About JBM Foundation
At JBM Foundation, we are on a mission to restore hope, dignity, and opportunity to vulnerable communities through direct donations, life-changing skills training, agricultural empowerment, and clean water projects. Day in day out, we’ve been helping poor children go to school by providing uniforms and paying their fees, offer food and clothing to struggling families, support individuals in learning income-generating skills, and build safe homes and sustainable farms. Through the power of giving and empowerment, we envision lifting over 30,000 lives — and you can be part of this incredible journey. Your support can bring lasting change. Together, we can create a future filled with hope, opportunity, and dignity for all.
In the Video Below, Watch the Story of Jairus Metobo – the Founder & Director of JBM Foundation 👇👇👇
1. Uplifting the Vulnerable Through Direct Donations:
At JBM Foundation, we deeply believe in sustainable solutions—teaching skills, promoting agriculture, building businesses, and inspiring independence. But even as we build long-term empowerment, we cannot ignore the urgent cries of today.
Because while crops are still in the soil, children are still going to bed hungry!
While youth are just beginning their journey of learning, mothers are still boiling water, hoping it will fill empty stomachs!
While new life skills are being taught, the elderly are quietly enduring hunger in silence, with no income, no family, and nowhere to turn.
This is why we give.
This is why direct donations remain a lifeline.
🧒 For the Children Who Can’t Wait
A child who hasn’t eaten in two days can’t focus in class, no matter how good the teacher is. A child walking barefoot in the cold won’t be able to concentrate on their dreams. We donate school uniforms, books, food, and fees because we don’t just want children to survive—we want them to thrive. And some of them simply cannot wait for long-term solutions. They need help now.
👵 For the Elderly Who Have No Strength Left to Start Over
Not everyone can plant or build or train. Some are too old, too weak, or too alone. Many elderly people in our communities are forgotten, living in crumbling shelters or sleeping on cold floors. When we bring food, clothing, or build a small house, we’re not just giving—we’re honoring their lives, their dignity, their humanity.
🌱 For the Seeds That Are Still Growing
Sustainability is our goal. But even the strongest farmer must wait for the rain, wait for the sprouting, wait for the harvest. What do they eat while they wait? What do they wear while they work the soil? We give so they can make it to the harvest. So their hope doesn’t dry up before the crops come in.
🛠️ For the Youth at the Start of Their Journey
Skill training is powerful, but transformation takes time. That young man learning to sew or that girl being taught how to bake—they still need to eat, dress, and live as they learn. Without your support through direct donations, they might never get to the point of independence.
❤️ Because Hunger Can’t Wait
Poverty is patient, but hunger is not. And that’s why, while we work toward a self-reliant future, we continue to be present in the pain of now. Because sometimes the most revolutionary thing you can do is show up with a warm meal, a bar of soap, a school uniform, or a mattress.
We do direct donations because love acts immediately. Because the journey to empowerment starts with survival—and survival starts with compassion.
🙏 Join us. Help us bridge the gap between today’s needs and tomorrow’s dreams.
With your donation, you help someone hold on a little longer until the harvest comes, until the skills pay off, until hope becomes reality.
2. Personal & Economic Empowerment Through Establishment of Learning Centres & agriculture Projects:
At JBM Foundation, we know that giving food today is essential—but teaching someone how to produce their own food or earn their own income is powerful. That’s why, even as we respond to urgent needs with direct donations, our deeper mission is to break the cycle of poverty through personal and economic empowerment.
We believe that the true end of poverty is not just in what we give, but in what we teach, build, and grow—together.
🧠 Skills Training: Turning Potential Into Power
We see so many youth with raw talent but no direction, women with dreams but no opportunities, and young men with energy but no tools. Our Learning & Empowerment Centre is a response to this need.
We offer very short, simple and practical, income-generating skills—like affiliate marketing, website designing, content creation, AI, Agriculture, and more. We teach the art of turning a passion into a business and a challenge into a stepping stone.
Because when someone learns a skill, they learn how to feed their family for life.
They gain more than just knowledge—they gain confidence, pride, and independence. And when one person rises, they lift others with them.
🌱 Agriculture: From Hungry to Harvesting
In many of our communities, the land is rich, but the people are hungry. Why? Because they lack knowledge, tools, and support.
Our agriculture empowerment program is designed to change that. We train individuals and families on how to grow their own food and keep animals using affordable and sustainable methods. We teach them how to sell surplus produce, budget for their households, and reinvest in their future.
A single garden can feed a family. A small farm can educate a child. A few goats or chickens can create a stream of income.
This is not just agriculture—it is freedom, dignity, and security.
💪 Empowerment Is the Bridge to Dignity
While some may need donations now, we don’t want them to need it forever. That’s why we’re building a bridge—from desperation to dignity, from survival to sustainability.
Every skill we teach, every seed we help plant, every training we provide is a step toward a better life—not just for one person, but for generations to come.
💭 We Believe In Their Potential
We empower because we believe that within every struggling individual is untapped potential.
We empower because we believe poverty should not be a life sentence.
We empower because we’ve seen what happens when a young person earns their first income, when a mother harvests food from her own garden, or when someone finally feels in control of their future.
That transformation is priceless—and you can be part of it.
🙏 Support empowerment. Support dignity. Support change that lasts.
Because when you empower one life, you transform an entire community.
3. Improving Lives Through Clean Water Projects
At JBM Foundation, we believe that water is life, yet too many communities in our region still live without access to clean, safe, and reliable water sources. Every day, the simple need for water steals time, dreams, health, and even lives.
