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Can remote villages have the same opportunities as urban centres? Can rural residents have access to careers, clean water, healthcare, education, productive agriculture and communication-without leaving their villages? Smart Villages believes that people in remote villages deserve the same opportunities as everyone else. Remote villages are often "off the grid" and do not have a reliable supply of energy for lighting homes, cooking, charging mobile phones, or powering businesses. The energy sources they do have, such as kerosene lamps, are often harmful to their health. The national grid may never reach many of these remote villages, but other solutions exist. We believe that energy access in off-grid communities is one of the services that can change lives-but only if it is implemented for the long-term and includes community involvement and training. And for development to happen sustainably, energy and other technologies must be harnessed for productive use, and for the innovative provision of community-level services (for example health and education), so that community residents are able to access all the basic services they need, despite their physical remoteness. Every village can be a "smart village." Smart Villages has provided policy makers, donors and development agencies concerned with rural energy access with new insights on the real barriers to energy access and innovation-driven rural development in villages in developing countries - technological, financial and political - and how they can be overcome. We are focusing more on remote off-grid villages, where local solutions (home- or institution-based systems, and mini-grids) are both more realistic and cheaper than national grid extension. But our approach is equally valid in other situations. Our concern is to ensure that energy access goes hand in hand with smarter, more integrated thinking about rural communities, and results in development and the creation of 'smart villages' in which many of the benefits of life in modern societies are available. In our ongoing work, we aim to demonstrate how Smart Villages and integrated rural development initiatives can be created in a sustainable and community-driven manner, and to evidence how this new holistic rural development paradigm can yield superior, lasting development impacts. We are also committed to investigating innovative technologies that can help deliver some of these integrated development objectives - for example innovative agricultural technology, cold storage, ICT access, remote education and telemedicine. We aim to win grant funding, and raise charitable funding, to implement projects to help catalyse sustainable community-led and focussed rural development worldwide, but particularly in Africa, where we already have a number of active projects.

To promote Public Health through physical activity, physical education, healthy diets as well as Provide cutting edge physical health and fitness services by encouraging positive behavioral change to improve the lives and wellbeing of the Kenyan public from a tender age.

We support healing-centered peacebuilding by addressing trauma and its effect on people and their environment. Our approach is based on social healing and trauma-informed solutions for countering violence. We assist communities in chronic violence and specialize in the most fragile areas. Our strength lies in the people we serve who ultimately are charged with the difficult task of healing and transformation We are innovating the integration of peacebuilding and governance programming with mental health from an African world-view, in new and creative ways. We believe what we have learned has implications globally.

Our mission is to work in partnership with communities, to deliver programmes that enrich their lives and help create better futures for them and their families.

Create sustainable livelihoods and empower nomadic communities to speak up and uplift their social-economic status.

Inspiring the dream of Kenyan youth through all positive change.

Our Mission: Educate, Inspire, Empower We connect educators and students worldwide to increase equal access to inspiring learning experiences. We strive to inspire our students to become entrepreneurs and leaders within their local communities. We seek to empower people to be change makers and to join a global network to share knowledge, skills and a passion for education.

ORGANIZATION Strengthening the governance of an organization that is adaptive, innovative, and globally accessible. RESOURCES Enhancing inclusive collaboration among stakeholders in humanitarian crisis response and community development. IMPACT Developing programs by harnessing community resources to promote self-reliance.

To provide quality service delivery and emergency response to the most vulnerable communities for human welfare

The Centre's vision is to strengthen the potential of vulnerable girls and women through evidence-based advocacy, social-economic support, and protection.

This project will save millions of life in Burundi in general we can exploit people in their professions for exploitation of their artistic works Burundi is the first poor country in the world ranking, almost 80% live in very difficult conditions You can save life if you support our projects through our community of national artistic unity organization

To advance advocacy on policies and guidelines that enrich and inspire society through dissemination of information and championing reproductive health and rights for young people at all levels.