The 2025 Annual Report is out
2025 was one of the most difficult years the humanitarian sector has seen in a long time. An estimated $39.9 billion in aid was cut globally as USAID was dismantled and major bilateral donors reduced their budgets, leaving thousands of programs without funding. This had immediate and real consequences for the communities Aid Pioneers works with across Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and Ukraine.
Against this backdrop, we were able to continue our work, because of our model.
Working across 7 countries and 3 continents, we delivered €4.3 million in medical supplies to more than 200 health facilities, installed 11 solar systems totalling 550 kWp, and kept a total project value of €6.4 million running on a cash budget of just under €903,000. Every euro we spent therefore generated €7.09 in delivered value.
This is only made possible through our network of private sector partners, including freight forwarders who cover shipping costs and equipment suppliers who offer heavily discounted rates. This together stretching every euro significantly.
Securing medical supplies
On the medical side, 13 shipments reached hospitals and clinics across Ukraine, Mozambique and Ethiopia, enabling an estimated 23,397 additional ICU days. In Tigray, two shipments helped restore ICU services at five hospitals for the first time in an area serving around six million people. In Ukraine, shipments sustained a continuous pipeline into a health system operating under daily attack, with 37 shipments delivered in total since Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022.
Cutting diesel dependency
The solar programme, meanwhile, more than doubled our installed capacity during the year. From the operating theatre at Village des Femmes in eastern Chad, which now runs on clean power independent of the grid, to Idlib University Hospital in northwest Syria, where a 128 kWp system cut monthly energy costs by nearly half, each installation is designed around the specific needs of the facility and monitored remotely from Berlin after the panels go up. The projected savings across all 11 systems amount to more than €1.66 million for our partners over the next decade.
Our community contributed significantly too
47 runners represented Aid Pioneers at marathons across eight European cities, raising over €43,000 for projects in Ukraine, Ethiopia, Lebanon, and Syria. Our art auction series brought together 43 works across two evenings in Berlin and Hamburg, raising €108,600 for hospitals in Ethiopia and Syria.
This just scratches the surface. Want to know more?
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