The Ten-Percent Foundation

Charitable Projects Supported - April 2000 to date

The Trustees meet annually to discuss donations. We try to continue our involvement in projects, which of course is not always possible.

2007 donations

£1,000 to LawCare – project to be announced.

£2,500 to www.Mikwano.org - paying for primary school education in Uganda (candidate’s own charity – set up whilst working in the area).

£1,000 to Send a Cow – supporting same project as last year in Kenya.

£600 to The Clwyd Special Riding Centre to part-sponsor a horse for 12 months.

£500 to The Stroke Association to fund a project in West Yorkshire.

£75.00 to pay for a piece of play equipment for the Denbighshire NCT

£500 to the Parkinsons Society to fund a project to be announced…

some of the letters of thanks to date can be read here

2006 Donations

Send a Cow (www.sendacow.org.uk) - £1,000 to provide ongoing support to the Namwitsula Widows Dairy Cow project in Kenya we supported last year and purchased a cow for.

LawCare (www.lawcare.org) - £1,000 to pay for a newsletter highlighting their work.

Wateraid - £750 towards projects supported in 2005 sinking boreholes (non-specific).

Parkinson’s Disease Society (www.parkinsons.org.uk) - £1,000 to pay for a carers conference in the West Midlands.

Cecily’s Fund (www.cecilysfund.org) – £900 to pay for 60 orphans in Zambia to attend primary school for one year.

The Clwyd Special Riding Centre (www.clwydspecialridingcentre.org.uk) - £600 to part sponsor a horse for one year.

The Stroke Association (www.stroke.org.uk) - £1000 to fund a project in West Yorkshire.

Denbighshire National Childbirth Trust (www.nct.org.uk) – £400 to fund the purchase of mats for the weekly playgroup.

Kirkby, Merseyside - £500 to contribute towards voluntary work in one of the most deprived areas of the UK.

2005 donations

Lizzie - Children's/Youth Worker based at St Michael's Church, Chell, Stoke on Trent - £1,500 in March 2005

"Lizzie is making an impact with all the children that she is working with in the local schools. She has set up and started a breakfast club at Mill Hill Primary School, a lunch time club at Burnwood Primary School and goes into all the schools at the invitation of the Head teachers to take assemblies. She is overwhelmed at the response she gets from the children as they join in the various activities.

The children's group that meet at St Michaels on Wednesdays have enjoyed face painting, a girl's make up session and learnt how to a manicure, put together a dance routine, been dry slope skiing and during the Easter Holidays have learnt how to take photographs, develop prints and have exhibited these at the Burslem School of Art".

Send a Cow (www.sendacow.org) - £2,500 in March 2005

Namwitsula Widows Dairy Project
Western Kenya

Aim of Project
The aim of the Namwitsula Widows Dairy Project is to improve the nutrition, food security and income of orphaned children, AIDS sufferers, widows and their families through the provision of livestock and training.

Local Conditions and Problems
The Namwitsula dairy project is located in the Butula division of the Busia district of western Kenya. The area has extreme poverty with 69% of the community living below the poverty line of $1 per day and this has been exacerbated by a high incidence of HIV/AIDS in those of working age. As a consequence, there are a high number of widows and orphaned children caring for families with little or no means of generating income. There is widespread malnutrition and food insecurity amongst these families. However, this area is suitable for arable and livestock farming with deep rich soils and 1200mm rainfall per year. There is a market for milk and other produce within the community.

Group Profile
The Namwitsula Widows Dairy group consists of 18 families headed by 15 widows and 3 widowers. The group came together in 1998 to address the problems of food insecurity, nutrition and lack of income. The group also hopes that by coming together they can also discuss and find solutions to problems relating to HIV/AIDS.

The Project
The group have established a tree nursery to generate income from the sale of saplings and have set up and managed a nursery school for orphaned children in the community. They meet once a month to discuss the development of these activities, but have decided that a dairy project would provide a more sustainable and regular income for group members.

Activities

Capacity Building
The group will be provided with training in record keeping, group dynamics, leadership and Heifer International cornerstones to enable them to manage the project for themselves.

Training
The group will be given training to provide them with the skills they need to care for their cow and to improve productivity from their land. Most training will be conducted on members’ farms with occasional exchange visits and some residential training if necessary. Subjects covered will include animal husbandry, animal health care, marketing, forage/pasture management, record keeping and financial management.

Preparation
Every farmer will prepare for their cow by establishing sufficient pasture and fodder trees for feeding. Cows will be zero-grazed in light, airy sheds to protect the health of the animal, prevent environmental degradation from grazing and allow for collection of manure and urine. Once farmers have sufficient pasture and have built a suitable shed they will be given their livestock.

Livestock
The group will initially be given 9 in-calf dairy heifers and will sign pass-on contracts stating that they will pass-on their first female calf to another member of the group until every family has a cow. Participating families will also pass on their knowledge and training to other neighbouring families and in this way the original gift of training and livestock will continue to grow.


