Six things to celebrate this Earth Day with the Howden Foundation

This Earth Day, learn more about the Howden Foundation. 

The Howden Foundation is the corporate foundation of Howden, which extends the charitable work of the business and its people.

They work to empower communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis to take action to address it, such that they can prepare for, adapt to and recover from its increasingly devastating impacts.

Working in partnership with these communities and the organisations who know them best, they provide funding, support and technical advice wherever it is needed most.

Read on for some examples of what the foundation is helping their partners to achieve.

Six things the Howden Foundation's partners are doing that we think are worth celebrating this Earth Day

1. Building sand dams in Malawi’s dry regions to provide 8,000 people with year-round access to water. Sand Dams Worldwide plan to support the construction of one million sand dams for 0.5 billion people by 2050.
2. Funding coral reef insurance on Hawai’i’s eight main islands to fund their repair when extreme weather events such as hurricanes hit. The Howden Foundation worked with The Nature Conservancy to develop this coral reef insurance initiative – which is the first of its kind in the USA. 
3. Delivering learning programmes on livestock and land regeneration in Zimbabwe, to build the resilience of local farmers to drought. PELUM Zimbabwe's programmes are resulting in improved soil, grassland, cattle and human health, as well as soil water retention.
4. Providing wage protection and parametric insurance for up to 250,000 informal female workers who are suffering the impacts of extreme heat in India. The Howden Foundation supports Climate Resilience for All to deliver this work through their ‘Women’s Climate Shock Insurance and Livelihood Initiative’ (WCSI), which provides financial support and wage protection when it becomes too hot and dangerous for women to work. 
5. Equipping humanitarian workers with the knowledge and resources to respond to climate-related challenges in the drought-prone regions of Somalia and Afghanistan. This is delivered through RedR UK's trainings, which cover drought response, management, and resilience planning, with the aim of further developing frontline workers in areas of high climate risk. 
6. Providing multi-purpose, unconditional cash transfers for up to 25,000 people to mitigate the anticipated impacts of drought in Somalia. This assistance has been provided recently through a broader Start Network programme that the Howden Foundation supports, Start Ready, which releases emergency funding when warning is received that a climate-related incident will occur.