Meet Jean Baptiste Kamate (JBK)

In my role as Chief Field Operations Officer, I have seen conflict and climate shocks push whole families into poverty, exposing children to grave...

Humanitarian appeals that are chronically underfunded have dire repercussions on the most vulnerable, particularly children.

Clean water enables the production of food and keeps children healthy.

Countries can easily descend into fragility. In such places, people need three things: food, health, and education.

If you involve the poorest people in the world in creating solutions, we can fight poverty. 

We have to continue to create a safe space for people to reward and celebrate the reporting of safeguarding issues. 

Everyone should have enough access to clean water that they have choices of how to drink it. 

If we can manage the enemy inside us, I believe we can manage what we perceive as our enemy outside.

If we don’t do what we exist to do, someone else will have to and the price will be higher. 

We must do four things to pick up the vaccine pace. 

How hard it must be to tell your child you cannot support their dream of going to college!?

Just in one year, we built, restored and maintained 27 water collection points in Haiti. When I visited one such water kiosk, I saw girls, boys, women...

I feel an overwhelming gratitude for being part of the altruistic movement seeking to unite our talents and strengths into an unstoppable force for...

As a father of a girl – I am heartbroken when I see young girls subjected to the practice of child marriage. Forced marriage robs these young girls of...

Alina and Valeria, who I met in Dnipro, Ukraine, are among the most resilient people I have ever met. Together, they run an inclusive kindergarten...

Knowing that you’re reading this in a digital format, and that you likely have access to mobile banking and e-pay, it may come as a shock to learn...

Have we lost our humanity? This is something I have been asking myself quite a bit these days. I have traveled a lot around the world and seen tragedy...

There’s a story that often goes untold in the public domain, which makes me cringe because I see this story come to life many times as I travel around...

When I visited Venezuela recently, I was confronted with the tension between hope and heartache. All around me I saw beautiful landscapes and friendly...

Families living in poverty constantly have to make decisions between difficult choices. Imagine what it would be like to have to choose between making...

It is time to unclip the wings of women and let them fly as leaders. In many patriarchal societies around the world, where men have power over women...

As the world faces a major global food crisis, with famine looming in some places, I am deeply concerned about the effects of malnutrition on children...

My friend Denilson should have been preparing to enter a university in the fall to become a doctor or veterinarian. I am heartbroken that this is not...

At the Annual Meetings of the World Bank, one of the world's largest sources of funding for developing countries, JBK urged the World Bank to consider...

JBK advocated on behalf of vulnerable children and their families in the lead-up to the UN Summit of the Future.

JBK spoke with partners and donors to unite them in the mission of ensuring every child's right to safe water and a clean environment. 

JBK highlighted the vital link between clean water provision and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. 

JBK speaks about the importance of government involvement and community engagement in achieving sustainability.