Winter 2022 Progress reports on your recent and ongoing projects 1 BiLY After-school club for at-risk youth, Jerusalem 2 Book Aid International Creation of a children's library at a school in Malawi 3 Build It International New health cente to serve a population of 30,000, Zambia 4 Carers Worldwide Small businesses for 300 informal carers in Karnataka, India 5 Cecily's Fund Livelihods and savings clubs for 180 mothers in Zambia 6 Eyal Israel Epilepsy Society education prgram with very delayed receipt of funds 7 Fair Planet Seeds and Training to increase the incomes of small farmers 8 Fran and Lua Grace Enabling a single mother to attend fast track degree course, UK 9 Friends International Training and incomes for women living on the margins, Laos 10 The Garage Outdoor performance and exhibition space for Art College, Israel 11 Hand in Hand International Vocational training and business start-up for 600 women, Tanzania 12 Humana Teacher training specifically for rural schools in Malawi 13 Karuna & Jan Sahas Making human rights a reality for low caste girls in central India 14 Karen Hilltribes Trust Access to education for children from remote villages, Thailand 15 Kolmila Text-based anonymous helpline for young people, Israel 16 Lankahelp Scholarships for children continuing past primary school, Sri Lanka 17 Mwezi Foundation Solar powered portable lights for homework and study, Kenya 18 Play Action International Portable playgrounds for children in refugee settlements, Uganda 19 Potipher Banda Repair and maintenance of 48 water pumps in Malawi 20 Raising Futures New classrooms for a high impact vocational training college, Nairobi 21 SEED Development of viable incomes for traditional weavers, Madagascar 22 Tools for Inner Peace Refugee women training to be yoga teachers, Lebanon 23 Village Water Pilot project on addressing causes of girls skipping school, Mozambique 24 WONDER Foundation Vocational training for 20 young women, The Philippines

BiLY (A home for every child) After-school club for at-risk youth in Jerusalem Your grant CHF 15,00 for a one year program, given in Summer 2022 Reminder of who they are and what you are making possible • BiLY, in Hebrew, is an acronym for ‘a home for every child’. • It’s the country’s leading organization in caring for children from homes where there has been serious abuse or neglect. CEO is seriously impressive; dedicated and passionate. • All the children they work with have been referred to BiLY by social services as the last resort, with court-mandated foster care as the next step if significant change isn’t successfully made. • Proven results over many years (measured against outcomes without their intervention) for psychological wellbeing, academic achievement and % of children remaining with their birth families after the interventions. • They have a network of 12 ‘clubhouses’ open every day after school for children aged 3-18 (different ages at different locations). The clubs offer a safe and supportive environment, structured activities, academic and therapeutic assistance and a hot meal every evening. • The clubs receive money from the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Welfare, but this is less than half of the funding required. So they need to source donations to be able to offer the kids and families the support they actually need. • Your grant is being used to make this difference, providing specialized, high-quality services at one of their Jerusalem after school clubs, the one for teenagers. Latest news on activities so far, halfway through the year • BiLY’s Jerusalem ‘clubhouse’ for adolescents is where your grant has been directed. • 15 young people aged 15-18 attend, all at high risk of being taken into care, and intensive outreach work is carried out with their parents, who don’t want to lose them. • The framework at this facility differs from the others in that it seeks to instill a sense of independence among its beneficiaries, preparing them for adulthood, and to this end structured learning has been carried out on topics such as decision making, leadership, • nutrition, online safety, and the basics of economics and financial management. • Highlights since the grant was received this Summer have included group outings to museums and to sports facilities, cooking workshops, and birthday parties for members. Some photos of summer’s activities are shown here, none of which would have been possible without this supplementary funding from you. 1

Book Aid International Creation of a library and reading room at a school in Malawi Your grant £10,000 for a one-year project was given at the end of 2021. Reminder of who they are and what you have made possible • Book Aid brings carefully selected books to where they are most needed. • They work in partnership with reliable local organisations to ensure that books are not just delivered but used to the maximum benefit of the intended recipients. • You’ve supported them several times before on a wide range of programs of which this is probably the simplest to date: This grant has transformed a disused classroom at a very busy Malawian primary school into a colourful comfortable and well stocked children’s library and reading room. • Kamkodola Primary School has over 5,000 students and is in the outskirts of the capital Lilongwe. • Like all schools in Malawi its free to attend and chronically underfunded. Project completion – key points since last meeting • Project start was unexpectedly delayed by changes of staff at the Malawi National Library Service (MNLS), Book Aid’s partners. This meant the Memorandum of Understanding (agreement between Book Aid and them on use of funds) wasn’t completed until March this year. • The 2,500 brand new books from the UK (sourced at cost from publishers) were shipped to Malawi in March as soon as this was resolved and then stored in the capital whilst refurbishment work took place at the school to get the space ready. • Book Aid’s Project Manager for the region was in Malawi this June, helped oversee the training for teachers alongside MNLS, in how to get the most out of the new facility. Above: The refurbished classroom, and on right teachers undergoing their training in how to make best use of the new resource. • Training was given to 9 teachers included the practical running of a lending library, how to conduct story time and facilitate book-based learning for all ages and abilities. • The refurbishment and furnishing of the classroom was completed in August. • After an Opening Ceremony (with plenty of singing to celebrate) the new library and reading room has been open from the start of this academic year and is used both during and after school hours. 2

