The Heritage Foundation celebrates reaching 1 million people in Oct 24, ensuring food security & flood resilience for communities in need.

A Historic Milestone in October 2024! Through its Zero Charity/Zero Donor humanistic humanitarianism, within 19 months, the Heritage Foundation reached its ambitious goal: one million people now have food security and flood resilience. This achievement is a testament to the unlocking of the potential in poverty, and by implementing humanist values of empathy, solidarity, generosity and benevolence through peer-to-peer transfer of knowledge, collaboration and dedication, instilling hope for the future. Yasmeen Lari’s Poverty Escape Ladder enables step by step transformation: reduced hunger by organizing vegetable production; food sufficiency by growing vegetables, rearing chickens and breeding fish; environmental stewardship by planting community food and shade tree forests, regenerative farming and improved biodiversity; flood mitigation measures with aquifer trenches, ditches, earth barriers and earthen platforms; and specialised barefoot products villages for income generation, 1 million households are on their way to build their one room houses and toilets through their own effort, thus escaping poverty within 30 months of having experienced destitution.