Development Grants have a far-reaching effect. From the smallest villages to the largest cities, your generous contributions touch the lives of women and children around the globe. Our recipients have been divided into five geographical areas below - Africa and The Middle East
2019 - Keeping Backpacks Full - Dakar, Senegal
Tools for Equal Opportunities - Niamey, Niger
Stepergy - Rural Morocco
Fistula Foundation Fistula Repair Surgery Program - various locations in Africa
2018 - Butiama Safe House Vocational Training Center - Serengeti, Tanzania
Kitchen for Rural Kenyan Catering Program - Chepkanga, Kenya
#Reboot Computer Literacy - A Safe Spaces Project - Nairobi, Kenya
The Pillow Project to Stop Child Trafficking - Murang'a County, Kenya
2017 - Kenyan Children Help - The New White House Academy - Voi, Kenya
2016 - Hope Alive Foundation - Malawi
Solar Powered Showers for Health and Academic Excellence - Ethiopia
Mothers Averting AIDS - South Africa
Growing Guayule to Fight AIDS and Provide Bio-Fuel - South Africa
2015 - Preventing A Lost Generation - Sending Refugee Children to School - Jordan
Project Mwangi - Kenya
Trees Grow in the Sahel - Senegal
2014 - Mama Norah Education Center - Wagwe, Kenya
The Kenya Project Clean Water Initiative - Wagwe, Kenya
Madagascar School, run by Ursulinnes Nuns - Madagascar
Amal Women's Training Center - Marrakech, Morocco
2013 - Amis des Ecoles, Tata Region - Morocco
Mama Anakuja - Malindi, Kenya
Fistula Foundation - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Women's Vocational College - Nairobi, Kenya
Mothers Averting AIDS, Khayelitsha - South Africa
2012 - Blindness Prevention Program - Ethiopia
Feeding Education - Kenya
Thanda Children's Library KwaZula-Natal - South Africa
Women For Girls - Senegal, West Africa
2011 - Little Wings Foundation - Middle East/North Africa
Hodi Peace Cents - Marsabit, Kenya
HIV/AIDS Awareness - Uganda
2010 - Oyani Village - Kenya
Fistula Foundation - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
School Aid, Johannesburg - South Africa
Teachers Without Borders - South Africa
Mothers Averting AIDS - Khayelitsha, South Africa
2009 - Kibarani Dump Site Children - Knebel, Kenya
Mama Anakuja - Home for Needy Children - Malindi, Kenya
The Mercy Children's Centre - Bumala, Western Kenya
Amani School Classroom and Fence - Kenya
2008 - Primary School Project - Assumer, Morocco
Angels of Hope Peaceful Home for Children - Nairobi, Kenya
Grandma-2-Grandma - Tanzania, East Africa
Women for Girls - The Mill Project - Mbousnakh, Senegal
2007 - Korogocho HIV/AIDS Home Care Center - Kasarani, Nairobi, Kenya
The Lambs Project - Ouahigouya, Burkina Faso
Women's Hope International - Chad and Ethiopia
Arche de Noe - Bujumbura, Burundi
Integrated Bio Framing Technologies for the Blind and Handicapped - Sebeta, Ethiopia
Batsiranai Craft Project - Zimbabwe
2006 - Hope's Promise Orphan Ministries - Namibia
Ol Malo Eye Project - Kenya
Commund de Lubumbashi Orphanage - Republic of Congo
2005 - Obstetric Fistula - Mali
Prevalence of Malnutrition - Tanzania
Support Children's Literacy - Madagascar
Kugeria Women Water Project - Kenya
2004 - Action for Children Soldiers - Democratic Republic of Congo
Malawi Orphan Support Project - Malawi
2003 - Hope House Babies Home - Kenya
Mkombozi Center for Street Children in Moshi - Tanzania
Cecily Eastwood Zambian Aids Orphan Appeal - Zambia
2002 - Girls of the Maqattam Garbage Settlement - Egypt
Kezakimana ("Children of Love") - Burundi
2001 - Chivuna Mission Rural Health Center - Zambia
Women's Center of Azzib - Morocco
2000 - Nyapea Hospital - Okoro County, Uganda
Horizons Ouverts (Village Schools) - Morocco
Monze Mission Hospital - Zambia
Tailor Training Project - Kenya
1999 - Bellhouse Academy - Kenya
Philani Nutrition Centres - South Africa
Women's Center - Democratic Republic of Congo
