Footprints has completed 252 projects
Here is where you'll find the real stories about how these projects that have truly changed lives for people living in extreme poverty across the globe.
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This program helps solve water scarcity and hygiene issues by empowering rural communities to promote water conservation techniques and develop new water resources.
AUD 30,007
Raised from 4,711 people
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Australia is the only developed country to have blinding trachoma. This disease is one of poverty that can be easily avoided through access to clean water, efficient housing, and education.
AUD 25,035
Raised from 4,057 people
This project will encourage exclusive breastfeeding practices in Nias, Indonesia to help minimize the damage caused by the malnutrition-infection cycle. Training and coaching, supported by localized education materials, should stimulate uptake of exclusive breastfeeding and save lives.
AUD 25,008
Raised from 7,018 people
The Sea Turtle Conservancy is working to save the Green Turtles which are in decline, working within the community of Tortuguero in Costa Rica to introduce eco-tourism as an alternative to the “consumptive use” of sea turtles for meat, eggs and shell.
Funds raised through the Footprints Program will help fund the project’s research coordinators, research supplies and equipment, provide food for station staff and volunteers, gas for project boats, and supplies for community outreach and education activities.
AUD 30,009
Raised from 5,053 people
An estimated 1 billion people around the world cannot officially prove their identity, and 47% of these are children (World Bank, 2018). Your birth certificate proves you exist. Without it, girls around the world struggle to prove their age, and can be forced into child marriage.
Bangladesh has the fourth highest rates of child marriage in the world, with over 50% of girls married before their 18th birthday. Plan International has been working with the Bangladesh government to roll out OpenCRVS, to ensure all children are registered and receive a much needed birth certificate that can protect them from early marriage, child trafficking and child labour.
AUD 25,002
Raised from 3,809 people
Improving irrigation will help to address persistent high rates of malnutrition - driven by poverty, insufficient access to water, poor knowledge about nutrition, and low agricultural production, exacerbated by climate change.
AUD 25,001
Raised from 3,803 people
This project will support 50 children cope with traumatic experiences they had during the Australian fires as well as develop their natural resiliency and strengthen their social support networks.
AUD 22,823
Raised from 6,471 people
For decades, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have experienced lower health outcomes than non-indigenous Australians. Through this project the Fred Hollows Foundation is committed to tackling significant eye health issues for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
AUD 20,002
Raised from 5,701 people
This project will connect wildlife conservation to income generation and health education for local women and school-age girls in Samburu County, northern Kenya.
USD 18,406
Raised from 7,889 people
The Global Safer Cities for Girls Program's overarching goal is to build safe, accountable and inclusive cities with and for adolescent girls to prevent and address gender-based violence and sexual harassment. The program aims to increase girls’ safety and access to public spaces and transport and increase their active and meaningful participation in urban development and governance.
AUD 18,299
Raised from 2,862 people
This project focuses on training teachers in the remote Solukhumbu district of Nepal, helping ensure that children have better opportunities in life through an inclusive, high-quality education.
AUD 15,004
Raised from 4,525 people
Support children and families effected by the Ukraine Crisis with essential livelihood items and with support services including continuation of remote education.
AUD 30,007
Raised from 4,102 people
The project aims to support broader gender equality and social inclusion, helping ensure universal access to clean, safe water and good sanitation for Wewak District.
AUD 25,015
Raised from 6,580 people
This project works in the Tafea Province of Vanuatu to promote the inclusion of women in leadership positions and address the social norms that perpetuate violence against women and girls.
AUD 17,510
Raised from 5,013 people
This project is helping ethnic minority women in Vietnam improve their farming techniques, access new markets, and become leading coffee producers in their community.
AUD 20,014
Raised from 6,009 people
This project will help save endangered macaws in Belize, future proofing their environment against predicted increases in tourism to the area through training and on-site monitoring.
USD 20,001
Raised from 8,922 people
This project will build safe, accountable and inclusive cities with and for adolescent girls through increasing their safety and access to public spaces, enabling their safe mobility in Kampala, Uganda; and increasing their active and meaningful participation in urban development.
AUD 45,008
Raised from 12,969 people
This project enlisted the local community in a new sea turtle research and conservation program at a recently discovered nesting site in Bocas del Drago, Panama. Results included reductions in illegal poaching and dog predation, a study of the impacts of climate change, and educating the community about the importance and economic value of conservation.
USD 20,001
Raised from 7,697 people
This project will support the Andean Cat Alliance's CATcrafts project to provide women living in Andean cat habitats a sustainable means to earn an income while simultaneously turning them into conservation ambassadors.
USD 15,003
Raised from 6,550 people
This project will protect pangolins – the most trafficked animal on earth – from accidental electrocution by designing wildlife-friendly electric fences in southern Africa.
USD 10,006
Raised from 4,484 people
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