A Better World, started in 1990, works in over 15 countries, primarily in eastern Africa, providing clean water, healthcare, education, agriculture, and income generation.

A Better World breaks down its program spending in 2018 as 51% to Education, 39% to Health, 4% to Water, 2% to Agriculture, 2% to Income Generation, and 2% to Canadian Projects.

In 2010, A Better World announced its goal of building 100 classrooms in Afghanistan. In 2018, the Classrooms Project built is 101^st classroom, reaching its goal. A current goal for the charity is to establish a feeding program at every A Better World school by 2025. For 2019, it plans to build 30 new classrooms, improving the learning environment for 3,500 students, to build 2 new clinics and perform 80 surgeries for children with disabilities, to install 10 school water catchment systems and drill 5 shallow and 2 deep wells, providing access to clean water for 15,000 people, and to create and maintain 5 school gardens, providing consistent meals for 2,000 students.

A Better World had donations of $1.7m in 2018, down 18% from 2017. Its administrative costs are 5% of revenues and fundraising costs are 3% of donations. Total overhead spending of 8% is within Ci’s reasonable range. The charity has $750k in funding reserves that can cover 4.3 months of program costs, indicating a funding need.