Global Communities
(Global Communities was formerly known as Project Concern International.)
Current donation: NA
Donations to date: $400,000
Global Communities (GC) provides communities in the developing world with the tools to lift themselves out of poverty and contribute less to climate change. Our donations allowed GC to provide their Women Empowered groups in Tanzania with climate-smart agriculture training, starter kits with drought-resistant seeds, and on-farm technical support.
Why They're Climate Smart
Over the past four years, our donations have helped GC reach 488 households (2,928 individuals) in the dry western highlands of Huehuetenango, Guatemala. Together, we have helped transition those families from traditional open fires to climate-smart cookstoves and water filters; reforested 30,300 seedlings; and built drought-resistant, water-conserving gardens. As a result, they have significantly reduced deforestation, eliminated 18,216 tons of carbon emissions, and saved future generations from smoke-related health problems.
Why They Receive Our Continued Support
In 2023, GC expanded the program to help communities in the Dodoma region of Tanzania implement climate-smart agricultural techniques to grow nutritious food and increase food security. With last year's donation, GC began mobilizing their Women Empowered groups — which build the social and financial agency of women, develop entrepreneurs, and establish financial resilience during periods of climate shocks — to adopt climate-smart food production and build businesses based on climate-smart inputs (such as seeds and hands-on technical support) and ensure the sustainability of the project. Since then — and due to its success — GC has transformed the project into a testing ground for an entirely new climate-smart approach, and the Government of Tanzania has started exploring the possibility of adopting the methodology on a much broader scale. As a result, GC asked that we pause donations until they have determined the true scope and direction of the project.