The Adventure Project
We create jobs that fulfill essential needs for people in Africa.
The Adventure Project finds, vets, & fuels local leaders who know their communities best. We partner with organizations hiring and providing solutions in clean water, healthcare and food security.
As a single mother, Linda needed a reliable income to support her family. She had a small seedling farm, but watering her plants slowed her growth because even though she lived near a river, she spent entire days carrying heavy cans of water up the steep riverbed to her greenhouse.
In January 2025, Linda was recruited, trained, and hired as an Irrigation Agent. She received an irrigation pump on loan to use for her business and to rent to farmers in her community for $1 a day, along with business and agricultural training to help her grow.
In August 2025, Linda has expanded her seedling business from 80 to 500 trays and rents her irrigation pump to neighbors, increasing her income through rentals and seedling sales. She has fully repaid her loan and owns her pump, while her neighbors have grown from small personal farms to commercial ones.
One job changed everything. And we’ve seen it 3,000 times.
Financials
Programs
HUNGER: Helping farmers grow more food
80% of the poor in Sub-Saharan Africa work as subsistence farmers. There are 12-15 million farmers in Africa who would benefit from irrigation. One irrigation pump can lift a farmer and his family out of poverty and into the middle class in as little as one harvest.
Daily income of pump owners living in extreme poverty grows from $.40, to $1.87 (+368%) 18 months with pump, and $5.32 (+1,230%) 5 years with pump. We also support programs training farmers on how to increase crop yield. On average, each farmer grows enough to sell produce to over 50 community members, and earns enough to send one child to school for the first time.
Our local programs are in Kenya and Rwanda.
HEALTH: Getting lifesaving products into villages
We support the training of local female leaders to become health care agents in Togo. They earn an income caring for women and children under 5 in their community. Research has shown that they are reducing child mortality by 25% in their communities.
WATER: Keeping water flowing
Over one-third (36%) of all wells drilled in the past 20 years are now broken - 50,000 are currently broken in Africa alone. Training local well mechanics in Ghana to fix and maintain wells is the most sustainable way to ensure wells are always working. One caretaker per well is hired to collect user fees and keep the well clean. Mechanics earn an income from repairs and maintenance. Additionally we work to hire Water Treatment Operators and Technicians to provide clean water from "Water ATMs" throughout Rwanda.
