Our mission is to empower in the belief that the choices people make for themselves are invariably the better ones.
Our focus is on Africa. The Continent is forecast to account for 40% of the world’s population by 2100 from 17% today. As a result poverty will become ever harder to address and resources will be under increasing strain.
The solutions must come from within and need to be affordable and scalable.
There are three prongs to our approach:
Nursery school education
Girls who can read have two children or so; those that don’t have five.
Nursery schools are under-resourced and teachers untrained. What’s more, play is an unfamiliar concept. We have a programme that shows teachers how to organise their classrooms and create educational games from recycled materials.
Inspiration at zero cost.
Innovation
A third of the population are excluded from the so-called “formal economy”.
Everyone in Africa has a mobile phone. Information, training, finance and health care are available at the touch of a button. Our sister Trust, Perivoli Innovations, supports businesses that help people make the most of what’s on offer.
Everyone wants to get on.
Policy choices
The “structural adjustments” demanded by the West are said to have done more harm than good.
Government policies are influenced by what developed countries think Africa needs. We have promoted a policy research centre at the University of Bristol that encourages high level collaboration with and within the Continent.
Let Africa decide for itself.
We believe that the combination of the three will lead to people making better life choices, selecting better leaders, attracting greater inward investment and husbanding resources more wisely.
But time is of the essence. So we need to hurry.
The Foundation is a named beneficiary of the Perivoli Trust from which it has received donations. It is anticipated that the Trustees of Perivoli Innovations will wish to donate profits to the Foundation from its portfolio of venture investments.
Perivoli Innovations is a Jersey based purpose Trust settled by the Trustees of Perivoli Trust in 2016 which invests in early stage venture opportunities with a positive social impact. So far over fifty businesses have been backed in medtech, life science, renewable energy and productivity enhancing technologies. Almost a third of its investments are in Africa.
Details of the investments made by Perivoli Innovations and their anticipated positive social impact can be found at
www.perivoliinnovations.comThe Perivoli Schools Trust
The Perivoli Schools Trust, established in 2013, runs a nursery school teacher training programme in Sub-Saharan Africa which shows teachers the importance of play, how to organise their classrooms and, in particular, how to make educational games out of recycled materials.
Find out moreThe Perivoli Africa Research Centre (PARC)
PARC is a cross disciplinary Research Centre established at the University of Bristol in 2019 with a gift from the Perivoli Trust. The Centre aims to transform the way in which academic research on Africa is undertaken in the hope of helping the Continent to better advance its developmental goals.
Find out moreFounder-led charities
The Foundation directs its support to small entrepreneurially led charities focussed variously on enhancing education in developing countries and war zones, aiding those with disabilities, and combatting poaching, the mistreatment of animals and the degradation of natural habitats.
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