Strategic Partners
Long-standing institutional partnerships that shape our programs at scale
One of East Africa's most established child welfare organizations, Bahari operates 14 care centers across Kenya and Tanzania, providing residential support, schooling, and vocational training to over 2,400 orphaned children. Our partnership funds their secondary education scholarship program and nutrition initiative.
Solaris operates an award-winning network of 31 community learning centers across Maharashtra and Gujarat, reaching children in rural and peri-urban communities who would otherwise have no access to formal schooling. Volk Donations co-funds their digital literacy labs and mobile health clinics.
A Geneva-based independent philanthropic fund that channels resources to vetted child welfare programs across 22 countries. Meridian co-grants with Volk Donations on programs in West Africa and Southeast Asia, providing funding, technical assistance, and impact measurement expertise.
The Ubuntu Network connects 47 community-based care groups across South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe that support children orphaned by HIV/AIDS. Their community mother model — trained local women providing family-based care — has become a best-practice template adopted across the region.
Pacifico Infancia operates crisis shelters, trauma counseling programs, and family reintegration services across Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Specializing in children displaced by conflict or family breakdown, their psychosocial model is recognized by UNICEF as a regional best practice.
Focused on the critical 16–24 age group who age out of orphanage systems, Nile Tomorrow runs trade training centers in Cairo, Alexandria, and Aswan. Their graduates achieve 78% formal employment within 18 months — one of the highest rates in the region. Volk Donations funds their hospitality and technology tracks.
Grassroots NGO Partners
Community-rooted organizations delivering direct care on the ground
Karibu Watoto Center
Residential care and primary schooling for 340 orphaned children across 3 centers in coastal Tanzania. Notable for their foster family integration program launched in 2019.
Hope Village Cambodia
Community-based care model for children affected by parental trafficking or incarceration. Serves 280 children through a network of trained host families and weekly support groups.
Green Roots Ethiopia
Integrates child welfare with sustainable agriculture — orphaned adolescents learn farming and agribusiness while earning their secondary school certificate. Operates 6 farm schools across the Oromia region.
Lumière des Savanes
Provides nutritional support, early childhood education, and family reunification services to children in the Sahel region. Operates mobile outreach units to reach children in remote villages with no fixed infrastructure.
Asha Pratishthan
Runs 8 after-school learning centers in West Bengal's most underserved urban districts, supporting 1,100 children from single-parent or orphaned backgrounds with tutoring, meals, and health checks.
Futuro Nuestro Bolivia
Indigenous-led child welfare organization supporting Aymara and Quechua children orphaned by poverty and parental migration. Cultural preservation is central to their care model — all programs are bilingual.
Zawadi Children's Trust
Specializes in transitional housing and life-skills training for youth aged 14–20 leaving institutional care. Their 18-month independence program has supported over 900 young adults since 2014.
Riverbend Haven Philippines
Operates 4 small group homes (max 12 children each) prioritizing family-like environments over institutional care. Each home is run by a trained house parent couple and supports children from infancy through secondary school.
Savanna Mungu Foundation
Faith-based organization providing hospice care support for children with life-limiting conditions and bereavement services for newly orphaned siblings. Operates a palliative care training program for community volunteers.
Vientos del Cambio
Provides safe housing and trauma-informed care for children escaping gang violence or family abuse in Central America. Partners with local government on family reunification and legal guardianship processes.
Malaika Amani Kenya
Community nutrition and early childhood development program serving 620 children under 5 in informal settlements. Their door-to-door nutrition monitoring program has reduced child stunting rates by 34% in target communities since 2017.
Tujenge Kesho Tanzania
Grassroots women-led cooperative that funds school fees, uniforms, and supplies for 480 orphaned children across the Kilimanjaro region through a community savings and lending model.
Foundations & Trusts
Philanthropic institutions that provide multi-year funding and strategic guidance
Harrow & Aldgate Foundation
Independent UK charitable trust with a £180M endowment focused on child education in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Provides Volk Donations with a £400,000 annual program grant for our African school partnerships.
Westerholm Family Foundation
Minnesota-based family foundation dedicated to sustainable child welfare. Their unrestricted 5-year grant to Volk Donations has funded our organizational capacity building, staff training, and impact measurement systems.
Crescendo Esperanza Trust
European philanthropic trust focused on Latin American child welfare. Co-finances our Central and South American program network and provides pro-bono legal expertise for policy advocacy in Colombia, Honduras, and Peru.
Lindiwe & Kofi Foundation
Pan-African foundation established by two West African business leaders committed to solving the continent's orphan crisis through sustainable, locally-led models. Channels funds to vetted Ghanaian and Nigerian partner NGOs in our network.
Kjeldsen Thorvald Trust
Danish philanthropic trust with particular focus on psychosocial rehabilitation. Funds our trauma-informed care training program, which has now trained over 1,400 frontline child welfare workers across our partner network.
Ramanujan Future Fund
Tech-sector philanthropic fund established by Indian technology entrepreneurs to support STEM education for under-served children across India. Co-funds our digital classroom initiative in partnership with Solaris Education Trust.
Corporate Sponsors
Businesses committed to making a measurable difference through philanthropic partnerships
Avantis Financial Group
Annual payroll giving program and matched employee donations. 480 staff participate annually.
Nexara Technologies
Provides free cloud infrastructure and software licenses to our partner NGO network annually.
Brandveil Retail Group
Donates 1% of annual net revenue through a cause-marketing campaign on all children's products.
Kalinda Pharma Ltd.
Supplies essential medicines and vitamins to our health programs in East Africa at cost price.
Oceanic Freight Partners
Provides heavily subsidized shipping for donated goods and supplies to our African and Asian programs.
Trident Risk Advisors
Donates pro-bono insurance advisory and risk management services across our global program portfolio.
Solbridge Architecture
Designs and project-manages construction of care facilities at no professional fee — materials only.
Greenvalley Organics
Supplies nutritional food packages to 14 of our East African partner centers, sourced from local farmers.
Become a Partner
Whether you are a grassroots organization, a foundation, or a company with a social mission, we would love to explore how we can work together to change more lives. Our partnerships team is ready to talk.