Kindred Foundation, since 2011
Schools, water and harvests, built with the people whouse them.
We fund local partners in 14 regions to rebuild classrooms, drill and repair wells, and grow food that lasts through the dry months. Every project is planned with the community and handed over to it.
92%
of every donation reaches project work
Classrooms rebuilt
Wells repaired
Seed banks started
Teachers trained
School meals served
Water committees formed
Classrooms rebuilt
Wells repaired
Seed banks started
Teachers trained
School meals served
Water committees formed
Classrooms rebuilt
Wells repaired
Seed banks started
Teachers trained
School meals served
Water committees formed
Classrooms rebuilt
Wells repaired
Seed banks started
Teachers trained
School meals served
Water committees formed
About Kindred
We believe lasting change is local. Kindred raises money and sends it to people who already know what their village needs: a teacher who wants a roof that keeps out the rain, a water committee with a broken pump, a farming group ready to try drought crops.
36 local partners
Every project is led by an organisation from the region.
Open accounts
Our full spending report is published each spring.
What we fund
Three needs. One way of working.
We stay narrow on purpose. Fewer focus areas means deeper partnerships, better local knowledge and projects that keep working after we leave.
001//
Education
Safe classrooms, trained teachers and the books to go with them. We repair and extend rural schools and pay for teacher training run by regional colleges.
Classroom repairs
Teacher training
Reading corners
School meals
31
schools rebuilt or extended
001//
Education
Safe classrooms, trained teachers and the books to go with them. We repair and extend rural schools and pay for teacher training run by regional colleges.
Classroom repairs
Teacher training
Reading corners
School meals
31
schools rebuilt or extended
001//
Education
Safe classrooms, trained teachers and the books to go with them. We repair and extend rural schools and pay for teacher training run by regional colleges.
Classroom repairs
Teacher training
Reading corners
School meals
31
schools rebuilt or extended
Projects
Where your gift is working right now.
Education
Riverbend Primary School Rebuild
Six new classrooms, a reading corner and clean latrines for a school that taught half its pupils under trees.
640 students
Education
Hillside Teachers Programme
Two-year evening training for village teachers, run by a regional college, with a stipend that keeps them in the classroom.
86 teachers
Education
Stonebridge School Meals
A daily hot lunch made from local harvests, which lifted attendance in four schools and gave nearby farmers a steady buyer.
1,150 pupils
Impact in numbers
Fifteen years of small projects, counted honestly.
Numbers below cover 2011 to 2025 and are checked against partner reports each year. They are template values for this demo site.
001// Students in safer classrooms
18,400
Across 31 rebuilt or extended schools.
002// People with clean water
96,000
Within a 15 minute walk of a working tap.
003// Seed varieties saved
140
Kept in 22 community seed banks.
004// Cost to run Kindred
8%
Staff, audits and fundraising combined.
How a project works
From a village meeting to a handover.
01
Listen first
A local partner hosts open meetings. The community names the need and the people who will look after the result.
02
Plan and budget
Partner, community and Kindred agree on a budget line by line, with local labour and materials wherever possible.
03
Build together
Work starts with monthly photo reports and a site visit from our programme team at least twice a year.
04
Hand over, check back
Ownership passes to the community committee. We return after one and three years to see what still works.
Ways to help
Give money, time or a skill.
Give monthly
A steady gift lets partners plan a full school year or a whole growing season ahead.
Volunteer
Translate reports, check budgets, help at events or join a site visit as a skilled volunteer.
Fundraise
Run, bake, cycle or host a dinner. We send a starter kit and a page to share.
Partner with us
Companies and trusts can fund a whole project and follow it from first meeting to handover.
Voices from the projects
In their words.
"
Before the new classrooms we taught three grades under one tree. Now every class has a door that closes and a board that stays dry.
Head teacher
Riverbend Primary
"
We collect a little every month for repairs. When the pump broke last season, it was fixed before anyone had to walk to the river.
Water committee treasurer
Ashwell Plains
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The seed bank means a bad year is not the end. I borrowed sorghum seed in spring and paid it back after harvest with some to spare.
Farmer and committee member
Greenfield Valley
"
I check budgets from home two evenings a week. The reports are so clear I can tell you how many bags of cement went into each classroom.
Remote volunteer
Finance checks
Quotes are template content for this demo site.
Stories
Notes from the field, the office and the finish line.
The pump that came back in two days
When the hand pump in a Millbrook village failed in the dry season, a phone call and a motorbike did what used to take months.
A week with the Greenfield seed committee
Seven women, one ledger and 46 kinds of seed. How a village decides what to plant when the rains are less certain every year.
Why we spend two months listening first
Our slowest phase is also the one that saves the most money. A look at how projects start, and why we never skip it.