1998 - Association Managre Nooma Pour la Protections des Orphelins (AMPO) - Burkina Faso
1997 - Mfitumukiza Project (photo tracing of refugee children) - Tanzania
Rural Girls' Literacy Classes - Tinzouline, Morocco
ASIA
2019 - A Kindergarten for Tribal Children in India - Hazarwadi, Maharashtra, India
2018 - Hazarwadi Open Well - Maharashtra, India
Project WIN - Chiang Mai, Thailand
Ending TB in North Korea - Pyongsong Sanitorium, North Korea
Feed the Starving Rohingyas - Bangladesh
2017 - Rural Development in Anupshahr, India through Education and Empowerment of the Girl Child - Anupshahr, India
Community-Based First 1000 Days Project - Mumbai, India
2016 - Mentawai Boarding School - Indonesia
Yes Akademia - Youth Transforming Galtare-Dharavi-Paris - Galtare, India
2015 - Aziza's Coffee - Cambodia
2014 - Friedensdorf International - Cambodia
2013 - Associazione Fabio Jonathan Onlus - Sri Lanka
2011 - Water for Mentawai Sumarwea Utara - Indonesia
Eden Women's Ministry - Shanghai, China
Coming Home, Morning Tears - China
2010 - Tusarang Nunnery School - Mustang, Kathmandu
2008 - Heart to Heart - Shanghai, China
2007 - Silk of Hope Project - Women Bearer of Traditions - Cambodia
2006 - SOMA Home For Girls - India
Monimala - India
2004 - Wells For Life - Siem Reap, Cambodia
2003 - Frauenhascha (Refuge for Single Mothers with Tents) - Mongolia
2002 - Vincente Maria Children's Home - India
SANKALP ("A Firm Resolve") - India
Hope For The Hopeless (CCD) - Thailand
2001 - Maiti Nepal - Nepal
School for Girls in Upper Mustang - Nepal
Punjabi Hospital Maternal health Project - India
1999 - Ripples and Rainbows - India
1997 - SEWA (Socio-Economic Welfare Action) for Women in Nepal - Nepal
Youth Action for Sustainable Development - Nepal
Fatima Self-Help Center - Thailand
AUSTRALIA and SOUTH PACIFIC
2016 - Eye Surgery and Placement of Prosthetic Eye - Philippines
2013 - Negros - Philippines
2008 - Scholarship Fund for Girls, Maila - Philippines
2004 - Literacy for Indiginous Women in Southern Mindanao - Philippines
CARIBBEAN, CENTRAL and SOUTH AMERICA
2015 - Kids Support Groups - Brazil
2014 - Hope for Haiti's Kids - Montrouis, Haiti
2011 - Proyecto DeVida - Bogota, Colombia
2006 - Fundacion Amigos de Jesus y Maria - Colombia
2005 - Big Brothers/Big Sisters - Antigua and Barbuda
2002 - Children of Cali - Colombia
1998 - Amazing Grace Project (home for disabled children) - Antigua
EUROPE
2019 - More Than Just a Cup of Coffee: Barista Skills Provide Dignified Work to Survivors of Human Trafficking - Amsterdam, Netherlands
2016 - Casa Ruth and the New Hope Cooperative Project - Italy
Frauen Helfen Frauen - Germany
2015 - Prevention Center for Family and Marital Violence - Belgium
2014 - Jack & Jill Foundation - Johntown, Naas Co., Kildare, Ireland
Assertiveness/Self-Defense Training for Victims of Domestic Abuse - Munich, Germany
2013 - Irish Society for the Prevention & Protection of Children - Dublin, Ireland
2012 - Ruhama - Dublin, Ireland
Center for Abandoned & Disabled Children - Athens, Greece
2010 - Spread The Sunshine - Moscow, Russia
2009 - Pension Villa Mariain - Bern, Switzerland
Training for Work - Chalfont St. Peter, Bucks, UK
Five Loaves - Wicklow, Ireland
2008 - Mayday! Mayday! - Carei, Romania
Food For Refugees - Athens, Greece
2006 - Radio Studio 88 - Mostar, Bosnia and Herzogovina
2004 - Children of a Lesser God Outreach - Moldova
Ojos Del Mundo (Eyes of the World) - Madrid, Spain
2003 - Ostrov Shelter, Social Patrol - Russia
2000 - Nuevo Amanecer - Madrid, Spain
1999 - Tsimbalina Children's Hospital - St. Petersburg, Russia
Operation Angel (humanitarian health center and pharmacy) - Albania
1998 - Kurdish Women's and Children's Refugee Center - Greece
Stiichting Charite (Children in Need) - Chernobyl, Ukraine
1997 - AMICA for refugee women and children - Tuzla, Bosnia
DESA for refugee women - Dubrovnik, Croatia
