New Hope Ministries is a community-based organization in Uganda that provides food, shelter, education and health care to orphans and vulnerable children. The Friends of New Hope Foundation is a U.S.-based, 501c3 organization that provides financial and technical support to New Hope Ministries. In 2009, The Friends of New Hope Foundation implemented a 5-part project that aims to transform New Hope Ministries from a Ugandan ngo that is entirely dependent on foreign aid for survival to one that is entirely self-sufficient. The project accomplishes this with 5 income-generating activities that will collectively provide enough income to meet all the nutritional, educational, medical and other needs of the orphans and vulnerable children under New Hope's care. The income-generating activities include a pig farm, 10-acre sweet potato farm, poultry project, dairy project and a computer school that doubles as an internet cafe.

Project Unveil, a Harvard African Development Initiative, which is comprised of two outreach programs: Viva Summer Camp and Viva After-School Program, seeks to empower and educate Nigerian children from very low-income backgrounds. Our goal is to promote and encourage a passion for learning among underprivileged children, who are interested in the film and entertainment industry, by providing them with a holistic educational experience, which incorporates the performing arts into a traditional academic curriculum.

Project Access to Clean Water for Agyementi (ACWA) is an undertaking of the African Development Initiative, aiming to do our part to help everyone have accesss to clean drinking water. By empowering this village to sustain an improved water supply, implement their own hygiene and sanitation education programs, and build household latrines, we hope to help the people of Agyementi create the change they want to see in their community.

Project Rural Irrigation System for Ekumdipe (Project RISE), an African Development Initiative sponsored project, was created with the goal of helping Ekumdipe and its surrounding communities overcome poverty and its extreme effects by providing the citizens of the township with a rural irrigation system to overcome idleness during the unproductive dry season and substantially improve income. Project RISE is taking the ADI approach to the issue of poverty that is hindering Africa by taking the mentality of helping others help themselves. We feel that the members of Ekumdipe will be able to rise to the occasion and will be energized to take more control of their respective situations with some assistance from others.

Irdata, which means help or generosity in the national Ethiopian language, Amharic, is a non-profit organization selling homemade Ethiopian scarves to the general public with the intentions of funneling proceeds to their impoverished creators. By selling these scarves at prices that are considered discounts by U.S. standards, their creators are able to earn a substantially higher income, enabling them to send their children to school, start new businesses, and improve their communities.