Community Building
Cultivating community is the cornerstone of our work. We partner with diverse communities around the world to close the opportunity gaps they face and enable them to strengthen from within. Get to know some of the communities we work with by looking through the project pages below.
After-School Projects
We started our after-school project “mini-grant” program as a way to keep kids safe and engaged after-school, while also allowing teachers the opportunity to implement a project of their own design.
Manav Sadhna
Our partnership with Manav Sadhna began in 2016 with a fellowship program for recent college graduates to serve in Ahmedabad, India. Since then, we’ve paused the fellowship but continue to support the Manav Mitra Education Center which our early fellows helped to establish.
Peru
Through HOPE Projects, Dry Creek supported home building for 6 villages in the High Andes region of Peru where the indigenous people live at altitudes of over 15,000 ft, often lacking access to basic resources. In 2020, we partnered again with our boots on the ground to bring COVID food relief to the same villages.
Hué Partnerships
Our work in Vietnam is what started it all. After 10 years of supporting the construction of 10 kindergartens in the Hué province, we remain closely connected with our collaborator Mr. Nguyen Van Thinh to advance youth chess and soccer in the region.
Mount Olympus Garden
The Mount Olympus Refugee Garden is an exemplar of community collaboration, uniting political, nonprofit, and constituent voices to transform a long-vacant plot of land into a community pillar that serves refugee and New American families.
Second Serve
Our latest collaboration, Second Serve, is led by two young Indian-American girls who are giving used tennis equipment a second chance to serve youth in the developing world.
Rohingya Partnership
Dry Creek has partnered with Umar Faruq, a Rohingya-American who left his home in 2007 in pursuit of higher education, to support construction of a high school in his home village in Myanmar and a middle school in a nearby community.
Rural Iran Supplies for Children
The patients suffering EB (epidermolysis bullosa) are known as the “Butterfly Kids.” Local resources are limited.