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.
Tunisia
Education
Improved access to quality books
The three-year project aims to provide an improved access to quality books in the French language for school students from the most vulnerable governorates in Tunisia.
Kenya
Community Development / Education
Sustainable community development
This new project builds on the incredible transformation of two communities supported in 2015. The project aims to implement, in two new communities of the Kisauni district, the Haller Approach, a four-stage holistic model that enables vulnerable communities to restore their soils, build capacity, achieve economic security and improve the environment.
Lebanon
Education
An education and empowerment center
The project aims to provide non-formal education to Syrian refugee children in Arsal.
Senegal
Health / Education
Sustainable development of two rural communities
The project aims to sustainably improve the health, nutrition and livelihoods of two rural communities using eclimate smart technology. CREATE! will use culturally and environmentally adapted methods and further expand its proven model of integrated community development.
Kenya
Education / Health
Innovative capacity building for frontline healthcare workers
The project led with The Addis Clinic aims to use telemedicine in rural Kenya in order to offer a practical solution to the critical shortage of skilled health workers and bring quality medical care to those with little or no healthcare access.
Democratic Republic of Congo
Education / Health
An organic school farm
The project aims to provide the Amida school with an organic school farm and gardens, which will also grow medicinal plants, improving students and teachers’ nutrition, attendance, academic results and prevent malaria.
News
Two new projects approved in June 2020
17 June 2020
The Addax and Oryx Foundation granted funding for two new projects at its June Board meeting.Empowering vulnerable genocide widows
28 May 2020
SURF submitted in May its report on the first year of its 18-month project in the Karongi District, western Rwanda.Three new projects approved in March 2020
21 April 2020
The Addax and Oryx Foundation granted funding for three new projects at its March Board meeting.A project completed in Mali
1 April 2020
The project assited 120 women in developing small business cooperatives, enabling them to earn additional income to pay for basic services for themselves and their children.The Foundation's 2019 Annual Report is now available
31 March 2020
We are pleased to share our 2019 Annual Report with you.A project completed in Cameroon
2 March 2020
The project enabled Community Action for Development to assist 477 farmers to improve their food production, nutrition and revenues.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 202019
Ongoing projects in 20206
New projects in 20203
Ended projects in 2020Do 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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