KickStart International

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Overview

KickStart helps people get out poverty by creating and promoting simple tools they can use to create businesses and income. Our biggest success is our line of MoneyMaker manual irrigation pumps. By proving an easy and inexpensive way to irrigate, KickStart helps poor farmers increase their farm income ten-fold.

Mission

To help millions of people out of poverty as quickly and cost effectively as possible, and in the process, change how the world fights poverty.

Program

KickStart has only program: to create and promote money-making tools used by entreprenurial people to create businesses jobs and wealth.

Impact

Over 47,000 profitable new businesses have been started with KickStart pumps and other tools--and more than 1,000 are added each month. These businesses generate over $48 million in new profits and wages every year. This has helped over 235,000 people out of poverty. More than 60,000 are now enrolled in school because their parents can finally afford school fees.

Countries

Kenya, Burkina Faso, Mali, Tanzania, United Republic of

States

California, New York

Contact

2435 Polk St.

Suite 20

San Francisco, CA 94109

Phone: (415) 346-4820

www.kickstart.org

EIN: 06-1613235


Environment

Help One Family

Super MoneyMaker Pump

KickStart International

Regular price $300.00

Your gift will provide a KickStart Super MoneyMaker Pump for one family, lifting them out of poverty. What does "out of poverty" look like? It means a family has enough food to eat, decent clothes and shelter, enough money to send their children to school and still have money left over to invest in the future. That's what KickStart creates.