Our Impact

Projects

Over the past twenty years, we have invested in over 2,000 projects around the world and improved health, education, environment, and economic opportunity for more than 3.8 million people globally.

Full Project Table

Each project funded by World Connect begins with an idea from someone inspired to create change in their community. We prioritize communities often overlooked by traditional funders, and over 60% of our projects are led by women.

Kijima's Goat Rearing Business

Burundi

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Economic Opportunity

2019

Kijima residents identified improved food security as their most pressing goal and elected to achieve this via a goat-rearing project. Participants will purchase twenty male goats and five female...

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Waste Management in Nioro du Rip

Senegal

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Environment

2018

The aim of this project is to create a privatized waste collection system for six neighborhoods in the Kaolack region of Senegal. Upon the start of daily activities of household trash collection,...

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Bumba Women's Bakery Expansion

Rwanda

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Economic Opportunity

2018

In 2016 in cooperation with a Peace Corps Volunteer, Bumba Women's Bakery received a $5000 grant from World Connect. With this grant, after 6 months, the women bakers had raised their daily earnings...

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Antenatal Care 4 All

Nigeria

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Health

2018

Antenatal Care 4 All is designed to engage women living in remote and hard-to-reach communities in Northeastern Nigeria, many of whom are internally displaced persons (IDPs) and victims of the Boko...

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Promoting Female Farmers in Iteele Settlement, Ijebu Ode

Nigeria

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Economic Opportunity

2018

Cash crops in Nigeria remain an important avenue of livelihoods in rural communities in the country. Most non-subsistence farmers are elderly men who are gradually aging out of the profession. There...

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