Fund for Good wrap-up: highlights from our partners in 2024

2024 was a year of remarkable growth for the four charities we supported as part of our Fund For Good – an initiative we launched in 2023 to aid the work being done by carefully-selected organizations around the world, each one making a positive impact on key societal and environmental issues. In this annual wrap-up, we’re incredibly excited to share last year’s achievements and success stories from our 2024 Fund For Good partners Just A Drop, Tree Aid, the Foundation for Amazon Sustainability (FAS), and the Wildlife Alliance.

Top highlights and achievements from our Fund For Good partners

Just a Drop

Over the last 25 years, Just a Drop has transformed the lives of nearly two million people. Access to safe water unlocks potential and creates lasting change, improving health, education, women’s rights, community development, economic growth, and brighter futures.

In 2024, we donated more than £26,000 to Just a Drop. This included an advanced donation to its Big Give Christmas Challenge: by contributing before the Tuesday, December 10th deadline, our £7,409 donation was doubled, resulting in an overall contribution of £14,818. This helped Just a Drop surpass their fundraising target, and they achieved a total of £103,350 against a target of £76,000. This success means that even more communities will benefit from safe water, improved hygiene, and better sanitation.

Just a Drop has plenty of exciting projects lined up for 2025. Three areas they’re focusing on include:

• Expanding access to safe water and sanitation: This year, Just a Drop is launching menstrual health programs in Cambodia, reaching 1,667 people to provide education and access to reusable sanitary products. Water security projects in Kenya will help communities become more resilient to droughts and floods, while in Nicaragua, watershed programs are underway to improve soil fertility and support livelihoods.
• Sustainable water solutions and climate resilience: Rainwater harvesting projects will strengthen water security in areas facing climate challenges, while new elevated latrines in Cambodia will prevent flooding-related sanitation issues. As well, borehole rehabilitation in Zambia is restoring water access for thousands of people.
• Empowering communities through income-generating loans: In Kenya and Uganda, small loans are helping families build businesses and improve their financial stability, breaking the cycle of poverty.

You can find out more about Just a Drop’s programs and practices in their 2025 Spring Report.

Tree Aid

As a corporate partner of international NGO Tree Aid, we’re thrilled that our support is helping expand the vital work the team is doing across the Sahel region. In 2024 we donated more than £24,000, and our contribution helped grow the equivalent of 24,300 trees. In so doing, we helped support communities across the drylands of Africa, improving incomes and access to nutritious food as well as restoring land.

Throughout 2025, Tree Aid is continuing to empower communities across the drylands to thrive. One highlight is an exciting brand-new shea project in western Ethiopia’s Gambella region: this is a groundbreaking step, being a new area for Tree Aid and their first time working with shea trees in Ethiopia. The forests of Gambella, rich with shea trees, are increasingly under threat due to the climate crisis. With around 77% of the local population relying on these forests for income, Tree Aid’s efforts to protect them are crucial for the sustainability of both the local communities and the ecosystems they depend on.

This project aims to train communities to sustainably manage 16,700 hectares of forest, as well as restore 3,000 hectares of degraded land through tree growing and regeneration. It will enable 10 village groups to increase income through non-timber forest products, as well as host regional meetings to improve shea production and strengthen governance in the industry.

Read more: Growing hope: how Tree Aid are transforming lives and landscapes

The Foundation for Amazon Sustainability

We are proud to have donated more than £24,000 towards impactful projects led by the Foundation for Amazon Sustainability (FAS), whose mission is to aid the sustainable development of the Brazilian Amazon by helping improve the quality of life of its local communities.

Through our NGO partnership with FAS, in 2024 we supported the Forest Health Program, which from July 1st to November 8th delivered 174 telehealth consultations. Mental health services took the lead, accounting for 76% of the sessions. These included psychological, medical, and nursing telecare that reached 16 communities across seven cities.

One of the program’s highlights is the focus on psychological telecare, where stories like that of a 17-year-old patient from the Nova Esperança community show how these services bring emotional stability and hope to vulnerable individuals. The program has also addressed issues linked to climate change, such as increased anxiety caused by the prolonged drought season, helping communities cope through counseling and resilience strategies.

Wildlife Alliance

The last of our 2024 Fund For Good partners, the Wildlife Alliance’s ongoing work at the Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center (PTWRC) in Cambodia is nothing if not incredible, offering rescued animals a fresh start and a safe place to heal and thrive. We are proud to have contributed just over £24,000 towards their initiatives in 2024.

We loved hearing some of these inspiring stories, which included Roy the tiger’s transformation from living in a tiny cage to enjoying a lush, forested home; Scarface the stork’s recovery after a devastating injury, with a prosthetic beak in the works; and Chanam the baby elephant’s rescue, finding safety and care after being separated from her herd.

In 2025, the Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center will continue rehabilitating over 1,600 rescued animals, providing the expert care and dedication they need to recover and thrive. Among them are two young elephant calves rescued in 2024: Chanam, now two years old, and Lomphat, just nine months old. Both calves are receiving round-the-clock care in their newly built enclosure, including bottle feeding and treatment for their injuries.

When animals are fully rehabilitated and conditions are suitable, the center will release them into the surrounding forest. Species scheduled for release this year include pythons, crocodiles, sambar deer, and many more, each one returning to the wild where they belong.

Read more: Fund For Good: how Wildlife Alliance is protecting Cambodian wildlife

Make it happen

By planning your travel experiences with TravelLocal, you’re helping us send more money directly into the local communities, as well as support our Fund For Good partners towards making a bigger impact. Find out more about each of these organizations and other ways in which you can support them by visiting our Reimagine site.