Expected Benefits
· Milk to drink
· Improved nutrition and health for children and AIDS sufferers
· Improved crop and vegetable production
· Increased food security
· Increased household income for medical and school expenses from sale of surplus milk
· Development of sustainable livelihoods for widows and orphans.
· Greater participation of isolated families in the community
· Sharing of the responsibilities of parenting
· Group support and guidance to reduce loneliness
· Pride and joy in assisting other families by passing on the gift and transferring skills and knowledge.

Collaboration
Send a Cow works with Heifer Project International in Kenya. Training will be provided Send a Cow, Heifer Project International and a local NGO, Sacred Africa. Kenyan Government Ministry of Agriculture extension staff will provide breeding services.

Budget
The total cost of the project over three years is £6,092 and the Ten Percent Foundation’s gift of £2,500 will be a significant contribution to this worthwhile project. We aim to raise the full cost of the project from grant making trusts.


The Namwitsula Widows Dairy Project in western Kenya - received a £2,500 donation from the Ten-Percent Foundation in March 2005. Marceline Agola is a member of the project, and is a widow caring for her own four children and a child from her brother's family. This is a Send a Cow project. You can find full details of the charity at www.sendacow.org 


Wateraid - April 2005 - £2,500

Providing water, sanitation and hygiene education in Eastern Ghana

The need for WaterAid’s work in Eastern Ghana - pdf file - application for funding from Wateraid

Many poor communities in rural Ghana have a severe lack of access to safe water and sanitation. People often have no choice but to use water that has been taken from an unsafe source, such as a pond or a dirty stream, for drinking, cooking and washing. One consequence of using this water is an increased risk to people’s health from water-related diseases, such as dysentery and cholera.

These unsafe water sources may also be several kilometres away from a village. This means that water collection, a task traditionally left to women and children, often involves an arduous walk carrying heavy containers, commonly on the head, hip or back, causing severe health problems. The lack of access to safe water can severely impact on people in more ways than just poor health. For example, the time taken to collect water can prevent children from attending school, seriously harming their future prospects, and can prevent people carrying out activities that may increase family income, such as tending to livestock or crops, or making handicrafts for sale.

WaterAid in Ghana (www.wateraid.org) 

WaterAid has been working with vulnerable communities in some of the poorest regions of Ghana since 1985. Over the years it has developed practical techniques in both rural and urban areas in developing safe water and sanitation facilities, and conducting hygiene education campaigns, and has developed strong link with six local partner organisations, including ORAP. In its rural work, WaterAid focuses on the construction of hand dug wells, handpump maintenance, promotion of latrines and the training of village health educators. WaterAid has consistently stressed the importance of integrating water, sanitation and hygiene education so that communities can achieve the maximum health benefits, and is now developing its advocacy work to influence district and national policies in order to reach more people with safe water and sanitation.

WaterAid works through local partner organisations, who in turn work with communities to implement projects directly. These local partners have a wealth of essential skills and experience, such as speaking local dialects and having strong links with local leaders and the community. By working through partner organisations WaterAid is able to operate more cost effectively than it could alone, and through partnering with WaterAid these local groups are able to increase their capacity and skills to carry out further development work. WaterAid’s local partner in this project is Obooma Rural Action Programme (ORAP). ORAP is a community level non-governmental organisation founded in 1991 in order to improve the quality of life of poor people in Eastern Region, Ghana. ORAP helps communities identify their development needs and, through community participation and the formation of community based organisations, works with them to implement projects that can bring about real change.

Project objectives and outputs
WaterAid, working through local partner ORAP and with the full participation of the benefiting communities, aims to achieve the following objectives in this project:

Objectives
To improve the health and quality of life for people in some of the poorest rural communities in Eastern Region, Ghana, through increasing their access to safe water and sanitation, and developing their knowledge of safe hygiene practices.
To develop the capacity of community based organisations and train local people in the maintenance and management of the new water and sanitation facilities, ensuring the long- term sustainability of the project work.
Outputs
In order to achieve these objectives, the following main project outputs are planned:

The construction of 15 new water points, to provide sources of safe water to local communities.
The construction of 80 latrines to provide safe sanitation facilities.
The formation and training of 15 water and sanitation committees, comprising local people, to manage and maintain the newly constructed facilities. This training of community members in the upkeep of a new water and sanitation project is vital to ensure that the work is sustainable in the long term.
A programme of hygiene education will be carried out in the benefiting communities, using methods suitable to local knowledge and cultural beliefs.


Rainbows Childrens Hospice, Leicester 2001 - £500

Donation made directly by Ten-Percent.co.uk Limited to assist in the general running and operation of the hospice. For details of the hospice, please visit their website www.rainbows.co.uk
 

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