Explore Our Work Around the World
For over 25 years, our teams around the globe have been working to achieve a world where all, especially children, are able to live healthy lives and reach their full potential, free from exposure to toxic pollution.
Working out of 10 regional offices around the world, Pure Earth’s global team of nearly 100 professionals has completed projects in nearly 50 low- and middle-income countries.
Discover how we’re making a difference worldwide.
Our Projects
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Active projects38
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Closed projects258
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All projects337
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Countries44
| 38 Projects | Country | Title | Status | Funder(s) | Pollutant(s) | Core Activities | Date |
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| 5 Countries |
5 Countries 2022-2027 Strengthening Health Care Systems to Reduce Lead Exposure | Active | Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, Limited | Lead | Advocacy & Awareness, Health Surveillance, Institutional Strengthening | 2022-2027 |
| 7 Countries |
7 Countries 2024-2027 Mitigating Lead Exposure in Low- and Middle-Income Countries | Active | Lead Exposure Action Fund (LEAF) | Lead | Advocacy & Awareness, Health Surveillance, Institutional Strengthening, Source Analysis, Source-Specific Intervention | 2024-2027 |
| Bangladesh |
Bangladesh Building Capacity to Reduce Childhood Lead Poisoning in Bangladesh | Active | French Fund for the Global Environment (FFEM) | Lead | Institutional Strengthening, Source Analysis, Source-Specific Intervention | |
| Bangladesh |
Bangladesh SMEP: Development of Business Models and Policy Interventions to Reduce Informal ULAB Recycling in Bangladesh | Active | UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) | Lead | Source Analysis | |
| Colombia |
Colombia 2024-2027 Mitigating Lead Exposure in Colombia: Addressing Contamination in Cookware | Active | Lead Exposure Action Fund (LEAF) | Lead | Source Analysis | 2024-2027 |
| Colombia |
Colombia Colombia – Strengthening Health Care Systems to Reduce Lead Exposure | Active | Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited | Lead | Source Analysis | |
| Egypt |
Egypt 2024-2027 Mitigating Lead Exposure in Egypt: Health Surveillance and Source Analysis | Active | Lead Exposure Action Fund (LEAF) | Lead | Health Surveillance, Source Analysis | 2024-2027 |
| Egypt |
Egypt 2024 Egypt: Protection of Women and Children from Impacts of Lead Poisoning | Active | Strategic Policy Fund of Pure Earth | Lead | Research | 2024 |
| Georgia |
Georgia 2024-2025 Assessment of Blood Lead Levels in Children in Poti, Georgia: A Pilot Study of Environmental Lead Exposure Sources | Active | Lead | Health Surveillance, Research | 2024-2025 | |
| Georgia |
Georgia Republic of Georgia: Protecting Children from Lead in Spices | Active | Clarios Foundation, Strategic Policy Fund | Lead | Advocacy & Awareness |
How Pure Earth Prioritizes Locations
Pure Earth prioritizes locations for long-term investment based on quantitative and qualitative factors. We start with a quantitative assessment of the “need case” across countries. Since Pure Earth works on lead and mercury, we analyze the need case for both chemicals. Pure Earth may ultimately prioritize a country based on the need case for either lead or mercury, and thus orient the country office portfolio toward that chemical (e.g. our Bangladesh and India offices work only on lead). In some cases, there is a strong case for working on both. Learn more about how Pure Earth prioritizes locations.