AfriKids Annual Report 20045

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AfriKids Annual Report 2004-5
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UK Income

• The majority of donations were from Companies and
  Individuals
• Lansdowne partners (made up of 5 managers) have
  committed to give 100,000 over 4 years (they
  have already given 50,000 for 05 06)
• St Mildreds church have committed to another
  7,000 to make their total donation 17,000
• We now have 5 Benefactors, each giving 2,000/yr
• Our standing order donations (child sponsorship)
  are increasing dramatically each month
• Reed Elsevier have donated for a second time
  (doubling their last grant) and have asked us to
  re-apply for a third time. They have also chosen
  us for their School in a Box campaign
• Vitol Oil Company have donated 15,000 and have
  chosen AfriKids to recommend to Standard
  Chartered Bank who are seeking effective NGOs to
  finance
• Other large donors this year include Business
  Fidelity, GlaxoSmithKline and CLP Structured
  Finance
• We have now built up strong links with about
  eight Trusts who are supporting us on a regular
  basis
• We have seen a large increase in the number of
  people holding small or sponsored events for
  AfriKids

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UK Expenditure

• Nearly 2/3 of the expenditure this year was on
  wages
• Ghana trip costs included 7 return flights. We
  now have 4 return flights a year sponsored
  through a gentlemans air miles
• We have recently partnered with an NGO called
  Green Standards who will supply us with second
  hand (recycled) computers and electronic
  equipment
• Very little has been spent on publicity material
  this year in an attempt to save some money. We
  hope to invest more next year and have found a
  good designer at a low price
• Miscellaneous refers to our loan repayment to
  John

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UK Expenditure
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Ghana Expenditure

• 171,833 has been spent on AfriKids projects in
  year 3.
• Operation Bolgatanga still remains the biggest
  project and has three sustainability programmes
  in place
• A general fund has been set up for educational
  scholarships and medical assistance

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House of Lords May 10th 2005

• Money Raised
• Total raised through ticket sales 6,845
• Total raised from donations 11,422
• Total raised through the auction 9,625
• Final total 27,892

The event has been imprinted on my heart, a
memory that can never be erased. As I walked
home, I told myself that doing little things very
well brings about big changes. I will double my
effort in the little things I am doing in my
corner. From the bottom of my heart I sincerely
and gratefully thank all of you for coming.
Thank You, Nico (AfriKids Director, Ghana)
Laadi will one day have a house, can you believe
that? I thank you so much for everything you are
all doing for the children and I am happy happy
happy and happy, and I will send you all the
pictures of the house when it is finished. Also
I will send you pictures of my children. I will
always remember the big day in my life, being
with you all at the House of Lords. I will always
write and thank you. I love you all. Thank you
all once again, Mama Laadi

• Costs
• Food and Drinks 4,877
• Staff Gratuities 716
• Supplementary Costs HoL 390
• Audio visual Equipment 525
• Final total 6,509

Profit Total profit 21,383
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Paul Apowidas Visit

• Paul, the AfriKids artist, was in the UK for 2
  weeks and has painted his heart out!
• He held exhibitions and workshops in
• Tower 42
• St Marys RC School Clapham
• St Johns and Elizabeths School, Oxford
• St Michaels RC School, London Bridge

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The AfriKids Gallery
The AfriKids Gallery was opened in January with
the aim of selling the paintings of a remarkable
young artist, Paul Apowida. The Gallery was slow
to take off but is becoming increasingly popular.
We have recently held exhibitions at Tower 42,
Reed Elsevier and Deutsche Bank which have not
only generated income through direct painting
sales but also through child sponsorship. In
addition the exhibitions have served to generate
awareness about AfriKids across the city. Slowly
but surely the AfriKids word is spreading and the
gallery has been instrumental in opening up
avenues that, as a charity, we would not normally
have access to.
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AfriKids UK - general

