The Amani-Kiladeda Farm Project, a 2025 Purpose Earth grant recipient, offers a holistic approach to transforming the lives of former street-connected children through sustainable agriculture, education, and community engagement. By providing shelter, food and practical agricultural skills, these children are empowered to lead healthier and hopeful lives, while cultivating both self-sufficiency and long-term environmental sustainability.

The support of the Purpose Earth grant has successfully revived the Amani Kiladeda Farm using sustainable and impactful farming practices. The farm now provides a steady supply of food, ensuring the children have consistent nutritious meals, including milk from their own cows, and a variety of vegetables such as green gram, spinach, beans, tomatoes, and cabbages. The grant also supports on-farm training for the street children twice a week, keeping the children engaged and helping them feel at home and part of the community. The Amani-Kiladeda Farm Project was also able to reallocate their savings to strengthen their street outreach and rescue efforts for further impact.

The Ntchesa Classroom Block Project is leading the construction of an additional classroom block near the Ntchesa Primary school to greatly reduce the 10 kilometer walking distance required in scorching heat and torrential downpours (often without shoes) to access educational services. This local classroom facility will alleviate the high number of school absences that have led to high unemployment rates and poverty in Malawi. The project mission is to reduce school dropout rates from 20% to 0% in the Kadyalunda village.

Through the support of a Purpose Earth grant, members of the Kadyalunda village have been able to purchase the materials and complete the build from foundations to roofing point. They are now able to start welcoming students in the new classroom.

The Chigubhu Lantern Initiative is a social impact program by Zambezi Ark Technologies that addresses two pressing challenges: limited access to reliable lighting and the growing crisis of plastic and electronic waste. This innovative project equips young people and women with training to build Chigubhu Lanterns, a solar-powered, circular lighting solution made from up-cycled LED components and housed in repurposed plastic bottles, tins, and cans. “Chigubhu” means “plastic bottle” in Shona, a Zimbabwean language, a nod to the lantern's recycled origin.

Through the support of the Purpose Earth grant, the project is able to collect the essential components for the Chigubhu Lantern toolkits and the creation of comprehensive developer guides for 500 students in 5 schools. These manuals will provide students with step-by-step instructions on lantern construction, waste management, circular economy principles, and renewable energy concepts. The grant will also support the purchase of necessary tools for lantern assembly and maintenance, which will be retained by schools for ongoing use.

The Amani-Kiladeda Farm Project, a 2025 Purpose Earth grant recipient, offers a holistic approach to transforming the lives of former street-connected children through sustainable agriculture, education, and community engagement. By providing shelter, food and practical agricultural skills, these children are empowered to lead healthier and hopeful lives, while cultivating both self-sufficiency and long-term environmental sustainability.

The support of the Purpose Earth grant has successfully revived the Amani Kiladeda Farm using sustainable and impactful farming practices. The farm now provides a steady supply of food, ensuring the children have consistent nutritious meals, including milk from their own cows, and a variety of vegetables such as green gram, spinach, beans, tomatoes, and cabbages. The grant also supports on-farm training for the street children twice a week, keeping the children engaged and helping them feel at home and part of the community. The Amani-Kiladeda Farm Project was also able to reallocate their savings to strengthen their street outreach and rescue efforts for further impact.

The Earth Guardians Indigenous Youth Initiative is a unique program focusing on uplifting Indigenous ways of life, voice and leadership. Every year this program hosts a 7-day, in-person training, followed by ongoing support, led by Indigenous adult mentors and the Earth Guardians Indigenous Youth Initiative Committee.

The funding provided by Purpose Earth played a pivotal role in the success of the Earth Guardians Indigenous Youth Initiative training at Roots to Sky Sanctuary. With the generous support from the grant, the project was able to create a nurturing and empowering environment where Indigenous youth from diverse tribal nations could come together to champion environmental justice and defend indigenous sovereignty.

This Cambodian social initiative expands Epic Encounters, an inclusive dance company, to empower disabled individuals and promote inclusivity in rural communities through dance performances and workshops. The project focuses on areas with limited exposure to inclusive arts and disability awareness initiatives to effect positive change at the grassroots level.

Through the support of the Purpose Earth grant, the project has been able to secure the funds needed for venue hire, transportation, costumes for performers, and payment for translators for deaf artists, dance leaders and dancers.