Our Results

Since our beginnings in 2007, we have worked with community-based organizations in Ghana and Liberia. Ranging from a home for abandoned children to a rural women's economic empowerment organization, our financial, operational and technical support has helped our partners improve their capacity to fulfill their mission. Since 2007, we have:

• Served tens of thousands of meals to school children
• Created at least 10 permanent, full-time, meaningful jobs for Liberians
• Worked with eight organizations and educational institutions to help build capacity through a patient and steady transfer of skills
• Supported, encouraged and provided funding for organizations in difficult post-conflict years

Download our 2009 Annual Report

School Nutrition Initiative

2007 - present

• During the 2007/2008 school year, we provided daily meals to over 600 Liberian refugee children in Ghana
• The program employed four people - including three women - full-time 
• We worked with the host institution, the Carolyn Miller School, to build their capacity to plan and implement a feeding program - adding value to the services they provide in the community
• During the 2009-2010 school year, we implemented a new and improved version of this program in Liberia, still in partnership with the Carolyn Miller School
• Using local food crops and resources, the School Nutrition Initiative provided a nutritious daily meal to 350+ children and employed five full-time staff, including three women
• In December 2009, the program was expanded to include 60 scholarship students sponsored by the MacDella Cooper Foundation
• The School Nutrition Initiative is a highly replicable, cost-effective model, which relies on local resources and expertise and creates broad economic and social benefits for communities who adopt it
• In 2011, thanks to the support of the Segal Family Foundation, the School Nutrition Initiative works with schools in rural Bong County to help develop school farms and gardens that produce food crops for use in the schools' feeding programs. To read more: www.schoolnutritionchallenge.com

Happy Family Center for Children with Disabilities (HapFam)

2009 - present 

• In December 2009, HapFam launched its new permanent center (pictured above), which Niapele financed. The new center can accommodate up to 20 children suffering from physical or mental disability
• We are working with HapFam to develop their ability to fundraise independently and manage their operations effectively and transparently
• HapFam is conceived as a pilot project - the first center of its kind in Liberia, we are working with the organization's leadership to develop standards for appropriate care of children with disabilities in the country

Malaya

2009 - 2010 

• In the fall of 2009, Malaya, a rural women's agricultural organization, contracted with Niapele to provide food crops for our School Nutrition Initiative in Monrovia
• The partnership also included a capacity-building dimension:
  • Developing financial and operational management capacity
  • Improving Malaya’s ability to fulfill the quality and quantity requirements of a reliable agricultural supplier
  • Assisting the organization in developing important linkages with relevant Liberian government agencies