Help under-resourced Communities Rebuild Through entrepreneurship & conflict resolution
Through entrepreneurship & conflict resolution
Let’s Make THE Difference (LMTD) empowers Difference Makers. Together and with your support, we build peace, create opportunities, and strengthen under-resourced and refugee communities across Africa.
Impact Numbers · Verified to 2026
See what LMTD Difference Makers like you have helped to accomplish
75–90% of every dollar goes directly to programs and communities.
What We Believe
We are Difference Makers
At Let’s Make THE Difference, we believe life is better when we’re growing, serving, and helping create something bigger than “me.”
That’s why we’ve built a global community of Difference Makers — community leaders, donors, volunteers, entrepreneurs, and changemakers who see that the world’s challenges are too important to leave to someone else.
And our Difference Makers exist at every stage of what we do.
Some help develop leaders, some support grassroots solutions, some connect with the Difference Makers in the communities that are doing the work, and witness the impact of their generosity firsthand.
Whether you’re a Difference Maker contributing $25 a month, funding an entire bakery, sponsoring leadership training, mentoring entrepreneurs, working in our bakery, leading our peace building programs, or traveling to Africa to meet Difference Makers in their communities…
We share a desire to use who we are and what we have to create meaningful change.
For people wondering how to make a Difference, the answer is in helping others build and rebuild their future.
Become a Difference Maker today.
Programs developed, led, and funded by Difference Makers for Difference Makers.
Most of every dollar funds work happening on the ground in Africa, run by leaders living in the communities they serve. Two programs anchor the work today, with participants in eleven countries.
The Knead to Feed Bakery
A refugee-owned bakery in Kenya’s Kakuma Settlement, designed to create jobs, teach entrepreneurship, and improve food security.
At full capacity it produced 12,000 loaves a month and put refugees on payroll at a living wage. The Knead to Feed Bakery was severely damaged by a monsoon in early 2026. But our Difference Makers and community leaders are rebuilding. Production is expected to resume in July 2026.
- 12,000 loaves a month at full capacity
- Living wages for bakery employees
Peace & Conflict Resolution Outreach
Help us fund our NEW peacebuilding curriculum, developed and delivered by refugee and community leaders who have experienced conflict firsthand.
Survivors of violence are trained to disrupt it in schools, settlements, and whole camps. Graduates become Global Peace Ambassadors and carry the training into their own communities. The Kakuma camp manager asked us to run it for every incoming refugee.
- Violence down an estimated 60% in two settlements
- 11 countries reached
Where Your Donations Go
Before your money leaves the U.S., we verify the partner on the ground, deliver the funds directly to the program leader, and report back with photographs, named leaders, and line-item accounting.
*The rest gets invested back into Let’s Make THE Difference so we can keep… making a Difference!
Do you know what Difference Makers can do with just $80?
In the communities we support, $80 is roughly double a full month of living wages for a refugee. That’s what we can pay our incentive* workers on the bakery payroll. Groceries, education, healthcare, shelter, utilities, saving for the future, and a fun night out with friends…$80 makes a big Difference.
*Refugees working for NGOs and humanitarian agencies in Kakuma are often classified as “incentive workers” rather than employees due to Kenyan refugee work restrictions.
Stories from Difference Makers
Leaders, in their own words
Let’s Make THE Difference is Verified on Candid
501(c)(3) · EIN 84-1728140 · Founded 2019.
We’re recognized by Candid for verified financial and operational transparency. You can read our full profile, financials, and reporting by clicking the button below.
Some of the ways YOU can make a Difference
Learn more before you act, give right now, or step into something bigger and travel to Kenya alongside Wendy and the team. There’s a path for all kinds of Difference Makers.
The Legacy Project Workbook
A free guided workbook for anyone who’s built a career or a business and is ready to build their own charitable foundation or organization.
Fund the work in Africa
Give one-time or monthly. 75 to 90 cents of every dollar lands in the hands of LMTD programs. Verified by Candid. Tax-deductible. The fastest way to be part of what’s happening on the ground.
The Collective
Direct mentorship from Wendy, a community of people asking the same questions, and the option to travel to Africa to meet the leaders your work supports.
Meet our Chief Difference Maker
Wendy Huffman
The woman who made a promise to Make A Difference… and kept it.
Wendy Huffman is the founder and heartbeat behind Let’s Make THE Difference.
She built it to fulfill a promise made to her partner Bill Spalthoff, who passed away while mentoring educators in Zambia. His vision of service to those in the hardest places continues to guide every program LMTD funds.
Today Wendy leads a team of refugee-born executives across Africa, mentors fellow Difference Makers on their own legacy journeys, and travels to the camps to stand in the work in person. She’s the one who personally responds when you have a question about your gift. The one who connects with you when you join The Collective. The one who’ll welcome you in Kakuma if you make the trip.
Wendy Huffman, founder
Wendy Huffman, founder · Est. 2019 Bill and Wendy, before Zambia
Making a Difference across Africa
Let’s Make THE Difference started in Zambia in 2019. Today it’s most active in the Kakuma and Kalobeyei refugee settlements in Kenya, with recent expansion to the Adagom refugee settlement in Nigeria. Program participants reach across eleven countries.
Kenya — Kakuma & Kalobeyei settlements
Bakery, peace circles, leadership cohorts
Nigeria — Adagom settlement
Change agent, Ethics training, entrepreneurial leadership programs
Zambia — Livingstone
Teacher mentoring where the promise was made
+ 8 more
With pogram participants across the continent
Put your difference making to work.
Every contribution lands directly in the hands of fellow Difference Makers, community leaders and community projects. Every dollar you give is verified, accounted for, and put to use by the people closest to the need.
Give once or give monthly.