Our Work

The One Foundation funds projects in those countries where the need is greatest, working to positively and permanently change lives.

Water

We provide a range of sustainable water projects, using technologies that are appropriate to the communities they serve and that can be easily maintained. Now, 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.

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Hygiene and Sanitation

Focusing on larger schools, we fund brick-built ventilated pit latrines for girls and boys with hand-washing facilities, replacing unhygienic non-reinforced sandy pits with grass screen surrounds. This is supported with an education programme for the children and local communities that covers hand-washing and basic hygiene, which will reduce the spread of disease.

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Nutrition

We work with the poorest farming families in rural African communities, 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 vegetable garden projects - providing family communities with start-up kits, equipment and training to enable them to be self-sufficient and grow more nutritional food.

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Sustainable Livelihoods

Working with poor communities, we fund chicken-farming projects and a range of microfinance initiatives. The provision of capital, materials and training as part of our sustainable livelihoods projects assists families in developing strategies to grow income and assets, helping to strengthen their resilience to distress caused by market fluctuations and seasonal trends. In doing so, it provides much-needed nutrition to communities and creates greater disposable income that families can use to send their children to school or to invest in shelter or healthcare.

Community Health

Targeting those communities that are grossly underserved by public health initiatives, we fund bicycle ambulances and community medical kits in remote African communities. Bicycle ambulances enable health care volunteers to travel huge distances to reach patients in rural villages, thereby reducing the cost of accessing medical care for chronically ill. The community medical kits ensure that first aid treatment for minor injuries is available promptly. Without this, it could take hours or even days for people to reach the nearest health facility due to poor transport infrastructure.

HIV/AIDS

To help address the issues associated with the HIV and AIDS pandemic, we fund Voluntary Counselling & Testing outreach clinics. 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.