PROJECTS

Chosen by the community itself through a participatory process, this new multi-purpose centre gives the Filipe Jacinto Nyusi community — in a district where displaced families are steadily returning home — a single building for meetings, first aid, and public life, in place of services that had been scattered or absent. A covered veranda provides shaded space for larger gatherings, breeze-block screens keep the rooms naturally ventilated, and an accessible ramp runs the length of the entrance so the centre serves everyone, including older residents and people with reduced mobility.

Construction was carried out by ALPS Constructions using local labour from the community itself, reinforcing ownership of the result. On 28 July 2026, the Government of Cabo Delgado, represented by Governor Valige Tauabo, officially handed the centre over for public use — a neutral, shared space for residents, youth, and local leaders as the community rebuilds everyday civic life.

Chiure sits in southern Cabo Delgado and has taken in large numbers of families displaced by the conflict further north, putting heavy pressure on the water points communities already relied on. ALPS is rehabilitating, for Save the Children, six boreholes fitted with Afridev handpumps across three communities: Namogelia, Marrere and Halaka. Each borehole is assessed, the pump dismantled and worn components replaced, the concrete apron and drainage rebuilt, and the water disinfected and tested before the point goes back into community use.

The Afridev is a village level pump, so communities can handle routine maintenance themselves with basic tools and locally available spares. ALPS recruits labour from the communities being served, which puts income into the villages during the works and leaves practical handpump repair experience behind once they finish. Work is progressing borehole by borehole, with each pump returned to service as its works are completed.

Pemba's peri urban neighbourhoods have grown quickly as families displaced by the conflict in northern Cabo Delgado have settled there, and open public space is scarce. In partnership with IOM, ALPS built a community space in Muxara that brings several uses onto one site: a multi-use sports court, a covered and tiered grandstand, a covered community stage, solar powered lighting so the space stays usable after dark, paved access, and a perimeter wall.

Construction was carried out by ALPS Constructions using labour drawn from the neighbourhood itself. The community stage is reached by accessible ramps with safety railings, so the space is open to older residents and people with reduced mobility. On 21 September 2026 the space was officially inaugurated and handed over by the President of the Municipal Council of the City of Pemba, H.E. Satar Abdulgani, working with the local leadership of the Bairro de Muxara.

In September 2018, the U.S. Consular General of Cape Town and ALPS Resilience co-hosted a workshop on religious freedom, religious intolerance, xenophobia, and social cohesion.  Participants included a U.S. delegation from the Departments of State, Justice, and Homeland Security. South African government officials were also in attendance, including Hon John Jeffery, MP, Deputy Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development.

Since 2022, ALPS has worked with an international energy company to restore and extend safe water supply across Palma District, delivering directly with locally recruited teams. Across four phases the programme rehabilitated the main Palma water tower, drilled and repaired boreholes, built solar-powered water towers, installed handpumps and gravity fountains, and converted handpumps to solar. Every water point is looked after by a community water committee. More than 100,000 people have benefited, about 30,000 of them on continuous supply. In assessed communities the distance to safe water fell from 600 to 1,000 m to 100 to 250 m, and an independent assessment found 76% of households within 500 m of a safe water point.

Green Communities is an environmental education programme for schoolchildren in Ukraine's Volyn region, delivered by NGO Brainstorm and ALPS Resilience Ukraine with support from the Embassy of Slovenia. It builds on the 2025 Green School Gardens project. Trainers run interactive sessions on water resources, using a board game and demonstration experiments, and so far the training has reached 15 communities and 20 schools, including schools from the gardens project. In May 2026 two environmental festivals brought together about 2,000 students. Summer ecological expeditions, water-testing equipment for schools, an environmental board game and a digital platform for students to log nature observations follow, and the programme grows from 15 to 30 communities by 2027.

In 2025 ALPS Resilience Ukraine and NGO Brainstorm created a school garden in each of 10 Lutsk schools and preschools, five of each. Children learned hands-on about food, composting, waste sorting and caring for plants, through at least two age-adapted training sessions in every institution. Each site received garden beds, tools, seeds, seedlings and compost containers, which stay with the school, and each held an eco-festival with children, teachers and parents to close the project. In all, 1,192 children took part, including 122 from displaced families and 40 with special educational needs. The project was delivered together by ALPS Resilience Ukraine and NGO Brainstorm.

ALPS Resilience Ukraine worked as implementing partner to the Ukrainian Deminers Association, which led a Ukraine Humanitarian Fund grant for people displaced by the war and living in collective centres. Local volunteers helped identify the settlements and the repairs that mattered most, and ALPS bought furniture, appliances, building materials and repair services for each site after checking prices on the market. Power systems went to the places with the worst electricity cuts. The programme also included explosive ordnance risk education led by the Association. ALPS reports that about 120 settlements and 24,000 people benefited, with 61 volunteers involved, and ALPS continued to monitor the sites afterwards through the camp coordination and camp management cluster.

Working with IOM Mozambique under the Rapid Intervention Programme, ALPS delivered small infrastructure prioritised by communities across Palma district: four water wells with hand pumps serving 4,000 people, the rehabilitation of Boa Viagem Primary School, and four community meeting halls. Construction was carried out through a cash for work programme that employed 93 local residents and returnees.

Since 2016, ALPS has worked in partnership with the Somali Association of South Africa (SASA) to promote integration and increase self-reliance amongst Somali refugees and asylum seekers living in the Western Cape and Gauteng. Over three years, ALPS has successfully applied a community-based approach to deliver classes, referrals, and workshops to about 6,000 people.

In September 2018, the US Department of State provided ALPS with funding for emergency humanitarian assistance in Zwelihle, Hermanus after protests resulted in large-scale looting and displacement of foreign nationals. Zwelihle had already been selected by ALPS as a priority site for the P2P Dialogues project, which made ALPS an ideal candidate to provide support and assistance. The combined funding from USAID and US DOS will allow for a two-pronged approach of social cohesion programming and humanitarian assistance.

During the xenophobic violence that affected the Western Cape in 2017 and 2018, ALPS identified a need for deeper dialogue between locals and foreign nationals. With USAID support, ALPS and the Safety and Violence Initiative at the University of Cape Town ran community dialogues across five provinces over 15 months, building mutual understanding, trust and resilient social ties.

Six primary schools in Palma District are receiving a new borehole with a solar-powered water tower, 19 new ablution blocks, and hygiene sessions for pupils and school committees. Around 4,600 pupils will benefit. The works are being delivered through the 2026 dry season by ALPS teams using local labour.

In early 2026 ALPS drilled and equipped a water borehole in Palma town for Africa Century Real Estate. The work began with a geophysical study to find the best place to drill. ALPS then drilled the borehole, installed a submersible pump, built connecting pipework and set up a 2,500 litre storage tank. A continuous-flow pumping test on 16 March 2026 ran for an hour at a steady 2,000 litres per hour, with the water level holding steady throughout.

As part of a Ukraine Humanitarian Fund grant that ALPS led with two Ukrainian partners, a mobile canine-assisted therapy team ran group sessions for children affected by displacement, loss and chronic stress. A team of dog handlers, trained therapy dogs and a psychologist travelled to children's institutions, schools and community centres, so families did not have to travel to them. Sessions took place at 67 points in 47 settlements in three regions, and more than 2,900 children and young people took part. Every session was written up in a protocol with the psychologist's observations.