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  • Research fellowships to young scientists working on regenerative medicine.

  • Numerous maxillofacial reconstructive surgeries for children from the global south.

  • Funding of surgeries for children and adults.

  • Provide 100 bicycles to farming families in the Mwanza area.

  • Sustainable planting of resilient trees countrywide as part of the largest tree planting effort on the African continent.

  • Expansion of the clubfoot treatment program to cover 70% of all children affected.

  • Provision of quality health care in second largest refugee camp in the country.

  • Improve access to family planning services for women at the last mile.

  • Provision of portable solar-powered lamps and battery chargers to rural school children and teachers, residents of refugee camps, new mothers, and women who have recovered from obstetric fistula.

  • Support for operations of a maternity hospital with fistula specialization and the production of 8 training videos for midwives.

  • Regreening and restoring ecosystems in the north.

  • Comprehensive obstetric fistula prevention and care including 500 surgeries.

  • Train farmers on crop diversification and sustainability in Singida region.

  • Pre- and post- surgery care for 1,200 children at rehabilitation center.

  • Scholarships for aspiring nurses and midwives.

  • Expansion of a tourism and hospitality vocational school.

  • Refurbishing of WASH facility in a secondary school in a very remote area.

  • Support for entrepreneurship curriculum and for post-secondary school scholarships at a girls’ school.

  • Distribution of bicycles to schoolgirls.

  • Widespread distribution of disease-resistant varieties of cassava.

  • Expansion of innovative flour fortification system to combat malnutrition.

  • Support for two schools, a community-based girls’ home, and a permaculture farm in the Great Lakes region.

  • Surgeries to treat trichiasis eye disease leading to the elimination of trachoma.

  • Training and support for farmers in sustainable cultivation techniques.

  • Funding of surgeries for children and adults.

  • Finance the growth of a social enterprise which aims to alleviate poverty for the disabled through mobility and access to economic opportunities.

  • Sustainable planting of resilient trees countrywide as part of the largest tree planting effort on the African continent.

  • Improve access to family planning services in the Greater Amboseli Ecosystem.

  • Installation of a solar energy system in a rural health center.

  • Strengthen health systems in order to provide access to sexual and reproductive health services to low-income women.

  • Provision of quality health care in one of the largest refugee camps in the world.

  • Rapid response to severe drought in the North of the country.

  • Mass drug administration to more than 600,000 people as well as surgeries and other treatments for trichiasis toward the elimination of trachoma.

  • Development and testing of orthopedic socket for distribution in LMICs.

  • Construct and equip an operating room in a rural health center.

  • Distribution of bicycles in rural communities of Kakamega county.

  • Support young women and adolescent girls in launching small businesses and savings groups as a means to prevent risky behavior that can lead to HIV.

  • Support to expand multi-county school lunch programs.

  • Funding for women’s vocational training in the hospitality and tourism sector.

  • Water and sanitation improvement projects in remote areas.

  • Construction of schools, teachers’ housing and water catchment systems in four northern districts.

  • Expansion of healthcare access in rural areas through growth of mobile-nursing program.

  • Support for youth agricultural entrepreneurship program.

  • Support for motivated girls to pursue high school education.

  • Funding for women and youth social entrepreneurs in the Northern Drylands.

  • Support for first ever international baccalaureate (IB) school for children from Mathare slum and refugee camps.

  • Vision screening for primary school children and establishment of government managed eye health diagnosis program in 16 counties.

  • Support for mobile app for pre-natal care information and call center as well as training of midwives and maternity nurses.

  • Expansion of community-based healthcare service to people in rural villages.

  • Expansion of sanitation service to over 300,000 people and conversion of waste to renewable byproducts.

  • Training and support for farmers in sustainable cultivation techniques.

  • Prevention and treatment of pediatric pneumonia in urban slum contexts.

  • Grassroots community empowerment programs in urban slums.

  • Community reintegration and vocational training of former street children.

  • Funding of surgeries for children and adults.

  • Sustainable planting of resilient trees countrywide as part of the largest tree planting effort on the African continent.

