By Marc Serna | interim Head of the Wealth Creation Department
Dear Donors,
These past months several things have been happening in the orphanage. The first one, the school project is growing, form hiring a teacher to save some nursery school fees a year ago, to having more than 30 students and four classrooms, benefitting also other destitute children of the community. They have big dreams of building a cemented classroom, and we want to help them with our latest microproject!
A local donor has made a donation of 1,000,000 francs CFA (about 2000$) to secure the education of the children one more year! As you see you are not alone, many of us, from different backgrounds and with our different means, believe and continue to believe in Mah Di’s orphanage.
You won’t be surprised to know that there’s a new income-generating activity in the orphanage, snail rearing! And as usual all the children are involved in the maintenance of the snailery, with about 2000 snails. This is a local delicacy much appreciated that can be sold at good prices during the dry season, as it’s rare in markets during this period. Poultry and piggery keep on expanding and even the fishpond gave its first harvest! A small stream of profits and agricultural outputs are entering the orphanage, all thanks to you and Mah Di. We were happy to assist them technically, as Reach Out Cameroon is also rearing snails.
These past weeks Mah Diana, Charles (18, one of the leaders of the orphanage) and ourselves have been discussing the possibility of the orphanage taking on direct communication with you, the donor. While it is still a learning process, we have decided that from now on it will be Mah Diana, assisted by the older orphans and ourselves, who will be writing reports and thank you letters. We also wrote together the new micro-project, to build a solid and properly equipped classroom, Check it out !
We think this is a great step and we are excited to try it out, they are more than able to communicate with you directly, using their own voices. We think this will also be good for you, so you will get the opportunity to know them better. Finally, this is the most sustainable strategy, we want them to continue raising money for decades, and eventually when they are ready, they should be able to enter GlobalGiving themselves as an entity of their own right.
Moreover, if this experience is successful we plan to train two more orphanages over 2017 to also enter GlobalGiving with us and fundraise for themselves! We have learned a lot working for Mah Di’s (and through the GlobalGiving Ambassadors project we have been running for GlobalGiving this year) and it’s time to extend our impact to more children in need.
Thank you for trusting them, you will have the next report by late January.
Reminder: GlobalGiving is matching any recurring donation by 200%! for just a few days !sign in for a monthly donation of let's say 20 dollars and we will get an extra 40!
By Martina Mlynska & Marc Serna | Reach Out Cameroon
By Neema B. Atosha | Gender Department
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