GREEN LEAF AID FOR KINSHASA - ANNUAL REPORT 2025 Charity registration number: 1192679 (registered 7/12/2020) 

Address: 37 New Devonshire Square, Manchester M7 4BH 

Trustees: Jacques Kanda, Fideline Matondo Kanda, Wendy Elizabeth Coleman 

This report is for the year ended 31 March 2025. 

The Charity is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) whose only voting members are its charity trustees. The Trustees meet regularly to make decisions about the running of the Charity. Meetings are also attended by the organisers who run the work in DRC, and by supporters in the UK. Trustees are recruited from among supporters to meet needs for skills, knowledge and experience needed to run the charity. 

The charity supported up to 15 orphans living in foster care in Kinshasa, providing food, clothing and medical help. The organisers regularly visited the families to assess needs and to provide support. As the charity’s main activity is the relief of poverty, it is not required to benefit the general public, but only the children. However, we feel that there is benefit to the general public as the children are enabled to grow up to be responsible citizens who contribute to society, which would not be possible if they were left street homeless. 

The charity succeeded in supporting the children, who are in good health. They are all in school. (One of the children reached the age of 19 and passed his school exams, so is now at a professional college studying mechanics.) We contribute towards the cost of food and pay for medical expenses where necessary. Income was £2,929 and expenditure £3,666. At the end of March 2025, we held £228 in the bank. The main item of expenditure was £2304 spent on the school fees. This was exceptionally high as it covered most of the cost for two years, and we had to pay college fees which are higher than school fees. 

No funds are held as custodian trustee. 



## **GREEN LEAF AID FOR KINSHASA ACCOUNTS FOR YEAR TO 31 MARCH 2025** 

|(Charity registration was on  7 December 2020)<br>Year to 31/3/25<br>Donations income - unrestricted<br>2929<br>Donations income - restricted- (School fees)<br>0<br>2929<br>Expenditure<br>Money sent for medical costs<br>261<br>76<br>Money sent for food etc<br>338<br>100<br>Money sent for internet phone costs and organisers travel<br>312<br>241<br>School fees (incl money transfer fees) and expenses<br>2304<br>784<br>Boxes of food and clothes etc sent from UK incl freight costs<br>360<br>225<br>Website<br>91<br>91<br>3666<br>-737<br>Bank balance 31/3/24<br>965<br>Bank balance 31/3/25<br>228|Year to<br>31/3/24<br>2119<br>0<br>2119<br>1517<br>602<br>363<br>965|
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