2025 Annual Fundraiser

This year has been challenging: a major grant was withdrawn, funding has become scarce, and needs on the ground are growing. But here's what donors like you need to know: the programs you've helped us build are still running, still saving lives, and still growing – even when our funding gets cut.

That's the difference between charity and sustainable development.

When we launched the Community Health Clubs in rural Burkina Faso, we intended to improve hygiene practices. Instead, we built a model so effective that the Burkina Faso Ministry of Health adopted it as part of their national plan. Your donations didn't fund a temporary project. It created a shift in how health education is approached in rural communities in the nation.

When we developed our Stop the Bleed program, we didn't just teach a class. We trained local instructors, adapted curriculum with local artists and healthcare workers, and guided a medical student through his doctoral thesis on the program. Last year, it was featured at a national forum with the U.S. Ambassador and Ministry of Health. Now there's a version 2.0 in development led by Burkinabe professionals.

Your Donation Multiplies.

Through our Primary Trauma Care program, we facilitated three Burkinabe surgeons to attend an instructor course in Ghana taught by Ghanaian healthcare workers. Those surgeons brought that expertise home and are now training others in Burkina Faso. In August alone, they trained 50 students and 9 new instructors. Those 9 instructors are already organizing additional training within hospitals and medical schools. That's what sustainable impact looks like.

This is not feel-good charity. This is smart investment.

When you donate to Pull for Progress, you're not funding our programs, you're funding the transfer of knowledge, skills, and systems to local communities. You're investing in:

• Train-the-trainer models where local instructors teach hundreds more
• Regional collaboration where African healthcare professionals train each other
• Government-adopted programs that reach the entire nation
• Locally-staffed initiatives that continue when international funding shifts
• Evidence-based approaches that earn doctoral theses and ministerial recognition

We're not here to be needed forever. We're here to make ourselves obsolete.

The irony? Right now, when we've proven our model works, when governments are asking us to expand, when local leaders are ready to take ownership that's when funding has become hardest to find.

Help us finish what we started.

Your donation today doesn't just save lives this year. It builds capacity that saves lives for decades.

Visit pullforprogress.org to see our model in action, or donate now to support programs that prove sustainable development isn't just possible—it works.