Grassroots Programs

Grassroots Partner

Niche Sector(s)

Description per Program/Service

Ghana
Children Helper’s Foundation In the Cape Coast of Ghana, Children Helper’s Foundation serves orphans and neglected children with support, care, and education.
  Child Development Our traditional extended family model finds home care for children and sponsors them for school
  Life Skills Our life skills workshops, tuition, computer, and health classes holidistically work to support children in summer programs.
  Education Our youth workshops, tuition, and computer classes holidistically work to support children.
  Technology We offer computer classes for youth in our summer programs.
  Health Our life skills workshop and health classes holidistically work to support children in summer programs.
Indigenous North Sutreso Club In Kumasi, Ghana, INSC works with broad agricultural, environmenta, educational, and life skills work for people In the community.
  Agriculture Our tree planting initiative works to improve the community and environment.
  Child Development Our educational youth project includes technical and business skills, and a crime prevention program.
  Life Skills Our youth program offers technical and business skills to youth.
  Environment Our tree planting initiative works to improve the community and environment.
Light for Children In Kumasi and surrounding areas, Ghana, Light for Children supports HIV + Children.
  Health Our education outreach programs promote education about HIV and malaria prevention, and supporting Testing, and sexual abuse prevention programs.
  Child Development Partnering with orphanages, education programs, and schools, our broad education support for youth and children is sought with our education programs.
  Education Our broad education support for youth and children is sought with our education programs.
SMIDO In the Suame industrial cluster outside Kumasi, Ghana, we offer business skills and training, and access to technology.
  Technology Our programs make technology available to micro-entrepreneurs for business development.
  Life Skills Our education programs focus on practial business development and training for small and medium scale enterprises.
AHEFS In Ntonso, Ghana, AHEFS promotes a broad scope of environmental projects.
  Environment Our Environmental Protection Program and Food Security Program use education, practical organic farming, and reforestation.
  Health Our Preventative Health Programme promotes preventing epidemics through education, capacity building, seminars and research.
  Agriculture Our food security programe promotes organic farming, participatory research, education in organic farming and post-harvest technology.
Kenya
Baobab Branch In Nakuru, Kenya, Baobab Branch offers a broad scope of educational services for high schoolers and those who cannot afford vocational training.
  Education Our education programs include tuition, seminars, specific life skills and business courses, a laboratory and library.
  Technology Our education centre has computers for basic use, learning to type, and learning how to use technology.
  Life Skills Our business skills courses and support for micro-entrepreneurs foster practical vocational training for youth.
Morokoshi Nursery School In the rural agricultural area of Murunyu outside Nakuru, Kenya, Morokoshi nursery school provides quality education for over 70 students.
  Education Our Early Childhood Development, middle and top classes offer quality education to our students.
  Environment Our environmental programs include tree planting, and basic agriculture exploration in our attached farmland and greenhouse.
  Construction Our plans are to continue growing, with additional classrooms and bathrooms needed.
  Technology We use solar electricity for our classrooms and library, as there is no electricity in the area available.
Nafula Foundation In Bungoma, Kenya, Nafula Foundation provides holistic support for its society in a broad scope of practical areas.
  Health Our programs support orphaned children needing sanitation facilities, access to clean water, electricity, housing, or basic healthcare.
  Child Development Our programs support orphaned children needing sanitation facilities, access to clean water, electricity, housing, or basic healthcare.
Nina Initiative In the rural agricultural area of Murunyu outside Nakuru, Kenya, Nina Initiative practically supports women with agricultural and microfinance efforts.
  Life Skills Our group meets to support each other with training, and micro-entrepreneurial pursuits in agriculture, basket making, and rabbit husbandry.
  Gender Our group, composed of women, support each other with shared time, learning, and joint micro-entrepreneurial ventures and loans.
  Agriculture Our planned greenhouse farming and rabbit rearing programs support the women with job creation and part-time employment opportunities.
CRE Centre In Nairobi, CRE Centre helps children impacted by HIV/ AIDS by helping them with food, clothing, and education.
  Child Development Our programs support children disadvantaged by AIDS by providing education, health checks, food, and clothing.
Centre for Conflict Resolution In the rural area surrounding Nakuru, Kenya, CCR (Centre for Conflict Resolution) use a broad range of education and community building exercises to promote peace among different ethnic groups.
  Education Our theatre, youth groups, early warning monitoring, writing, and training programs are examples of the wide variety of ongoing activities.
  Child Development Our Youth groups target youth specifically in education and the prevention of ethnic violence and division.
  Gender Our women’s groups target women specifically in education and the prevention of ethnic vioence and division.
