Skills That Build a Household’s Income

Charity that arrives once and leaves changes very little. Livelihoods work is the opposite bet: that a person given a usable skill and a way to apply it will carry their household further than any single donation could.

That is why our livelihoods thinking starts with women. In the communities Perfect Care Foundation serves, income earned by a mother tends to reach school fees, medicine and food before anything else. Supporting her earning capacity is among the most direct routes to the outcomes our other thematic areas are chasing.

The measure of this work is not how many people attended something. It is whether, a year later, money is still coming in because of it — and whether the household has stopped having to choose between paying for school and paying for treatment.