We believe that
every child in this world
has the right
to survive and thrive.

What We Do
The core focus of the foundation is the support of women and child welfare, education and health in the world’s poorest regions with grants that ideally last over several years to increase the impact of the funding and make it more sustainable.
The Light Foundation aims to support models for system change within less privileged communities and countries.
Where We Help
Welfare
Education
Health
Emergency Relief
Education
COUNTRYPARTNER
Burkina Faso
Development Media International
Cambodia
Care for Children
Kenya
Mary's Meals
Madagascar
Mary's Meals
Mozambique
Development Media International
Pakistan
Right to Play
Roshan Rastay - Pathways for a Brighter Future through Play and Sport
South Sudan
Mary's Meals
Zambia
Mary's Meals
Zimbabwe
Frankfurt Zoological Society
Emergency Relief
COUNTRYPARTNER
Afghanistan
UNICEF
South Sudan
UNICEF
Health
COUNTRYPARTNER
Afghanistan
UNICEF
The Light Foundation grant is focused on supporting Unicef’s efforts to improve the nutrition and health of women and children in Afghanistan
Burkina Faso
Development Media International
Cambodia
APOPO
Care for Children
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Against Malaria Foundation
Kenya
Mary's Meals
Mary's Meals
Save the Children
Village Enterprise
Liberia
Last Mile Health
Madagascar
Blue Ventures
Improving Health & Wellbeing of Children & Families in coastal Madagascar
CARE
Mary's Meals
Mary's Meals
Mozambique
Development Media International
Pakistan
Right to Play
Somalia
Save the Children
South Sudan
Mary's Meals
Mary's Meals
UNICEF
The Light Foundation grant is focused on supporting Unicef’s efforts to improve the nutrition and health of women and children in Afghanistan
Tanzania
APOPO
Worldwide
The Life You Can Save
Zambia
Mary's Meals
Mary's Meals
Zimbabwe
Frankfurt Zoological Society
Welfare
COUNTRYPARTNER
Afghanistan
UNICEF
Cambodia
APOPO
Care for Children
Developing a national family placement system in Cambodia in order to improve children’s life quality through family-based care as a positive alternative to institutional care
India
Railway Children
Yunus Social Business
Kenya
Mary's Meals
Save the Children
Village Enterprise
Madagascar
Blue Ventures
CARE
Mary's Meals
Somalia
Save the Children
South Sudan
Mary's Meals
UNICEF
Tanzania
APOPO
Uganda
Yunus Social Business
Worldwide
The Life You Can Save
Zambia
Mary's Meals
Zimbabwe
Frankfurt Zoological Society
Blue Ventures
Improving Health & Wellbeing of Children & Families in coastal Madagascar

In 2022, Blue Ventures (BV) served approximately 128,000 individuals across five priority conservation regions along Madagascar’s west coast.

Right to Play
Roshan Rastay - Pathways for a Brighter Future through Play and Sport

Right To Play works with teachers and community coaches to facilitate dialogue, education, and collaboration between children. The program uses structured play and sport activities to promote and environment where children can learn to respect one another.

Care for Children
Developing a national family placement system in Cambodia in order to improve children’s life quality through family-based care as a positive alternative to institutional care

Through a grant from The Light Foundation, Care for Children is seeking to improve the life quality of Children in Cambodia through family-based care as a positive alternative to institutional care as well as developing a foster care program in Cambodia’s child welfare system.

APOPO
APOPO

The Light Foundation grant supports APOPO’s efforts to train and use rats to detect landmines in rural areas in Cambodia and to offer a quicker and more cost-effective tuberculosis diagnostic in Tanzania.

UNICEF
The Light Foundation grant is focused on supporting Unicef’s efforts to improve the nutrition and health of women and children in Afghanistan

Strengthening systems’ synergies for improved nutrition and health of women and children in Afghanistan.

Mary's Meals
Mary's Meals

The Light Foundation supports Mary’s Meals to offer daily meals in early childhood education centres and primary schools in places where hunger and poverty often stand in the way of children learning. Mary’s Meals works directly with communities in areas of extreme poverty to deliver effective and sustainable school feeding programmes that reduce children’s hunger at school and give them energy to learn, play, and participate in classroom activities.

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