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Lead Exposure Elimination Project

Year in Review Posts

2025 in Review: Advancing Lead Elimination at Scale

2025 was a year of remarkable growth and foundational progress for LEEP. We launched 11 new paint programs, bringing our total presence to 40 countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America—reaching areas representing 76% of births in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

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2024 in Review

Introduction from LEEP’s Co-Executive Directors   2024 was an exciting year for LEEP, as well as the wider field of actors working on lead poisoning. We continued to scale our lead paint programs, supporting governments and industry to eliminate lead paint from...

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2023 in Review

Introduction from LEEP’s Co-Executive Directors   2023 has been a year of progress, learning, and growth, all towards our founding goal of improving the health, wellbeing, and potential of children around the world. As we’ve expanded our paint programs, which aim...

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LEEP’s Second Year in Review

Introduction from LEEP’s Co-Executive Directors LEEP was founded on an ambitious goal: to improve the health, wellbeing, and potential of as many children as possible. This goal has always been grounded by the belief that progress is possible if we are committed to...

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LEEP’s First Year in Review

Introduction from LEEP's co-founders Around 1 in 3 children have lead poisoning globally and lead in paint is a major source of this exposure (UNICEF). Yet, lead is an unnecessary ingredient in paint, and regulations can successfully prevent its production (WHO &...

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