Welcome to Hopes and Dreams
Hopes and Dreams is a Movement that Seeks to Inspire Charitable Action
Our Main Goal is to make a difference
Hopes and Dreams is passionate about making a real difference to the lives of the poor, needy and desperate people living in the remote and rural parts of Africa and India. We do this by empowering communities through providing access to clean water and micro-enterprise opportunities.
It’s our desire to move people from being sympathetic or empathetic to being compassionate. Compassion goes beyond feelings of pity or sorrow for someones hardships or putting yourself in the shoes of another to imagine what someone else is thinking or feeling, it’s something that arises within when you are confronted with anothers suffering and your are motivated to relieve that suffering by taking action to help, getting involved, being part of the solution.
There are hopes and dreams deep down in the heart of all humanity, irrespective of being rich or poor. It maybe; to get an education to have better opportunity, to want a different life for your children, to not be sick but enjoy health, to do something amazing or to have a brighter future full of possibilities and happiness.
We invite YOU to join our community where you can connect and belong with a tribe of people who want to change the world.
“We work in the developing world to provide access to clean water, hygiene & sanitation education and micro-enterprise opportunities.”
– Nello Ragusa, Hopes and Dreams Founder –
Our Impact
Projects completed
Lives impacted
% OF FUNDS GO DIRECT TO FIELD PROGRAMS
Making A Difference
Success Stories
Saving Lives
We are involved in transforming lives by empowering people to break their cycles of poverty and by providing access to clean safe drinking Water and Sanitation, Hygiene Education (WaSHE).
Everyone has to eat (generating an income can enable one to buy food). Everyone has to drink – without water one dies! You are actually giving life.
Hopes and Dreams Inc also supports MED – Micro Enterprise Development (aka Economic Empowerment).
The number of people impacted represents the number of lives transformed as a result of being the recipients of our loan opportunities and who now can make their own way out of poverty because they have a small viable business of their own.
| Year | Project Type | Country | Location | No, of Projects | Africa | India |
| 2023 | WASHE | Zimbabwe | Mabvazuva | 1 | 6,000 | |
| 2023 | WASHE | Zambia | Mabo_Sakala | 1 | 4,800 | |
| 2022 | WASHE | Zambia | Lubwe | 1 | 10,000 | |
| 2020 | WASHE | Zambia | Mundubi | 1 | 3,540 | |
| 2020 | MED | South Africa | Eswatini | 20 | 500 | |
| 2020 | MED | South Africa | Eswatini | 30 | 750 | |
| 2020 | WASHE | Zambia | Mashitolo | 1 | 5,950 | |
| 2019 | WASHE | Kenya | Kodhiambo | 1 | 4420 | |
| 2019 | WASHE | Zambia | Chinsanka | 2 | 10,000 | |
| 2019 | WASHE | Zimbabwe | Hunter Bar Old Mabvuku, District: Mabvuku | 5680 | ||
| 2018 | WASHE | Zambia | Yongolo, Province: Luapula, Distict: Samfya | 6000 | ||
| 2108 | MED | South Africa | Jane Furse, Kabokweni & | 180 | ||
| Nkomazi East + West | ||||||
| 2018 | MED | South Africa | 180 | 4,500 | ||
| 2017 | MED | South Africa | Jane Furse, Kabokweni & Nkomazi East + West | 175 | 4,375 | |
| 2017 | WASHE | Zimbabwe | Gweru, Mabodza | 1 | 2,950 | |
| 2016 | MED | South Africa | Jane Furse, Kabokweni & | 278 | 6,665 | |
| Nkomazi East + West | ||||||
| 2015 | MED | India | A P Trayam, Buchumpeta, Karakuduru, Dummulapeta | 25 | 1,250 | |
| 2015 | MED | South Africa | Jane Furse, Kabokweni & | 129 | 3,105 | |
| Nkomazi East + West | ||||||
| 2015 | MED | India | A P Trayam, Cheediga | 9 | 350 | |
| 2014 | MED | India | A P Trayam, Rameswaram | 7 | 150 | |
| 2013 | MED | India | A P Trayam, Chidiga, Repuru | 6 | 250 | |
| 2013 | MED | India | Ameenabad | 3 | 150 | |
| 2013 | WASHE | Zambia | Chongwe, Chitemalesa | 1 | 6,390 | |
| 2013 | MED | South Africa | Siyabuswa | 54 | 1,340 | |
| 2013 | MED | South Africa | Siyabuswa | 53 | 1,315 | |
| 2013 | MED | India | Kakinada, Uppada | 2 | 100 | |
| 2012 | MED | India | Kakinada, Uppada | 4 | 200 | |
| 2012 | MED | South Africa | BB Ridge, Nkomazi | 51 | 1,285 | |
| 2012 | MED | India | Kakinada, Uppada | 1 | 50 | |
| 2012 | WASHE | Zambia | Kitwe, Kamakonde | 1 | 12,000 | |
| 2011 | WASHE | Zambia | Kabwe, Miswa | 1 | 8,000 | |
| 2011 | WASHE | Zambia | Luanshya, Twashuka | 1 | 5,000 | |
| 2011 | MED | South Africa | Masoyi, Kabokweni | 27 | 675 | |
| 2010 | WASHE | Zambia | Kabwe, Susu | 1 | 5,000 | |
| Total | 1,248.00 | 114,240.00 | 2,500.00 | |||
| Total people impacted | 116,740.00 | |||||
We save lives
Throughout Africa and the Asian sub-continent, we are partnering alongside communities in delivering live-saving water solutions.
