## **Hope4Malawi Annual Report for 2022** Hope4Malawi partners with government-run primary and secondary schools to help improve teaching and learning environments for children growing up in rural Southern Malawi. Additionally, we provide bursaries to enable students to remain in secondary education or attend tertiary education, which otherwise they would not be able to afford. Hope4Malawi believes that education has the power to break the cycle of poverty by bringing sustainable change. Our three areas of focus are: - School building and infrastructure projects to provide new classrooms, libraries, toilets and teacher housing. - Resourcing schools by providing feeding programmes, libraries, teaching and learning resources. - Providing educational opportunities through secondary and tertiary sponsorships. Through education and development, our aim is to empower communities so they can move beyond poverty and have hope for a brighter future. Hope4Malawi’s key values include 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 and with Malawian NGO Hope4Development to bring development to Hope CDSS Secondary School and Mpemba, Chipwepwete, Tapani, Chimwembe, and Mafunde Primary Schools - Government Schools in the district of Blantyre Rural, Malawi. Hope4Development is a Malawian NGO with 2 Malawian directors and 2 UK directors (currently Mark Goodman and Sara Goodman both of whom are trustees of Hope4Malawi). Hope4Malawi makes grants to Hope4Developement for specific purposes and receives regular reports from the NGO. We are grateful for the faithful support of our donors providing both one off gifts and regular ongoing support. 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, Rev Martin and Wendy Wainwright. Over 75% of Hope4Malawi’s income is from individuals and trusts. Thank you. We are also grateful for the continued support of schools in the UK: Trinity School, Croydon and Kings Ely School, and to churches which have supported us this year, St Paul’s Howell Hill, and St John’s, Ealing. The Hope4Malawi Trustees continue to cover all of the charity’s costs of administration, fundraising and trustee trips by making one off donations to Hope4Malawi. ## **Activities in 2022** **----- Start of picture text -----**
HOPE4MALAWI EXPENDITURE 2022 £239K (2021 £128K)
Feeding Programmes Primary School
11% Building and
maintenance
21%
sponsorship
10%
Primary School
Resourcing
Team & Trustee
5%
Trips (self funded)
11%
Charity Running
Hope Building
Costs (funded by
19%
Trustees)
4%
Skills Centre Building
Hope Resourcing
12%
7%
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## **Hope Community Day Secondary School** Hope Community Day Secondary School, which opened in 2021, now has 157 students in 3 year groups, Forms 1 to 3. Hope is a government school which Hope4Malawi partners with to assist the school and community to raise standards by providing resources and bursaries. Sara Goodman, a trustee of Hope4Malawi, is on the Board of Governors for the School, which meets termly. Mark Goodman is secretary of the Board. Both also meet regularly with the head teacher and deputy head teacher to offer support. Hope4Malawi provides funds for employing support staff at the school: some guards, caretaker and school librarian. There is also a sponsorship programme at Hope which provides bursaries for students whose parents cannot afford the school fees and exam fees. 27 students are on full bursary and 28 are on half bursary. In addition, all students are provided with 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, monthly teacher prizes and other incentives for teachers. Some students took Junior Certificate of Education, a government public exam, at the end of form 2 and had higher than average results which was very pleasing. Some students scored A and B grades and overall did better than the average performance in the district. During 2022 Hope4Malawi installed solar power for the Hope Resourcing centre to power the computer room, science lab, and the library. It also allows light to be used in the form 3 and form 4 classrooms. This has meant teachers can now use a projector for teaching and desktop computers can be used. Hope4Malawi also provided funding to Malawian NGO, Hope4Development, who built 2 semi-detached teacher houses at Hope CDSS. This now means there are 5 houses for staff at Hope, which currently 8 teachers are using. It makes a huge difference to teachers in rural areas when they live on site as transport is both difficult and expensive. The next 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. The Board of Governors would also like hostels for the girls and a wall around the school. This work is dependent upon us receiving sufficient funds from donors. ## **Development of Primary Schools** Hope4Malawi’s work in Malawian primary schools is primarily focused on helping to improve infrastructure and resourcing in the 4 feeder schools to Hope CDSS and also at Mpemba Primary school, these are all government schools in the district of Blantrye Rural. The aim is to improve school completion rates