  • Expansion of the clubfoot treatment program to cover 70% of all children affected.

  • Support the expansion of a program to improve literacy and numeracy though community. volunteers, teacher training, mobile apps, and technical assistance to local governments.

  • Development of livelihood programs in the Palabek refugee settlement.

  • Extension of teachers’ training program across the whole country.

  • Multi-year support to create school garden and promote agricultural education in 400 schools.

  • Operational support for agricultural program and new orthopedic center in settlement camp.

  • Results-based Financing support for large hospital in the North.

  • Support for a surgical reconstructive mission and clinical staff training.

  • Mass drug administration and more than 10,000 surgeries and other treatments for trichiasis toward the elimination of trachoma.

  • Construction of 12 boreholes and enrollment of communities in subscription maintenance service for wells.

  • Improvement of primary school facilities and teacher training in neglected rural villages in Zombo District.

  • Funding for Results-based Financing project for the pediatric department in a rural hospital in the Northeast.

  • Support for women’s empowerment, literacy program and demonstration farm in the North.

  • Comprehensive obstetric fistula prevention and care including 1,080 surgeries in the West Nile region.

  • Purchase and distribution of 220 pediatric wheelchairs for disadvantaged children.

  • Establishment of radiology department in a rural hospital.

  • Fund to strengthen village savings and loans associations in 135 villages.

  • Support for educational and community livelihood programs.

  • Refugee nutrition program in four settlement camps.

  • Support for youth vocational training program.

  • Funding to increase oxygen capacity at major regional referral hospital.

  • Vocational training in a refugee settlement.

  • Provision of quality healthcare in a refugee camp.

  • Funding to repair boreholes and drill new wells in Amuru district to reach 37,050 people.

  • Treatment and surgery for people suffering the effects of Lymphatic Filariasis and training for Community Health Workers to prevent and treat the disease.

  • Funding to support an “out of poverty” graduation program through agricultural and livelihood training in over 130 villages in the southwest region.

  • Entrepreneurial and vocational training for young people and vulnerable women to establish small businesses.

  • Distribution of solar-powered lighting and diagnostic kits to health centers.

  • Improvement of school and water and sanitation facilities and programs to encourage community development in a remote rural area in the north.

  • Improved mother-infant care at a hospital for the underprivileged.

  • Agricultural and food education program to combat malnutrition.

  • Vision screening and free glasses distribution in primary schools in three high-density districts.

  • Water and sanitation improvements in Beira and Maputo.

  • Mass drug administration and 3,500 surgeries and other treatments for trichiasis toward the elimination of trachoma.

  • Donation of 4,000 pairs of glasses to school children.

  • Development and approval of a National Teacher Training Manual on child and school eye health.

  • WASH education, water household connections, and school new toilets in the Ashanti region

  • Support operating costs for children’s center.

  • Unrestricted and scholarship support for pan African students at higher education institution.

  • Completion of an inpatient maternity ward in the Eastern Region.

  • Community development support via microgrants in the Fanteakwa South district. Construction of a new orthopedic center serving the northern regions of the country.

  • Scholarships for aspiring nurses and midwives.

  • Organic waste recycling to produce electricity, irrigation water and fertilizer.

  • Support for girls’ education and empowerment.

  • Vocational training for disabled persons.

  • Programs to promote children’s rights and protection at 50 schools.

  • Support for an orthopedic surgery and prosthetics center for adults, orphaned and disabled children.

  • Retinoblastoma prevention and surgeries.

  • Retinoblastoma prevention and surgeries.

  • Expansion of the clubfoot treatment program to cover 70% of all children affected.

  • WASH education, water household connections, and school new toilets in Tana, Mahajanga and Toliara.

  • Support for operating costs for three medical centers and their mobile outreach in various districts.

  • Fund comprehensive cleft lip and palate program.

  • Water and sanitation improvement projects in remote areas.

  • Creation of a demonstration farm and training of young farmers.

  • Expansion of community-based healthcare service to people in remote villages.

  • Prevention of and surgery for pediatric tumor of the eye.

