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The KBF family supports numerous projects in Africa. As a priority, our support is directed to local civil society, individuals as well as organisations, and to social businesses.

Below are some inspiring stories from our Prize winners and grantees.

2024

“Yeyasso: the cooperative where all hopes are allowed”

The Yeyasso cocoa and coffee cooperative in the Ivory Coast makes every effort to stay one step ahead of major market trends

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2023

Kosmotive : Improving girls’ and women’s health in Rwanda

A grant from BPF has dramatically boosted a young entrepreneur’s aim of radically improving the lives of girls and women in Rwanda by producing eco-friendly, reusable, and hygienic sanitary pads.

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2023

Using data to help combat malnutrition

One in two children in South Kivu is chronically malnourished. Kesho Congo is developing software to monitor patients more closely and using data research to find solutions to this complex problem.

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2022

Finding healing by building peace for all

The war in Somalia took the lives of her father and her sister. Nevertheless, Ilwad Elman found the strength, together with her mother, to develop Elman Peace, an organisation that works to build peace in Somalia and beyond.

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2022

Supporting talented young people in the DR Congo

The incubator I&F Entrepreneuriat has been facilitating business development and job creation for over ten years. And successfully: today it is incubating over 1,000 businesses and its model has been recognized nationally and internationally.

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2021

Combatting fear of banishment related to HIV/AIDS in Kinshasa

In the DRC, about half a million people are officially affected by HIV/AIDS. For five years now, the KBF has pooled funds to boost the efforts to fight the illness, led by carers and volunteers in Kinshasa, with support from MSF Belgium.

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