http://catapult.org – Sub-saharan Africa

Pushing for safe education for girls in Nigeria

Education is the key to ending early deaths of Nigerian girls and young women.

Healing the wounds of young women in Nigeria

Help us address the causes of fistula, treat those who live with it, and train professionals to improve overall maternal health.

A stronger tomorrow for Nigerian girls

Help girls understand their rights and create opportunities for Nigerian children to shape their future through education.

Build a library for a women’s college in Burundi

Reading is essential for study. Akilah is committed to achieving English competence for our students by building a library to help them succeed.

Providing Mama Kits and knowledge for teen moms

Let’s increase the number of teen mothers who seek antenatal care and deliver their babies in hospitals.

A library: How about some furniture too?

Opening the first library in Kalebuka will help a whole community have access to literacy.

Embrace: Keep 750 newborns warm

The Embrace infant warmer provides critical temperature regulation for babies during their first 28 days of life.

Support Girls’ Education

After identifying the Catapult partners best positioned to support girls’ education in Nigeria, our program team worked with them to develop specific projects for receiving the donations from this general fund that was created in response to the abductions of the Chibok schoolgirls in spring 2014.

Send 20 Kenyan girls to school

Free education for girls is a portal for large-scale social change in Mathare, the second largest slum in Nairobi.

Plant a seed: transform lives of Ugandan women

Help Ugandan women living with HIV break ground for two organic farms to improve their nutrition, food security, and self-reliance.