A global initiative · Skills to work

Poverty ends where work begins.

work.charity gives people a real, verifiable skill and helps them into the work that follows. Not sympathy. Not handouts. A way to earn, and the dignity that comes with it.

Initiative recordwork.charity
Global
Skills first
US · UK · Africa
WorkOfficially
No public donations
Imamsab Mulla
In preparation
The belief

We don't want to manage poverty. We want to end it.

Aid keeps people alive. A skill makes them independent. work.charity backs the second one, everywhere it is needed, because a person with a trade doesn't need charity next year. They have a livelihood, and they can lift the people around them too.

The problem · Global

The gap isn't willingness. It's opportunity.

Across the world, hundreds of millions of people are ready to work but have never had access to a marketable skill, a recognised credential, or an employer who could reach them. The result is talent left idle and families left stuck.

1 in 10
people live in extreme poverty worldwide.
Source: World Bank, 2025
1 in 5
young people are not in employment, education or training.
Source: International Labour Organization

Give someone a skill the market wants, and the way out builds itself.


The model

Learn it. Prove it. Get to work.

One simple loop, run to a high standard and repeated at scale. It is the same loop in every chapter, adapted to the trades each local economy is actually hiring for.

Step 01

Learn a real trade

Free vocational training in skills the local market is genuinely hiring for, taught by people who do the work.

Step 02

Earn a Skill Passport

A verified credential that tells an employer exactly what a person can do, and that they were assessed to prove it.

Step 03

Get to work

Job placement, employer introductions, and the starter tools or support needed to begin earning.

Women's skilling & self-help groups Financial literacy Education support for trainees' children Crisis & health support
The Skill Passport

Proof a person can carry anywhere.

Most people in poverty have skills no employer can see and no document can vouch for. The Skill Passport fixes that: an assessed, verifiable record of what someone can actually do, owned by them and recognised across every chapter. It is issued in collaboration with WorkOfficially, so it carries weight with real employers, not just inside the programme.

Verified against a real, hands-on assessment, not a certificate of attendance.
Held by the worker and portable between employers, cities, and countries.
Speaks the employer's language: trade, level, and what the holder is cleared to do.
Chapters

Where we're taking it.

work.charity is global by design. These are the chapters forming now, each running the same skills-to-work model, tuned to local trades and employers.

USA Forming
United States
Chapter forming
Where we go next.

The same loop, tuned to the trades US employers are hiring for. We're looking for partners and employers to open it.

Issued under WorkOfficially Register interest
GBR Forming
United Kingdom
Chapter forming
Where we go next.

Skills-first training and a portable credential, built with UK employers and community partners.

Issued under WorkOfficially Register interest
AFR Forming
Africa
Chapter forming
Where we go next.

Young, vast, and ready to work. We want partners on the ground to bring the model to communities across the continent.

Issued under WorkOfficially Register interest

Somewhere else? Bring a chapter to your city →

Get involved

We're not asking for your money.

work.charity takes no public donations. What moves this forward is people: someone to learn, someone to teach, and someone who can open a door. Pick the one that's you.

01 · Learn

You want a skill

For yourself, or for someone you know who is ready to work and just needs the training and the credential to get there.

02 · Teach

You know a trade

Tradespeople, trainers, and mentors who can pass on what they know and help assess the Skill Passport.

03 · Partner

You can open a door

Employers who can hire, and companies, foundations, and institutions who can host, fund, or scale a cohort.

Give us your skill, your time, or a door you can open. That is what ends poverty.

The founder
Imamsab Mulla, founder of work.charity
Imamsab Mulla · Founder

Started by someone who knows the way out.

Founder, work.charity · Founder, WorkOfficially

Imamsab Mulla, known as Imzzy, founded work.charity after years spent building WorkOfficially, a platform that connects people to work. He has seen up close that poverty is rarely a lack of effort. It is a lack of access: to a skill worth paying for, to a credential an employer will trust, to a door that opens.

work.charity is his attempt to fix that at the root, starting in India with Garibi and built to travel from there.

"I've spent my career getting people into work. This is the same fight, for the people who never got a fair shot at it."

Stay close

Be there when the first chapter opens.

We're in preparation now. Leave your details and tell us how you'd like to take part. No spam, no fundraising asks, just word when there's something real to join.

Contact us any time at hello@work.charity.

You're on the list

Thank you. We'll be in touch.

When the first chapter is ready to take part, you'll be among the first to hear from us.