Brighter Future Foundation
CHARITY COMMISSION REGISTRATION NO. 1149753
BRIGHTER FUTURE FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023
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| 1. | Reference and administrative details | 3 |
| 2. | Trustees' report | 4 |
| 3. | Financial report | 9 |
| 4. | Independent examiner’s report | 10 |
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1. Reference and Administrative details
Charity name
Brighter Future Foundation
Registered charity number
Charity Principal address
1149753 87 Monmouth Drive Sutton Coldfield West Midlands B73 6JR
Website
www.brighterfutureuk.org
Name of the charity trustees who managed the charity Trustees
Dr Thinn Thinn Hlaing Dr Aung Aung Lwin Dr Khin Z Nyo Dr Thandar Aye Dr Emma Mitchell Dr Maung Maung Kyi (Chair)
Banker
HSBC Bank Plc 110 Grey Street Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 6JG, England
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2. Trustees' report
2.1. Structure, governance and management
The name of the organisation is Brighter Future Foundation. The organisation is an unincorporated body. It was governed by a trust deed dating from 23 September 2012. Trustee selection method: Trustees are appointed and reappointed annually at the general meeting held in June. The trustees present their annual report for the year 31 March 2023 and confirm that the accounts complied with the charity's constitution.
2.1. Objectives and activities
The aims of the charity are:
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to relieve sickness and to preserve the health and welfares of the people of Myanmar by providing and assisting in the provision of equipment, education and support services not normally provided by the government organisations,
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to advance the education of the health care professionals and public in health care in Myanmar by the provision of educational lectures and fora, and
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to support the undergraduate and post-graduate medical education and training in medical institutes of Myanmar by assisting in the provision of facilities, equipment and provision of lectures, ancillary to those provided by the government authorities.
2.3. Achievement and Performance
(1) Support of COVID-19 Vaccination Program in Conflict Affected Areas in Myanmar
During the pandemic COVID-19 in 2021-2022, the COVID-19 vaccines were not available for civilians living in conflict-affected areas. The vaccines delivered from COVAX, co-led by GAVI only delivered vaccines to the Myanmar Military council’s administrative areas. To respond to this crisis, Brighter Future Foundation received funding from Suu Foundation to help deliver COVID-19 vaccination through COVID-19 Task Force (CTF), which is formed with ethnic health organisations and Ministry of Health, National Unity Government. Between March and August 2022, GBP 37217.89 delivered 37,716 total COVID-19 doses to adults living in Chin, Mon, Karen, Karenni and Shan states. A further USD 50,000 delivered total COVID-19 immunisation of >6000 doses in three townships in Chin State from October 2022 to February 2023.
Table (1): Coverage of COVID-19 vaccination in five ethnic health organization areas
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Diagram (1) COVID-19 vaccination first, second, third dose coverage in Eastern regions covered by ethnic health organisations
- (2) Support for emergency medicines and medical equipment needed in health facilities in conflict affected areas.
The political instability and intensifying arms resistance against the military coup on 1 February 2021 has led to increased numbers of civilians being displaced. The recent OHCHR report stated >2.6 million are displaced internally. The health services under Myanmar Military Council cannot deliver the health needs of the displaced population. Their health service is delivered by ethnic health organisations and the Ministry of Health of National Unity Government.
We supported a total of £134384 to purchase essential medicines, medical equipment (portable X-rays, Portable Ultrasounds, Operation theatre equipment) and emergency medical kits for frontline medics, which were distributed to frontline hospitals across Myanmar.
Table 2: Number of emergency medical equipment donated
| items donated | Quantity |
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| Portable X-rays | 16 |
| Portable Butterfly Ultrasounds | 6 |
| Folding rescue stretcher | 100 |
| Adult resus kit ambu bags | 108 |
| 1200 lumen LED headlight | 200 |
| Combat First aid kit | 210 |
| Tourniquet | 3000 |
| emergency bandage | 3000 |
| chest seal | 3000 |
| compress sterile gauze 4.5 inches | 2000 |
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- (3) Support to build the Health Facility in Northern Rakhine
A funding of £10000 was distributed towards the building of a new one-storey 30-bed hospital in Northern Rakhine area.
- (4) Continued collaboration with Cambridge Global Health Partnership (CGHP) to improve access to health services by provision of Telehealth Services in Myanmar
A continued support was provided for Telehealth services. By December 2022, the total number of teleconsultations had reached 106,000. An HIV/AIDS online specialist clinic opened in November, bringing the number of specialist clinics to 36, and general clinics to 4, operating with more than 200 volunteers and project staff. The population in 319 out of 330 townships are being served.
The telemedicine programme Facebook page increased the number of followers to 347,421 and health education messages and posts reached 1,450,000 people. In addition, the Tele-Kyanmar YouTube channel was launched in December 2022 and four short health education videos in Burmese language were now in the channel.
