We think that the most efficient and effective way to deliver lasting impact is to ask the local community to help. We want to help the local people discover a local solution to a local problem and see it delivered by the local community. They have embraced this concept wholeheartedly! The Mango Tree currently works in 116 villages in Tanzania and Kenya and has 251 village volunteers to help us focus on the orphans with the greatest needs and reduce overheads in the process. We incur virtually no costs at all for our administrative activities in the UK. The impact of its work is centred on more than 12,500 orphans (as of September 2010).
The Mango Tree is truly a community-based organisation, and last year it was able to provide effective support to its orphans in Kenya and Tanzania. Over 13,500 orphans received care and were provided with medical help, and given emotional support.
648 Pre-school orphans
409 Nursery school orphans
7533 Primary school orphans
2,376 Secondary school orphans
97 Vocational training orphans
194 College and university orphans
And as well as this close to a 1000 orphans are now eligible for vocational training. The Mango Tree met countless other calls on our resource. Thousands of mosquito nets to reduce the incidence of malaria, desks and text books for the schools, wind up torches , shelter, food, medical operations for fistula and clubbed feet, HIV prevention and testing and counselling.
All this was delivered through only 39 staff.
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