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The Egmont Trust Egmont supports a portfolio of over 50 grassroots, locally inspired, initiatives that work to impro
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In Tanzania, 48% of 12 - 16-year-old girls are not in school.Nearly 30% are married before the age of 18.1 in 10 give bi...
13/02/2026

In Tanzania, 48% of 12 - 16-year-old girls are not in school.
Nearly 30% are married before the age of 18.
1 in 10 give birth before 19.

Poverty hits girls the hardest.
It takes away choices - and childhoods.

Egmont Partner Orgz's garment-making training is giving girls and young women in Mwanza, Tanzania, the chance to shape their own futures.

For girls like Christina, learning to sew doesn't just open a door for income.
It means protection, agency and the power to make independent life choices - no longer driven by poverty.

"My dream is to use what I have learnt to support my family and empower other girls like me."

Read Christina's story in our latest issue of Grassroots: https://mailchi.mp/456c04c35f7d/egmonts-grassroots-stories-from-the-field-17317418

Photo credit: Hakizetu Organisation

What would you do with 30 chickens?Limata and her women’s group in Zambia turned them into a business opportunity.They g...
15/01/2026

What would you do with 30 chickens?

Limata and her women’s group in Zambia turned them into a business opportunity.

They grew their flock and established two further income streams.

Today, they can provide their families with three meals a day and everything their children need for school.

It started with a small brood of hens, alongside training in poultry farming and business skills, delivered by Egmont Partner Keepers Zambia Foundation.

Small investments can lead to lasting change.

Hear more from Limata here: https://www.egmonttrust.org/article/limatas-story/

One year.Six Countries.Forty-four grassroots Partners.In 2025, Egmont supported 44 grassroots organisations across sub-S...
26/12/2025

One year.
Six Countries.
Forty-four grassroots Partners.

In 2025, Egmont supported 44 grassroots organisations across sub-Saharan Africa in their work to deliver lasting change for more than 80,000 children, women and families affected by HIV and poverty.

Read the full update in our latest newsletter here: https://mailchi.mp/d704af8e12ad/egmont-year-in-review-17316848?e=d82568a22e

Insight: In the early 2000s, much of the population of sub-Saharan Africa remained outside the formal banking system. To...
19/12/2025

Insight: In the early 2000s, much of the population of sub-Saharan Africa remained outside the formal banking system. Today, the region stands at the forefront of digital financial innovation.

A pivotal driver has been the advent of mobile money. What began as an informal workaround, transferring ‘value' by sending airtime credit from phone to phone, was further developed by Safaricom, Kenya's leading telecoms provider, and Vodafone into a scalable financial model. Individuals could now store money in an e-wallet linked to their phone number, without need for a bricks and mortar bank account (which less than 6% of Kenyans had access to at the time), or even a smartphone.

The result has been transformational. Mobile money is now a sophisticated and mainstream global financial service, driving entrepreneurship, trade and financial stability for millions of people across Africa and beyond. It has opened access to financial systems for those historically excluded by distance, lack of documentation and low income.

Read more here: https://www.egmonttrust.org/article/mobile-money/

Opinion: Could 2025 come to be seen as the year the global aid market reached a natural correction point?While the reorg...
11/12/2025

Opinion: Could 2025 come to be seen as the year the global aid market reached a natural correction point?

While the reorganisation of USAID, alongside reductions in the UK’s and other European nations’ commitments, is having very real impacts on communities already under pressure, it could also provide an opportunity for greater localisation and direct funding, putting local actors back in the driving seat of development.

Read more here: egmonttrust.org/article/rethinking-global-aid/

Under-5 mortality rates in Zimbabwe have fallen by more than 50% since 2008.More children are now reaching their fifth b...
27/11/2025

Under-5 mortality rates in Zimbabwe have fallen by more than 50% since 2008.

More children are now reaching their fifth birthday than ever before — a milestone of progress for child health.

Yet for families in remote communities, distance and limited health infrastructure remain major barriers to care.

Egmont Partner Wild4Life is helping to change this narrative.

By strengthening existing health systems and supporting local health workers, they’re improving the quality and accessibility of care in Binga and Lupane, two of Zimbabwe’s most rural districts.

• 96% of eligible infants complete their primary course of vaccinations.

• 82% of babies born in Binga and Lupane are now delivered by a skilled healthcare worker at an institution.

• 91% of sick under-fives are correctly diagnosed and managed at a health facility.

Pangaea Zimbabwe

A child born to a mother who can read is 50% more likely to survive past the age of five.Educating a girl doesn’t just t...
20/11/2025

A child born to a mother who can read is 50% more likely to survive past the age of five.

Educating a girl doesn’t just transform her future - it strengthens families, communities and whole economies.

But for many girls in Tanzania, attending school gets harder as they reach puberty.

Longstanding cultural beliefs mean that menstruation is often viewed with shame, and sanitary products are unaffordable for many girls. As a result, they miss lessons every month.

Egmont Partner Kwa Wazee Tanzania is helping to change this. They're training teachers in Muleba on menstrual hygiene and providing sanitary products to schools, ensuring 800 girls can keep learning with confidence.

“We now see sanitary pads the same way we see school uniforms - they’re essential,” says teacher Mr Peter.

Hear more from Mr Peter about the difference that Kwa Wazee’s project has made in his school in our latest edition of Grassroots: https://mailchi.mp/efaec01c14f7/egmonts-grassroots-stories-from-the-field-17315453?e=d82568a22e

According to UNICEF, children who participate in pre-primary education are more likely to develop the skills they need t...
19/08/2025

According to UNICEF, children who participate in pre-primary education are more likely to develop the skills they need to thrive in school and build the foundations for an independent future.

Eight year old Mwayi in Malawi is living proof.

Mwayi’s parents are subsistence farmers and were unable to finish school but Mwayi is excelling in her studies.

Her success is the result of four years’ quality early childhood development (ECD) provided by her community, with the support of Egmont Partner Future4All Malawi.

Their impact is clear: local schools unanimously report that children from Future4All-supported ECD centres are among their top performers.

Mwayi is one of them.

Find out more in our 2024 Annual Review, here: https://www.egmonttrust.org/publications

31/07/2025

20 years.
130 local Partners.
460 homegrown projects.
1 million people reached.

This year, Egmont turns 20.

Since our first grants in November 2005, we have been investing in homegrown solutions to local challenges led by Egmont Partners - our inspiring community leaders.

Across six countries in east and southern Africa, their responses have changed the lives of more than one million children, women and men.

We’re just getting started. Join us and help Egmont Partners to reach the next million https://www.egmonttrust.org

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