Here's why we create jobs:
Businesses continue after support ends.
Each entrepreneur serves hundreds of neighbors with essential needs. On average, each job reaches 500 people.
People become providers — not recipients.
Nearly 5 million children die before their fifth birthday each year, most from four causes we already know how to prevent. We call them the Core Four: hunger, unsafe water, preventable illness, and household air pollution. Together, we're creating local jobs that tackle each one, so lifesaving solutions last for years—not just today.
One in three water wells in Sub-Saharan Africa is broken. Asia's isn't. She unlocks her community's well at dawn, and 400+ neighbors drink safely because of her.
A fever doesn't have to become a funeral. Lamba visits families, treats illnesses early, and helps children get the care they need before it's too late.
Where Community Health Workers like Lamba serve, child mortality can drop by 25%.
With irrigation and training, Joshua's yield jumped 400% in one harvest — enough to feed his children and sell the surplus to 50 neighbors.
She builds affordable clean cookstoves. Less smoke in the home means fewer respiratory illnesses that kill young children.
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Backing the people closest to the problem.
More than half of the organizations we support are founded by women. Many grew up in the communities they now serve.
We don't import solutions. We invest in the people already building them.
Since 2010, supporters like you have created more than 2,675 jobs reaching over one million people across Africa. Every job is tracked. Every partner is vetted. Every impact report shows the real people doing the work. Because you deserve to know exactly what your generosity accomplished.
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We create jobs that help communities work their own way out of extreme poverty. Instead of handouts, you fund vetted local organizations who hire and train entrepreneurs — water well operators, community health workers, small-scale farmers, and clean-cookstove masons. Their work brings clean water, healthcare, food, and a cleaner climate to their neighbors. On average, each job helps 500 people locally.
Across seven countries: Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, Uganda, Malawi, Rwanda, and Togo. The organization is headquartered in New York City and partners with proven local leaders in each region.
Every job is tracked from day one. We collect field data on services delivered — liters of clean water, health visits, harvests grown, and cookstoves sold — and report it back to you with the names and stories of the people doing the work. Our transparency is independently recognized: we're Charity Navigator Four-Star rated and hold Candid's Platinum Seal of Transparency.
Yes. The Adventure Project is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit, so gifts from U.S. taxpayers are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Our Tax ID (EIN) is: 27-3809595
