Leadership Initiatives (LI) approaches the problems of underdevelopment by empowering communities to address their own needs.
LI partners with local government and business leaders to provide promising individuals with entrepreneurial, leadership and project management training. These young leaders then identify obstacles to development within their own communities, design workable solutions, and create sustainable business models to overcome those obstacles.
Countries:
Kenya
Themes:
Education,
Economic Development,
Women and Girls
Many bright, but disadvantaged youth in Kenya need help with university fees. We assist and also require the development of a community project that the student leads during their university career.
Countries:
Kenya
Themes:
Economic Development,
Climate Change,
Health,
Hunger
Kenya is experiencing severe drought and acute food shortages. Michael Murigi, 3rd year PATHWAYS scholar, has made tremendous progress in introducing cassava growing to his community. Cassava is an indigenous crop that is fast growing and well adapted to the dry environment. His community would like to expand the project by purchasing a mill so that flour can be produced and food products made and sold.
Countries:
Pakistan
Themes:
Health,
Disaster Recovery,
Economic Development,
Women and Girls
This is an affordable community-funded healthcare model, and serves 40,000 rural poor in northern Pakistan. The facility provides comprehensive primary and preventive care, with a mother-child focus. Lives are saved everyday by having on-site, round-the-clock urgent care facilities, a well-stocked pharmacy, a laboratory, dental unit and more. On-going patient education and speciality camps help address chronic conditions and improve the quality of life of the earthquake affected rural residents.
This project provides micro loans and business training to 50 women "local entrepreneurs" impacted by HIV/AIDS in Zambia. The beneficiaries become self reliant and are able to break the poverty cycle.
Countries:
Bangladesh
Themes:
Health,
Economic Development
In the Mirpur slums, lack of clean water and basic sanitation can cause severe health problems and even death. CARE Bangladesh is building latrines and a water point to help prevent these problems.
Countries:
Paraguay
Themes:
Education,
Economic Development,
Women and Girls
In the last old growth forest zone of Paraguay, 90% of girls are pregnant by age 14. Others are sold into the human trafficking trade, work in prostitution, married off at a young age, or working grueling hours taking care of the country's privileged class as maids and nannies. Our financially self-sustaining agroforestry school in Paraguay's Mbaracayu Forest Reserve empowers and provides a skill base for the country's poorest and most vulnerable girls to overcome extreme poverty.
Countries:
United States
Themes:
Women and Girls,
Economic Development,
Hunger
Worldwide, 2.5 billion people live on less than $2 a day and 925 million people live in hunger. Investing in women farmers - such as providing them with information, land rights, organizing support, time-savings systems, and better access to public-private partnerships - not only benefits women and their families economically, but also increases overall global crop production. Women can lift themselves from poverty and can feed the world; they just need our support.
Countries:
Sierra Leone
Themes:
Economic Development,
Children,
Education,
Arts and Culture
Kroo Bay, the largest slum in Sierra Leone, is home to some of the most disenfranchised children in the world. Built on a giant landfill, children scour through heaps of garbage searching for scraps of metal or plastic to sell. Our program will provide vocational training workshops in batik fabric-dyeing, t-shirt and sign stencil printing, crochet, and embroidery for 50 orphaned youth in Kroo Bay. These workshops will provide the children with the materials and skills they need to survive.
Countries:
United States
Themes:
Economic Development
This fund allows donors to contribute to a general fund that will be used to provide matching funds and other grant incentives for the projects in our catalog.