• The AfriKids gallery was opened in January 2005
  and is proving a great success.
• Lorna Rootham runs the Gallery she has been
  taken on, on a temping basis, and has helped us
  out enormously. Lorna has also taken over a lot
  of the office management jobs.
• We sell Pauls original artwork and reprints.
  There are small, medium and large framed
  paintings and the prices range from 20 right up
  to 500. We also sell our greetings cards and
  some Bolga baskets, hand woven by the local
  women, as well as some African masks. All profits
  go back into Operation Sirigu at Pauls request.
• Paul receives pocket money, we cover the costs of
  his art materials, we provide him with a computer
  and a phone and we sponsor his graphic design
  course.
• On the 9th of March, we held a very successful
  exhibition at Deustche Bank. It sparked both
  interest in Pauls art and an interest in the
  charity.
• We offer the opportunity to pay lower one off
  cost for a painting if people set up a standing
  order to support a child. There has been
  considerable interest in child sponsorship.
• We promote Fair Trade in the shop and support
  Divine and the Co Op Chocolate as they work with
  Cocoa farmers in Ghana. In the first week of
  March the Gallery was used as a base for Divine
  Chocolate workers, who were going onto the
  streets to promote their chocolate and fair
  trade. Two of the local farmers came over from
  Ghana to speak about fair trade. We have since
  been in contact and may partner with Divine when
  organising fundraising events in the future.
• The Gallery has given us the opportunity to open
  AfriKids up to the public, creating awareness
  about the charity and increasing our support
  base.
• We came second in the YOU Magazines/Clairins
  Award for The Most Dynamisante Women of the Year
  Award. We won 1,000 and will have a double page
  spread in YOU magazine in November 05.

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AfriKids Ghana - general

• AfriKids is now an officially registered charity
  in Ghana.
• Nicholas Kumah and Ophelia Abatey have been made
  Co-Directors of AfriKids Ghana. They still occupy
  their normal positions on Operation Bolgatanga
  and Operation Sirigu respectively, but they now
  also oversee all the projects and are a point of
  contact for the beneficiaries, project workers
  and anyone else who may need help or advice. They
  report back to Georgie regularly, and consult
  with her on any major decisions that need to be
  made.
• We have taken on a new Operation. Jane
  Naaglosegme, founder of the Sirigu Babies Home,
  has identified another area, 200km south of
  Sirigu which is badly in need of her and our
  support. The programme is called Operation Smiles
  and will be focused in and around a desperately
  poor and isolated village called Naakuabi. This
  small region, where she will base her work, has
  never received a visit from a government minister
  or benefited from governmental or NGO development
  projects. Harmful traditional practices are
  impacting on child survival and Sister Jane is
  determined to work alongside the communities to
  make life safer for children to grow up there. We
  are going to start fundraising for this project a
  little later in the year. Currently Nick and
  Ophelia are leading in depth research into the
  area and where funding needs to be prioritised.
  In April 2005 they ran a two day workshop with
  Jane and all the stakeholders in child welfare
  for the Naakuabi area with the aim of
  highlighting the needs of young people in the
  area.
• Educational and Medical Fund
• We have established a local general medical and
  educational fund which is available for all
  special cases of child suffering in and around
  Bolga. This allows children to be supported
  without necessarily being taken onto one of the
  projects.
• AfriKids Centre
• We have begun fundraising for an AfriKids centre
  in Bolgatanga. This will include comfortable
  accommodation for guests and volunteers, and a
  large room for meetings. Mama Laadis new home
  will be built alongside it and she will provide
  food for the centre.
• AfriKids Office
• We have rented two rooms on Bolgatanga high
  street (130/2 years) from where our directors
  can base themselves and all the administrative
  work will take place.
• Staff Training
• All of our programme staff are encouraged to
  enrol in computer/accounting/business skills
  training at our head office. This is very
  popular.

