Our mission is to fight the root causes of poverty, in Africa and the Middle East, by supporting projects focusing on four core areas of work.
Health
Education
Community development
Environment
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We believe that, together, Health, Education, Community development and the Environment are essential to sustainable development. Our projects take a holistic approach and are anchored in local communities ensuring that actions are relevant and viable for the long-term.
Zambia
Education / Health
Agricultural hubs for sustainable schools
The project's multi-pronged approach aims to establish agricultural school-run businesses in order to provide rural schools with sustainable sources of income using organic agricultural practices and relevant ICT resources.
Kenya
Education / Environment
Improving the quality of education
The project aims to increase school attendance and the quality of education provided in seven rural schools in the Northern Rangelands Trust community conservancies.
Benin
Health / Environment
Organic school gardens
The project aims to provide 15 schools throughout the country with organic school gardens, also growing medicinal plants, to improve students’ nutrition and to combat malaria and other infectious tropical diseases.
Uganda
Health / Education
Self-sufficiency for rural farming households
The three-year project aims to sustainably improve the nutrition, health and incomes of 540 returnee households from the poorest rural farming communities in the Maracha District of West Nile sub-region in northern Uganda.
Kenya
Education
Secondary school education for underprivileged children
The project aims to provide 50 underprivileged Kenyan children with access to secondary school education.
actualités
The Foundation’s 2018 Annual Report is now available
11 June 2019
Click on the following link to download the PDF. Download pdfThree new projects validated in March and June 2018
28 August 2018
The Addax and Oryx Foundation granted funding for three new projects at its March and June Board meetings.A project completed in Kenya
10 July 2018
The project led by the Hilde Back Education Fund, in Kenya, supported 40 bright and vulnerable students in successfully completing their four years of secondary school education.The Foundation’s 2017 Annual Report is now available
24 April 2018
Click on the following link to download the PDF.Three new projects validated in September and December 2017
29 January 2018
The Addax and Oryx Foundation granted funding for three new projects at its September and December Board meetings.Projects completed in Kenya and Nigeria
25 August 2017
Two organisations presented in the second quarter of 2017 the final reports of their projects funded by the Addax and Oryx Foundation.In numbers
We have been supporting projects run by non-profit organisations since 1996, with the aim of helping poor communities in Africa and the Middle East to sustainably rise out of poverty.
18
Countries supported in 201910
Ongoing projects in 201913
New projects in 20199
Ended projects in 2019Do you have a project ?
The Foundation accepts proposals at all times of the year. Selected projects are submitted to the Foundation’s Board, which meets 4 times per year. We thank you for your interest in the Foundation and invite you to submit your request.
- Are you a not-for-profit, non-governmental organization?
- Do you contribute to eradicating the root causes of poverty in Africa and/or the Middle East?
- Does your project focus on two or more of the Foundation’s four areas of work?
- Does your project aim to have a lasting and measurable impact for the most disadvantaged populations?
- Will your project ensure sustainable development through capacity building and improved livelihoods?
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