Nico Orphanage Home In Ogembo Town, Kenya, Nico Orphanage Home and school holistically support children orphaned by AIDS and poverty.
  Child Development Life in the home is full of everyday activities and larger projects for and with the children. There are a wide range of projects and work.
  Education Our primary and secondary schools offer education to the the orphans.
  Operations Support Our administration are working on raising the funds to sustainably run the orphanage through a number of efforts.
Furaha Support Group In Danger District, outside Nakuru, Kenya, is a self-help organization for those with AIDS through health and microfinance support.
  Life Skills Our group works together on specific microenterprise joint efforts for the benefit of the sickest in the group.
  Health Our group work together for health education, and support with medicine.
Help Heal In Kisumu, Kenya, Help Heal works with maternal women in a variety of projects.
  Health Our health and maternal feeding programs among other practical outreach programs assist women on over 300 small home farms.
  Gender Our work is focused on the health of maternal women on small home farms with practical education and outreach programs.
Zambia
Prison Fellowship Zambia Working in over 40 prisons in Zambia, operating out of Ndola, PFZ provides microfinance, skill training, health, and child support for prisoners and Our families.
  Health Our medical staff work in prisons with practical check-ups, dental, testing, and education.
  Life Skills Our life skills training focus on rehabilitating prisoners through practical life skills courses, support, and microfinance.
  Operations Support Our staff work hard at fundraising initiatives, particularly to enhance our medical and microfinance outreach.
Bread of Life In Mapalo, Zambia, Bread of Life promotes holistic development in Our township area.
  Education Our education program includes operating a primary and secondary school as well as sports training programs for youth.
  Gender Our microfinance and life skills training programs are focused on women recipients in our community.
  Life Skills Our life skills and microfinance training programs are focused on women recipients.
  Construction We are continuing to expand our operations with some basic construction projects.
MemiCare Project In the rural areas outside Ndola, Zambia, TDMI supports rural farmers with education, training, and support.
  Agriculture Our programs include development of animal husbandry and education about better farming techniques for rural farmers.
  Health We educate the rural farmers about health importance and strategies for sanitation and water purification.
  Environment Our programs include education about better farming techniques for rural farmers including organic farming strategies.
Maurigrace Schools In Chifubu Township, outside Ndola Zambia, Maurigrace Schools works to offer education and resources to its community.
  Childcare Development Our programs focus on the development of youth in our community.
  Opeations Support One of our key necessities is increasing our sustainable funding, as our programs with hopes for expansion.
Kusemba School Trust In Ndola, Zambia, Kusemba School Trust offers quality education, with paying students offsetting the costs of students who could otherwise not attend.
  Education We offer quality education to primary and secondary level students.
Uganda
APTI In Gayaza, outside Kampala, Uganda, APTI offers practical vetrinary training to disadvantaged youth, and their services to rural farms.
  Education We train disadvantaged youth in practical vetrinary skills, practically applying their efforts to rural agricultural development.
  Agriculture We train our students practical vetrinary skills, practically applying their efforts to rural agricultural development.
  Life Skills We train disadvantaged youth in practical vetrinary skills, practically applying their efforts to rural agricultural development throughout Uganda.
TDMI Based out of Kasangati, Uganda, TDMI offers a broad range of services to other organizations in a variety of areas.
  Operations Support We work at capacity building with rural schools, clinics, and internally displaced persons. Our programs are practical, fundraising, and training based.
FORDAR In the Busoga region of Eastern Uganda, supports local organizations needing assistance with research, education, and collaboration.
  Life Skills Our central service is to support households at using funds sustainably for community benefit for solving issues of poverty.
Childcare Development Organizaiton In Gulu, Uganda, CDO offers broad health and community development programs.
  Construction We are building a medical center, which is one of the main focuses of our work.
  Health We have a health clinic geared towards women and children.
  Life skills We offer life skills training to members of the community.
  Operations Support Our programs are looking for continual ways to fund our projects, mainly our construction of a hospital.
  Child Development Our programs support children and women through our clinic and resource centre with job training and education.
  Gender Our programs support children and women through our clinic and resource centre with job training and education.
Idiwa In Iganga, Uganda, IDIWA (Integrated Disabled Women Activities) assists women living in poverty exacerbated by disabilities.
  Gender Our sustainable livelihood program and vocational training provide the women with practical skills.
Mugerwa Primary School In the Kabanyoro region outside of Kampala, Uganda, Mugerwa offers primary education to disadvantaged students.
  Education We offer primary education, with hopes of expanding the school to secondary level as well.
  Operations Support We need assistance for finding appropriate sustainable funding and accounting models for increase in size and quality of operations.