Annual Report 2012-2013
Welcome to Be One Percent’s very first 1% Members Annual Report. In May 2012 Be One Percent became a registered charity and in our first year our 1%Members gave a total of £38,561 to a variety of incredible projects. In that time our fundraising grew by 274% and we reached 100 Members in time for our Birthday in May 2013. What continues to impress us is how much can be achieved from a relatively small group of people giving 1% each month. This report is a summary of the fundraising achievements month on month from May 2012- April 2013 100% of public donations get passed to the most efficient and effective charities we can find. Because we give as a network it means we can get a very specific feedback about how our donations help change lives. Our members donating 1% in the last year has not just changed the lives of a few people but had an impact on thousands. We hope that our membership continues to grow and we can transform the lives of thousands more in the coming year. To all those who are 1%Members, thank you, and to those that aren’t, please join us ! Happy Giving.
Steve, Matt and the Be One Percent Team
MAY 2012
BROUGHT COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE TO 713 FAMILIES
May 2012 1% Members - 92 Total Raised £3,101.82 Partner Charity – Concern Universal Country – Kenya This month’s chosen charity is Concern Universal. Some of their work is in South Kenya, where the rural population has very limited access to healthcare and health education. In this area there are a high number of women dying during pregnancy or from birth complications. The latter also raise levels of infant mortality and disability in surviving babies. Some of the problems are the result of social practices, such as women eating much less than they normally would during pregnancy, in the belief that this will result in a small baby and therefore an easier birth.
These improvements in care and advice to local people are aimed at increasing birth weight and reducing the risk of both maternal and infant mortality and disability. Currently the project offers this extra provision to over 71,000 women and children at a cost of just £4.35 per family.
The charity is addressing these problems through the use of a small team to work with local existing community health workers. The project provides training on breast feeding, maternal nutrition before and after delivery and the use of milk and vegetables in the family diet. Some of the latter are provided directly by the project. The mothers do not have to travel long distances to access health care, as the community health workers go to them. These workers supply vitamin supplements and educate mothers on ‘things to watch for’. When necessary, they ensure that additional medical attention is received.
Concern Universal With more than 50 in-country partners Concern Universal is our largest and most diverse partner organization. They work internationally but very much at a grass roots level and through partnership provide practical ‘made to measure’ poverty solutions. Through Concern Universal we have funded HIV/Aids awareness initiatives in Ghana, provided clean water and sanitation solutions for 1600 people in Malawi and brought family healthcare to 713 families in rural Kenya.
Charity Partner Charitable Spending – 97%
Everybody understands the importance of family healthcare. 92 people giving 1% ensured that community health workers reached 713 families.
JUNE 2012
BUILT GREEN HOUSES FOR 9 FOSTER HOMES
June 2012 1% Members - 94 Total Raised £2,835.74 Partner Charity – The Mango Tree Orphan Support Programme Country – Kenya The Mango Tree is truly a community-based organisation, and in 2013 is now able to provide effective support to over 13,700 orphans in Kenya and Tanzania. The Mango Tree supports the traditional extended role of local families to look after orphaned children in East Africa. The impact of parental deaths from AIDS, alongside persistent poverty for some groups in this area has placed a particular strain on this role. Families find themselves unable to send their children to school and means the whole family can become prone to malnutrition and preventable diseases. Under this burden, rural children often drift into urban area and live on the streets, adding to their vulnerability. Our contribution to the work of The Mango Tree will help to reverse some of these pressures on the families they work with. The focus is on self-sustainability, especially by increasing access to clean water and raising the production of local agriculture, livestock and fishing production.
Charity Partner Charitable Spending – 99%
This month we funded the building of 9 large greenhouses for foster homes. These greenhouses helped to increase food production for the families offering nutritional and economic benefits. The Mango Tree The Mango Tree focuses specifically on orphans in Tanzania and Kenya who have lost parents to HIV/AIDS. They provide health and welfare support through over 250 local unpaid volunteers and 6 nurses, and the education and vocational training the orphans need to build sustainable, independent futures for them. The Mango Tree operates with very low UK running costs of around 1%.
JULY 2012
FEEDING 635 CHILDREN EVERY SCHOOL DAY.
