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.
Sierra Leone
Education / Health
Nurturing Opportunities for Women
The project will train 1,000 women from the Kono District, in basic financial literacy, household financial management, effective savings techniques, and business skills, including conducting market surveys and calculating profit.
Lebanon
Education
Bringing coding to schools
The project will provide support to two schools, in Lebanon, to level up their tech education offering through training and coaching for school teachers on delivering coding, robotics, and AI classes for 240 disadvantaged children aged 11-14.
Uganda
Health / Community Development
Freedom of mobility for amputees
The project will provide comprehensive prosthetic care to 50 low-income amputees in Uganda, facilitating their mobility, employment opportunities, and psychological well-being. The amputees will receive a Circleg prosthetic. The Circleg prosthetic system is one of a kind, it is designed specifically for the needs of amputees and prosthetists in low and middle income countries.
Senegal
Community Development / Environment
Sustainable development of two rural communities
The project aims to sustainably improve the health, nutrition and livelihoods of two rural communities, in Lohene and Keur Mandongo, using environmentally appropriate technology. CREATE! will use culturally and environmentally adapted methods and further expand its proven model of integrated community development.
News
Advela’s Story
3 September 2024
The Foundation is supporting Save the Rain for the construction of 80 residential rainwater harvesting systems for families most in need in Nsengoni, Tanzania where the groundwater is undrinkable due to excessively high levels of fluoride. This is Advela’s story, recently widowed and a new mother with 5 children needs 80 liters of water a day and has no means of generating income.A third year comes to an end for female scholars
7 August 2024
The project aiming to provide adolescent high school girls in rural Senegal with access to education and leadership skills to become change agents in their community successfully closed out its third year. Click on the photo to read more.Three projects recently completed
15 July 2024
Three projects in Niger, Senegal, and Tanzania have successfully come to an end. Click on the photo to read more!Five new projects approved in June 2024
2 July 2024
The Addax and Oryx Foundation approved funding for five new projects at its June 2025 Board meeting. Click on the photo to read more.A promissing beginning
13 June 2024
This innovative project, led by Wild Survivors, aims to establish a women-led beekeeping and honey production enterprise to mitigate human-elephant conflict. Specific activities include extending an existing beehive fence, establishing a women's beekeeping enterprise and a permaculture garden. Six months into the project good progress has been made.A successful year for the Bike4SchoolGardens project!
12 June 2024
The project led by Cycling out of Poverty Uganda is aiming to equip 200 students (of whom 50% are girls) with a bicycle and a solar light. The project also aims to establish 5 ‘agroforestry’ school gardens, educate and train 1,500 school children in agroforestry, environment, climate change adaptations, protection of local biodiversity and nutrition.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.
15
Countries supported in 202413
Ongoing projects in 202412
New projects in 20248
Ended project in 2024Do 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 3 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?