“We work in the developing world to provide access to clean water, hygiene & sanitation education and micro-enterprise opportunities.”
– Nello Ragusa, Hopes and Dreams Founder –
How You Can Get Involved
Start a Fundraiser
A fundraiser is a great way to get involved and can be alot of fun. Here are some suggestions:
- Hold a casual clothes day at your workplace or school
- Start up a workplace giving pledge program
- Show support by ongoing sponsorship
- You personally decide to make a difference and give a once off contribution or make a commitment to making a monthly contribution.
Sponsor a Project
Consider helping by doing creative fund raising activities to:
- sponsor a Water and Sanitation, Hygiene Education project to bring safe, clean drinking water to a village of 5,000 people for $15,000
- create a Self Help Trust Group, consisting of 10 women in India so each woman can run their own small business for $1,650
- create a group, consisting of 10 women in South Africa so each woman can run their own small business for $330
Volunteer
Unable to give financially? Why not give your time instead?
Hopes and Dreams is an organisation run purely by volunteers, so that contributions received are directed to our projects to serve the people who need it most.
We are always looking for people with passion and a variety of skills to help us do what we do.
Why not get involved and make a difference with us?
If you would like to be a part of the team, facilitating community development for people in poverty, please send an email to info@hopesanddreams.org.au detailing your skill set and your availability.
Become an Advocate
Why not get involved and join in championing our cause, e.g. become and advocate, use your social media preference; Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn to spread the word with your friends, families and work colleagues.
Share our story – who we are, why we exist, what we do and the impact we are having.
Take the One Challenge
For an individual, YOU contribute the equivalent of 1 days income. It’s ‘ONE day’ out of your whole years wage/salary, this represents just 0.27% or YOU contribute just 1 hours pay per month and commit to monthly contributions for the year. It’s ‘ONE hour’ from your 160 hour working month.
For a Business, it’s giving away only 1% of your profits
Many organisations are doing this and see this as an opportunity to “give back” and an important factor to their continual success. In Australia the average daily income is equal to four month’s income of an individual living below the poverty line in India. Giving just ONE day’s income allows someONE’s life to be changed forever.
Hopes and Dreams needs support to transform the lives of more than 152,000 people who are living in the poorest areas around the globe.
Your choice to sacrifice ONE day or 1%, changes the future, not just for one person, but for their family, the wider community and the next generation.
We all have a moral and social responsibility to make the world a better place. Are YOU willing to join in our mission and take up the ONE challenge?
To be part of THE ONE CHALLENGE, email us at info@hopesanddreams.org.au
Become a Strategic Partner
We always aim to partner organisations and groups with aligned synergies with our principles and objectives.
We follow strict governance criteria in selecting our grassroots implementation partners and projects. We invite socially responsible organisations to invest by partnering with us to provide self-sustainable solutions in the developing countries and reap the transformed lives as return on investmen.
Become a strategic partner (corporate or business) based on synergies between organisations.
Contact us by email info@hopesanddreams.org.au or telephone +61 415 110 055 to discuss how.
We fund futures
We provide options to allow the most disadvantaged to rise above their circumstances.
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