July 2012 1% Members - 98 Total Raised £4,446.54 Partner Charity – Mary’s Meals Country – Malawi Mary’s Meals are now feeding over 734.000 worldwide every school day. Starting from a small famine relief project in Malawi in 2002 this simple idea now provides much needed nutrition to some of the worlds poorest children. As well as the nutritional benefits this intervention is delivered very cheaply. The average worldwide cost to provide a meal is just 6p – just pennies that can make the world of difference to child in need. For many children, this may be the only meal they will have that day. In Malawi, it costs just £7 to feed a child every school day for an entire year. This efficiency is achieved through local partnerships, sourcing food locally wherever possible to support the local economies and delivered through a huge network of community volunteers. In Malawi over 60,000 volunteers (usually parents) cook and serve over 600,000 meals every school day. It is through this partnership with the schools and communities that Mary’s Meals programmes have been, and continue to be, so successful.
Charity Partner Charitable Spending – 93%
This month (with welcomed help from a small independent music festival!) our fundraising reached a staggering £4,446.54p. That was enough to feed 635 children across 3 schools in Malawi for a whole year. That meant no less than 122,597 school lunches! Mary’s Meals Mary’s Meals is an international movement that sets up school feeding projects in communities where poverty and hunger prevent children from gaining an education. The charity now feeds more than 700,000 children every school day. Be One Percent sponsored its first school with Mary’s Meals in 2011 and with our fundraising success plan to sponsor 3 or more schools in 2013 delivering at least 200,000 school meals over the next year.
AUGUST 2012
SET UP 4 SEEDBANKS FOR FARMING COMMUNITIES.
August 2012 1% Members - 98 Total Raised £2,904.00 Partner Charity – Self Help Africa Country – Uganda Increasing agricultural production is the key to economic growth in much of Africa, and the availability of seed is vital if farmers are to grow the food they need to survive, and also earn more from their produce.
Setting up these seed co-ops, providing the right framework and training, is proven to increase yields for the local farming communities. This is in turn improves family nutrition and wellbeing.
In many African countries, under 10% of all seed is accessed by farmers from state-run agricultural support services, with the large majority saving their own seed from year to year – often with diminishing yield returns.
August 2012 Be One Percent raised enough to set up 4 seed banks. These 4 seed banks would impact on hundreds of farmers, their families and wider communities. Seed banks facilitate the reproduction of seeds year after year. The self production of seed is a cost-effective method for the farming communities and helps increase yields.
Self Help Africa supports seed multiplication across its programmes in Africa, provides ongoing training and technical support to community groups, and links farmer producers to laboratories where they can have their seed analysed and certified. This process has been taken to grassroots level across the eight African countries where it works, with small-scale farmers now acting as the producers and distributors of good quality cereal, pulse and vegetable seed in their locality. Community seed providers multiply seed for high yielding seed varieties. This not only provides good income for the individual but provides many hundreds of other farming families with access to good seed.
Charity Partner Charitable Spending – 94%
Self Help Africa Self Help Africa helps people in rural Africa grow enough food to feed themselves, earn a living, and access basic services. Self Help Africa equips people with the skills they need to move out of poverty by training farmers in new techniques and teaching basic business skills. Be One Percent via Self Help Africa have supported tree nurseries, planting over 8000 trees and set up Microfinance initiatives providing 12,000 women in Uganda with savings and small business loan facilities.
SEPTEMBER 2012
BOUGHT WATER PUMPS FOR 7 VILLAGE COMMUNITIES.
September 2012 1% Members - 100 Total Raised £3,245.11 Partner Charity – Village Water Country – Zambia This month’s chosen charity was Village Water, which provides hygiene education and sustainable water for rural villages in western Zambia. Diarrhoea is one of the leading causes of infant mortality in poor countries and a major contributor to malnutrition, throughout the life span. The safe disposal of human excreta, coupled with basic hygiene practices, such as hand washing with soap, are key to breaking the cycle of disease transmission. Only protected shallow wells with manual water pumps are installed. These allow the people to draw uncontaminated water from below ground.
the year, instead of the single crop reliant on the rainy season. Surplus food can be sold at local markets. Money made through their enterprise enables families to pay for medicines and an education for their healthy children.
