Hand in Hand

Hand in Hand is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1069976).

Hand in Hand is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Its mission is to educate, mentor, train and empower orphaned and vulnerable East African young people, with its giving focused on education, training, empowerment and mentorship. It has supported six projects in Kenya and two community projects in Uganda. It paid £320,845 in grants in the period covered by its most recent annual report.

Priority Areas

Hand in Hand’s mission is to educate, mentor, train and empower orphaned and vulnerable East African young people. It supports children’s educational needs from pre-primary to university, provides training for skills leading to employment, mentoring and role models, and equips partners, students and families for self-sustainability. It works through long-term partnerships with local organisations and people serving vulnerable and orphaned children. Partner projects should be locally conceived, focus on vulnerable and orphaned children and one of its four strategic pillars, and actively seek sustainability. Before ongoing support, it builds a relationship with partners over at least two years. Its reported support has included child welfare, education, training, mentorship and some construction work in Kenya and Uganda.

Themes

• Education
• Training
• Mentorship
• Empowerment

Geographic Focus

Worldwide. Priority: Kenya; Uganda.

First contact must come from a trusted Christian partner, group or church; the foundation does not respond to individual requests.

Who can apply:

• We always require that first contact comes from a trusted Christian partner, group or church.
• Schools or colleges considered must be run by national citizens as the majority.

What the charity says:

• The partner’s vision must be conceived locally, and the impact must focus on vulnerable and orphaned children and one of the foundation’s four strategic pillars.
• Before ongoing support, the partner must allow the foundation to assess the work, needs and whether project leaders have sufficient knowledge, skills and passion.
• The foundation prefers projects which actively seek ways to become sustainable.
• If an ongoing partnership is beneficial, the partner must be open to entering a Memorandum of Understanding with Hand in Hand.