Bottles 4 Life brings medical care, education and the right words to people who have had to start life over — in Thailand, Myanmar, Haiti, Tanzania and beyond. Every gift builds something you can point to.
Since 2018 the clinic has gone to the people instead of waiting for them — to the farms, the factories and the villages where a day off work is a day without food. Prenatal care to elderly care, every week.
How the clinic works →One hundred acres of high ground, surveyed and real: a 20-bed medical center, two schools, a market, a place of worship, solar power, clean water and family homes for about six thousand people.
The city, building by building →Monthly sanitary packs and honest health education across eight nations, so a monthly cycle never again costs a girl her classroom or a woman her wages.
What a pack contains →"Open your mouth." A completely free language app with 24 languages, built with people who had to start over and checked by native speakers. No account, no ads, nothing that ever auto-renews.
Download the app →After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Fedly Bonneau and Austin Gideon Adobasom-Anane met in Tamale, Ghana, and asked a simple question: what if the bottles people throw away could pay for the care people cannot afford? In 2013 Bottles 4 Life was born — collecting and recycling bottles, and turning the proceeds into medical access for the people the world overlooks.
Thirteen years later the promise is the same. A cleaner planet. A better life. 4 every bottle.
Read our story“Give someone the right words, and you give them a future.”Fedly Bonneau, co-founder
Gifts go through PayPal's charity program at the nonprofit rate, so almost every dollar reaches the work, not a platform.
Ask us what a gift bought. We can answer — a bag of cement, a tank of fuel for the clinic, a month of packs for a school.
We do not show the faces or tell the stories of the people we serve to raise money. They are neighbors, not content.