The Adventure Project

ATTN Friends! A generous donor just dropped a $10,000 challenge match for the final day of our #LaborDayandDelivery campaign. 🎉💪

We only have 24 hours to unlock these critical funds. Can you help?

Your gift could be the one to push us over the top and make a HUGE impact for moms and babies. 👶💕

🚨 Okay, Tumblr fam, here’s the deal 🚨—our #LaborDayandDelivery campaign is almost over, but you can still make a huge impact! 💪

Your gift will support Community Health Workers (CHWs) who are literally saving lives by providing care to moms in Kenya, Uganda, and Togo. These local legends are the heartbeat of their communities, and we want to make sure they can keep doing their amazing work!

Donate now and help us hit our goal of supporting 500 moms. Time’s ticking! ⏳

Did you hear? Our #LaborDayandDelivery online auction has incredible items from some of our favorite brands! You can bid to win and help pregnant moms in Kenya, Togo, and Uganda get life-saving care.

1. Get the viral Olive & June Mani System and give yourself the perfect at-home manicure.

2. Cozy up this fall with an APOTHEKE gift card for hand-poured soaps and candles.

3. Sip on our fave teas from The Republic of Tea.

📸 Togo is one of the hardest places to give birth. Swipe to discover six ways you're making it safer for moms to deliver! 🌍👶 #6 will warm your heart!

1️⃣ A Country of Millions but Few Doctors: Togo has only 347 doctors for over 8 million people. Community Health Workers (CHWs) are crucial. CHWs bike miles daily to provide essential care. 🚴‍♀️💉

2️⃣ Prenatal Visits Can Be Lifesaving: Your support helps hire and train CHWs who conduct vital prenatal check-ups, helping expectant mothers stay healthy and prepared. 👶❤️

3️⃣ Healthcare is Free for Mothers and Children: This incredible program allows pregnant women and children under five in Togo to have access to free healthcare. 💸👩‍👧

4️⃣ Health Facilities Get a Helping Hand: Our partner, Integrate Health, mentors nurses and midwives in regions with few doctors, ensuring effective care. 🏥👏

5️⃣ The Ambulance is a Motorbike: Motorbike ambulances provide free, life-saving rides to mothers and children in need. 🏍️🚑

6️⃣ Mothers Walk from Benin to Give Birth in Togo: Seeking better healthcare, some women in labor cross borders to deliver their babies in Togo. 🌍👩‍🍼

🌍 Did you know the biggest killer of women and kids isn’t malaria or dirty water? It’s respiratory illness from cooking over open fires. It kills 4 million every year.

Simpli the best!

Together, we have the power to make a difference.

So, we created a Baby Registry like no other!

This registry is filled with 5 essential items for expectant mothers in Togo and Uganda. Just $5 can provide a prenatal check-up. All donations are matched this month, doubling your impact.

1. "Coal" is actually luxury charcoal soap and candles are hand-poured in Brooklyn by a female-owned small business.

2. Each purchase provides a new charcoal-efficient stove to a woman in Kenya.

3. The new stove saves half as much firewood as cooking over an open fire (saving 6 trees each year from being cut down for fuel!).

4. The stove also drastically reduces carbon emissions and saves women from breathing in toxic cooking smoke (each stove saves an average of 1 ton of carbon).

5. The stoves are made locally in Kenya and sold by women, creating good jobs!

6. $20 each, they made a great stocking stuffer or hostess gift. They are wrapped and ready for gifting!

7. TODAY! Thursday, Dec 15 is the last day to order for Christmas delivery 📦!

Reasons to love putting “coal” in someone's stocking this year:

Charcoal soap and candles are hand-poured in Brooklyn by a female-owned small business.

Each purchase provides a new charcoal-efficient stove to a woman in Kenya.

The new stove saves half as much firewood as cooking over an open fire (saving 6 trees each year from being cut down for fuel!).

The stove also drastically reduces carbon emissions and saves women from breathing in toxic cooking smoke (each stove saves an average of 1 ton of carbon).

The stoves are made locally in Kenya and sold by women, creating good jobs!

$20 each, they made a great stocking stuffer or hostess gift. They are wrapped and ready for gifting!

Malnutrition has soared as more than 4 million Kenyans are starving - about half of them are children.

Mercy never planned to become a farmer. During high school, she dreamed of going to college and getting a professional job. But, she couldn't afford tuition.

