Firelight Foundation

11/20/2025

How far would you go to protect your child’s right to learn? This , we share the story of a Zambian village that went to great lengths for their children.

https://www.firelightfoundation.org/stories-of-impact/a-communitys-journey-to-transform-early-childhood-education-in-western-zambia

Namuso Community Development Organisation

09/03/2025

A warm welcome to Oscar Kadenge as Firelight’s new Director of Programs and Learning!

https://www.firelightfoundation.org/blog/firelight-welcomes-oscar-kadenge-as-new-director-of-programs-and-learning

07/23/2024

We are all in on redefining trust in philanthropic relationships. We’re pleased to share Firelight ED Marième Daff’s article in Circle magazine.

We are pleased to share Firelight executive director Marième Daff’s article which was published in Circle, a magazine dedicated to philanthropy in the Middle East and North Africa region. Learning to ‘let go’ is probably one of the biggest challenges facing donors as they seek to make transit...

06/26/2024

What do child safeguarding policies look like in organizations that have limited resources?
👉🏾Here’s how our grantee partners in eastern and southern Africa created robust policies that built on existing effective practices in their communities.
✅Plus, a checklist for funders who want to support a similar process.

Robust protection and safeguarding policies are critical for all organizations working with children and young people. However, many policies and practices developed by Global North-based organizations fall short when it comes to applying them in different contexts.   This is part

06/14/2024

This year’s theme for is education, but what do children themselves have to say about it?

Children from Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia told us they value their education but need:
🏫better quality schools
💰free schooling or lower fees
🚌safe transport to school
😃safety from physical & sexual abuse at school

You can find more of what they think about education and more at the link below.

https://www.firelightfoundation.org/blog/lets-stop-deciding-for-african-children-and-communities-heres-your-chance-to-listen-to-what-they-have-to-say

06/03/2024

On June 6, Firelight’s Ronald Kimambo will share about how we support community-led monitoring and evaluation. Thanks to Nelly Mecklenburg at the Movement for Community-led Development for organizing a great panel!

If you’d like to join us (June 6, 10am Eastern), register at the link below.

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrdeuvqj0iEtZbSXLhTHNp6HSqco0JhpcU #/registration

05/20/2024

Taking a whole system approach to ECD can lead to transformative & long-lasting benefits. Take a look at what communities in Malawi & Zambia are achieving for children & families:

Tracking the pace of transformation is not a straightforward or speedy task when you are focused on delivering community-driven systems change and measuring long-term impacts on a community.  Even before a program can properly begin, there is a whole vital process of engaging the community

03/08/2024

We're excited to attend and present at the Eastern Africa Regional Early Childhood Conference, along with 2 of our CBO grantee-partners next week. Visit our blog to read more about our presentation topics and our CBO grantee-partners. We hope to see you there!

https://www.firelightfoundation.org/blog/highlighting-community-driven-approaches-at-the-east-africa-regional-early-childhood-conference

12/18/2023

We're happy to share reflections from Marième Daff, Firelight's executive director, who recently saw first-hand the transformative power of community-driven systems change with some of our youth-focused CBO partners in Kenya, Nareto Latia Indigenous Peoples' Program and Jumuisha Initiative.

As Marième observes, their work truly speaks for itself.

CC: Imaginable Futures - Africa

As the former director of programs and partnerships for a private foundation working to improve food security, family health, financial wellbeing and education, I have seen how effective support can change lives and whole communities.  While visiting our grantee partners in Kenya

10/03/2023

What does it look like when communities design and drive their own interventions for ?

Join our webinar to hear how our brilliant panelists have partnered with their communities to design, implement, and evaluate ECD interventions that are achieving transformative results for children and for communities in Eastern and Southern Africa.

📅 Wednesday, 11 October, 2023

🕞 3:30–5pm EAT

🔗 Visit bit.ly/3qLjleS to register and learn more about our panelists!

With special thanks to our co-host AKU Institute for Human Development !

09/19/2023

Please join us and AKU Institute for Human Development for a webinar on community-driven in Eastern and Southern Africa.

Our brilliant panelists will share their experiences designing, implementing and evaluating ECD interventions that are creating transformative results for children and their communities.

📅 Wednesday, 11 October, 3:30–5pm EAT

🔗 Visit bit.ly/3qLjleS to register and read about our panelists!

09/06/2023

What makes interventions for so impactful?

Join Firelight and our co-host AKU Institute for Human Development for this interactive webinar in which we can learn from and engage with our brilliant panelists on the transformative results they are seeing for children and for communities in Eastern and Southern Africa.

📅 Wednesday, 11 October, 3:30–5pm EAT

🔗 Visit bit.ly/3qLjleS to register and read about our panelists!