The SAFE Foundation is committed to assisting indigenously run projects in the developing world that work towards poverty reduction, the improvement of health, and access to education in small communities.

We feel that a people centred approach to development is vital for the empowerment of local people, and the implementation of truly appropriate and sustainable programmes.

We assist projects that come to us for help because their ability to access mainstream aid is limited by such factors as their size, their remote or isolated location, or their status in political, social or cultural arenas.

Many organisations that make proposals to the SAFE Foundation are very small and consequently operate in a very specific context, which is shaped over many generations by social, cultural, economic and political dynamics.

We feel it is vital to the growth of these programmes that they are run by those who understand deeply and have an absolute empathy of life in the community.

In other words, the input and autonomy of local people is paramount and so we assist by funding programmes with strong strategies in place, by way of grant making, resource donations or the supply of educational materials.

Project Aims: To stabilise health, improve access to education and diversify livelihood skills.                                                                       
Beneficiary Group: Children with learning difficulties and disadvantaged rural families.
Location: Rural district in Tororo, North East Uganda.

Visit our Uganda Project page to find out more

Project Aims: To provide teacher training, and to assist in the provision of curriculum based education to children unable to access government schools.
Beneficiary Group: Children from disadvantaged farming and slum communities, and unemployed young adults.
Location: Rural areas in Siem Reap Province, North West Cambodia.

Visit our Cambodia Project page to find out more

Project Aims: To improve access to basic human rights and services to ostricised people, and to address displacement issues within the community.
Beneficiary Group: Children and families of the Adavasi Tribe.
Location: Rural villages in Mudumalai scrub jungle, South East India

Visit our Masinagudi, India Project page to find out more

Project Aims: Improvement of educational facilities, the extension of health and palliative outreach, and the establishment of a ‘Centre of Hope’ to respond to the needs of the beneficiaries.
Beneficiary Group: Marginalised children and vulnerable families affected by HIV and Aids.
Location: City of Kumasi, South Central Ghana.

Visit our Ghana Project page to find out more

Project Aims: To raise awareness about important current issues for people who would not normally identify with civil society. These include poverty, immigration and social responsibility.
Beneficiary Group: Young adults with little or no access to information on global issues.
Location: Nationwide.

Visit our U.K. Project page to find out more
or Visit our Have Your Say page to take part in our research

Project Aims: To support a livelihood skills project, including training disempowered women in mulberry farming and bricklaying.      
Beneficiary Group: Women and children from the Dalit community.
Location: Maguiyar, South East India.

Visit our Maguiyar, India Project page to find out more

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