09/06/2025
Dear Donors,
Here is a 25-minute explanation of how we spent your money over the last year and what we’ll do over the next year if you send us more: https://youtu.be/Uw-3rUEgJw4?si=BQX04qDnWRMPcAdO
Yours truly,
Evin
P.S. You can send us money even if you don’t watch the video.
P.P.S. Shout-out to the Lego thieves at the very end.
HEADLINE FIGURES:
2024 in review:
- Total spent on all activities (€68,531)
- Healthcare (€1,666, 3%):
o 996 people tested and treated for malaria close to their homes
o 32 people helped get to treatment in a hospital on the mainland
- Education (€11,512, 17%):
o 30 preschool teachers from the island trained
o 38 teenagers helped with 80% of their school fees.
- Nutrition (€28,434, 41%):
o 550 children received a bowl of nutritious food at school, 5 days per week, all year long, at €0.21 per bowl, all costs included.
- Money directly into people’s pockets (€8,092, 12%)
o 41 people received a monthly allowance through the hunger season (October to March)
- Transparency & Accountability (€5,757, 8%):
o 38 preschool teachers and Lifesaver Club Youth Leaders were provided with €60 smartphones and sent daily reports with photos in WhatsApp groups about the children they are teaching and feeding, and the accounts they are keeping.
Funds remaining (as of 01/05/2025): - €825
2025 - Spending plan of slimmed-down, more sustainable priorities (in descending order of priority):
Healthcare:
o Treat and test 1,000 people for malaria close to their homes (€160 per month)
o Purchase a bigger boat and an outboard engine to motorise our boat ambulance and help 200 people get the treatment they need in a hospital (€2,000 for the boat and engine + €350/month for the weekly transport costs)
o Distribute secondhand warm-weather clothes to the elderly ahead of the cold season (€250)
o Contribute €7.50 to any funeral on the island (approx. €375)
Education:
o Preschools:
Send weekly data bundles so preschool teachers can report on attendance at their nurseries (€90/month)
Weekly teacher training for the preschool teachers by the Government-school primary teachers (€20/month)
Plant 40 trees for shade at each nursery (€50)
o Primary:
Provide 1,000 Lifesaver Club members with a pencil and copy at the start of each term (€1,500)
Double the school development funds paid by parents on condition all expenditures are displayed on noticeboards outside the schools (up to a maximum of €1,000)
Provide 50% of the monthly allowances of 2 teaching assistants, doubling parents contributions (€20/month)
o Secondary:
Pay 80% of school fees for 38 teenagers attending secondary school on the mainland (€1,000/year)
Nutrition:
o Serve 90,000 nutritious school meals to 750 school children, 5 days per week for the 6 months of the hunger season (October 2025 – March 2026) at a cost not exceeding €0.15 per meal, by:
…Purchasing beans for school meals from islanders (up to €7,500).
…Purchasing cooking oil, salt, new pots and bowls, a new electronic weighing scales and hermitic food storage bags (€6,500)
…Leaving the provision of maize, transportation and firewood to island communities
Transparency and Accountability:
o Give the island’s 21 village chiefs and 12 faith leaders, smartphones and add them to the school attendance and accounting WhatsApp groups (€1,500 for new smartphones)
