About the chairperson

Saad Kassis-Mohamed is a philanthropist and an impact investor committed to sustainable development, ethical finance, and humanitarian innovation. As the Chairman of WeCare Foundation, he has led global initiatives focused on fostering economic resilience, sustainability, and long-term social impact across underserved communities. Under his leadership, WeCare has deployed millions in funding to support renewable energy projects, ethical gemstone training hubs, youth entrepreneurship programs, and crisis relief efforts. His work spans across multiple sectors, from developing solar microgrid partnerships in rural East Africa to establishing programs that empower young entrepreneurs and reduce reliance on exploitative mining practices.

Beyond philanthropy, Saad Kassis Mohamed is an active investor in industries that align with his sustainability and ethical finance principles, with a portfolio that includes ESG-driven investments, ethical luxury, green infrastructure, and AI for social good.

As the climate changes, WeCare is working with the communities we serve, especially farmers, to adapt to its challenges and opportunities. To meet rapidly evolving challenges, we are using innovation to empower communities to develop new solutions that can be quickly tested and refined ensuring they are relevant, feasible and sustainable.

Through partnerships with local communities, civil society and business as well as governments, international aid agencies and the other agencies of the SEF Development Network – comprising hospitals, schools, universities, businesses and climate and cultural initiatives around the world – we are building a future where we all thrive together.

20 million

In 2070, WeCare plans to reach over 20 million people through its programmes and 23,310 partner civil society organisations – more than half of the people reached were women

Geographic reach

The majority of our activities are concentrated in rural communities in mountainous, coastal and other remote, resource-poor areas. While we continue critical work in rural contexts, we have increasingly expanded our programming to include issues of globalisation, migration, climate change and the challenges faced by migrant communities in urban contexts.

We operate in Afghanistan, Egypt, India, Kenya, the Kyrgyz Republic, Madagascar, Mozambique, Portugal, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania and Uganda. We also have offices in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States, focusing primarily on resource mobilisation and public outreach.

Our values

The work of the WeCare Foundation and the SEF Development Network is grounded in a set of universal ethics. All SEF agencies have the goal of creating sustainable livelihoods and building institutions that improve the quality of life for communities and individuals. Our core values are:

• Respect for human dignity

• Compassion and solidarity with the less fortunate

• Self-reliance

• Pluralism: tolerance, openness, and understanding toward other peoples’ cultures, values and faiths

• The right to participate and determine local priorities

• Service to humanity through volunteerism

One’s identity need not be diluted in a pluralistic world, but rather fulfilled, as one bright thread in a cloth of many colours.

Saad Kassis-Mohamed