- (5) Continued collaboration with Myanmar-UK GP Alliances (MUGA) for quality improvement of General Practitioners in Myanmar
Myanmar GPs are continued to be supported by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) through different types of training and provision of medical supply. The types of training include:
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Educational Webinars: Twice monthly webinars have been running on a wide variety of medical topics orientated to general practice, with the RCGP collaborating with the RCP including Myanmar diaspora. Almost 50% of webinars are in the Myanmar language. Feedback is taken after every webinar and the partnership is exploring the feasibility and acceptability of pre and post webinar short knowledge assessments.
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The Quality Improvement (QI) Programme: The second QI Introduction Course of 2022 was completed at the end of September and 15 Certificates of completion awarded to participants at the beginning of October 2022.
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2 Consultation Skills sessions in October 2022 - 15 participants
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1 Group Facilitator session - 12 participants in preparation for the GPE/RCGP QI Workshop
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The GP Education group QI Workshop - 100 participants, 12 Myanmar QI facilitators and 3 RCGP trainers.
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Organisational Development: The RCGP Trainers continue to work with the executive committee of the Myanmar Association of General Practice (MAGP) to provide training and support for it to develop as an organisation. The group of 13 MAGP Executives involved in this course continue to be well engaged and have attended formal teaching sessions and monthly tutorials on topics such as:
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Teamwork: Creating goals and sustaining effective teams. Exploring what makes a good team, defining team roles and how to make teams more effective. Belbin Team roles were organised for members of the MAGP team and explored how to make teams more balanced.
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Motivation and Change Management.
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(6) Humanitarian support in conflict affected areas in Myanmar
(a) Karenni
Following the coup in February 2021, conflicts broke out between local Karenni resistance groups and the military across Karenni State and Pekhon township of Shan State, leading to increased numbers of internally displaced people. Among the seven townships in Karenni state, Demoso townships has the highest numbers of internally displaced people at approximately 35,000, followed by Loikaw township at around 20,000 and Pruso township at around 10,000. Other townships have less than 10,000 each.
Through our local partners, a support worth of GBP 10,000 was provided to 200 households in Demoso township with food and non-food items as proposed. The areas covered were Daw Ngan Khar, Daw Tama Nge, and Ngwe Taung villages. These villages suffered some of the heaviest damages with houses, churches, and schools destroyed by the military junta’s indiscriminate shelling and intentional destruction with fire. Thousands of villagers were forced to flee for refuge far away from their homes.
Rice was the main food item supported. Other food items supported included salted fish, chili, and garlic. For non-food items, we provided tarpaulins for shelter, household kits including kitchenware, mats, solar lamps, and blankets.
(b) Rice Distribution Project for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Sagaing, Myanmar
The project's successful implementation, in collaboration with dedicated implementing partners, facilitated the provision of critically needed one-time emergency rice distribution to a total of 148,507 internally displaced persons (IDPs) across 171 villages spanning 16 townships within the Sagaing region.
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Table showing the number of IDPS reached
2.4. Public benefits
All activities carried out by Brighter Future Foundation were carefully planned and implemented with an interest in healthcare delivery improvement for the people of the Union of Myanmar. In addition, trustees believe that the UK counterparts would gain global health experience by volunteering in Myanmar and would bring back their experience to daily work practice in the UK for improvement of the patients care in the UK.
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3. Financial report
At the end of 31[st] March 2023, the followings made up final cash balance:
Cash in hand at 31[st] March 2023
| Cash in hand at 31st March 2023 | |
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| AMFA projects Su Foundation projects General donation funds |
22,633 20,276 64,528 |
| 107,438 |
There were no staff costs as all the charitable activities are solely based on volunteers. There are no related party transactions between the Charity and the
Trustees . The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees' report above.
Sign on behalf of the charity's trustees
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Signature
Dr Maung Maung Kyi
Chair
Brighter Future Foundation Date: 25 January 2024
………………………………… …. Dr. Thinn Hlaing
Trustee
Brighter Future Foundation Date: 25 January 2024
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Independent examiner's report on the accounts
Section A Independent Examiner’s Report
Report to the trustees/ members of BRIGHTER FUTURE FOUNDATION On accounts for the year ended 31-Mar-23 1149753 1149753 Set out on page 10 (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets) I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31 March 2023. Responsibilities and Independent examiner's statement As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation under section 145 of the 2011 Act. In carrying out my examination, I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: • accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or • the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Signed: Date: 25/01/2024 TNC ACCOUNTANCY SERVICES LIMITED ASSOCIATION OF CHARTERED CERTIFIED ACCOUNTANTS 17 VICTORIA ROAD RAYLEIGH SS6 8EG
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