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Operation Bolgatanga

• The AfriKids Next Generation Home is completely
  finished
• There are currently 30 permanent child residents
  at the ANGH
• Seven of the girls that were under Mama Laadis
  care have now moved into the ANGH.
• All children attend local schools (except 2 for
  whom it is not appropriate)
• Most of the older children are currently in
  apprenticeships, AfriKids project staff have
  begun weekly meetings with the childrens
  teachers and/or employers to track their
  progress.
• Felix, the internal manager has been on a 6 week
  course on community fieldwork and social care.
• Nicholas, the external manager will be attending
  a three month (Saturday only) course on rural
  project management
• We have established funds to pay for the
  education, vocational training and healthcare of
  children living on the street and in need of
  support but who do not need or wish to live in
  one of AfriKids homes.
• We have started a rehabilitation programme
  whereby children are being returned to their
  homes
• We are running awareness programmes on the radio,
  through community workshops and in newspapers to
  end streetism in the north.
• We have begun linking with local NGOs and
  undertaking extensive research in Kumasi where
  there are 25,000 street children, 90 of whom are
  from the north.
• The AfriKids football tournament in August
  attracted 21 teams and 10,000 spectators. The
  Community Stadium (owned by the ANGH) has been
  graded and a VIP stand with full PA system has
  been bought. This month a drainage system is
  being installed. This is part of the overall ANGH
  4 year sustainability plan.
• We are sponsoring the Next Generation Stars
  football team, established and run by the boys
  themselves. We have purchased resources including
  chairs and canopies for the hosting of events
  which the Next Generation Home can rent out in
  order to generate an income. The home has already
  run childrens Christmas, New Year and Valentines
  parties which have attracted a lot of support and
  a financial boost for the home.

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Operation Sirigu

• The Sirigu Nursery School (sponsored by AfriKids)
  is going very well and has close to 150 children
  now.
• Emman, Isaac, Sixtus, Augustine, Gordon,
  Jeremiah, Helen and Martin currently remain full
  time residents at the House of Hope and have made
  a happy, warm home in their new surroundings.
• 8 children have returned to their families, some
  with financial support from AfriKids.
• All the older children still have a UK donor
  link, to whom they write letters
• Ophelia was employed as Sirigu Project Manager in
  September, she has since been promoted to
  Co-Director AfriKids Ghana
• The older children continue to go to school and
  the younger ones nursery school
• Joe, the AfriKids project worker runs an after
  school club for the children as well as a
  Saturday sports and activity club. He also
  supports Matilda the manager of the Babies Home
• Elijah is still the CDW. His workshops are very
  useful in educating the local people in
  surrounding villages about maternal health and
  helping dispel the myth of spirit children. His
  Moped is enabling him to reach more families more
  frequently
• Skills training for young carers continues at the
  Home, primarily in dress making, literacy and
  nutrition and management
• The Sirigu community centre is about to be
  renovated into a primary health clinic and a
  maternity clinic and will run literacy and
  business skills classes for hundreds of local
  women.
• Two of the four Mother Babies Units have been
  built (Kandiga (see right) and Mayoro). Once
  painted, equipped and funded for a year, the
  running and staff costs will be taken over by the
  ministry of health and the diocese
• We are sponsoring the Sirigu Football team
• We have bought a second four-wheel drive vehicle
  to enable Ophelia to reach remote communities to
  run workshops, hold forums and visit the
  childrens families (inc. Burkina). The truck
  is shared with Operation Mango Tree
• 250 women from 8 villages are being sponsored on
  a micro-financing programme, which includes
  business skills training, nutrition workshop,
  vocational training in a marketable trade and a
  loan to set up their own business, usually in
  groups

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Operation Zuarungu

• In August 2004 AfriKids undertook to establish
  the Zuarungu Childrens Centre having met Charles
  Dagore in August 2004 a local pastor who had
  been running a school and care centre for the
  poor children of his area. A period of assessment
  of the area and the proposed project ensued.
• Construction of the centre began in November and
  the building has now reached lintel level.
• We paid for two summer huts to be built so that
  classes could take place out of the intense heat
  of the sun whilst the centre is being built. They
  are a permanent structure and once the Centre is
  built they can be used as activity huts similar
  to those in the ANGH. The cost of one hut was
  269, the staff chose to forfeit their salaries
  to cover the cost of a second hut.
• We have employed the staff of the centre who have
  begun work teaching the children, administering
  their care and overseeing construction of the
  centre.
• Whilst no children are yet able to live in the
  centre, we have funded the provision of
  education, food, medical care and clothing where
  needed for all of the 250 children currently
  enrolled with the project. Charles has noted a
  dramatic improvement in the childrens health,
  school attendance and attentiveness in class.
• We have linked many of the children enrolled on
  the project with UK sponsors including children
  who will receive their food, schooling and
  medical care at the centre but will be able to
  continue living with their loving families.
• We have investigated several proposals for
  programmes of sustainability for the centre. In
  January there was a meeting with over 200
  relevant stakeholders of the project. This
  included local agricultural experts, all the
  chiefs and elders of the Zuarungu area and the
  staff of AfriKids Ghana.

