Co-designed with mothers in South Kivu, Asili reinvents aid as startup capital for self-sustaining essential services.
Lasting Local Impact
In Congo, well-intentioned aid has created a rotating door of services. Local initiatives suffer when free options take over without warning–and then leave just as fast. Asili is here to stay, with Congolese doctors, nurses, and water mamas all working for their communities every day.
Liters of High-Quality Water Provided Over the Past Decade
Pediatric Visits this Year
Years of Continuous, Local Operation
How Asili
changes everything
Rather than relying on outside experts, Asili empowers local communities to design and implement solutions that work for them. This approach ensures that development is responsive to the needs and priorities of the community, and is sustainable over the long term.
An enduring commitment
Asili addresses the root causes of poverty and instability in eastern Congo by providing access to essential services like clean water, healthcare, and economic opportunity. By building the capacity of local communities to meet their own needs, the program is helping to create a more stable and prosperous future for the region.
Service with dignity
In an emergency, free aid is necessary and welcome, but in everyday life, people deserve consistency. Asili offers world-class services at affordable prices, empowering customers with the dignity of choice and voice, and earning their patronage.
Radical quality
People in eastern Congo can’t afford to pay for water that’s not pure or health care that’s not effective. If quality ever slips, our customers will stop paying for them. Asili services operate at world-class quality because we are radically accountable to the people we serve.
From the Communities
To understand our services best, hear directly from the people we work with and serve.
