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.
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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2022
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
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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2021
In Rwanda, the battle against the epilepsy faces two obstacles: a lack of knowledge about the nature of the condition and a severe shortage of neurologists who can make an appropriate diagnosis and provide treatment.
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2020
The Bokundoli programme aims to allow the Congolese education system to renew the way it teaches young Congolese people about citizenship and a historical awareness of their country.
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