Our Work

The One Foundation works in countries that need the most help. We positively and permanently change lives, working where the need is greatest.

Providing sustainable clean water supplies

We have installed over 600 PlayPump® water systems - specially designed children’s roundabouts that pump water from deep underground. As children spin on the roundabout, clean, fresh water is pumped into a storage tank.

It’s a simple idea but one that is changing the lives of thousands of African children. Instead of walking for hours to collect water, children can go to school and entire communities benefit from access to fresh drinking water. Excess water can be used to irrigate vegetable gardens, giving communities the opportunity to grow and sell their own crops.

Read more about our water projects.

HIV/AIDS

To help address the issues associated with the HIV and AIDS pandemic, profits from the One Condom range go to fund Voluntary Counselling & Testing outreach clinics. To date, we have tested and counselled over 12,000 people.

The programmes take teams of nurses and counsellors to visit rural communities to help educate and raise awareness of HIV and HIV-related issues as well as test for HIV. This way people that are HIV negative are educated on how to stay negative, and those who are HIV positive are identified as soon as possible and are given the correct life-saving ARV (antiretroviral) drugs to increase their quality of life.

Read more about our HIV projects.

Nutrition

We work with the poorest farming families in rural communities in Malawi, helping them grow enough food to feed themselves, plus a little bit extra to sell. That way they can earn enough to see them through times when the crops fail.

To this end, we fund two types of project:

• Vegetable gardens - providing family communities with start-up kits, equipment and training to enable them to be more self sufficient and grow more nutritional food
• Seed banks – providing seedlings and seeds, equipment and training to grow crops for market. Each new farmer commits to putting back 1.5 times the number of seeds into the seed bank, building a sustainable cycle.

Read more about our nutrition projects

Hygiene and Sanitation

Focusing on larger schools, we fund brick-built ventilated pit latrines for girls and boys with handwashing facilities, replacing unhygienic non-reinforced sandy pits with grass screen surrounds. This is supported with an education programme for the children and local communities, covering handwashing and basic hygiene.

Read more about our sanitation projects.