This year money has been raised principally through donations made by students and fellows, as well as by helping to run College bops. As usual, College members have been very generous with their donations, and therefore this has helped us to concentrate our time on deciding how the funds should be allocated. Many of our applications are from student contacts, and our ideal projects are small, community-run with no funding from larger bodies. Financial support has allowed 15 children to attend secondary education. The school also has other roles in the community such as acting as a dispensary.
Money is needed for school refurbishment and teachers' salaries.
We also rely on feedback, personal contact and accountability to ensure that money is well used. Feedback may be in the form of correspondence or better still, if the opportunity arises, a committee member may visit the project at their own expense. However, we do work with other larger organisations, if we think their projects meet our criteria. An organisation working in Africa that provides pumps for schools and villages, which have no other clean source of water. We donated funds for pumps to be built in 2 primary schools, last summer.