What we do
Our Strategic aims to 2030 are:
Locally Led Programming
Sustainable Financing
Collaborative Innovation
Our ethos is to stay small and think big – our strategic approach is to work with a small number of partner NGOs; we do not believe in short term support and would rather commit to developing sustainable long-term solutions with clearly defined objectives and outcomes.
Here are some projects we’ve been involved with.
Transport Difficulties in Nagaland
Carrying Out a Health Education Project
The people of the mountainous region of Nagaland, NE India are mostly subsistence farmers and suffer from poor health with very limited access to medical facilities, mostly due to poor infrastructure.
Working with our local partner, NARUDA, and with assistance from our partner, Iqarus *, we are carrying out a health education program so that the people may better look after themselves.
We have now visited twenty villages and advised nearly 2000 people.
*(Iqarus is an internationally recognised world leader in delivering medical care and training in the world’s most challenging operating environments)
Some of the children of Agun Ki
Building a home for children who have been forced to leave their families in Nagaland
The people of the mountainous region of Nagaland, NE India are mostly subsistence farmers.
Working with our local partner, NARUDA, and with a team of volunteers from Nottingham University, we financed and built a home for children in Nagaland.
The House of Hope, Agun Ki, now has ten children in its care.
A schematic of a biogas plant
Financing and Providing a Volunteer Team to Build an Agricultural Centre and Biogas Plant in Cameroon
We raised finance to install a pig farm, fish farm and biogas unit in Fundong in NE Cameroon. This is a community project and benefits the local people who no longer have to cook over open fires indoors and suffer from smoke inhalation.
The project was realised with the help of the Ramboll Foundation and a team of university undergraduate volunteers from Engineers Without Borders
The money generated from the sale of fish and pigs helps our partner, BERUDA, finance other projects and support the local community.
Some of the children and their carers.
Supervising and Funding a Children’s Project in Cameroon
With the help of international sponsors we look after 65 children in Belo, Cameroon. We provide money for clothes, education, food and medical needs.
We do not have an orphanage and care for the children in the community, as this fits with the local culture.
We send volunteers to act as fieldworkers and one long-term volunteer to supervise the project.
Lady weaving traditional clothes in Nagaland, NE India.
Single Mother and Women Empowerment Projects in Nagaland and Cameroon
We have helped women to start businesses to support themselves and their families. Typical examples are providing funds to start weaving projects and dressmaking businesses.
Not only do we support them financially but we also provide counselling to help them in what can be difficult circumstances.
Lady whose house we repaired
Supporting the Elderly in Cameroon
The elderly are often neglected and can find themselves with poor accommodation, lack of warmth, little food and no company.
We fix roofs, provide rice and blankets for many old folk. Furthermore, our fieldworkers visit them and provide company.
Water tanks being delivered to Nzau
Water Harvesting Project in Nzau, Nagaland.
Nzau is a hilltop village in Nagaland. During the dry season there there is no water there and villagers have carry water up from a stream for all their daily needs.
We installed a water harvesting system so that the people of Nzau might have water for cooking and drinking during dry periods.