Our work
Four programmes. No pilot projects.
Each of these runs continuously and is funded to keep running. We would rather turn down a good new idea than start something we will quietly stop in eighteen months.
01
Shelter & street outreach
Sleeping bags, night vans, and a warm bed tonight — then a caseworker tomorrow.
Nobody solves their own homelessness from a doorway in February. Our outreach teams walk the same streets every week until they are a familiar face, not a stranger with a clipboard. Emergency bedding and hot drinks come first. Then, at the person's pace, we work on the paperwork that unlocks a tenancy: ID documents, a bank account, a benefits claim, a GP registration.
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02
Food & nutrition
Hot meals daily, and grocery parcels that let a family cook for themselves.
Hunger is the emergency that hides every other emergency. Our kitchens serve hot meals with no questions asked and no forms to fill in, because a queue that demands proof of poverty is a queue people stop joining. Alongside that we pack weekly parcels of staples, so families can cook their own food, in their own kitchen, on their own terms.
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03
Clean water & sanitation
Wells, pumps, and repairs — because a broken pump is the same as no pump.
A village with a working borehole is a village where girls go to school instead of walking four hours for water. We fund new wells, but we spend just as much on the unglamorous part: repairing the ones that already exist. Every installation comes with a trained local mechanic and a stocked spare-parts fund, so the pump still works in year five.
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04
Education for children
Fees, uniforms, books, and a meal at school — the whole cost, not part of it.
School is usually free and almost never free. Uniforms, exam fees, textbooks, and the lost income of a child who could be working add up to a bill that keeps the poorest children out. We cover the full cost per child per year and keep covering it, because a scholarship that lapses after one year is a disappointment with extra steps.
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