Impact you can feel.

Trade over aid.

Photo: Soy de Aquí

Skills, enterprise and income. Not charity. Here's where it's happening, and where it started.

5M

gallons of clean water, Ghana

333

children fed for a full year, Ghana

750

students trained, Kenya hub

11+

communities engaged

Historical figures from our early projects, not an audited total. From 2027 we report sales and income per community.

Our work, on the map.

Tap a place. We add every new project here as it happens.

Ghana · Past + active

Water, food, education and makers

  • 5Mgallons of clean water: water filters distributed to marginalised communities
  • 333children given school meals for a full year
  • 1student funded through nursing school. Emmanuel is now a nurse
  • ✦Laptops for a school, and entrepreneurship training for women through Amaya for Africa
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Kenya · Active

Maasai digital hub

  • 20computers, plus a projector, sound system and a year of internet
  • 750students given digital and creative training
  • 15children given daily meals for six months, through a before- and after-school club run by Beatrice, a local entrepreneur
  • ✦Youth and artisans now learning to sell online
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Funamos · Active

Funamos, Ovejas

  • 200+children in the Funamos football and education programme
  • 300Christmas presents over two years
  • £1,000towards joining the Liga de Fútbol de Sucre, the first community club from Ovejas ever to get there. Their digital products are being built to keep them there
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Palenque · Active

San Basilio de Palenque

  • ✦The Palenque recipe book, being made with the Simarra family kitchen
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Atánquez · Active

Atánquez, Sierra Nevada

  • ✦Sierra Nevada weaving: an online course with real fique, being made with the weavers
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Ecuador · Active

Amarun Pakcha

  • ✦Water distribution for birds
  • ✦Seeds for planting
  • ✦Community-led tourism, food and a recipe book with Kichwa families
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United Kingdom · Base

Home of Elev-Eight

  • ✦Headquarters of Elev-Eight Life CIC and the School of Elevation
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Spain · Partners

Partners and mentors

  • ✦Partner organisations, interns and mentors helping design and develop our projects
Canada · Partners

Interns and partners

  • 10interns gaining experience through real global projects
Amboseli, Kenya

Where it started.

Ma, I have never forgotten what you did for me. When I had no hope of going to nursing school, you stepped in and paid my first year fees. I have now completed my nursing school. I am now a nurse.
Emmanuel, Ghana

That's how we started: backing individuals. Emmanuel still pays it forward, caring for others as a nurse. Now we build businesses so communities can back themselves.

How the circle works.

01

Find

Communities with purpose, drive and their own idea. We don't parachute in.

02

Incubate

We build it with them: the product, the journey, the shop, the bookings.

03

Amplify

Customers, partners and markets. What works gets taken further.

04

Hand over

Skills through the School of Elevation. They run it. They own it.

90%

To communities

As our social content starts to earn, this share goes back to the communities creating it.

10%

Elevation Fund

The next community's start.

When one person gains access, a whole community rises.

Shop. Travel. Partner. Fund. Every action builds skills, income and opportunity.