The children are now treated for small
scratches, cuts and skin sores immediately,
avoiding unnecessary complications which can
cause serious illnesses. The children are now
looking physically stronger and healthier. They
appear more alert and happier and now
participate fully in learning and playing with
their peers. Charles Dagore, Project manager
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Mama Laadi Foster Mum and Outreach worker

• Laadi now has a family of 30 children, all of
  whom are supported by AfriKids. They are living
  in a rented house while their new home is being
  built.
• Since September Laadi has run the School of Hard
  Knocks with the help of two locals, Daniel and
  Godfred. The class operates in Laadis home where
  the street children and some of Laadis own
  children (which total about 30) gather every
  night from 8.30-10.30pm to learn about everything
  from health and hygiene to numeracy.
• This year we have funded the salaries of Laadi,
  Daniel and Godfred on this programme.
• Laadi runs health screenings on fatal diseases
  for children still living on the street. She
  takes children to hospital to receive treatment
  that she is unable to administer on the street,
  she treats sores children have developed and she
  runs outreach trips with the children back to the
  villages they come from, ensuring the children
  maintain a link with their family and to assess
  the reasons why the children left their home in
  the first place and whether the cause can be
  addressed.
• Laadi now has a moped so she is able to whiz
  around town and do three times as many things as
  she was able to do previously.
• At the House of Lords we raised enough money to
  build Laadis new home. I it will sleep up to 30
  children regularly although we have no doubt that
  anything up to 60 children could be there on any
  given evening.

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Operation Smiles

• Operation Smiles is a new project for AfriKids
  still very much in its embryonic stage. We were
  approached by Jane Naaglosegme, founder of the
  Sirigu Babies Home and trusted friend of AfriKids
  for help in her newest endeavour. With Jane,
  AfriKids will build a childrens centre in
  Naakuabi, in the Northern Region of Ghana, an
  impoverished area with very few childcare
  facilities. It will be part of a comprehensive
  approach to tackling the problems of impoverished
  and homeless children in the area.
• The centre will house an orphanage, school and
  vocational training facility for young people of
  the area, we are currently investigating the cost
  of construction and level of demand in the area.
• Land for the centre and other income generating
  initiatives has already been contributed by the
  local community.
• Local qualified teachers and nurses have offered
  their services to the centre on a voluntary basis
  and community dedication to the project is
  clearly evident.
• If I died today then the project would continue
  to completion.
• Jane Naaglosegme, project co-ordinator
• This year we have supported 35 children who are
  already registered with the project, paying their
  school fees and where needed feeding, clothing
  and medical costs. This has met their immediate
  needs, and they are benefiting from the knowledge
  they will be provided with a higher level of
  security when the centre is established.
• The town of Naakuabi has never received a visit
  from a government minister or benefited from
  governmental or NGO development projects. So
  AfriKids has begun in depth independent research
  into the situation of the area and its need for
  NGO investment.
• Nick Kumah hosted a two day workshop in early
  April with the senior staff of AfriKids, Ghana,
  Jane Naaglosegme and 35 local stakeholders in
  child welfare. Through discussions, workshops and
  exercises the group identified the priorities for
  Operation Smiles and where AfriKids investment is
  most badly needed. The priorities included the
  provision of care for children within their
  family homes and of vocational training for older
  children who all too often end up living on the
  streets or forced into early marriages.

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Staffing Structure
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Awards and Articles

• Most Outstanding Contribution to Ghana GPA
  Awards May 2004
• Short Listed Young Philanthropist Beacon
  Award - Times Newspaper
• 2nd Place in the YOU Magazine/Clarins, Woman of
  the Year
• Winners of the School in a Box Award Reed
  Elsevier
• Two page article in Sunday Express Football
  boots appeal