Hope4Malawi Annual Report for 2021
Hope4Malawi’s vision is to provide opportunities for children in rural areas of southern Malawi to have increased access to education and to improve learning environments.
Hope4Malawi’s key values are sustainability and community involvement, working with partners both in UK and Malawi. The charity has continued its focus of partnership with the Ministry of Education in Malawi to bring development to Government Schools in the district of Blantyre Rural, in Nankumba, Mpemba and Mpapa zones
We are grateful for the faithful support of our donors and volunteers particularly with the uncertainty during the last year. Many supporters have partnered with Hope4Malawi for several years and we appreciate their commitment. We are also grateful to volunteers who assist in fundraising, administration and running the charity in the UK and in Malawi.
The current trustees are Mark and Sara Goodman, Gerry and Pauline Rashbrook, Richard and Tina Guilbert, Martin and Wendy Wainwright.
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Trustees income to
Hope4Malawi Income in 2021 cover charity admin
£144K (2020 £202K) and fundraising costs UK Schools
5% 11%
Trustees Uk Churches
4%
UK Schools
Uk Churches Companies
4%
Companies
Events
Individuals Events
Individuals
73% 3%
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73% of Hope4Malawi’s income is from individuals. Thank you.
We are also grateful for the continued support of schools in the UK: Trinity school Croydon Kings Ely, All Saints Carshalton, Willington Prep and Charlwood Primary have fundraised for projects in Malawi in 2021. We are also grateful to churches which have supported us this year, St Paul’s Howell Hill, and Brookwood Community church.
Sadly, two of our regular supporters died. Funds were raised in memory of them, part of which will be used to have a bench at Hope CDSS in memory of Rob and Rosemary Foote. We are grateful for their support over many years.
Adam Hansen ran 100 miles as a sponsored event to raise over £4,000 to equip the new lab at Hope Secondary School for which we and Hope CDSS are very grateful.
Trustees continue to cover all of the charity’s costs of administration, fundraising and trustee trips by making one off donations to Hope4Malawi. (At the end of 2020 there was a large balance in this fund)
Activities in 2021
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HOPE4MALAWI
EXPENDITURE Charity Expenses -
funded by Trustees Building Projects in
4% Schools
2021 128K (2020 £233K)
6%
Cost of trustee
visits (self funded)
Hope Building
5%
Project
19%
Resourcing of
Schools
41% Sponsorship
Programme
16%
Feeding Programmes…
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Hope Secondary School
Hope Community Day Secondary School, funded by Hope4Malawi, opened with 58 pupils on 22[nd] February 2021.
Sara Goodman, a trustee of Hope4Malawi, is on the Board of Governors for the School, which meets termly. Hope4Malawi supported the school in several ways including provision of support for guards and a school librarian in 2021
Hope4Malawi has set up a sponsorship programme at Hope which provides bursaries for students at Hope whose parents cannot afford the school fees. In addition, all students are provided support in terms of resources: uniform, exercise books and pens, calculators, and maths sets. Hope4Malawi also provides funding for end of term prizes for students, a monthly teacher prize and other incentives for teachers
Hope4Malawi provided further funding for development of the school including equipping the lab, library, and staff room as well as landscaping the campus. The total cost of this development in 2021 was £22,000.
The next phase of building work at Hope CDSS will provide two more teacher houses at a budgeted costs of £34,000. Power will also be provided in 2022.
The last phase of building work will enable the school to be a 2 form entry school with provision of 4 additional classrooms, more toilets, and also a school Hall, at a budgeted cost of £130,000.
Development of Primary Schools
Hope4Malawi’s work in Malawian primary schools is in partnership with a Malawian based charity set up in 2021, Hope4Development, which has two Malawian directors as well as Sara and Mark Goodman.
The current focus is to assist the Ministry of Education to provide additional infrastructure and resourcing to the feeder primary schools of Hope CDSS. In 2021, Hope4Malawi made donations to Hope4Development to enable toilets at Chipwepwete, Mafunde and Tapani, three of the feeder schools to Hope CDSS to be built at a total cost of £8,000.
In addition, Hope4Malawi donations met resourcing needs at these schools including desks for standards 6-8 at Tapani, Chimwembe and Mafunde, text books for standard 7 and 8 at Tapani, Chimwembe, Mpemba and Chipwepwete and Headteacher’s office furniture at Tapani.
In addition, Hope4Malawi provided 8 bicycles for Chipwepwete primary school for the teachers to use. This was a trial project and has been a great success. Before the provision of bicycles, teachers spent 3 to 4 hours walking each day between school and home. That journey time is now cut by more than half and has resulted in teachers being more punctual with less teacher absenteeism.
At Chipwepwete primary school we have also assisted in providing support for the preparation of standard 8 examinations. During 2021 Hope4Malawi partnered with Malawi Learning Partnership (MLP) to bring e-learning to students in standard 8 at Chipwepwete, and also provided a grant of £1,000 to Malawi Learning Partnership to help develop their MLP app. The app is used to revise lessons already taught in class and enables students to answer questions on topics in the Malawian curriculum as well as practise exam questions.