At 19, she married her husband, Robert, and soon settled down to raise their four children in Bomet, Kenya.

She planted a small plot of corn to help make ends meet. Unfortunately, her husband’s small business was not enough to cover their needs. And with little rain, her corn barely grew.

Mercy persisted, planting kale on a small piece of land in the backyard. Without irrigation, she would carry heavy buckets of water to and fro, trying her best to make it all work. It was excruciating labor.

‍“It was hard work carrying the jerry cans since my water source is a bit far and uphill. I used to get muscle aches all the time, especially when I combined irrigating the farm with other heavy house chores.”

‍Then, she received an irrigation pump.Mercy quickly planted beans and cabbage. Borrowing pipes from a neighbor, she was able to connect the pump to a distant water source.

‍From her first sale of cabbage, she earned a whopping 50,000 Kenyan shillings (worth nearly $500 USD).

‍Keep in mind, that most rural farmers in Kenya earn $150 USD in an ENTIRE YEAR. She did all this in one harvest.

She took 30,000 KS and invested in a poultry business, which she says is doing well.

‍"I did not know there were pumps that small farmers like me could use and irrigate. For me, only big farms did irrigation with enormous machines. The few people I had seen irrigate around here were just using buckets."

‍‍Mercy wanted to ensure you knew how grateful she is for the irrigation pump and training. And share that her children no longer help on her farm. Now, her extra income is keeping them in school. She said, "Now, they can focus on their studies."

Mercy is not an outlier. She's one of the thousands of farmers who have increased their harvest by 400% with access to an affordable irrigation pump, designed for farmers like her.

Thank you so much for seeing her potential. And giving thousands of people like her, a pathway out of poverty. We are so grateful you are part of our community.

This July we're rallying our community to respond to the urgent food crisis affecting millions of people in the Horn of Africa.

Just $10 will help a farmer feed one person in Kenya. We would love your help!

GIVEAWAY FOR OUR FRIENDS!

Win one Apotheke charcoal gift set for you and another to give away.

To enter, please:

1. Make sure you are following us on Instagram

2. Add your name in the comments of this post: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc8MKGrMsP-/

That's it!

Each gift set includes: - Charcoal votive candle - Charcoal bar soap - Charcoal hand sanitizer

It's the perfect present for a mom who gives back. Plus, help women in Kenya.

T&C details in our bio. Contest ends this Sunday at noon EST. Winner announced on Monday and we will get your gift sets in the mail in time for Mother's Day.

Hi Friends, Are you shopping for Mother's Day? We have a great gift for you!

Our warehouse is unable to ship our incredible charcoal gifts anymore. So, can you help us clear our "shelves" for Mother's Day?

Normally sold for $60, we're bundling these 3 great products into one perfect gift for only $40.

PLUS: we are offering FREE SHIPPING from today until Earth Day, this Friday!

Use the code FREESHIP at checkout (U.S. shipping only).

Click here to learn more about the products and to purchase now: https://bit.ly/3Oq6R3e

Each gift box includes: - 1 Charcoal soap (5 oz) - 1 Charcoal tin candle (2 oz) - 1 Charcoal hand sanitizer (1.5 oz) - A brochure explaining the impact - Wrapped in a box, ready for gifting (all packaging is eco-friendly)

You can also include a personalized gift message and we will handwrite a card for you. It will be a great gift for Mother's Day (or to keep for yourself). Each product is locally-made by the small business, Apotheke, in Red Hook, Brooklyn (you may have spotted their products at Anthropologie or West Elm)!

Where your $40 goes: Roughly $20 covers the cost of your 3 new products. Your other $20 will provide one mom in Kenya with a new, charcoal-efficient stove.

Calling all fundraisers! While #WorldWaterDay is in the rear view mirror, we still have lots of work to do!

Would you consider fundraising $400 to bring clean water to a Ghanian family for at least 10 years?

Here at The Adventure Project, we're focused on sustainability and long-term impact. Today, we're excited to take that commitment to sustainability to the next level. This World Water Day, we're partnering with Saha Global to launch water treatment businesses in Northern Ghana, with a 10 Year Promise.

What does this mean? It means if you support a community today, water will continue flowing for at least the next ten years. And if you decide to support an entrepreneur or community directly, you can opt-in to annual updates for the next decade.

Imagine following along for the next ten years. You can learn how the community grows, witness women earning more as they operated the water businesses, and see children thrive. Click here to learn more and join us: www.theadventureproject.org/water