One general fund. Spent in the open.
There's a single $25,000 fund for everyone we can reach — not per-person targets. Here's what it pays for:
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Food
Staples and meals for families facing hunger — bought locally whenever possible, so the money helps twice.
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Clean water
Safe drinking water where none exists — the most basic need, and the most urgent.
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Shelter
Repairs and building materials for unsafe homes. Where they have no home, we build one.
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Essential supplies
Clothing, hygiene basics, school supplies, medical necessities.
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Getting there
Transport to remote places. "The furthest reach" isn't a metaphor — it's a fuel bill.
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Filming & documenting
Cameras, editing, and the time it takes to prove every delivery. Proof is part of the product.
What a mission looks like, in dollars.
These aren't per-person targets — the fund stays one fund, and no donation is earmarked for any individual. They're honest examples of what it costs to reach someone, so you can picture what your donation actually does. Figures are real ground prices in the Dominican Republic, researched September 2026; remote villages run a little higher once transport is counted.
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About $2 — refills a 5-gallon jug of clean drinking water
One botellón refill at ground prices in the Dominican Republic. The smallest unit of help there is.
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About $10 — a family's clean drinking water for a month
Roughly six to seven 5-gallon refills of safe drinking water for a household.
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About $35 — a staple food parcel for a family
10 lbs of rice, 5 lbs of beans, cooking oil, and eggs — bought locally, so the money helps twice.
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About $60 — materials to patch a leaking zinc roof
Zinc sheets, nails, and planks for a small shack — the kind of roof Lucia sleeps under when it rains.
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About $1,000 — a concrete floor for a home
A real benchmark from Habitat for Humanity's Dominican Republic work: replacing a dirt floor with concrete.
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About $10,000–20,000 — a very basic small rural home
Materials and modest labor for a small concrete-block house. Our roughest honest estimate — we'll sharpen it with real field costs as we build.
Every figure above gets proven on camera, where it's spent — that's the deal.
Three ways to check our work.
Dated updates
Field updates carry real dates. Current work, not stock footage.
Public fundraiser
Donations flow through GoFundMe — a public ledger anyone can see.
Not a nonprofit. Not pretending to be one.
Hands at the Furthest Reach is an independent charity project run directly by its founder. It is not a registered nonprofit organization, and donations are not tax-deductible. We put that next to the donate button — not in fine print — because trust starts with honesty about what we are.