Let's Make The Difference

2025 Goals – Let’s Make THE Difference

In 2025, Let’s Make THE Difference is focused on scaling programs that address both immediate humanitarian needs and long-term sustainability for refugees and underserved communities in Africa. Our priorities include expanding proven initiatives while strengthening the infrastructure that supports them.

1. Peace & Conflict Resolution Campaign
We will continue expanding our Peace Campaign, which has already reached 1,800 participants across six neighborhoods in Kakuma and Kalobeyei. Our 2025 goal is to double the number of trained leaders and extend the campaign to additional settlements. These leaders will train others in reconciliation, communication, and nonviolence, creating ripple effects that reduce conflict and foster resilience across communities.

2. Knead to Feed Bakery Project
Launched in September 2024, our bakery initiative is addressing urgent food insecurity while building long-term livelihoods. By the end of 2025, we aim to expand production from 12,000 loaves annually to a scale capable of feeding thousands each week. Each bakery doubles as a training school, equipping refugees with baking, entrepreneurship, and small business skills while employing local workers. Our goal is to establish at least 10 bakery schools, creating jobs, businesses, and dignity for hundreds of families.

3. LMTD Collective – Sustainable Giving
We are formally launching the LMTD Collective, a membership-based donor community that provides sustainable giving to fund expansion of our core programs. Members receive direct communication with program leaders, opportunities to participate in annual impact trips to Africa, and recognition as partners in change. Our goal is to secure 100 Founding Members in 2025, each committing $1,000 or more annually, building a base of reliable funding that allows us to plan for long-term growth.

4. Infrastructure & Capacity Building
To ensure sustainability, we are committed to building strong infrastructure and governance. This includes expanding community centers equipped with computers and internet to provide leadership, education, and entrepreneurship training; strengthening fiscal and reporting systems; and hiring and training additional local staff to manage growth responsibly.

5. Broader Impact Vision
Across all programs, our 2025 goal is to expand leadership development, create employment opportunities, and reduce hunger and violence. We will measure success not just in numbers—loaves baked, leaders trained—but in resilience gained, dignity restored, and hope renewed.

Invitation to Support
We invite partners, donors, and grantmakers to join us in building a sustainable model of empowerment that can scale across Africa. Together, we can move beyond aid toward dignity, employment, and peace for thousands of families.

Let’s Make THE Difference (LMTD) is dedicated to transforming cycles of hunger, conflict, and despair into pathways of education, leadership, and sustainable enterprise for refugees and underserved communities across Africa. Our strategies focus on identifying natural leaders, equipping them with transformative training, and empowering them to lift their communities through a “pay it forward” approach.
We believe the seeds of greatness are already present in people who face the most difficult conditions. Our role is to provide tools, water, and an environment for those seeds to grow. These experiences help participants envision a powerful future for themselves and their communities while building resilience, confidence, and practical skills.
Our Peace and Conflict Resolution Campaign has already trained hundreds of refugee leaders who now educate others in reconciliation, communication, and nonviolence. By scaling these efforts, we are cultivating a generation of peacebuilders who can interrupt cycles of violence and offer hope in places where despair too often dominates. The program is designed with multiplier effects in mind—every leader is expected to train others, creating ripple effects across refugee settlements.
Food insecurity is another pressing challenge. With food aid shrinking and families surviving on less than 1,000 calories a day, our Knead to Feed bakery schools provide both immediate relief and long-term opportunity. Each bakery trains refugees in baking, entrepreneurship, and small business management, while producing thousands of loaves of bread weekly to feed their communities. The bakeries are designed to be self-sustaining enterprises, employing refugees, teaching skills, and generating income that supports future growth. Beyond bread, they create dignity, purpose, and a model for scalable solutions.
We also strengthen community centers, both existing and new, turning them into hubs for education, leadership training, and entrepreneurial innovation. These centers provide online learning opportunities and local training programs that help participants acquire digital literacy, business skills, and career readiness. By empowering local leaders to facilitate education, we multiply reach and sustainability, ensuring these resources extend far beyond initial implementation.
Underlying every strategy is a commitment to empowerment rather than dependency. We reject short-term aid models that fail to address root causes. Instead, we build systems that allow people to solve problems within their communities, using entrepreneurial training, leadership development, or peacebuilding. Our programs emphasize resilience, sustainability, and shared responsibility.
LMTD’s guiding philosophy is simple: teach people to fish. By investing in people through training, mentorship, and resources, we create lasting solutions, businesses, and movements that improve lives now and for generations to come.

LMTD has a large network of committed, successful advisors and volunteers that know how, -and are training others who are learning how- to get stuff done. Currently we are developing teams in the areas of Fundraising, Social Media marketing, Event logistics and Course Management, and Event production; along with senior level trainers and professionals supporting the effort with donations of time, trainings, courses, and mentorship. LMTD has top-level business, productivity and efficiency advisors that assist in formulating the planning and strategies.

Our Global Transformation Team is powerfully fulfilling on our goals and our promise of 100 leaders in advanced level trainings by January 2022. This will empower these leaders to share at online networking events, create and promote their own personal passion causes to make THE difference in their communities, involving the world outside their limited local economies. We want to connect them to resources outside the local level, and create possibilities for a bright future.

Donations in the past have been generated when volunteers or those assisting have shared about what we have accomplished and people are moved, touched and inspired to be a part of it and donate.

It doesn't take much money to accomplish a lot in Africa!

Our newly formed fundraising team, established in July 2021 is committed to sharing on Social Media and pursuing corporate participation in our commitment to bring technology to Africa, and to assist with online education that wasn't available in the past. Our goals are to triple donations by the end of the year in order to meet our already declared targets.

Founded in 2019, LMTD raised funds and sent 11 teachers, civic leaders and administrators from Livingstone, Zambia to a advanced leadership training for one week in Cape Town, South Africa. They raised $2,000 to cover costs of visas, passports, food and deposits. Amount raised $14,000 Spent: $14,000 (approximate)

In April, 2021 LMTD assisting in establishing The Loshomo Leadership Training Initiative in Livingstone and support the fundraising efforts to open a computer cafe where the population has access to computers. Classes are held for students and volunteers assist students with homework and teach basic computing skills currently at no cost. Start up costs: $2,000 monthly expenses approximately $100.

May, 2021; LMTD provided tuition assistance, in some cases computers, internet access, and some lodging assistance due to COVID lockdowns, so that 30 people in 8 countries could attend a powerful leadership course help on zoom from Kenya. Also provided tuition deposits for 23 additional participants for the October course, and 28 for additional next level training.
Total cost $14,000. Raised: $9000 donations, $5,000 angel investor with long-term zero interest loan.