Impact Report 2025: Scaling What Lasts. Read more on how our child-health work is taking root in government systems in Ethiopia, Bangladesh and Nepal.

in Bangladesh's River Islands

We are piloting mobile health clinics on remote Bangladesh river islands, using women entrepreneurs and subscription-based telemedicine to deliver maternal and child healthcare to isolated communities, building self-sustaining market systems independent of external funding.

Local Leadership and Systems Change

As Right2Grow begins wrapping up five years of work, the programme's legacy of community-driven change is just beginning.

WASH and the Nutrition Nexus

We are excited to announce the launch of a new free online course, WASH and Nutrition Nexus: The Basics, developed with IRC’s WASH Systems Academy and a consortium of dedicated organisations.*

Alongside the Government of Ethiopia

A recent Linking and Learning Event brought together key stakeholders to accelerate progress toward the ambitious goals of the Seqota Declaration, The Government of Ethiopia's commitment to ending child stunting.

Powering Clean Water

We're excited to announce a new partnership between Waterlife and Max Foundation that will transform access to clean drinking water across Ethiopia.

Halves Child Undernutrition

The renowned international Karolinska Institutet validates Max Foundation's programme success on improving child undernutrition in Bangladesh. The featured study, published in the journal Children, showcases significant impact, halving undernutrition in children in just four years, which is much faster than the national trend.

Learning workshop Ethiopia

At the beginning of November 2023, we hosted our first learning workshop on Climate Change Resilience in Ethiopia, together with Plan International. Read our learnings here!

Healthy Village in Burundi

Max Foundation is looking for partner NGOs in Burundi, to implement the innovative Healthy and Resilient Collines programme.

Healthy Village Ethiopia

Recently, our Data and Monitoring expert Remco Geervliet visited our programme areas in Ethiopia, joining the Ethiopia team and partner organisations in a joint supportive supervision visit.

World Water Week

During World Water Week in August, we were in Stockholm hosting three presentations on the impact of our integrated approach.

Max Foundation

Exciting news: we have an (almost) entirely new Max Foundation board for the upcoming years! We'd love to introduce them to you. Below you can find a little description of each boardmember, alongside their photo. Want to get in touch? Head over to the 'our team' section of our website to find their details.

by Right2Grow

This World Food Day, our consortium Right2Grow will be hosting the World Food Day Show at Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam. Join us!

as local government 'Best Practices'

Local government in Bangladesh has chosen to feature 10 of Max Foundation's innovations in their "Best Practice compendium".

Winter Newsletter

Read updates from the last couple of months - such as the Right2Grow launch in Ethiopia - as well as some exciting steps for 2022, like bringing our Social Enterprise Max TapWater to the next level.

Autumn Newsletter

Read all about the South2 South learning sessions we've been having for our Healthy Village Approach, updates on some of the events we presented at over the summer, an introduction to the full team in Ethiopia, and more.

a World Water Week special

<strong>Click on the image to go straight to our introductory two-pager!</strong> Find out more about how we work, our programmes and approaches, and our impact.

The Female Founders Network Podcast

Max Foundation's co-founder, Joke Le Poole, was recently featured on The Female Founders Network podcast!

Champa Begum

Meet Champa Begum who has started to cultivate a homestead garden full of nutricious foods - for her and her family to eat, but also to sell at the local market

2019

Our Impact Report 2019 is out! Read all about last years highlights, and the impact we've made, right here