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A charity that began as one dinner service and now funds school, water, health, and food programs. We publish what every program costs, who runs it, and what it changed.

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Volunteers sharing out rice into foil trays at an outdoor meal
Dinner every Tuesday since 2009One meal became four programs
Riverside district · Tuesday dinner, served outdoors in summer · Photo: sample credit

Our story

It began with one kitchen

In 2009, a handful of neighbors opened a dinner service in a borrowed church hall. Forty people came the first night. By spring, the children waiting with their parents had a homework table of their own.

Every program since has started the same way: a local partner asks, we fund a small pilot, and we publish what it cost and what it changed. Programs that work grow. The ones that don't, we close, and we say why.

Today we run school, water, health, and food programs with partners in four regions. We still serve dinner on Tuesdays.

Our mission
Fund the practical help a community asks for, and show every donor what their gift paid for.
Our vision
Neighborhoods where no child starts term without supplies and no family walks an hour for clean water.

What we hold to

Our values

Four rules that decide what we fund and what we turn down.

  1. Ask first

    A program starts when a community asks for it, never from a plan drawn up in our office.

    In practice: Every program page names its local partner.

  2. Show the receipt

    Each gift becomes a line you can read: what was bought, where, and for whom.

    In practice: Audited accounts go online within a month of the audit. Our impact

  3. Stay close

    We only work where our staff or a partner can visit in a day.

    In practice: Every program is visited at least twice a year.

  4. Finish what we start

    We fund a program for at least three years, so it can stand on its own.

    In practice: If we close one, we tell its donors why before we stop.

Since 2009

Milestones

From one borrowed hall to programs in four regions.

  1. 2009

    First dinner

    A borrowed church hall, forty guests, and six volunteers.

  2. 2012

    Homework club

    Two evenings a week for the children who came to dinner.

  3. 2015

    First well

    Drilled with a village water committee that still runs it.

  4. 2018

    Mobile clinic

    One van, one nurse, and doctors who volunteer on weekends.

  5. 2022

    Open books

    Accounts, partners, and the cost of every program, online.

  6. 2026

    Today

    Four regions, 300 volunteers, and dinner every Tuesday.

Last year

Our work in 2025

Read the 2025 annual report
children started the school year with a full kit
18,400
Backpack, notebooks, pencils, and shoes, handed out in the first week.
patient visits at the mobile clinic
9,200
In villages more than two hours from the nearest hospital.
wells drilled, tested, and handed to village committees
6
Each one serves about 380 people and has a local repair team.
hot meals served at the community kitchen
41,000
Five evenings a week, all year, with no questions asked.

Source: 2025 annual report, independently audited.

Our team

The people behind the work

A small paid staff, a volunteer board, and ambassadors who give their weekends.

Meet the whole team
  • Daniel M., executive director

    Daniel M.

    Executive director

    Since 2014 · EN · FR

  • Ravi S., program director

    Ravi S.

    Program director

    Since 2017 · EN · HI

  • André P., chair of the board

    André P.

    Chair of the board

    Since 2016 · EN · FR

  • Sam K., mobile clinic ambassador

    Sam K.

    Mobile clinic ambassador

    Since 2023 · EN

Partners

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Your gift goes to the program with the biggest gap this month. Every one is in next year's report.

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