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ALPS Resilience is committed to helping communities in Africa and Ukraine to overcome challenges by strengthening community resilience.

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ALPS Resilience is an international organisation working in conflict-affected and fragile environments. We were founded in 2015 to support communities impacted by conflict and displacement, beginning in South Africa, and expanding into post-conflict reconstruction in Mozambique and  responses in Ukraine.

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We work across infrastructure and construction, water and sanitation, community resilience, and peacebuilding. Our approach is grounded in partnership with local communities and organisations, designing programmes that respond to their specific needs and building capacity that remains long after a project ends.​

 

Today we operate through registered entities in Mozambique, South Africa, and Ukraine. Our project teams are recruited locally within the communities we work, and we work with local supply chains and partner organisations to deliver programmes that are owned by the communities they serve.

 

We were founded on a simple conviction: that resilience is not an attitude but something you build, measure, and deliver. In Mozambique that has meant working in the districts of Cabo Delgado worst affected by armed violence and displacement — among the most fragile places in the region. Families rebuilding their lives depend on clean water, working schools, and health services they can actually reach, and our task is to build these to a standard that lasts.

 

Our work is locally led and, where it counts, self-delivered. We register as a national entity and hire our teams from the communities we work in, so skills and capacity stay local. In Mozambique we also run our own licensed construction company, ALPS Constructions, Lda, which builds water systems, schools, health centres, and community facilities directly rather than through subcontractors. It is a separate, ring-fenced entity, and any surplus it earns is reinvested into the mission.

 

What connects the work in Mozambique and Ukraine is a focus on the people living where conditions are worst. In Cabo Delgado we have drilled and rehabilitated boreholes, installed solar water towers and public fountains, and built community centres and public spaces for displaced families. In Ukraine we work on mine action and on the recovery of children affected by the war, alongside national partners. Across a decade and three countries, this has reached hundreds of thousands of people, and in every case the point is the same: to improve daily life in the areas hit hardest.

 

We would rather work deeply in a few places than thinly across many. We return to the same communities, keep building local skills, and stay responsible for what we build long after a contract ends. That is what we set out to do in 2015, and it still guides the work today.

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