Safe arrivals for everyone, everywhere.

Rural isolation is a root cause of poverty. Connection is the foundation for opportunity.

Our Impact

49%

Annual Return on Investment

900+

Bridges Completed

6.2 Million+

People with Safe Access

Delivering multi-dimensional impact worldwide

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Our Work

At Fika, we envision a world where poverty caused by rural isolation no longer exists. Together with government, community, private sector, and impact-driven partners, we facilitate safe, reliable access through infrastructure solutions and have built more than 907 trail bridges, serving over 6.2 million community members throughout the world.

Why Bridges?

Areas of Impact

Healthcare

Imagine having the training to provide critical care for communities isolated from traditional health centers, but being unable to reach those communities when they need it most.

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Education

Investing in education results in an increased likelihood for economic success. Due to safe access, we see increased attendance in schools by both teachers and students alike.

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Gender Equity

There is a direct link between transportation access and gender inequality. Safe access creates new opportunities for women.

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Economic Opportunity

In communities with new trail bridges, households saw an average increase of 25% in labor market income.

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Climate Resilience

As weather events become increasingly unpredictable, safe access is crucial to ensuring rural farming communities can adapt and thrive.

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Fika Digital

Rural communities experience outsized negative effects when a lack of basic infrastructure prevents them from reaching important destinations. Our Digital group conducts research, produces data, and develops applications to close data gaps and transform rural access. The technology we build scales our work as we aim to transform rural access solutions around the world.

Solutions for Connection

Fika partners with communities, governments, private sector, research and technology, and other stakeholders to help plan, prioritize, assess, construct, and manage transport access for rural communities around the world.

Rural Networked Transport Infrastructure Design & Build

Rely on decades of expertise in partnering with domestic governments, raising capital, building the capacities of the private sector, establishing supply chains, and working with local communities to design, build, and manage rural access and mobility infrastructure

  • Feasibility Studies and Site Needs Assessments
  • Rural Networked Transport Infrastructure Design
  • Construction Management
  • Sustainable Procurement
  • Quality Assurance and Standards Development
  • Asset Planning and Management
  • Rural Networked Transport Infrastructure Maintenance

Training and Capacity Building

Deepen the breadth and depth of contextualized rural access expertise to maximize impact for isolated communities globally

  • Design & Build Training and Certification
  • Inspection, Safety, and Maintenance Trainings
  • Rural Access Training-of-Trainers
  • Curriculum Design and Deployment

Program Design and Advisory Services

Provide fit-for-purpose advisory services to government, private sector, academic, and development partners to elevate rural access in global development agendas

  • Rural Access Planning
  • Technical Advisory Services
  • Policy Advisory and Implementation
  • Inclusive Stakeholder Engagement and Co-Design
  • Resource Mobilization
  • Advocacy and Communications

Innovation and Research

Develop and deploy innovative technologies to facilitate a data-driven, human-centered, and community-based approach to rural access planning, infrastructure development, investment optimization, and impact assessment

  • Environmental and Social Impact Analyses
  • Impact Evaluation and Knowledge Sharing
  • Innovative Rural Networked Transport Infrastructure Designs and Typologies
  • Rural Access Digital and AI Tool Deployment
  • Data and Analytics
  • Open Source Knowledge Center

The Latest

Report

2025 Annual Report

In 2025, over 1.7 million people gained safer ways to reach school, healthcare, and home across 7 countries and 140 bridges. Our 2025 Annual Report is live, and it's the…

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Press

NPR Features Fika’s Work in Rwanda

Discover how Fika’s bridge projects in Rwanda are helping rural communities overcome barriers to schools, healthcare, markets and essential services.

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Report

AI for Good

What does it really take to build AI that drives meaningful social impact at scale?

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Press

Fika and Helmsley Charitable Trust Announce $11.9 Million Grant to Expand Rural Connectivity in Ethiopia

Investment will connect ~9 million Ethiopians to essential services and advance a long-term, government-owned rural access program.

Read more: Fika and Helmsley Charitable Trust Announce $11.9 Million Grant to Expand Rural Connectivity in Ethiopia

Video

The Sidebar 2026

Last week, Fika joined changemakers, innovators, and systems thinkers from around the world in Oxford for the 2026 Skoll World Forum. We hosted four sessions and a social with The…

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Blog

To everyone who has ever crossed a Fika bridge: A love letter

To mark 25 years, we asked some of those people to write a love letter. Not to the organization. Not to the mission. But to every single person who has…

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