This is why one of our core pillars is to bring water closer—through the setup of boreholes and rainwater collection systems—to restore hope, health, and freedom for both people and animals in the communities we serve.
🚶♀️ Women Walk for Miles
In many of our communities, women and girls walk for hours under the scorching sun, often carrying 20-litre jerry cans on their heads just to get enough water to cook or clean. This journey isn’t just exhausting—it’s dangerous, and it robs women of their time, safety, and dignity.
By bringing water closer, we are giving mothers rest, young girls freedom, and entire families a chance to live better.
📚 Children Miss School for Water
Imagine a child’s education being sacrificed every day—not because they lack interest, but because they must fetch water. Many children are forced to miss school or arrive late, dirty, and tired, simply because the survival of their families depends on them collecting water.
When we bring clean water to schools and villages, we give children their childhood back—a chance to learn, dream, and build a future.
🐄 People & Animals Are Dying
Without water, life dies. We’ve seen heartbreaking scenes of livestock collapsing from thirst, and entire herds perishing during dry seasons. And when there is water, it’s often dirty, polluted, and full of disease—leading to cholera, typhoid, skin infections, and even death.
For the elderly, the sick, pregnant women, and the very young, dirty water is not a risk—it is a death sentence. Clean water is the first line of defense against disease, hunger, and poverty.
💡 Our Vision: Clean Water, Close to Home
We envision a future where no woman has to carry water for miles, no child misses class, and no animal or person dies from thirst or disease.
Our plan is to install:
- Community boreholes in dry and water-scarce areas
- Rainwater harvesting systems on homes, schools, and churches
- Simple water storage solutions that protect clean water for longer use
These solutions are not luxuries—they are lifelines. They unlock health, productivity, and peace in homes that have known only struggle.
❤️ Water Is Not Just a Project—It’s a Promise
It’s our promise that wherever we work, we will fight to bring clean water closer. Because with water comes health. With water comes time. With water comes opportunity.
When you support our water project, you’re not just donating—you are giving life itself.
🙏 Help us drill a well. Build a tank. Harvest the rain.
Be the reason a community lives, learns, and thrives again.
Our Mission & Vision
Our Mission
Restore hope, dignity, and opportunity to the most vulnerable members of society.
Provide urgent humanitarian relief through food, clothing, school uniforms, house renovations, and shelter.
Empower individuals through skills training, life coaching, and mindset development.
Equip youth with income-generating skills for long-term personal and economic independence.
Support sustainable agriculture and animal keeping to enhance food security and generate income.
Establish clean water access via boreholes and rainwater harvesting systems to prevent disease and restore community health.
Serve as a bridge between survival and sustainability—meeting today’s needs while building a better tomorrow.
Our Vision
No child misses school because of poverty, hunger, or the need to fetch water.
Vulnerable families have access to clean water, nutritious food, and safe shelter.
Youth and women are empowered with skills that enable them to earn, create, and rise from poverty.
Communities are self-reliant, growing their own food, keeping livestock, and providing for their families with dignity.
Health and dignity are restored through safe drinking water and proper sanitation.
Every person, no matter their background, discovers their worth, their potential, and their power to rise.
What We Need & Why You Should Support Us
🎒 1. Support for School Fees & Uniforms
- Many bright children are staying home, ashamed and hopeless, simply because they lack uniforms or can’t afford school fees.
- Your support puts a child back in class, restores dignity, and gives them a fighting chance for a better future.
🥘 2. Food Donations for Children, Families & the Elderly
- Hunger is a daily reality. Some families go days without a proper meal.
- Children, the sick, and the elderly suffer most.
- By donating food or funds, you literally keep someone alive and hopeful.
👗 3. Clothing & Shelter Support
- Torn clothes, barefoot children, families sleeping under leaking roofs — this is the reality we see.
- We provide clothes and help rebuild or repair shelters for those in desperate need.
- Your help restores dignity, warmth, and safety.
📘 4. Learning Centre Equipment & Materials
- We’re setting up a Youth Skills & Life Training Centre, where young people will learn income-generating skills and life lessons.
- We need tools, chairs, computers, training materials, and volunteers.
- Your support builds a foundation for long-term empowerment.
🌾 5. Agriculture & Animal-Keeping Tools
- To break the cycle of dependency, we are teaching families to grow food and rear animals.
- But most families can’t afford basic tools, seeds, or livestock.
- Your contribution helps create food security and a source of income.
💧 6. Water Project Funding
- Women walk for miles, children skip school, and animals die — all because of lack of water.
- Others drink from dirty sources, falling sick or even dying.
- We are setting up boreholes and rainwater harvesting systems.
- Your help brings clean water closer, saving lives and time.
🧠 7. Support for Life Coaching & Mindset Development
- Poverty isn’t just a lack of money—it’s often a lack of hope.
- We offer life-skills and mindset lessons to help people overcome mental and emotional barriers.
- Your support creates lasting transformation from the inside out.
🙌 Why Your Support Matters
- Every gift — no matter how small — changes real lives.
- We operate directly within the communities we serve, ensuring your impact is visible and immediate.
- You are not giving to charity — you are investing in futures, dignity, and sustainable change.
“True empowerment is not giving what you have, but igniting what they carry within. When we plant hope, teach skills, and nurture dignity—we don’t just change lives, we change generations.”
Jairus Metobo
Founder, JBM Foundation
Join Us as We Step Forward to Change Lives with Love, Hope, and Action
We Target to Empower 30,000 People or More by 2030