Partner Projects
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Project Hearts
Project Name: Project Hearts (Proyecto Corazones)
Project Leader: Marissa Doiron
Area of Focus: : Education, Women’s Equality, Community Health, Youth Leadership, Water Access
Location: Baitoa, Dominican Republic
Partners Since 2006
Project Hearts became an official NGO (non-governmental organization) in 2011 and continues to serve an estimated 15,000 people in Baitoa.
As part of a WASH initiative, Project Hearts installed 28 filters for purifying water, saving locals over 3,400 USD in bottled water purchases. New water tanks are constructed regularly for storing water, adding further savings. Another 7 water filters were installed in 2020, along with 67 additional tanks distributed among the community, which benefited more than 225 people.
Project Hearts emphasizes supporting locals for sustained community improvement. Donations help construct additional hands-free washing stations, educational programs for women and youth, water tanks, and home renovations.
In 2022, Project Hearts, with the support of GRACE Cares, conducted a baseline survey of community mental health in Baitoa. Please read the details and results of the survey here:
GuateBuena Association
Project Name: GuateBuena Association
Project Leader: Wilfred Sotz
Area of Focus: Utz K’aslemal, Holistic Well-Being
Location: Chimaltenango department of Guatemala, Central America
Partners Since 2017
GuateBuena Association promotes Utz K'aslemal ("the good life") in Guatemalan communities, envisioning development through Indigenous values and harmony with Mother Earth.
Their Community Finance program organizes Indigenous Maya women into solidarity groups for saving, lending, and financial education. With over 400 members across 21 groups, participants saved more than $50,000 and generated $10,000 in interest in 2021.
Beyond financial services, GuateBuena provides holistic support through training, counseling, home gardens, and local service connections. Their social enterprise, Ixoqi', employs 100 women artisans creating textiles for their retail partner.
Led by a team of local Guatemalans along with founder Andrew Becker and his wife Danielle Huffaker, GuateBuena embodies values of tireless resolve, unconditional love, shared experience, generosity, and trust.
Munali Youth Empowerment Program (MYEP)
Project Name: Munali Youth Empowerment Program (MYEP)
Project Leader: Blessed Ngoma
Area of Focus: Youth Education, Food Assistance
Location: Zambia, Africa
Partners Since 2020
The Munali Youth Empowerment Program (MYEP) provides early learning resources—books, reading workshops, health and safety programs—in the Lusaka Province of Zambia.
MYEP’s Knowledge in Motion initiative began in 2020. Since then, it has impacted more than 150 children with book deliveries and literacy workshops, facilitating unity through shared story time.
Opening in 2024, the MYEP Community Resource Center is a nurturing place where children have free access to educational programs, books, and other educational toys to stimulate their growth and development and foster a love of reading and learning.
Donated funds provide school supplies, resource center furniture, books, educational toys, and bicycles for the mobile book program and other essential supplies to maintain the Resource Center.
WATHA
Project Name: Watha Project
Project Leader: Jefferson Guyo Badiva
Area of Focus: Water Access, Education
Location: Galana Region, Kenya
Partners: Since 2019
The Watha Project partners with Kenya's indigenous Watha community to improve health care, education, and water access in the Galana Region of Kilifi County.
Working with GRACE Cares and the Uzima Community Development Organization (UCDO), the project has constructed boreholes in three villages—Garsemuke, Bombi, and Katana-Hakeye—providing safe drinking water and preventing waterborne illness and crocodile attacks. Three additional boreholes await funding.
Your donation supports year-round clean water access, educational improvements, and food security initiatives for the Watha community.
B4 Peace
Project Name: B4 Peace
Project Leader: Namaya
Area of Focus: Community Peace Through Art
Location: Global
Partners: Since 2011
A community engagement initiative, B4 Peace promotes unity in historically stressed or war-torn areas of the world, and has conducted programs in Algeria, Chile, Palestine, and Vietnam.
By using art projects at a local level, B4 Peace engages communities with creativity, encouraging peacebuilding through art installations, theatrical performances, and peace-art workshops.
Establishing a Youth Theater program in Zambia, with the Youth Cultural Promotion Association (YOCUPA) is B4 Peace’s current focus. The theater will provide young people with a platform to develop leadership, communication, artistic, and performance skills. Amplify children's artistic voices and actions in advocating for peace, unity, love, and climate change education. Additionally, it will promote cross-cultural, tribal, and regional understanding while fostering peace-building and raising awareness of climate change issues affecting Zambia.
Youth Cultural Promotion Association
Project Name: Youth Cultural Promotion Association (YOCUPA)
Project Leader: Dr. Beck Banda (he/him)
Area of Focus: Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
Location: Zambia, Africa
Partners Since 2022
Founded in 1996, YOCUPA uses theatre and performing arts to address sexual and gender-based violence in Zambian communities. After identifying a lack of comprehensive intervention, they established 7ASIDE-ASHAGs (Anti-Sexual Harassment Groups) to fill this critical gap.
Your support enables YOCUPA to provide peer-to-peer awareness workshops, powerful Theatre For Community Action performances, and rehabilitation resources. These interventions work to reduce sexual violence in schools, workplaces, places of worship, homes, and community spaces.
YOCUPA currently serves eleven districts across Zambia: Lusaka, Mansa, Luwingu, Chipata, Chadiza, Kabwe, Kapiri, Solwezi, Mazabuka, Chingola, and Mumba.