The Lemonaid and ChariTea Foundation Grant Program

Deadline: 20-Jul-25

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Focus Areas

• Value Chains: The economic growth of recent decades has often left large parts of the population behind.
• Education: All of their projects have something in common: They provide education in various forms and on diverse topics.
• Advocacy: The Foundation recognises that advocacy is essential to draw attention to under-resourced issues and marginalised groups whether to mobilise support, secure funding, or raise awareness.
• Access to finance: “Access to finance” often used interchangeably with “financial inclusion” refers to the availability and use of financial services by individuals and businesses.
• Cross-cutting Areas
  • Gender: They support projects that work towards decreasing structural gender related inequalities.
  • Marginalized People: They work with projects that target groups of people that have historically been excluded from development initiatives such as indigenous groups or people with disabilities.
  • Innovation: Projects that are focusing on a pilot, or trying out new ideas are innovative. they aim to support trial processes and are willing to learn together with their partners.
  • Climate and Resource management: They look for projects which contribute to the resilience of their communities to climate shocks and promote resource management to mitigate the ongoing global climate crisis.

Funding Information

• Funding is available for amounts between 10,000€ – 50,000€ per year, which sums up to an overall amount of maximum 150,000€ for the project time frame.

Eligibility Criteria

• The applicant organization must be registered as a charitable organization, non-profit organization (NPO) or non-governmental organization (NGO) in their respective country.
  • They fund organisations based in the following countries:
  • South Africa,
  • Rwanda,
  • Madagascar,
  • India: Only organisations from Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Bihar, West Bengal, Darjeeling or Sikkim
  • Sri Lanka,
  • Mexico,
  • Peru.

Ineligibility Criteria

• Application(s) will not be considered if:
  • it is not complete.
  • the organisation does not reside in a project country.
  • it does not speak to one of their focus areas.
  • it contains discriminatory content.
  • it includes animal husbandry (this includes poultry!).
  • it is from an international organisation.
  • the applying organisation has an annual organisational budget of more than 1,000,000€

For more information, visit Lemonaid and ChariTea Foundation.