International Projects

Our current areas of operation are Southeast Asia & Africa.

Our projects support locals who make a difference in their communities.

We provide the means for sustainable change.

Community Internships

We are supporting an internship program at Tikondane Community Centre in eastern Zambia. The internships provide opportunities for young Zambians to become leaders within their local communities. Tikondane provides training and experience in sustainable agriculture, diversified livelihoods, hospitality, health, and business, all with a focus on gender equity. Activities in and around the community of Katete include local tourism, a lodge and restaurant, production of childhood nutrition supplements, egg and chicken raising and more. The internships provide opportunities for personal growth and employment in a district that has few pathways to secure livelihoods. Tikondane has a goal of being self-sustaining through its variety of local enterprises – all run by interns who are learning on the job!

The Bakery School

We are very proud to support this program that actively helps get the lives of young women, who have been the victims of sexual and violent abuse, back on track. The bakery school is located in a regional city of Sri Lanka that attracts many tourists each year. The school provides training in baking and job readiness – the young women provide determination and passion to create a good life for themselves. After six months of training, our graduates find internships at hotels and bakeries or are assisted to start a small home business. The ability to make a new life, with good job skills, is life changing for these women, who may otherwise have found themselves homeless and destitute.

Social Enterprise

Working in partnership with the Pastoral Women’s Council in Tanzania, we are supporting the construction of a social enterprise in the Makuyuni area, about 200km from Arusha. RoundTrip has provided funds to help secure land in an ideal location for a café and craft outlet that will be owned and staffed by local Maasai women. The local Maasai women will run the enterprise, and profits will be used to improve access to water, electricity and education within the community. Based on research that RoundTrip has done with local safari companies, the facility will be high quality, with original and interesting products and interpretive tourism events that will provide tourists with a positive experience of local culture. RoundTrip will continue to support the enterprise as it moves towards creating a building and providing business and tourism education for local women.

Kanyonyi, the Mubare group silverback,

Period Pants

Missing school or work because of menstrual periods is an unfair fact of life for many women in low-resource settings. A lack of money to buy disposable pads, and a lack of adequate and sanitary bathrooms at schools and workplaces make it difficult for women to fully participate in social and economic spheres of life. Most options that women have for safely and discretely managing their menstrual flow are either expensive, environmentally unfriendly or culturally unacceptable, and sometimes all three of these. RoundTrip Foundation has received and distributed over forty sets (five pairs each) of period pants to women in Timor-Leste (East Timor). Half of the pants were provided to women with disability, who are likely to experience vulnerability at higher rates than other sectors of society.  We are hoping to continue to work with generous donors such as Modibodi and SafariBookings to expand distribution of period pants to other groups of women in Timor-Leste in the future.

Former Projects

Completed and discontinued projects feature in our archive – there are three:

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