and educational outcomes for all the learners so that they can proceed to secondary school, further education and have increased employability. Our long-term aim is that all the feeder schools to Hope CDSS have adequate infrastructure including 8 classrooms, one for each year group, a library, kitchen, adequate toilets and teacher housing. ## **Primary School Building Work** Tapani primary is the most remote school, being over 10km from the tar road and in an extremely poor village. There were only 4 classrooms until this year when Hope4Malawi, through Hope4Develpment funded and built 2 classrooms and a library. This provision, which was opened by the Director of Education, Youth and Sports in Blantyre and in the presence of a UK visiting team, has been wonderful for the school. The library is stocked with books which arrived on a container from the UK, and for most of the children these are the first books which they have read. In 2022, Hope4Malawi made donations to Hope4Development to enable toilet blocks to be built at Chipwepwete, Mafunde and Mpemba. Those at Chipwepwete and Mpemba were toilets to replace those that had been destroyed by the Cyclone Idah which hit Malawi in March 2022 using the appeal funds raised as a response to this. Through Hope4Development, funds were also provided to build a low-cost teacher house from burnt bricks, using bricks made by the community at Chipwepwete Primary School. All our projects are undertaken with close involvement of the Ministry of Education, the schools and the local community, usually with the community providing sand, water and in some cases burnt bricks. ## **Primary School Resourcing** Hope4Malawi seeks to assist our partner primary schools with the following resources: - Teaching and learning resources (to supplement those provided by the government) - Support for Std 7 and Std 8 mock exams - Ministry of Education Curriculum Textbooks - Desks - Solar Lamps - Malawi Learning Partnership phone app to teach lessons - Teacher transport to school – bicycles or motor bike taxis This year our focus was on Tapani and Chipwepwete. Desks were provided for the new Tapani classrooms as well as tables and chairs for the library. At Chipwepwete, Hope4Malawi supported the preparation of exams for std 7 and 8 as well as providing a motor bike taxi for one of the female teachers. Bicycles, which were previously provided for the Chipwepwete teachers to get to school, were serviced and maintained. These continue to be a significant resource for teachers, ensuring that they arrive at school on time as well as effort in walking is reduced. ## **Feeding Programmes** Hope4Malawi has continued to provide funding to Hope4Development for the feeding programmes at Mpemba Full Primary and Chipwepwete Full Primary. 2,200 children are provided each day with a mug of phala. The cost of the feeding programme is now £15 per child each year. ## **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. Sara and Mark Goodman, Trustees of Hope4Malawi and directors of Hope4Development spent 4 months in Malawi to oversee building programmes and to monitor and run projects. A team trip with 10 team members from UK also spent 3 weeks working at Hope CDSS running a holiday club teaching about ‘Our Identity in Jesus’, opening the new classroom block at Tapani and being involved in projects in the other primary schools. They also oversaw the drilling of the borehole at the new skills centre. All members of the trip provided their own funding for the trip and also raised funds for the projects and programmes. ## **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 afford. The programme is now in its sixth year and currently supports 38 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 restrict this programme to students who have completed their primary education at one of our 5 partner primary schools. Since April 2021 the sponsorship programme has been overseen by Gift Kamisa, who is the mentor to the students. He visits students to encourage them, ensure they are participating in the programme and for them to discuss any challenges. Many of the students have already matured and overcome challenges under Gift’s support. Three students who have completed the secondary school sponsorship programme are now at University in Zomba, Malawi and are sponsored by Hope4Malawi. We have one other sponsored university student who is now in her second year at Malawi University of Science and Technology. ## **Skills Centre** 1 hectare of land was purchased in 2021 by Hope4Development, near Chimwembe Primary School, 2km from the local trading centre Chadzunda and 2km from Hope secondary school. The vision for the skills centre is to provide additional training opportunities and skills development for students finishing secondary school which will enable them to be skilled for the workplace. In 2022, development began with the drilling of a borehole and placing of a solar pump and tank on the land. In 2023 the first buildings will be erected on the land and courses for students will be developed and tested. ## **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 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 – May 2023**_ ## **Hope4Malawi Income & Expenditure** ## For the year ended 31 December 2022 |**Account**|**Account**|**2022**| |---|---|---| |**Income**||| ||General Giving|69,202.04| ||Sponsorship giving|45,729.52| |||| ||Feeding programme|3,821.03| |||| ||Trinity income for Chipwepwete
