Africa Bridgeworks Fund · Portfolio
Ten organisations funded in 2025 with $80,000 deployed
Specific organisations doing specific things in specific places.
Grantees
Meet our 2026 grantees
Before we fund a changemaker, we spend ten months working alongside them in the Africa Impact Academy. In that time we come to understand the work they do, the problems they are solving, the change they can create in their communities, and the kind of funding that will best help them achieve their plans. We then fund the one thing that stands between them and their next growth stage, whether that is stronger systems, legal and tax compliance or new technology, so that they can earn the trust of larger funders and investors and get through the hardest stage of their work.
The ten changemakers below are our first grantees. We invite you to be part of their work by giving, mentoring them, buying their products and services, or introducing them to people who can help them grow.
Support a changemaker
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Orya Briqs
Giving Kenyan families a cleaner, cheaper cooking fuel made from farm waste, and paid work to the women and young people who make it.
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PeloNICHE
Creating steady, paid work for cleaners, housekeepers and office support staff in South Africa, where most of this work is informal and insecure.
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Pheko PM Group
Turning indigenous African plants into certified health foods while creating agribusiness livelihoods for smallholders in South Africa and Zimbabwe.
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Soapbox Foundation - Captain Fanplastic
Turning primary school children in under-resourced South African communities into 'plastic pirates' who protect their environment and become the future environmental advocates.
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Upward Eco
Turning household waste in Abuja into green jobs for young people and women, and building an art marketplace using upcycled materials.
Fund the next one
Back a graduate whose ten-month record is already documented.