  • Distribution of bicycles to school girls.

  • Retinoblastoma prevention and surgery.

  • Expansion of the clubfoot program to an additional 24 clinics to treat 1,030 children in three years.

  • Support for physical therapy program serving disabled children and their families.

  • Purchase of equipment and vehicles for drilling of water wells.

  • Support for fistula treatment and prevention; purchase of two vehicles for a women’s hospital.

  • Distribution and installation of solar suitcases to health centers.

  • Funding a national midwifery training program

  • Upper and lower prosthetics and surgical care for 14 children and support for their educational needs.

  • Support for the development of hand surgery and clinical training centers in two large hospitals.

  • Contribute to enrolling more than 32.000 girls in school, providing 21,000 students with remedial lessons, 9,000 girls with life skills training and ensuring that 38,000 young women get their 10th grade diploma.

  • Improve the quality of maternal and infant health and nutrition services in Barwani district, Madhya Pradesh.

  • Development of new vision centers, distribution of low-cost glasses, and support for eye surgeries in Odisha State.

  • Implementation of innovative educational model in 100 schools in Assam State.

  • Comprehensive cleft lip and palate care to 700 children.

  • Expansion of informative voice message technology in support of pre-natal care for women and training of CHWs.

  • Development and distribution of ultra-low cost hearing aids countrywide.

  • Funding for a variety of surgeries and treatments for vulnerable people through a travelling hospital.

  • Vision screening and over 100,000 cataract surgeries in rural Madhya Pradesh.

  • School eye health screening of children and vision diagnosis training of teachers in Madhya Pradesh.

  • Programs to facilitate inclusion in primary and secondary schools of disabled children and to train educators to teach special needs students.

  • Primary education for indigenous children in the hill tracts.

  • Literacy program for children, life skills program for adolescent girls, and establishment of elementary school libraries.

  • Coverage of salaries, running costs and extraordinary maintenance for floating hospital.

  • Support for scholarships and new building construction at a nursing institute.

  • Funding for a variety of surgeries and treatments for vulnerable people.

  • Fellowships for Vietnamese maxillofacial surgeons to train in British, American and Canadian hospitals.

 

  • Prevention of and surgery for pediatric tumor of the eye.

  • Funds to support the evolving crisis in Ukraine and neighboring countries
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  • Development of technology to rid the oceans and rivers from plastic pollution.

  • Training of professionals in 12 countries on the treatment of late presenting clubfoot.

  • Fellowships and seed funding for young African scientists in the health sector.

  • Emergency relief (food and women’s health needs) in wake of flooding in Pakistan.

  • Funding the development and expansion of a system to deliver eye care to the most forgotten vulnerable people.

  • Strategic support for organization distributing prosthetic legs and other components to mobility centers in Africa.

  • Funding for emergency disaster relief services for children and their families.

  • Training of specialized fistula surgeons.

  • Program to create amputee support groups in Africa.

We are currently funding projects in the countries highlighted above. Click on the highlighted countries to see examples of the projects we support.

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Strong partnerships are built based on clear goals, shared values, and commitment to results.

We carefully research the nonprofit organizations and social enterprises with which we want to engage. Once we have ensured that their goals are aligned with ours, and that they make a difference, we strive to develop effective relationships to improve the lives of our end beneficiaries and enable them to find their own way to thrive.

Our strategy is three-fold:

Make immediate impact by transforming the lives of children and adults with curable disabilities (blindness, upper and lower limb loss, cleft lip and palate, and clubfoot). We do this by supporting reputable organizations whose people work every day to care for those with these conditions;

Expand access to healthcare and education and build local capacity through the same organizations by providing training to people on the ground to refine their skills, so that they can reach even more people, and ultimately make a better living for themselves;

Support organizations with strong track records of changing systems at government levels with a view to empowering single countries to tackle their own most critical problems.

We realize that systemic changes are the ones that generate the biggest impact and the most radical transformation, but they are long-term challenges.

For this reason, we balance multi-year commitments with shorter-term immediate funding to address pressing needs.