**Building programmes**|7,472.45| ||Hope building programme income|1,357.30| ||Tapani building programme income|30,250.00| ||Vocational college water income|15,250.00| ||Mafunde - specificgift for toilerts|2,087.06| ||Mpemba Building programme|30,755.00| ||**Total Building programmes**|**79,699.36**| |||| ||Mpemba Maintenance
**Resourcing schools**|2,584.42| ||ResourcingHope CDSS. income|11,604.61| ||Resourcing primaries|435.00| ||**Total Resourcing schools**
**Smaller funds income**|**12,039.61**| ||General relief fund|1,125.00| ||Gifts for solar lamps|1.84| ||Gifts towards H4M staff costs|690.00| ||MLP app gifts|500.00| ||Project MyGirl income|2,502.57| ||**Total Smaller funds income**|**4,819.41**| |||| ||Charities own activities income|12,673.17| ||Grouptrips and resources to be used|10,450.70| |||588.38| |||**249,080.09**| ||**Total income**|**249,080.09**| |||| ||**Sponsorship schemes**
**Feeding Programmes**|24,771.98| ||Chipwepete feeding programme|145.24| ||Feeding programme for Chipwepetepaid to HOPE 4 DEVELEPMENT|9,500.00| ||Feeding programme for Mpembapaid to HOPE 4DEVELOPMEMT|16,500.00| ||**Total Feeding Programmes**
**Building projects**|**26,145.24**| ||cost of Tapani building project|1,141.85| ||Tapani classroomspaid to HOPE4DEVELOPMENT|30,000.00| ||Chipwepwete buildings(HM house +toilets)PAID to HOPE4DEVELOPMENT|7,000.00| ||Hope teacher housing paid to HOPE 4 DEVELOPMENT|30,000.00| ||Mpemba toilet block rebuild -paid to HOPE4DEVELOPMENT|4,000.00| ||Vocational College waterpoint -paid to HOPE4 DEVELOPMENT|15,000.00| ||BuildingVocational admin blockpaid to HOPE4DEVELOPMENT|13,500.00| ||Chimwembe library paid to HOPE4 DEVELOPMENT|2,000.00| ||Mafunde buildingof toiletspaid to HOPE4DEVELOPMENT|2,000.00| ||costs for Hope CDSS building programme|13,110.65| ||**Total Building projects**|**117,752.50**| |||| ||**Maintenance**|**3,424.33**| ||**Resourcing**|| |---|---|---| ||resourcingHope CDSS -paid to HOPE4DEVELOPMENT|4,000.00| ||Costs for resourcingHope DCSS|12,982.80| ||Container & other transport of resources|8,927.00| ||cost of resourcing primaries|41.93| ||**Total Resourcing**
**Other smaller activities costs**|**25,951.73**| ||Items for Project MyGirl|23.65| ||H4M staff members in Malawipaid to HOPE4DEVELOPMENT|1,861.00| ||Reilef Fund expenditure|623.68| ||costs of MLP app|1,168.01| ||payments to cover H4D directors fees -paid to HOPE4DEVELOPMENT|1,330.00| ||payment to Hope4Development for its own admin costs|1,270.00| ||**Total Other smaller activities costs**
**Costs of running charity**|**6,276.34**| ||Administrator costs|800.00| ||Trustee expenses costs|2,547.90| ||general expenses incl office admin|4,721.66| ||Finance charges- bank,Just Giving&CAF|607.59| ||**Total Costs of running charity**|**8,677.15**| |||| ||Costs of trips and resourcespurchased|23,819.77| |||| ||exchange loss/(gain)|983.85| ||Hope4Development transfer for smaller items|1,387.01| |**Total Expenditure**
**Surplus/(deficit) income over expenditure**
**Total paid to H4D in 2022**||**239,189.90**| ||**Surplus/(deficit) income over expenditure**|**9,890.19**| |||| ||**Total paid to H4D in 2022**|**139,348.00**| CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl embers of On accounts for the year ended Charlty no (if any) J¥ 2¢ 11¥1(2 Set out on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (￿he Trusf) for the year ended Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basls of report of the accounts in a0xr(5an￿ with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 rthe Acr). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination. I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145{5)(bl of the Act. I have completed my examinati￿1. I confimi that no material matters have come to my attention (other than that disdosed below.) in connectbon with the examination which grves me cause to believe that in. any material respecL' accounting records were not kept in accordance wrth section 130 of the Ad or the accounts do not accord with the accounting records Independent examlnerfs Statement I have no concems and have come aimss no other matters in connection with the examination to whith attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the aco)unts to be reached. ' Please delete the wonls in the brackets rfthey do not appty. Slgned: fvm Name: Relevant professional qualfflcatlon(s) or body (If any): Address: Jurr&¥rf 5 M & 7 IER October 2018 Section B Disclosure Only complete rf the examiner needs to highlight matters of concem (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accwnts: directions and guidance for examiners). Glve here brief details of any items thal tho examinerwishes to disclose. IER October 2018