The One Foundation is Alquity’s charity partner and is responsible for the reinvestment of the minimum 25% of our net management fee revenue generated by the Africa Fund into microfinance projects in Africa. It is a UK registered charity, working with communities in Africa to address the most pressing humanitarian needs, such as:

Clean water supplies: that is changing the lives of thousands of African children. Instead of walking for hours to collect water, children can go to school and entire communities benefit from access to fresh drinking water.

HIV/AIDS: The programmes take teams of nurses and counsellors to visit rural communities to help educate and raise awareness of HIV and HIV-related issues as well as test for HIV. This way people that are HIV negative are educated on how to stay negative, and those who are HIV positive are identified as soon as possible and are given the correct life-saving ARV (antiretroviral) drugs to increase their quality of life.

Nutrition: they work with the poorest farming families in rural communities in Malawi, helping them grow enough food to feed themselves, plus a little bit extra to sell. That way they can earn enough to see them through times when the crops fail.

Hygiene and Sanitation: focusing on larger schools, we fund brick-built ventilated pit latrines for girls and boys with hand washing facilities, replacing unhygienic non-reinforced sandy pits with grass screen surrounds. This is supported with an education programme for the children and local communities, covering hand washing and basic hygiene.

To date, they have raised over £6 million and changed the lives of well over a million and a half people:

• 700+ water solutions installed, giving free, clean water to over a million African school children
• 4,000+ people benefit from vegetable gardens
• 12,000+ people have been tested for HIV and counseled
• 1,000+ children in Malawi have improved sanitation

If you are interested in learning more about The One Foundation, please visit www.onedifference.org