ALPS Resilience builds resilience where it is hardest to build. Across South Africa, Mozambique, and Ukraine, we work in the conflict-affected and displaced communities that most organisations find too difficult to reach, and we deliver there to a standard that lasts.

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We are one group working through three registered entities, and that structure is deliberate. It creates the credibility and accountability of an audited non-profit specific to each country we work in. Founded in 2015, we have spent a decade turning humanitarian need into working infrastructure, essential services, and stronger communities.

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We are registered as a non-profit in each of the three countries where we work: South Africa, Mozambique, and Ukraine. Under Mozambican law, a non-profit cannot itself hold a construction licence, so we operate a separate, licensed commercial construction company, ALPS Constructions Lda, which lets us implement water, health, education and community infrastructure directly, to the professional standard that many partners and donors will only accept from a licensed contractor. The company is not designed to make a profit: we run it at cost, funded through the non-profit, so in practice it produces no surplus, and any that ever arose would go to the non-profit. Group capability tells one story, but responsibility for every contract sits with a single named entity, and our accounts and programmes are independently audited. Over a decade we have delivered for UNICEF, UNOPS, IOM, OCHA, the World Bank, the US State Department, USAID, the UK government, Global Affairs Canada, Irish Aid, Australia's DFAT, the Swedish and Slovenian governments, and the Bridgeway Foundation, among others.

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Our work is locally led and, where it counts, self-delivered. We register as a national entity in each country and hire our teams from the communities we work in, alongside local suppliers and partner organisations, so skills, capacity and value stay local.

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In the districts of Cabo Delgado worst affected by armed violence and displacement, we have drilled and rehabilitated boreholes, installed solar water towers and public fountains, and built schools, health centres, community centres and public spaces for displaced families. In Ukraine we work on mine action and on the recovery of children affected by the war, alongside national partners. Across a decade and three countries, this has reached hundreds of thousands of people.

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We would rather work deeply in a few places than thinly across many. We return to the same communities, keep building local skills, and stay responsible for what we build long after a contract ends. Resilience, to us, is not an attitude. It is something you build, measure, and deliver, and it is what we set out to do in 2015.