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Kwanda

Give through your business.

Back locally led projects from $25 a month, vote on every proposal, follow monthly progress and appear in Kwanda's public business directory once approved.

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See what you get

What your business gets

  • A business profile

    Once approved, your public profile carries your name, what you do and a link back to your business.

  • A vote

    Your business votes on every project, alongside 1,861 villagers.

  • Proof

    Every project reports back monthly, in the partner's own words and photographs. That is material for your own people and your own reporting.

  • No admin

    One monthly payment and nothing to file. No grant application, no reporting deadline, no annual renewal to remember.

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What is Kwanda?

1,861 diasporans around the globe pooling their money every month, and deciding together what it builds.

What Kwanda has accomplished

Open ledger

Projects funded

68

Capital deployed

$312,637

Lives improved

30,154

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Two free healthcare clinics in Nigeria

Care Circle in Itire and Safe City in Oworoshoki, both running free consultations in Lagos. 11,195 patient visits since launch.

A community borehole in Tanzania

Community-managed boreholes in Tanzania

Boreholes drilled and run by the communities themselves. 8,648 people now draw clean water close to home.

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Classroom library corners in Ghana

Books and a reading space built into classrooms, reaching 1,300 children.

Giving you can account for.

  • Transparent

    Every grant and every cost sits on a public ledger. You can see what reached a project and what it costs to operate.

  • Locally led

    Money goes to local teams doing the work. No intermediary, no matching fund, no consultant.

  • Trackable

    The partner reports every month in their own words and photographs, until the thing is finished and working.

  • Durable

    We fund things that keep producing. A clinic, a workshop, a borehole: the value does not stop when the money does.

Introducing business accounts

A business account is a company giving to Kwanda in its own name, from $25 a month. It votes on every project like any other villager.

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Welcome, Marlowe & Co

You are now a villager.

Projects you are funding

Mango drying shed, Kaolack
Borehole at Nkwanta Senior High
Sewing workshop, Kitwe

What signing up involves

Signing up takes three short steps: add your business and account details, choose a monthly contribution from $25, then add payment details. There is no contract, and you can change or cancel whenever you like.

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Start a business account

Business name Marlowe & Co
First name Remi
Last name Etko
Email address remi@gmail.com
Monthly contribution £50
Continue

You can change or cancel this at any time.

The directory

Once approved, your profile appears in a public directory of contributing businesses. It carries your name, what you do and where people can find you.

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Marlowe & Co

Professional services

An accountancy practice in Manchester working with founder-led businesses.

The community your business joins

Villagers around the world

  • United Kingdom 1,190
  • United States 392
  • Canada 41
  • Germany 37
  • Netherlands 32
  • Australia 18

Top six of 47 countries in the member snapshot taken on 20 August 2026. Percentages use the 1,905 active villagers recorded on that date.

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