase knowledge of and access to sustainable environmental protection resources in Monduli District, Arusha Region, Northern Tanzania.

LesothoNew

Health / Education

Supporting early childhood development and nutrition

The project aims to sustainably and holistically nurture Early Childhood Development (ECD), empower communities through education, and ensure year-round access to fresh, nutritious food for the Touching Tiny Lives (TTL) safe home children.

TanzaniaNew

Health / Environment

Access to water and food security

The project aims to enable the community of N’sengoni, Northern Tanzania, to become water and food secure thanks to 80 residential rainwater harvesting systems and residential greenhouses. The project also includes providing a large-scale greenhouse, next to the Upendo Primary School, for the economic development of a women’s cooperative.

Cote d'IvoireNew

Education

Vocational training and mentorship for vulnerable young women

The project aims to equip, support and empower 30 marginalized young women (aged 16 to 25) through vocational training combined with mentoring so that each woman recognizes her value and achieves her potential.

LesothoNew

Health / Education

Training and mentorship in child nutrition and feeding for nurses

The project aims to strengthen the capacity of nurses at six health centers in Maseru through a training and mentorship program focused on nutrition and feeding. Spoon will be partnering with the Lesotho National Federation of Organizations for the Disabled (LNFOD).

Democratic Republic of CongoNew

Education

Education: a right for every child

The project aims to provide quality inclusive education for 1,200 out-of-school children including girls, children affected by conflict, and children with disabilities and special educational needs at schools and accelerated learning centers in North Kivu, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Past Projects

