About us

We play the role of a bridge-builder. We build bridges that connect donors and impact investors with projects seeking to find the resources for addressing climate change and sustainability. 

We collaborate with both ends to help restore the balance on earth. Thanks to our group of experts, passion for technology, collaboration, and transparency, we have managed to deliver 35 projects in 17 years. 

Our dream is to reduce the resource gap and provide innovative solutions to restore ecosystems. We exist to improve the living conditions of people in developing countries.

  • We make an impact by aligning like-minded individuals with a thirst for change, by transparently sharing updates on projects thanks to satellite technology tracking, and by reducing the wealth gap in any way we can.

Our History

  • 1999

    The idea behind the foundation’s creation goes back to the time when Dr. Bremley Lyngdoh first met Dr. Arne Fjortoft, Secretary-General of Worldview International Foundation at the United Nations ESCAP Rights to Development Conference in Bangkok, Thailand.

  • 2004

    After the 2002 Youth Employment Summit in Alexandria, Egypt the social enterprise business strategy was developed and incubated at the Development Studies Institute of the London School of Economics in the United Kingdom.

  • 2007

    Worldview Impact Ltd. was established as a social enterprise based in the United Kingdom with a mission to create a Sustainable Business for a Sustainable Future by making green investments grow and mitigating climate change.

  • 2008

    Worldview Impact Foundation was established as a non-profit international organization based in the United Kingdom with a mission to making an impact at the grassroots to create positive changes.

  • 2009

    Launched Worldview Impact India and started an agroforestry project in the Ri Bhoi District of Meghalaya in northeast India to create sustainable livelihoods for rural communities living on the border near the state of Assam.

  • 2010

    Launched the Carbon Neutral Dance project with Karen David and Shooters Hill School under the mentorship of King's College students to engage young people in the UK to reduce their carbon footprint by learning dance footsteps and planting trees in India and Sri Lanka.

  • 2011

    Launched a student mentoring project at Richmond Park Academy for training students to run a social enterprise of importing green organic tea from Paradise Farm in Sri Lanka and selling the product to fellow students and shops around the school campus.

  • 2012

    Launched the Green Apprentice Programme at the United Nations Rio+20 Conference in Brazil in partnership with Big World Impact to train young people in developing, implementing, and monitoring their own sustainable development projects in their communities.

  • 2013

    Launched the Global Alert platform in partnership with Ocean Recovery Alliance as an innovative, online tool and mobile app which allows users to report, rate, and map plastic pollution levels in their rivers, along ocean coastlines, and even underwater on reefs to address the problem of increasing marine litter flowing to our ocean.

  • 2014

    In partnership with Worldview International Foundation in Myanmar launched the implementation of a large-scale mangrove restoration project at Thor Heyerdahl Climate Park in the Delta Region of Myanmar with an objective to plant 1 billion mangrove trees by 2050.

  • 2015

    Launched agro ecotourism expeditions to pioneer the concept of a new form of traveling called “Worldview Impact Explorer” and “Ride East” to engage people to work with small hold organic farmers to expand ecological land-use practices for restoring degraded landscapes into naturally fertile farmlands with a goal to enable new paradigms of social, economic and environmental development for rural communities in North East India.

  • 2016

    Launch of campaign to develop cross-sector strategies for sustainable tourism to mitigate climate change and combat desertification in arid environments in partnership with the Ministry of Tourism at the UN COP22 Climate Change Conference in Marrakesh in conjunction with the Moroccan “Vision 2020” program and in preparation of the United Nations International Year 2017 of Sustainable Tourism for Development.

  • 2017

    In partnership with TOCEV in Istanbul, Turkey WIF implemented a special project to release 615 young children from 7 different Turkish prisons across the country where their single mothers are currently serving time for their offenses. Phase 1 of the project called “I Am Free” is completed and we are now implementing Phase 2 of the project called “Free Forever”.

  • 2018

    Launch of 360 Degrees Entrepreneurship project that aims to develop youth workers skills on entrepreneurship and in particular social entrepreneurship, creativity, financial management, strategic planning, employability, and entrepreneurial skills in order to overcome youth unemployment and to make NGOs sustainable.

  • 2019

    Launch of the i2 SustainIT project co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union with the overall goal to maximize the understanding and transfer of knowledge on impact, impact investment, and sustainability to tackle societal and environmental challenges. The Impact Incubator for Nurturing Sustainability inspires more connectivity in the social and environmental ecosystem through the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

  • 2020

    Launch of the ‘Collective Innovation to Fight Climate Change’ project with a vision to support the successor of the European Cooperation in Education and Training (ET2020) for more ambitious benchmarks for adult education and for a more social and sustainable future, where adult education can play a central role in achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and combating climate change.

  • 2021

    Launch of the Creativity, Culture and Collaboration to Combat Climate Change - C6 project to develop joint initiatives addressing the creative and cultural sectors and the fight against climate change, while promoting innovation, exchange of experience, know-how and best practices among the consortium partners.

  • 2022

    Launch of mangrove restoration project in The Gambia in partnership with Worldview The Gambia on World Mangrove Day 26 July 2022. Since 2015 Worldview The Gambia has planted 10,000 mangrove trees along the Banjul coast, the affected areas have seen a drastic improvement in local wildlife.

  • 2023

    Launch of the Impact Explorers programme as part of the Creating Impact through Social Entrepreneurship project which aims to create new opportunities for social enterprises in northeast India after gathering managers of social enterprises working in various sectors in the UK, Turkey, and Italy.

  • 2024

    Launch of partnership with Green Tecnologia Ambiental to develop forest conservation projects with Climate-Community-Biodiversity standards and with new technologies for large reforestation projects across the eastern side of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Comprising over 7 million ha our partner in Brazil has been granted the title of the largest reforestation project in the entire world in alliance with local tribes, data centers, and energy generation developments.