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Building Futures Ethiopia [Charity Registration No. 1190494 in England & Wales]

Legal and Administrative Information

Trustees Ms. S. Eland CEO Ms. K. Rutherford Chair Mr. Z. Greaves Mr. M. Hands

Charity number 1190494

Principle Address Waterside Barn Blazefield Bank Pateley Bridge Harrogate HG3 5DW

Registered Office Waterside Barn Blazefield Bank Pateley Bridge Harrogate HG3 5DW

Building Futures Ethiopia – Contents

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Trustees Report	1
Receipts and Payments Accounts for the period		2
Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period			3

Trustees’ Report for Building Futures Ethiopia [Charity no. 1190494] for the period ended 31[st] August 2021

This is the first Trustees’ Report for a charity [CIO] that commenced on 20[th] July 2020. The Trustees present this Report and Financial Statement for the period ended 31[st] August 2021.

The Financial Statements have been prepared on a Receipts and Payments basis in accordance with the Charities Commission format.

Objectives and activities

The Charity’s purpose is the prevention or relief of poverty in Ethiopia by providing and assisting in the provision of Education, Training and all necessary support designed to enable individuals to generate a sustainable level of income and be selfsufficient.

Work towards the above purpose has been in progress over the preceding three years (2018-21) working closely with a charity well established in Ethiopia – Together We Learn (formerly Link Ethiopia) [Charity no. 1112390, hereinafter TWL.

TWL have a range of activities in Ethiopia and have been, and continue to be, invaluable partners.

During those last three years, a new elementary school in Gendit has been planned and built (Phases 1 & 2) and commenced operation. Building Futures Ethiopia [hereinafter BFE] was established to raise funds above and beyond the efforts of TWL, specifically for the Gendit School to develop not only the infrastructure (phases 3-5), but also the teaching, leadership and management standards of the school to raise it to ‘model’ rural school status for the northern region of Ethiopia. The work is done in conjunction with the Ministry of Education Department of the Ethiopian Government.

The financial statements attached therefore reflect the results of fundraising during the first thirteen months, with no payments yet made, except in bank charges which we have taken steps to avoid in future. Funds raised will be paid to TWL for local administration in Ethiopia on a restricted funds basis. Those funds, along with funds from partners will enable the agreed objectives for the Gendit school development project. For information, we include as an attachment, a summary of the spend and activities before the start date of BFE.

Activities

Phase 1 of the school development was completed pre-BFE by 2019. The sponsor, working with TWL and alongside the Ethiopian Ministry of Education, selected an appropriate existing school site (of two mud rooms) and to expand that and resource it to produce a model rural primary school for over seven local village communities. Phase 1 built a new block of four classrooms plus a toilet block which facilitated increasing the school from Grades 1-3 as before, to a Kindergarten + Grades 1-4.

Phase 2 of the school build was completed by August 2021 and this involved refurbishment of the four pre-existing classrooms; building a water station; clearing a sports field and erecting a perimeter fence to minimise damage from animals.

With each phase came recruitment and/or training of a director; teaching staff; and the in-country NGO team working with TWL/BFE. This also included the provision of teaching resources to maintain the development path laid out. Rigorous and regular monitoring and evaluation of school improvement was a key aspect of evidencing impact made.

Impact -Phases 1 and 2

• enrolment at the school by the beginning of phase 3 was 268 pupils (previously there were fewer than 25 pupils regularly attending school)

• 50% of pupils now attain good or better outcomes

• girls are attaining equally as well as boys

• we have increased access to education, particularly for girls by over 80%

• attendance at the school is one of the highest rates in the Amhara region

• drop -out rates are some of the lowest in the Amhara region

• one Director and six teachers have been recruited (previously the school had two teachers and no director)

• four new classrooms, two re furbished classrooms, all desks and chairs and classroom furnishings, a toilet block, a water station and school fence have been built (previously there was one mud and one wooden classroom, badly in need of repair with no desks or chairs)

• new classroom resources have been bought so that classrooms are better equipped

• the school has been enrolled on a successful literacy/ phonics training programme

• expansion of the school has led to provision of grades 1- 4 with a pre -school KG class facilitating early childhood development and increasing the chances of pupils remaining in school

• uniforms and school bags have been provided for all pupils

• training of the Director and in -country NGO’s has regularly taken place

• CPD/training of teachers has begun in terms of lessons, workbooks and classroom learning environments

• an exceptional and very strong model of inter-charity and international partnership has been developed

Organisation type: Other names :

CIO none

Gift aid: Not yet recognised by HMRC for gift aid

Other regulators: No information available Policies:

• Risk Management

• Complaints handling

• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

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