The response from students has been very positive and with an 80% pass rate in standard 8 the head teacher attributed this partly due to the support given by Hope4Malawi in preparation of the examinations.
Feeding Programmes
Although schools opened in February 2021, the government did not authorise feeding programmes to restart in schools because of the increased risk of transmission of Covid 19, as it is difficult to keep social distance for children whilst serving phala. This impacted school attendance as many children stayed at home during this time. In September 2021, the Ministry of Education agreed that feeding programmes could start again.
Since September 2021 Hope4Malawi has partnered with Hope4Development to supply phala and monitor the feeding programme at Mpemba (with 1,500 pupils) and Chipwepwete (with 600 pupils).
The cost of the feeding programme is £15 per child each year. However, because of efficiencies in the new process of delivery, Hope4Development is also providing exercise books for pupils in addition to the phala. Lack of exercise books was recognised as an educational need during 2020.
Monitoring
Hope4Malawi partners with Hope4Development to monitor work in schools. The Ministry of Education and Blantyre City Council also monitor all building work in schools.
National and District Sponsorship programme
As well as our sponsorship programme at Hope CDSS, we continue to run our National and District sponsorship programme, which enables children who have been selected to district and national schools to have the opportunity of a secondary education which otherwise they would not be able to. The programme is now in its fourth year and supports 52 students with school fees, transport, educational resources including books and uniform as needed. Students build relationship with their sponsors through letter writing and are supported in holiday time by Hope4Malawi.
We now restrict this programme to students who have completed their primary education at Mpemba Primary School, one of our partner primary schools.
Since April 2021 the sponsorship programme has been overseen by Gift Kamisa, who is the mentor to the students. He visits all students to encourage them, ensure they are participating in the programme and for them to share any challenges. Many of the students have already matured and overcome challenges under Gift’s support.
Future plans
Hope4Malawi’s priority is to assist the Ministry of Education in Malawi to raise standards of primary education in the 4 feeder schools to Hope CDSS, so that students selected to Hope CDSS have a better knowledge and understanding of key subjects eg English, Maths and Science so that they can thrive at secondary school. At the same time, Hope4Malawi will partner with Hope CDSS to further develop the school and provide resourcing and support.
The four feeder schools are Chipwepwete, Tapani, Chimwembe and Mafunde. We will also continue to partner with Mpemba Primary School, with whom we have worked since 2013.
Governance
The trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit. None of the Trustees receive any benefit from the charity.
Fundraising for the charity is through businesses, schools, churches, and events. It is also in response to regular communication to committed supporters and through personal contact with individuals who hear about our work.
Individuals including trustees who visit Malawi on educational and teaching trips raise sufficient funds to cover the costs of each trip. The trustees fund all the running costs of the charity including administration and fundraising costs ensuring that 100% of all donations from supporters goes to fund educational projects in Malawi.
Our monies are held at CAFBank as that bank is designed for charities and is part of the Charity Aid Foundation that helps charities fundraise. We hold no investments. Hope4Malawi Trustees – June 2022
Hope4Malawi 2021 2020 ncome Ministry Income 57,830 39,125 Restricted School Feeding Pfogrdmmes 3,625 21,870 Restricted school building development 2,004 69,624 Restricted for Resourcing schools 51.115 11.491 Restricted for sponsorship 24,936 22,597 Relief Fund 3,145 Income for Trips from part¢cipants and trustee5 31,496 Interest 16 164 Income from Trustees to cover overheads 4,717 2,558 Total Income 144,243 202,070 pen ture Feeding Progrdmmes 12,2Th) 120 Buildin8 Projects in sch¢15 16,028 Hope Building Project 24.230 178,928 Sponsorship Programme 20.516 10.709 Resourcing of Schools Inc111ng covid resourcing 51,860 7,108 Team TTÈP5 funded by Trustees and partlcipants 6,407 17,119 Charf Ex enses - funded b Trustees 2,558 Bank Cha es 263 66 Total E enditure 128,193 232,635 Excess of Income over e endlture In 2021 16,050 {3066)
Hope4Malawi - Funds as at 31 December 2021 2021 2020 Funds as at l January 2021 200.267 Income in 2021 144,243 202,070 Expenditure in 2021 128.193 232,635 Funds as at 31 December 2021 216.317 200,267 Bank Reconelllatlon 31 De¢ernber 2021 Balance in CAF Cash Account 30,974.11 Balance in CAF Gold Account 169,355.03 Balance In Flrst Dlrect Malawl 13,692.07 Funds received after year end 2,3.00 Total Fund$ 31 Dttember2021 216,317.21 erry Rashbn)(kk- Trustee Sara Goodman -Trustee D•te
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