About XB

Extraordinary Balls believe in effective giving.

We recognise the value of the way The Hunger Project (THP) works and that whatever we give to THP to use in developing countries around the world will have a positive effect for generations to come.

THP don’t give money or food, they don’t give “aid” in those ways. Nor do they “teach a man to fish”.

THP work highly strategically, they realise that people in developing countries don’t need new skills. Learning to be more like us in the “developed” world is not what is needed. THP addresses the deeper issues that keep millions of people in poverty by working with them to change attitudes of deep resignation through empowerment workshops enabling the participants to recognise that it is social conditions not God that have held them back.

By empowering women, whole communities have been demonstrated to gain access to the human potential that is being trapped and wasted. In workshops lead by volunteer animators participants break through their resignation. They awaken to new possibilities. They discover that they are able to create a vision of their village free from hunger, commit to it, and take self-reliant actions to achieve it.

Continued confidence work ensures that people succeed in their first actions, gaining greater confidence rather than initial failures enforcing their old resignation. Through the work that thp does in villages around the world real change is happening from the attitude up. It spreads like ripples in a pond affecting everyone around the women who’ve attended the workshops. Those women go on to inspire and train more women and men and in generations to come the children born will not face those generational barriers.