The long term impact of technically simple measures about sanitation and basic hygiene are enormous. Children can wash regularly and good hygiene practice is maintained, thereby avoiding the life-threatening diseases caused by insufficient clean water and poor hygiene practice. Families no longer go hungry as the water helps to grow plentiful supplies of nourishing food. A local source of water gives village women the time to create their own local enterprise and children the time to attend school. Sustainable water supplies help farmers to harvest crops throughout
Village Water Village Water provides hygiene education and sustainable water for rural villages in western Zambia. Village Water only install protected shallow wells with manual water pumps that allow the people to draw uncontaminated water from underground. Diarrhea, particularly among children, is one of the leading causes of infant mortality in Zambia and a major contributor to malnutrition. The safe disposal of human excreta, coupled with basic hygiene practices, such as hand washing with soap, are key to breaking the cycle of disease transmission for diarrhea, particularly amongst children under five.
Charity Partner Charitable Spending – 90%
In September 2012 with additional contributions from The Mando Foundation we raised £3,245.11. This bought seven water pumps for Village Water projects. As part of their work this will bring safe and sustainable water supplies to as many as 1,190 people in 7 communities in western Zambia.
OCTOBER 2012
BOUGHT NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASE TREATMENT FOR 6,792 CHILDREN.
October 2012 1% Members - 101 Total Raised £3,396.19 Partner Charity – SCI (Schistosomiasis Control Initiative) Continent – Africa SCI works to improve the health and development of the world’s poorest populations by eradicating the poverty sustaining and life-threatening effects of schistosomiasis (bilharzia) and intestinal worms (hookworm, whipworm and roundworm). Neglected Tropical Disease (NTDs) comprise mainly parasitic and bacterial infections and are the most common afflictions of humankind. The World Health Organization has prioritised its efforts to control fourteen NTDs. SCI assists Ministries of Health across sub-Saharan Africa to control and then eliminate schistosomiasis and STH from their population. 230 million people, one-third of the total population of Africa, need a regular annual treatment of praziquantel, and 400 million people need a regular annual treatment of albendazole, to eliminate these parasitic diseases from their bodies. Treating NTDs is a ‘best buy’ in public health according to The World Health Organization (WHO) and it costs just 50p to treat a child for NTD’s. Because the research programmes receive separate funding, 100% of Be One Percents donation funds on the ground implementation.
Charity Partner Charitable Spending – 100%
These treatments will form part of SCI’s work in Etiopia in 2013. This work is at a huge scale bringing schistosomiasis treatment to a staggering 1.5 million children, with a hope that next year they will reach even more. 1%Members donated £3,396.19 in October 2012. This was enough to treat no less than 6,792 children through SCI’s work. Schistosomiasis Control Initiative The Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI) is working to see a world free of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). This would allow the world’s poorest populations to be healthier, develop fully, learn effectively, raise families, and be productive members of their communities, thereby helping to achieve the Millennium Development Goals of sustainable poverty reduction.
NOVEMBER 2012
NOW FEEDING OVER 1,064 CHILDREN EVERY SCHOOL DAY.
November 2012 1% Members - 101 Total Raised £3,004.89 Partner Charity – Mary’s Meals Country – Malawi We have donated enough to feed 1,064 children every school day. Providing children with a simple school meal improves daily attendance, class concentration which in turn leads to better exam results. In Feb 2013 a small team representing Be One Percent went out and saw the school feeding in Gomani and Chitakale primary schools. To meet the children was humbling and inspiring. This type of contact reinforces the very real impact that giving 1% has on the lives of people who are very much in need. As our membership grows so will the number of those receiving this much needed nutrition in schools.
Charity Partner Charitable Spending – 93%
Through partnership with Mary’s Meals, Be One Percent now sponsor feeding in 3 Malawian schools in Gomani, Chitakale and Kalopa. Mary’s Meals Mary’s Meals is an international movement that sets up school feeding projects in communities where poverty and hunger prevent children from gaining an education. The charity now feeds more than 700,000 children every school day. Be One Percent sponsored its first school with Mary’s Meals in 2011 and with our fundraising success plan to sponsor 3 or more schools in 2013 delivering at least 200,000 school meals over the next year.
DECEMBER 2012
BOUGHT 580 STUDY BOOKS FOR THE COMMUNITY LIBRARY.
