Footprints projects

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Open projects

7

Funded projects

267

Completed projects

Projects

Open
Funded
Completed

35% funded

Environment
Protecting and restoring the forest for critically endangered cotton-top tamarins in Colombia

Planting 60,000+ tree saplings to restore close to 100 hectares within the Los Titíes de San Juan forest reserve to bring back forests for wildlife and local communities after it was previously used for traditional farming.
40% funded

Environment
Protect communities from forest fires in the Himalaya

Help combat Nepal’s rising forest fire threat by training and equipping local responders, promoting sustainable forest management and protecting communities and ecosystems in one of the world’s most treasured mountain regions–the Himalaya.
52% funded

Environment
Remove plastic debris from remote coastal beaches in Canada

The "Live the Wild Pledge" project aims to engage beach-bound hikers on Canada’s Northern Vancouver Island in removing plastic debris from remote beaches.
96% funded

Health
Building a Village Health Clinic in Rural Fiji

This project will provide rural Fijian communities with a local health dispensary/clinic, while offering a carpentry and building training program for local youths.
Funded

Peace and Justice
Empowering Girls in India to Say No to Forced Marriage

By keeping girls in school, this program aims to delay early, forced marriages and create systemic change that tackles inequality, hunger, and poverty locally.
Funded

Education
Providing Critical Education Materials to Children Affected by Conflict in Ukraine

Countless Ukrainian children have had their education disrupted by the ongoing conflict. Save the Children’s Library for All program ensures that displaced children continue to have access to learning opportunities.
Funded

Food Security
Resilient Roots: Cultivating Nutrition Gardens for Food Security in Indonesia

This project aims to reduce stunting in Rote Island by helping communities establish climate-resilient nutrition gardens.
Funded

Environment
Protecting Leatherback and Hawksbill Sea Turtles in Panama

In partnership with indigenous community members, this project will work to reduce the illegal hunting of leatherback and hawksbill sea turtles in Bocas del Toro, Panama.
Funded

Poverty
Eat, Play, Hugs: Nurturing Happiness Among Children Facing Food Crises in Kenya

This project supports young children’s learning and wellbeing by enabling parents and caregivers to practice positive nurturing care during the ongoing food crisis in Kenya. This will be done by providing evidence-based educational content and multimedia messaging and activities.
Funded

Environment
Protecting Endangered Primates Through Ecotourism in Panama

This project will create an ecotourism model that helps local communities protect the area’s biodiversity while improving their lifestyles.
Funded

Water & Sanitation
Improved Access to Clean Water for Marginalized Groups in Cambodia

This project will increase access to equitable WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene) services among women, girls, and people living with disabilities in Kampong Chhnang province, Cambodia.
Completed

Water & Sanitation
Water & sanitation provision, Liquica villages

Improve the health and quality of life of women, men and children through provision of sustainable community-managed water and sanitation services and support change through hygiene education.
Completed

Education
Indigenous Education program, Katherine

Improve health outcomes by facilitating learning and literacy opportunities through music. The project will provide musical instruments/equipment for an after-hours music program for remote Indigenous youth.
Completed

Education
School equipment, Xom Van Village Primary

To purchase chairs, desks and books as well as technology equipment for the recently renovated village primary school in the Mai Chau district.
Completed

Energy
Solar lighting for Khati village, Kumaon Himalaya

Provide affordable, safe, healthy, efficient and environmentally responsible solar/LED home lighting systems to the 58 homes in Khati who are without access to electricity.
Completed

Education
Teacher Training Program (Phase 3), Himalaya

Training, refresher course, and supervising (throughout the year) of a group of approximately 300 teachers: to greatly improve teaching and learning levels and skills, improve retention rates, and lengthen the education of nearly 4,000 kids in about 70 schools.
Completed

Water & Sanitation
School Sanitation Project, Biratnagar

Provide appropriate sanitation facilities for 1,339 students at Janapatha Secondary School and support hygiene education activities.
Completed

Water & Sanitation
Capture Fog Nets for drinking water, Tiactac village

Building capture fog nets to generate a new clean drinking water supply for 300 people, Tiactac village, Western Highlands, Guatemala.
Completed

Water & Sanitation
Provide potable water & hygiene education, Khati School

Improve the health status of school children in Khati, through the provision and use of safe drinking and hand washing water, and hygiene education.
Completed

Health
Orphan health checks, Pokhara

Eye and dental check-ups for 30 orphans at The Destitute Children’s Home (Pokhara, Nepal) plus purchase of a first-aid kit.
Completed

Health
Medicines for child stonebreakers, Siliguri

Revisiting the two communities of stone-breakers from 2006 in Siliguri, the project will deliver basic first aid for one week and then purchase the communities a 12 month supply of basic medicines.
Completed

Education
Educational Supplies for Kumaon village schools, Himalaya

To provide stationary and educational resources to approx.105 Class 1-5 children and teachers in the Kumaon Himalayan villages of Khati and Jatoli.
Completed

Health
Blindness prevention program

Setting up an eye care unit to train local doctors, providing examination and surgical equipment and subsidising 100 cataract surgeries in Tien Phuoc mountainous district.
Completed

Education
School Aid to Wat Thmei Orphange, Cambodia

Provide desks, chairs and educational materials to approximately 50 HIV affected orphans in the Wat Thmei Orphange, Siem Reap.
Completed

Education
Provide two sign language interpreters for deaf students

Provide two sign language interpreters to work full time at the Gospel School High School in Suva, to allow students to complete schooling.
Completed

Education
Teacher Training Program, Himalaya

Training of a group of 160-180 teachers to greatly improve teaching and learning skills, boost retention rates, and expand the education of nearly 4,000 kids in 65 schools across the Solukhumbu Himalaya region, Nepal.
Completed

Poverty
Orphan Care, KwaZulu-Natal province

Feeding orphans and other vulnerable people, and providing them with everyday care and sustainable food security.
Completed

Education
Repair the Kiwanje Ndege Primary School, Kenya

Build desks, refurbish classrooms and install water tanks and guttering at Kiwanje Ndege Primary School in Kenya.
Completed

Water & Sanitation
Provide Water to Qelqanqa Village, Peru

Provide clean drinking water to the remote Qelqanqa Village in Peru
Completed

Health
Medicines for Orphanages, Ukraine

Delivering basic medicines to two Orphanages in Chernivtsi, Ukraine.
Completed

Education
Educational supplies for Infant School, The Gambia

Provide box of educational books & stationery for 2-8 year olds in remote Primary School, Brikama Region, The Gambia
Completed

Health
Blindness prevention program, Cambodia

Restore sight to 100 people who are needlessly blind in Cambodia, most of whom suffer from cataracts which can be easily cured.
Completed

Poverty
Orphan Care, Zimbabwe

Provide educational support and care to 30 Orphans affected by HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe
Completed

Education
Key Teacher Training Program, Himalaya

Training of 20 key teachers a year to become teacher trainers/mentors to greatly improve teaching, learning levels and retention rates in primary schools, Solukhumbu Region, Nepal.
Completed

Water & Sanitation
Provide water & sanitation for a school, PNG

Improve the health status of children in a community school in the Daulu District PNG, through the provision and use of safe drinking and hand washing water, sanitation facilities and hygiene education.
Completed

Health
Medicines for Orphanages, Kyrgyzstan

Delivering basic medicines to three Orphanages in Kyrgyzstan.
Completed

Health
Medicine for Child Stone-breakers, India

Supplying basic, essential medicines to 3 communities of child stone-breakers in Siliguri, India.
Completed

Education
Repair a community primary school

Rehabilitate a primary school in the Wangdiphodrang District, Bhutan.