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What we do

Lemonaid & ChariTea Foundation partners with civil society organisations across the Global South to foster sustainable socioeconomic and positive ecological transformation.

Key Topics

Cocoa mass inside a cocoa fruit.

Value chains

Promoting fairer value creation.

Project participants in a sewing course by RWDT in India.

Further education

Self-determination through further education.

Advocacy

Advocacy for marginalized groups.

Yvone Uwase, 25, works as a street vendor selling shoes. The photo was taken at a meeting of the VSLA Saving Group by SYTRIECI in Rwanda. She wants to open a shoe store with the help of loans from the savings group.

Access to Funding

Financial independence through savings groups.

We are currently funding 36 projects in 8 countries.

Who we are

We are a non-profit organisation founded in Hamburg, St. Pauli, in 2010. Our commitment is to ensure that as many people as possible have the opportunity to improve their livelihoods in the Global South independently, in a self-determined manner, and in a sustainable way.

Impactful partnerships are based on trust.

Our Impact

Since Lemonaid & ChariTea e.V. was founded in 2010, a total of 109 projects have been supported; the organization currently has 36 project partnerships in eight countries.

1.733

Small businesses
were founded.
11.408

Individuals have improved their
entrepreneurial skills.
4.278

People were able to
increase their income.
18.094

People have
participated in
further training.

Header photos: (left) Jodi Windvogel, (right) Frederik Wrede