2024 Impact Report
Streets of Africa – 2024 Impact Report
2024 was an exciting year for Streets of Africa as we experienced the largest amount of donations and 2nd highest total of participants in the annual SoA Golf Retreat. As we kick-off the New Year, I would like to reflect on some of the highlights from the past year. We are honored to continue our partnerships with Water4, Small Steps for Compassion and The Eswatini Partnership.
Water4
Water4 started out of an awareness and discontent with the water crisis and a willingness to answer God’s call to get up and do something about it with whatever knowledge and resolve we had. Our founders, Dick and Terri Greenly, never wanted to start a non-profit because … they like profit. As owners of a successful Oklahoma pump distributor, they value how businesses can create more - more value, more margin, more flourishing. So when Dick found himself trying to accept a $100,000 check to drill wells around the world, his church community convinced him to start Water4 as a non-profit. Then he developed it into the least non-profit non-profit he could think of, building for-profit businesses across Africa. Water4’s undergone many iterations, but we’ve always known that charity alone can’t solve problems of poverty. Charity and government combined have only 25% of the resources needed to provide safe water to the developing world. And charity and government cannot create, they can only redistribute - taking what’s been given and allocating it elsewhere. But business creates. With every transaction, businesses generate value out of thin air and reinvest it into accomplishing their vision - in our case, of seeing safe water piped to every home, school, community - everywhere. Now, we have done what many said was impossible: created profitable water markets with customers on an average $2/day income. While we have already helped millions of people through safe water access, there are hundreds of millions more. We’re pursuing a world in which there is abundance and Water4’s no longer needed. We want to put ourselves as a non-profit out of business. Join us on the journey and generate good.
It is an honor to partner with Water4 in their pursuit to end the global water crisis. Streets of Africa will continue to support the vision and mission of this longtime partner organization.
Small Steps for Compassion
In 2014, SoA was part of an effort to build an orphanage in a remote area of Tanzania. The orphanage has grown from housing 4 children to 25 children and 18 full & part-time staff at the end of 2017. In 2017, Small Steps purchased a local school and is providing education to students ages K – 12, including the 25 residents of the orphanage. The school is ministering to children of the local village as well as children from another local orphanage. Ongoing SoA funds support Small Steps as they continue to grow and meet the critical needs of the children in their care.
BFC - Eswatini Partnership
In 2022, Streets of Africa began a partnership with Bethany First Nazarene and The Eswatini Partnership. We are honored to come alongside BFC to support the life-saving, life-changing relief work in Eswatini. Efforts include supporting orphanages, an AIDS task force truly acting as the hands and feet of Christ to meet critical needs, a shelter and home for girls and young women who have been the victim of abuse within their family unit as well as other areas of compassion. It is an honor to serve in partnership with the leadership at BFC and The Eswatini Partnership.