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.
2025
In Kinshasa, nine grassroots organisations working with street children are receiving training on the psychosocial aspects of supporting these young people from the Beninese NGO Terres Rouges.
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2025
Inspired by the experience of Deogratias Niyonkuru, the King Baudouin Foundation developed the role of liaison officer in the African countries most directly involved in its International Programme.
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2024
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
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
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
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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