December 2012 1% Members - 101 Total Raised £3,063.33 Partner Charity – The Mango Tree Orphan Support Programme Country – Tanzania In Kyela, Tanzania, The Mango Tree Community Library is a rurally-based education centre stocked with academic and recreational books. The library serves people living in the local area, otherwise deprived of any access to additional or even required learning resources. The library is used mainly by students wanting to supplement their school lessons and gain access to syllabus books which are scarce in their schools. Students range from nursery to university students, all accessing their various resources available in the library. The library staff also run a reference section and are available to help students in sourcing materials and making recommendations for reading materials. Our 1% Donation this month will buy books, which are in high demand in the library. These include syllabus books for secondary students and tertiary education resources; vocational training books and higher learning materials. Increasing the stock will provide sufficient numbers of the necessary books and encourage more students and the community at large to visit the library.
Charity Partner Charitable Spending – 99%
The Mango Tree aims to provide effective and sustainable programmes in African communities that improve the well-being of orphans and vulnerable children and nurture them to become self-reliant adults. The Mango Tree now supports over 13,000 children in Kenya and Tanzania. Recently a featured charity for a Radio 4 Charity appeal they have the lowest running/fundraising costs of all our partner charities with a charitable spend of 99%. This month our giving network raised enough for 580 study books for this library. The Mango Tree The Mango Tree helps over 12,000 orphans in Tanzania and Kenya who have lost parents to HIV/AIDS. They provide health and welfare support through over 250 local unpaid volunteers and 6 nurses, and the education and vocational training the orphans need to build sustainable, independent futures for them. Be One Percent fundraised for The Mango Tree for the first time in June 2012 to build greenhouses for 9 foster homes and their families.
JANUARY 2013
SET UP FOOD GARDENS IN 10 SCHOOLS IN GAMBIA.
January 2013 1% Members - 84 Total Raised £2,819.70 Partner Charity – Concern Universal Country – Gambia The use of micro gardens are a simple technology that allow for a large amount of food to be grown in a small area, and even in places without soil (e.g. concrete spaces). You can think of it as a kind of low cost hydroponics, using simple technology and recycled/ locally available materials. Concern Universal has proven its application in schools already and plan to take it to scale. It’s one of a range of technologies that helps to feed children in schools, offering a nutritious, balanced diet whilst also teaching children how to grow food effectively. The initiatives in these small schools are currently supporting between 300-500 students but with the projects success and expansion more micro-gardens will help provide important nutrition to thousands of others.
Charity Partner Charitable Spending – 97%
In January 2013 we supported micro-gardens in 10 schools in Gambia Concern Universal With more than 50 in-country partners Concern Universal is our largest and most diverse partner organization. They work internationally but very much at a grass roots level and through partnership provide practical ‘made to measure’ poverty solutions. Through Concern Universal we have funded HIV/Aids awareness initiatives in Ghana, provided clean water and sanitation solutions for 1600 people in Malawi and brought family healthcare to 713 families in rural Kenya.
FEBRUARY 2013
BOUGHT 100 BEEHIVES SUPPORTING 560 SMALLHOLDER FARMERS.
February 2013 1% Members - 89 Total Raised £3,262.40 Partner Charity – Self Help Africa Country – Uganda This project serves a triple purpose – combating environmental degradation, increasing incomes and boosting food security. The earnings from beekeeping will provide alternative sources of livelihoods, hence reducing the rate of cutting down trees for charcoal and firewood. Since the bees rely on trees and plant life for survival, there is an incentive for farmers to preserve existing foliage and plant more. Bees are equally important in contributing towards food security. Insects are the earth’s chief pollinators and most crops which provide global food security are bee-pollinated. Of the 100 crop species that provide 90 percent of the world’s food, over 70 are pollinated by bees. By increasing local bee populations, the project will help boost crop productivity and thereby increase local food security. As beekeeping does not require land ownership (the hives are hung in trees) and is not a labour- intensive activity, women and people with reduced mobility or comprised health (e.g. people with disabilities or those affected by HIV/AIDS) – who are often denied land ownership or are less able to undertake labour-intensive farming – can actively participate.
