Opening film: a child stands among damaged buildings under the title War Zones; the scene moves into a busy produce market where a child walks between stalls under the title Market Days.

Registered Australian charity · ABN 14 678 256 687

Life carries on.

We partner with local organisations to turn the work, income and enterprise that continue through crisis into evidence people can use.

Why we exist

What happens should count.

People grow and sell food, staff clinics, care for families, support their communities and participate in local programmes without acquiring the records that formal systems expect.

Amanacard Foundation works with local organisations to change that. We help design public-benefit programmes in which real activity—work, income, assistance, participation and delivery—can be safely confirmed and turned into a useful record. The aim is not simply to show that support arrived. It is to ensure that the person at the centre comes away with evidence of what they did, earned, received or contributed.

01 · Livelihoods

Make work visible

Help people establish records of cash income, production and contribution.

02 · Participation

Make participation count

Record involvement in programmes, services, training and community activity.

03 · Partners

Strengthen local organisations

Give partners practical tools to manage cases, programmes and evidence safely.

A boy at a produce market stall holds up his Amanacard
A household's Amanacard at a produce market. The sale is confirmed by buyer and seller at the stall.
Verified incomeAF-0042
Activity
Produce sale · cabbages
Seller
Verified smallholder
Buyer
Verified local trader
Payment
Cash
Outcome
Income added to the grower's record
Illustrative record · identity protectedConfirmed by both
A young woman seated in an Amanacard partner office
A partner office where participants are enrolled and their roles established.
How it works

From activity to evidence.

Local partners lead. The Foundation helps design the programme and the record; the people involved confirm what happened; the record returns to them.

01Define what mattersA local partner identifies the work, income, service or participation that needs to be recorded.
02Establish the participantsPeople and their roles are enrolled with appropriate privacy and protection.
03Confirm what happenedThe relevant people confirm the activity, delivery or outcome.
04Return a useful recordThe participant and authorised organisation receive evidence they can use.
Programmes

Built with local partners.

Every programme states its stage plainly—exploring, designing, piloting, operating or completed—and reports only outcomes supported by programme records.

Programme locations are set out in the governance section and in the Foundation's annual information statements.

Partners

Tools built around the work.

A record is only useful if it sits inside how a partner already works—managing cases, registering delegates, enrolling growers. So the tools are built with the partner and maintained for them; two of them are live below.

A health worker signs his new Amanacard beside the enrolment form
Enrolment: a health worker signs his card. His name stays on the form, not on the card.
Enrolment

Identity, protected

Participants are established once, with their role. Identity is checked through the system at the moment of use rather than printed on the card—so a lost card is worth nothing to anyone else.

Case management

Papua New Guinea Tribal Foundation

A national organisation working against family violence and sorcery-accusation-related violence needed a safe way to manage survivor cases and confirm protective support.

  • Case-management system for field teams, built for low connectivity
  • Protected identities; access by role
  • Each instance of support confirmed and recorded for the organisation's own reporting
Events and giving

Community World Service Asia

A regional humanitarian organisation hosting the Regional Humanitarian Partnership Week 2026 needed registration, approvals and payments that work for delegates from every country.

  • Delegate registration with an approval workflow and one delegate list
  • Routes for participants from restricted countries, landing in the same reports
  • A global giving page replacing one limited to a single currency
Evidence

What we report, and how.

The Foundation reports to the Australian charities regulator every year. Outcomes on this site come from programme records, stated with their scope—never as a floating percentage.

  • Annual Information Statement lodged with the ACNC for the 2025 reporting yearFour programmes reported: agriculture identity and inclusion; economic pathways for women and communities; secure aid delivery for survivors; resilient energy for health services.
  • Activities undertaken unpaid and in kindDesign, coordination and capacity-building contributed by the Foundation's responsible person and network; no employees.
  • Programme stage stated on every listingExploring, designing, piloting, operating or completed—so planned activity is never presented as delivered impact.
  • Person-level confirmation behind programme totalsWhere a programme records delivery, the people who received it confirm it. Figures are quoted with period, population and source.

Documents on request

Constitution, business and strategic plan, annual information statements, programme documents and the arrangements between the Foundation and the Amanacard group are available to partners, funders, banks, researchers and regulators.

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The principle beneath the name
amana

Something held in trust and returned intact.

The Foundation carries that principle beyond a gift or payment. A person's work, participation and contribution should return to them as a record they can use.

Governance

Separate. Registered. Open.

The Foundation shares a name and a method with the Amanacard group, but has its own charitable purpose, board, accounts and reporting. Here is how it is built.

  • Legal name
    Amanacard Foundation Pty Ltd — a not-for-profit company limited by shares
  • ABN
    14 678 256 687
  • Regulator
    Registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission; annual information statements lodged each year
  • Charitable purposes
    Accountable delivery of healthcare, education and livelihoods support; strategic partnerships with local organisations based on equality and mutual respect; mobilising private and public resources for families in times of emergency
  • Responsible person
    Dr Edwina Thompson — Director, Public Officer and Secretary
  • People
    Volunteer-led; no employees. Activities to date undertaken unpaid and in kind
  • Programme locations
    Papua New Guinea and the Pacific; Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria
  • Technology
    The Amanacard platform is developed by Huozhi Ltd and provided to the Foundation for charitable use under licence
  • Conflicts
    Related-party interests declared, documented and managed under the Foundation's governance procedures; directors with roles in group companies step aside from decisions where interests may conflict
  • Documents
    Constitution, plans, statements and group arrangements available on request via the form below
Work with us

Tell us what needs a record.

We work with local organisations, funders, universities, banks and public institutions confronting the same problem: important activity is taking place, but the formal record ends too soon.

Local charities and community organisations wanting to make their members' work and participation count.

Foundations and public-interest funders designing programmes whose outcomes should return to the people at the centre.

Universities, banks and compliance teams reviewing our methods or governance.