East Africa
Rural communities facing drought, displacement and rising food prices
- Water security and repair
- School access and feeding
- Savings and livestock
Where we serve
Six regions, and one way of working in all of them
We do not open field offices. In every region the work is led by churches and community organisations that were there before us and will be there afterwards.
Regional groupings are illustrative placeholders
We have deliberately not named specific countries, partner numbers or programme scale, because inventing an operational footprint would be a false organisational claim.
The regions below describe plausible groupings and the kinds of challenge our model addresses. Replace the country lists, partner counts and programme notes in src/data/regions.ts with the organisation’s actual presence.
Our regions
Where our partners work
Select a region to see the priorities, the context shaping the work, and the ministries most active there.
West Africa
Growing young populations, and too few routes into work
- Vocational and trade training
- Small enterprise support
- Maternal and child health
Southern Africa
Households carrying the weight of care for others
- Family and caregiver support
- School access
- Household food security
South Asia
Where exclusion, not scarcity, is the deepest problem
- Education for excluded children
- Safe water and sanitation
- Livelihoods and savings
Southeast Asia
Remote communities, and the seasons that decide everything
- Disaster preparedness
- Agriculture and food storage
- Clean water
Latin America & Caribbean
Urban margins and highland villages
- Youth work and mentoring
- Family support
- Livelihoods and training
How we choose where to work
We are asked this often, and the honest answer is that we mostly do not choose. We respond to invitations.
A new relationship almost always begins with a church or community organisation approaching us — frequently through an existing partner who has vouched for them. That is a much better filter than any geographic strategy we could construct from a distance, because it means there is already a local body with the standing and the intention to lead the work.
What we look for
- A local partner with genuine standing in the community, and the will to lead.
- Real need, and a community willing to contribute to addressing it.
- An absence of duplication — if another agency is better placed, we say so.
- Conditions in which we can work safely and account properly for funds.
- The prospect of a relationship measured in years rather than a funding cycle.
Why we do not list every country
In several contexts where our partners serve, publicly naming a community or a Christian leader would put people at real risk. Where that is the case we describe the work regionally and without identifying detail.
This is also why some of our most significant reconciliation work appears here only in general terms. Confidentiality is not evasiveness; it is a condition of the work being possible at all.
Where we have left
We have ended partnerships and withdrawn from communities — because safeguarding or governance standards were not met, because another organisation was better placed, or because the work had genuinely finished and staying would have created dependency.
The last of those is the one we are trying to make more common.
“After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language.”
Pray for a region
Our prayer wall carries specific requests from partner communities in each of these regions.