Eco-bricks. Bottle Bricks. Recycled bottles stuffed with inorganic trash. This is what brought OG to a small indigenous Q’eqchi Maya community by the name of Tzibal. Working alongside a grassroots organization, our 2011 Guatemala team helped to construct new school rooms for the community....
Every year, our Alumni Project Fund provides kick-starter grants to ignite solutions to some of our world’s most pressing problems. We've put together a couple of videos to tell you everything you ever wanted to know about the Project Fund but were too afraid to...
This is a story of a badass group of women in Kenya leading the charge to create change within their community. Pamoja Tuinuke, a farmers empowerment program based out of Nyeri, was united and founded by women-led self-help groups spread across thirty-eight communities to address local...
Operation Groundswell’s Alumni Project Fund was created to support our alumni in their quest to create positive change around the world, while continuing to engage with OG and our global community. This year, our Alumni Project Fund Committee received yet another batch of strong proposals for...
Written by Bryan Adams, OG Alumni, Haiti 2012. With the support from Operation Groundswell's Alumni Project Fund, the Ubuntu Blocks Project in Port-au-Prince has established a processing facility to efficiently produce the recycled polystyrene building blocks used in housing construction. In order to provide blocks to ongoing residential...
Femme International was a recipient of OG's 2014 Alumni Project Fund to help fund our Feminine Health Management Programs in East Africa....
Congratulations to all our grant winners this year! ...
Congratulations to G-Roots innovative solar-powered drip irrigation system! ...
The proposals are in and now it's your turn to show support!...
Providing menstrual health education to girls in the Mathare Valley slum....
Initiate the pilot implementation of a solar-powered drip irrigation system in northern Ghana....
Ubuntu Blocks are currently created by recycling polystyrene in Haiti....
Let's build a learning and job training centre for the Karen people....
The Ghana Clinic Project gives Wli Todzi access to health care. ...
Childcare facilities allow the women in Hebron to get involved economically....
