Tevel, shortened from Tevel b’Tzedek, is dedicated to tackling extreme poverty at its source-in subsistence farming villages, where more than half of the populations in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia reside. Because of population growth and environmental devastation the great majority of these villages cannot produce enough food to feed their population let alone generate surplus for obtaining crucial health services and education. Most of those residing in urban slums in the Global South have recently migrated from these villages.
Since our inception, Tevel has impacted over 50,000 people in rural communities across Nepal, Haiti, Burundi, and Zambia. Additionally, we've hosted approximately 1,500 young adults in our service-learning programs, from Israel, England, the United States, Australia, Nepal and Burundi. Tevel mobilizes youth, women, and smallholder farmers to strengthen communities, enabling them to transition from subsistence farming, which can no longer sustain even their basic needs, to new livelihoods through small-scale commercial farming, owned and run by the villagers.