Africa’s Gift works alongside communities in Lesotho and beyond to improve the way food is grown and cooked — through regenerative agriculture, practical education and locally made Eco Cook Bags.
Africa’s Gift works alongside communities to develop practical responses to local needs. Its work connects regenerative agriculture, more efficient cooking, education and environmental restoration—sharing skills and resources that can support lasting change.
In Lesotho, this includes the Malealea Teaching Farm and locally made Eco Cook Bags. The charity also works with communities in South Africa and supports Marian’s Eden, an agroforestry and land-restoration project in Uganda.
Together, these projects help people grow food, use natural resources more efficiently and build healthier, more resilient futures.
Africa’s Gift supports projects that connect nutrition, food growing, safer cooking, education and environmental restoration. Each one responds to local priorities and is designed to create practical, lasting benefit.
Improving soil, water use, food growing and cooking as part of one connected approach to healthier diets.
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A working demonstration farm where local farmers, schools and visitors can learn regenerative growing methods in practice.
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Locally made insulated cook bags that reduce the fuel, water and active heating needed to prepare everyday meals.
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Community partnerships supporting food growing, more efficient cooking and greater environmental resilience.
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A pocket forest pharmacy and agroforestry project restoring land through medicinal plants, coffee and community-led conservation.
Find out moreDonations go straight into the soil, water, growing and cooking projects on this page — and into the hands of the communities running them.
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More than 25 years of partnership and learning in Lesotho, including a continuing relationship with the Malealea Development Trust and the communities running each project.
Africa’s Gift Limited is a registered charity in England and Wales (1149830). Its accounts and trustee reports are publicly available through the Charity Commission.
Everyone who works for Africa’s Gift is a volunteer, including its trustees, so donations fund the work in Lesotho, South Africa and Uganda.
Every donation funds the soil, water, growing and cooking work in Lesotho, South Africa and Uganda — delivered by volunteers, with the communities that run each project.
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Oct
With a super El Niño due to hit our communities in October, we are working at full speed to lock nutrients and moisture into the ground.
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Oct
Super fundraiser Faye Smith of Hope Walking is undertaking her biggest challenge yet: the Camino del Norte along Spain’s northern coast.
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Jun
Malealea Lodge and the Eco Cook Bags Initiative have been featured by Intrepid Travel as an inspiring example of community-driven climate action.
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1% for the Planet is a global organisation that connects businesses with environmental partners and certifies their giving. Africa’s Gift is one of its approved environmental partners.
Learn more at onepercentfortheplanet.org.