Charity Partner Charitable Spending – 94%
Beekeeping is also complimentary to other farming activities. The honey produced will enhance the diets of the participants’ families. Income raised by selling honey will be available to purchase other foods, and also to pay for essentials such as medicines and school fees. This month we paid for an impressive 100 bee hives, the planting of 25 acres of sunflowers and the protective clothing for 36 people, as part of Self Help Africa’s work to increase income for 560 smallholder farmers in Kayunga and Kumi in Uganda. Self Help Africa Self Help Africa helps people in rural Africa grow enough food to feed themselves, earn a living, and access basic services. Self Help Africa equips people with the skills they need to move out of poverty by training farmers in new techniques and teaching basic business skills. Be One Percent via Self Help Africa have supported tree nurseries, planting over 8000 trees and set up Microfinance initiatives providing 12,000 women in Uganda with savings and small business loan facilities.
MARCH 2013
BROUGHT CLEAN WATER TO 750 PEOPLE
March 2013 1% Members - 98 Total Raised £3,400.30 Partner Charity – Concern Universal Country – Malawi Concern Universal have provided and renovated over 3,200 water points in Malawi to date (350 in 2012 alone). This simple activity can cost as little as £4-£5 for each person who will receive a clean water supply. Sustainable clean water solutions and better sanitation practices can dramatically decrease cases of water borne diseases. Mapped against the installation of 608 water points, a recent study in 1 district saw cases of diarrhea decrease by a staggering 83% over a 5 year period. Clean water changes and saves lives. Worldwide in 2012 Concern Universal provided 870,325 people with access to improved sanitation and hygiene, and 845,034 people with access to safe water. This March saw us raise £3,400 for Concern Universal. This money will be ring-fenced to complete 3 water point projects.
Charity Partner Charitable Spending – 96%
As part of sustainable water point projects, the money we raised this month brought clean water to at least 750 people. Concern Universal With more than fifty in-country partners Concern Universal is our largest and most diverse partner organization. They work internationally but very much at a grass roots level and through their tailored partnerships provide practical ‘made to measure’ poverty solutions. Through Concern Universal we have funded HIV/Aids awareness initiatives in Ghana, provided clean water and sanitation solutions for 1600 people in Malawi and brought family healthcare to 713 families in rural Kenya.
APRIL 2013
GAVE ENOUGH FOR 1,311 MALARIA NETS COVERING 2,450 PEOPLE.
April 2013 1% Members - 100 Total Raised £3,387.55 Partner Charity – Against Malaria Continent – Africa The most effective means of preventing malaria is sleeping under a mosquito net. Malaria is transmitted by certain mosquitoes when they bite. These mosquitoes bite people to get a blood meal. The malaria parasite then passes from the infected mosquito to the person being bitten. They typically bite between 10 o'clock at night and two in the morning and that's one of the most important things we have on our side: if we can protect people in affected areas when they sleep at night we have a very good chance of preventing them contracting malaria. Long-lasting insecticide nets act in two ways. First, it is a simple mechanical barrier that stops the mosquito getting to a person. Second, it is a mechanism for killing the mosquito. When a mosquito lands on a net it picks up insecticide on its legs. That causes 'knock down' - the mosquito is killed. The nets remain effective even when they have holes and tears in them - as happens in the environments in which they are used and over time.
Charity Partner Charitable Spending – 100%
The mosquitoes do not do an aerobatic manoeuvre and fly straight through a hole that might be there but land on the net and migrate towards a hole. That allows knock down to occur and means the nets, even with holes, stay 99% effective. Following a distribution Against Malaria provide in depth reporting on both net usage and their impact on malaria levels. It is worth noting that ‘Giving What We Can’, ‘Giving Well’ and ‘A Life You Can Save’ all rank Against Malaria as the worlds No.1 Charity. This month we raised enough money to protect 2.450 people from malaria. Against Malaria Against Malaria protect people from Malaria. They fund anti-malaria nets, specifically long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs), and work with distribution partners to ensure they are used. 100% of public donations buys Malaria nets and through them in April 2013 1%Members gave enough for 1,311 Malaria nets guarantied for distribution.
Thanks to all of our Members for their continuing support. Without you we simply wouldn't exist. You are One Percent! We have high hopes to see our network of givers grow in this coming year and hope you can help share Be One Percent and continue to change lives by giving 1%. Thank You ! BE ONE PERCENT FOUNDATION, 131 MOUNT PLEASANT, LIVERPOOL L3 5TF The Be One Percent Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales (1147505) Be One Percent is a network of individuals who commit to giving 1% of their income each month to help the world’s poorest. As the network of givers grows, we achieve more and more – and change the world we live in.
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