What we do

A solid home or school is the basic building block of family and community life anywhere in the world

But in Africa it can be much more. In extremely poor communities where jobs are scarce, it is an opportunity to learn new skills and give people a chance to work their way out of poverty.

Our approach is straightforward, and it works:

• We use projects to train men and women in building skills
• We fully involve the community to make sure we get the project right
• We build using local materials and appropriate technologies

This all makes sense but, in fact, very few construction projects happen like this.

Every project we work on is developed with a local partner organisation and community groups but we are directly responsible for managing the building site and project money.

Since 2006, we have benefited 3,500 people at seven projects. These include a new secondary school (5 classrooms), teacher’s house, sanitation facilities, classroom and library renovations and new rural community schools.

So far, we have trained six local builders and over 50 skilled labourers. They are helping to fill a national skills shortage in Zambia.

It’s no surprise that as our work gets noticed, we receive many request from communities asking us to help them to change their world.

We are a young and ambitious organisation – over the next three years we aim to:

• expand our programme within and beyond Zambia
• get better at what we do
• convince others to copy our sustainable livelihoods approach.

We ask you join us to build brighter futures for thousands of people.

Thank-you

Andrew Jowett – Director