What We Do

Four ways we walk with families

Each program answers a different part of the same problem: a household in hardship needs food today, a plan for tomorrow, and a child who stays in school through both.

Program 01

Empowerment & Mentorship

Guiding young people and families with skills, counsel, and opportunity. We match mentors with young people navigating school, work, and the first hard choices of adulthood, and we award small grants that let families start or grow a business of their own.

  • One-on-one mentorship matched to a young person's goals
  • Small business grants: food, grocery, and trade start-up support
  • Household coaching on budgeting and planning
A grant recipient holds her food business grant cheque at a Fisho Initiative empowerment ceremony.

A food business grant is presented to one of this year's recipients.Empowerment & Mentorship

A volunteer stands among a truckload of food packages ready for distribution.

A single delivery: food packages staged for a rural distribution run.Feeding Outreach

Program 02

Feeding Families

Putting food on the tables of households facing hunger. Regular food support keeps a family stable enough to focus on the next step, whether that's school, work, or healing, instead of the next meal.

  • Recurring household food packages
  • Community feeding days during peak hardship seasons
  • Nutrition support for children and nursing mothers
Program 03

Back to School

Paying fees, buying uniforms and books, returning children of the poor to the classroom. A missed term becomes a missed year becomes a missed future. This program exists to close that gap fast.

  • School fees paid directly to institutions
  • Uniforms, books, and supplies provided each term
  • Check-ins to keep children enrolled, not just re-enrolled
Photo forthcoming · Back to School
Photo forthcoming · The Girl Child
Program 04

The Girl Child

Championing girls' education so no girl is left behind. Girls face the steepest odds against staying in school. This program puts sustained, specific attention behind keeping them there.

  • Priority school-fee support for girls at risk of dropping out
  • Mentorship circles led by women in the community
  • Menstrual health support so school days aren't missed
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Every program runs on the same fuel: people who give.

Your gift funds a specific meal, a specific fee, a specific mentor hour.