Education / Environment Lebanon Composting in Bkerkasha
Education / Community Development Tanzania Community development projects
Education / Community Development Botswana Increasing food security and diversifying incomes
Education / Community Development Uganda Improving employment opportunities of youths
Education / Environment Kenya A science lab for a secondary school
Education / Health Rwanda Empowering vulnerable genocide widows
Health / Education Sierra Leone Sustainably improving child healthcare
Health / Education Ghana Waste management in peri-urban settings
Education / Health Lesotho Childhood nutrition education
Education / Health Kenya Promoting access to sexual health services
Education / Environment Uganda Sustainable livelihoods and economic empowerment
Community Development / Education Kenya Sustainable community development
Education Tunisia Improved access to quality books
Health / Education Burundi Combating extreme poverty
Education / Health Democratic Republic of Congo An organic school farm
Education / Health Kenya Innovative capacity building for frontline healthcare workers
Health / Education Senegal Sustainable development of two rural communities
Education Lebanon An education and empowerment center
Education / Environment Zambia Setting students up for success
Education Ghana Takoradi Educational Centre
Education / Environment Namibia Climate smart agricultural vocational training
Education Kenya Secondary school education for underprivileged children
Health / Education Malawi Construction of a maternity unit
Education / Environment Lesotho Early childhood education support and training
Environment / Community Development Uganda Empowering female headed farmer families
Health / Education Sierra Leone Improving child healthcare
Education / Community Development Rwanda Empowering vulnerable genocide widows
Education / Environment Kenya Improving the quality of education
Education / Health Zambia Agricultural hubs for sustainable schools
Education / Environment Mozambique Improving market gardeners' incomes
Health Mali Construction of a diagnostics laboratory
Health / Environment Sierra Leone Solar electrification of a hospital
Health / Education Mozambique Improved livelihoods and nutrition
Health / Education Uganda Self-sufficiency for rural farming households
Education Kenya Secondary school scholarships
Health / Environment Benin Organic school gardens
Education / Community Development Morocco A school for an orphanage
Health / Community Development Mali Increasing incomes through cooperatives
Health / Education Uganda Accelerating socio-economic development
Education Ghana Improving teaching methods
Community Development / Environment Cameroon Improving food security and revenues
Community Development / Environment Tanzania Sustainable timber production
Education / Community Development Rwanda Supporting a primary school
Health / Environment Burkina Faso ELECTRIFICATION OF A SOCIO-ECONOMIC HUB
Community Development / Health Uganda Empowering small-scale farmers
Health / Education Tanzania SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS FOR WIDOWS WITH HIV
Education / Health Malawi IMPROVED ACCESS TO WATER AND SANITATION
Education Sierra Leone Building a boarding house
Education / Environment Madagascar Developing an agricultural college
Education / Environment Tanzania A vocational education and training centre
Education Guinea- Bissau Teacher Training
Education / Health Rwanda COMBATTING EXTREME POVERTY
Health / Education Guinea- Bissau IMPROVING THE ECONOMIC CAPACITIES OF FAMILIES
Education / Community Development Guinea- Bissau Access to education and employment
Health / Environment Kenya Improving livelihoods
Environment / Community Development Kenya Ikinu Forest Garden project
Health / Education Uganda Economic empowerment for vulnerable women
Health / Education Uganda Combating extreme poverty
Health / Environment Burundi Improving health through water and sanitation
Education Kenya EDUCATION FOR UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILDREN
Education Cote d'Ivoire Training future entrepreneurs
Environment / Health Ghana Healthier electronic waste recycling
Community Development Kenya Improving food security
Community Development / Health Madagascar Sustainable access to drinking water
Community Development / Environment Madagascar Improving livelihoods
Health / Education Kenya Training in sustainable agriculture and nutrition
Health Togo Drinking water for a vocational training centre
Education / Environment Tanzania Expansion of a primary school
Education / Community Development Zambia E-learning for upper primary school children
Community Development Ethiopia Strengthening food security
Health Egypt Care for burns victims
Education / Health Israel Birds of peace
Health / Environment Jordan Birds of peace
Education Ghana Funding for an orphanage
Education Nigeria Supporting AIDS victims
Education / Environment Madagascar Support for young farmers
Community Development / Health Benin Rehabilitating a dam
Health / Education Syria Promoting the nursing sector
Health Sierra Leone Extension of a hospital
Education Mali Initiation to ICT
Health Madagascar Drinking water for 13 villages
Environment / Community Development Ghana Management of community fields
Community Development / Health Benin Training for sustainable water management
Education Burkina Faso Vocational training
Health / Education Burkina Faso Drinking water for the Gondologo School
Education Cameroon Vocational training for underprivileged women
Education / Health Guinea- Bissau Development of two districts
Health / Education Rwanda Making families self-sufficient
Health / Community Development Togo Improving nutrition and revenues
Health / Education Tanzania Strengthened nurses’ training in Tanzania
Health / Education Malawi Improved access to safe drinking water
Community Development / Environment Burkina Faso Supporting agro-ecology
Environment Chad Reintroducing the oryx
Health / Education Malawi Healthcare to children
Health / Community Development Benin Solar electricity for a health centre
Health / Community Development Burkina Faso Solar power for a village
Health / Community Development Ethiopia Training for podoconiosis patients
Health / Community Development Sierra Leone A village for polio victims
Education Eswatini Education for future African elites
Education Tanzania A quality school for orphans
Health Mali Combatting malnutrition
Health Cote d'Ivoire Construction of a maternity
Education / Environment Cote d'Ivoire Support for a training centre
Health / Education Benin Collecting rainwater for schools
Education Burkina Faso Expansion of a school
Community Development Cameroon Chicken breeding to counter poverty
Education / Community Development Ghana Extension and reconstruction of an orphanage
Environment / Community Development Madagascar Protecting fish farming
Education Nigeria Education for AIDS orphans
Health / Education Togo Food for life
Health / Education Togo Solar water purification for clean drinking water
Health / Education Togo Collecting rainwater for schools
Education Kenya A school in a slum
Health / Education Egypt Care for burns victims
Health / Education Ethiopia Vocational training and microcredit loans for podoconiosis patients
Health / Education Ethiopia Shoes for podoconiosis patients
Education Ghana Self-sufficiency of an orphanage
Education / Environment Ghana Rainwater for an orphanage
Health Sierra Leone Reconstructive surgery for fistula
Education Eswatini Access to the International Baccalaureat
Education / Health Benin Enhance basic education for children
Health Burkina Faso La Maison de Fati
Health / Education Egypt Asyut Burns Program
Health Madagascar Drinking water for all
Education Morocco Teacher training
Environment Niger Preservation of the addax antilope