Find Your Feet

Sobre nosotros

Find Your Feet is a small organisation making a big impact with over 60 years experience helping families build a future free from hunger and poverty. We were founded in 1960 by the journalist Carol Martin, in response to the plight of Eastern European refugees. She was particularly concerned that families were suffering from malnutrition and was motivated to do something about it.
Over our 60 year history we have evolved from being an organisation that provides humanitarian aid to one that supports long-term rural development projects. We have also shifted our geographical focus from Europe to Asia and Africa where we believe the need is greatest. We’re partnering with Health Poverty Action to ensure our work, and the relationships we have built with communities over the years, will remain as strong as ever in the future.

Vision
We believe in social justice: a world in which everyone has the right to build a future free from hunger and poverty.

Mission
To mobilise local knowledge, skills and resources so that more poor, rural families can find sustainable solutions to hunger, poverty and discrimination.

Our work supports vulnerable rural families in India, Zimbabwe and Malawi (in partnership with the now autonomous Malawi-registered NGO, Find Your Feet Malawi, who became independent in 2016), to grow enough food so they don’t have to go hungry, to strengthen their voice so they can speak out against injustice, and to earn enough money so they can find their feet.

Our work:
We focus on three key areas; helping families grow more food, earn and income and speak out.
• We help families grow more food: We support and encourage families to innovate, using their own resources more productively, trying new seeds, making compost and diversifying their crops. This means they can produce a variety of nutritious foods to eat throughout the year so that they never go hungry and to earn an income by selling the excess.
• We help families earn more income: We provide people with training and support to start village saving and loan schemes, so they can borrow a little capital, and have the knowledge and skills to start a small business. This allows them to sell their surplus vegetables or eggs or start a small local shop which enables them to become more self-reliant and provide a better future for their family.
• We help communities strengthen their voice: We empower people so that they have the confidence to speak out and take a stand on issues that affect them, such as accessing better healthcare for their children or clean water for their village. This in turn enables them to demand what is rightfully theirs.

For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff, give an expert opinion, procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of our work.