Your Results Create Ripples.

Once someone is trained and working, they serve approximately 500 of their neighbors with life-saving products and services.

Collectively, your support has created 2,747 jobs worldwide, impacting 2.1M people in need.

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Jobs Created: 2,747
Over the past ten years, you have created over 2,000 jobs across India, Haiti, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Togo and Uganda.
People Impacted: 2,139,689
Over 2.1 million people have gained access to better food, safe drinking water, improved health, and an improved environment.
6 Countries
Starting in Haiti, over the past ten years, we've expanded to six countries, adding Ghana and Togo in 2020! 
Solving one of the largest killers of women and children.

Environment

Cooking over open fires is one of the world's biggest - but least known - killers. Four million people die each year from breathing in toxic cooking smoke, mainly women and their children strapped to their backs or playing nearby.

The Solution: A locally-made, affordable cookstove.

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Woman sitting on a chair while smiling down and toddler leaning on her lap.
Jobs Created: 461
458 men and women are working as stove entrepreneurs, making and selling stoves in their communities.
People Impacted: 565,665
468,217 charcoal-efficient stoves have been produced and sold.
Additional Bonus:
Because they use less charcoal and firewood, each stove saves six trees from being turned into charcoal and reduces carbon emissions by 1.5 tons.
Preventing Child and Maternal Mortality.

Health

Most children in developing countries die from preventable diseases, but treatments to save them cost less than a cup of coffee.

The Solution: Training Community Health Workers to get the right drugs into the right places.

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Living Goods worker standing with mother holding baby in her arms.
Jobs Created: 439
Your support has helped train 439 Community Health Workers.
People Impacted: 405,093
Together, Community Health Workers are caring for 405,093 pregnant moms and children with life-saving healthcare
Additional Bonus:
A recent random-controlled study revealed that having one Community Health Worker in a village reduces child mortality 27%.
Ensuring farmers can feed their families.

Hunger

80% of the poor in Sub-Saharan Africa work as rural farmers. Each night, 75% of their children go hungry because they struggle to grow enough to feed their own families.

The Solution: Access to irrigation, drought-resistant seeds and farming mentors.

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A female farmer celebrates her harvest in Kenya.
Jobs Created: 1,486
1,486 farmers and farm hands have been supported, thanks to your generosity.
People Impacted: 156,550
They are feeding 156,550 people with nutritious food.
Additional Bonus:
In Kenya, within the first harvest a farmer will move into the middle class and send at least one of their children to school for the first time.
Keeping wells working.

Water

You can live without a lot, except water. 36% of all water wells in Africa are currently broken, often because there are no spare parts, tools, funding or trained mechanics nearly. 

The Solution: Train well mechanics and caretakers locally to keep water flowing.

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Jobs Created: 361
361 Well Mechanics, Caretakers and Water Entrepreneurs have been trained and are currently employed.
People Impacted: 1,012,381
You're helped to provide 1,012,381 people with clean water.
Additional Bonus:
Because community members pay a small fee per jerry can (bucket), they can ensure there is adequate funding for future repairs.