Creating Lasting Impact
Discover the positive changes we've made in local communities through our sustainable practices
Dedicated to transforming lives and communities in need since 2006
Our Approach to Sustainable Community Development
At Communities Assist, we believe in a holistic approach to sustainable community development. We focus on education, capacity building, and empowerment to create long-term change.
Education and Training Programs
At Communities Assist, we employ a variety of methods and approaches to teach and facilitate sustainable practices within local communities in Africa. By working closely with our local partners and experts from Australia and abroad, we are able to make a lasting impact and be the catalyst for positive change.
Empowering Communities
in Africa through Sustainable Practices
Communities Assist is dedicated to making a tangible impact in Africa by working with local partners and experts to teach and facilitate sustainable practices. Through our efforts, we aim to alleviate poverty and address the issues of scarcity and inequality.
70%
Of daily food needs produced
for 42 families in Tanzania
208
Orphans and vulnerable Tanzanian orphans supported
Impact
Our Journey So Far
2006-2008
Assisting vulnerable and orphaned children in their community by providing food, shelter, clothing, medical support, schooling and employing in the local community
2009-2011
Developing and implementing sustainable solutions for housing, childcare, food production and storage, land treatment and employing the local community.
2012-2020
Educating locals in sustainable practices, initiating an outreach program to transition children into foster care within their local community.
2020-2023
Education and Green Team thrive with African university collaboration, new expert farm management and new technologies employed.
Garden to Plate
Where food is abundant and healthy so on one goes hungry or sick
Our Permaculture advisor Greg Knibbs, farm manager Frank Kimaro and our Green Team are always focused on improving the design, quality and volume of food grown in the gardens to create an improved, diverse, organic and healthy diet on the plates of our staff and kids.
While we often face challenges at Rainbow Ridge such as communication and connectivity (internet), water shortage (drought) or government restrictions and intervention, the team always rises to the challenge with intelligent and innovative solutions to ensure significant progress.
Our project has been boosted in recent years by the oversight of our Kenyan team from Kisumu City Permaculture Academy, collaboration with intern students from Kampala University, Uganda and the new management of Frank Kimaro so that Frank, Greg and our Green Team have ended 2023 with the delivery of our latest designed "Permaculture in Practice" week long crash course teaching African NGO representatives the best in theory and practice of sustainable farming at Rainbow Ridge