Build It International, Zambia New Health Centre which will serve 30,000 people Your grant CHF 36,470 this Summer, for a one yearconstruction project. Reminder of who they are and what you are making possible • There are many organisations who build schools and clinics in poor countries, but this one stands out from the rest. We’ve collaborated twice before; strong reporting and great impact.. • What makes them unusual is that the building work is carried out by local young people, trained by Build It over their 15 years working in the country, and also the high degree of involvement from beneficiaries that’s required before any construction is begun. • In the outskirts of a city called Livingstone, the existing Health Center was so inadequate that it was impossible for the doctors there to provide the services required by the 30,000 people for whom this is the primary medical facility. • One major funder and an anonymous individual have given them £76,635 leaving the funding gap, which you very generously agreed to fill in full. Progress so far • Your grant is what allowed work to begin on the renovation and expansion of this vital facility. • Work began immediately when the grant was received, and the new maternity ward is already complete, the under 5’s clinic adjoining it almost finished too. • The new roof for the whole facility is a major part of the project, good progress is being made and it will they expect be fully complete by the time of our meeting. • The team is currently working on the plumbing and electrics, which require complete replacement. • The building is being constructed to withstand the torrential rains and very hot summers, with ventilation and concrete enforcement to the walls. • All building materials have been locally sourced, inflation is high but is being managed within the budget’s contingency so will not cause serious problems with the planned build quality. • The construction team consists almost entirely of graduates of Build-It’s various training courses, some recently qualified and gaining vital experience (in tiling, plumbing, roofing etc) and some, graduates from previous cohorts, overseeing their work. On the right, four of the more senior graduate contractors, posing in front of the newly completed maternity unit. Above a bricklayer, more recent graduate of Build It’s bricklaying and carpentry training canter at a Reformatory School in Livingstone. His first paid job was on Light Of Hope school, which Fresh Leaf helped to fund in 2019. His hard work was noticed by the senior team so he was hired to work on the clinic too. 3

Carers Worldwide Small businesses for 300 informal carers in Karnataka, India Your grant CHF 23,525 for Year One of a two year project was given in Summer this year. Reminder of who they are and what you are making possible • Carers Worldwide is a small charity, UK based, which works in India Nepal and Bangladesh. • Their aim is to help the helpers, those whose lives revolve largely around their unpaid jobs as the primary helpers of somebody else, usually a relative, often a child, who is disabled or unwell. • When caring is a full-time responsibility, the opportunity to earn a living is lost for the carer, just as much as for the person cared for, which results in households falling further into poverty as a result. • This project is about addressing that problem; giving people a chance to earn a steady income, for themselves and their families. • Their vocational training and business start-up model has run very successfully before, with proven long-term results and you agreed to fund its extension to Karnataka in the South. • Participants are selected according to need, baseline income compared with results down the line. Progress so far: Early stages of our two-year program • The selection process began this Summer, after new local staff were fully trained up. • By end of October, 155 people had been enrolled in the process, all of them women with primary responsibility as the carers for family members. • Their existing skills and obligations having been assessed along with local market opportunities and their livelihoods plans finalised. Their plans differ, but include tailoring, home-based production of food products and weaving. Weaving – and why it’s the most popular option so far • A very attractive option for home-based flexible work has been found by linking up with a government scheme aimed at preserving the endangered craft of handloom weaving, • Cotton waste is used and weaved into rugs which the government contracts to buy at a set price per unit. • The looms are made locally and are affordable along with raw materials within the start-up loans as planned. • Weaving these rugs is an activity that other family members can get involved in, including sometimes the disabled person, which is proving beneficial for family dynamics as well as income generation. • This is the most popular option so far, the process being relatively easy to fit around responsibilities, training taking only ten days, and a guaranteed buyer for whatever quantity you can make. Next steps • The selection of participants is ongoing, they are on track to meet the targets of 170 beneficiaries expected in year one and 130 in year two, as per the original application. Some issues with getting enough of the raw materials for the very popular weaving track are currently being resolved. Year Two, next Summer, is still budgeted at CHF 2,830, on the presumption that enough funds will have been paid back in to replicate the program for the next batch of trainees. 4

Cecily’s Fund Livelihoods and savings clubs for 180 mothers in Zambia Your grant CHF 12,000 sent at the end of 2021, the final grant of a three year project. Reminder of what you have made possible • What makes this different from most micro-enterprise programs is that, whilst you have paid for training and materials, the key focus is on the money in the shared group pots, which has not been given from outside but accrued over time week by week by the women themselves. • Since your original grant in winter 2019, 6 self-help savings groups have been formed (two each year of the project) with 30 women in each group. The women in these six savings clubs have: o Learned how to manage finances (budgeting, saving, credit and loans) o Set up or grown existing micro-enterprises o Each paid in a minimum of CHF 2 per week to the communal pot. o Loaned each other money, at 10% interest, to invest in their businesses. o Paid back these loans, accruing interest paid out annually according to contribution share. Outcomes as we near the end of your three-year project • Your grant has significantly improved the lives and prospects of over 1,500 of the world’s poorest people. • By the middle of this year, they had successfully made up for all covid-related setbacks and have now reached all the targets as set in the original application. • The final two groups were set up this year (one shown right) and all six groups continue to meet weekly. • To date, nobody has defaulted on their loans. • Bicycle repairs and poultry farming have continued to prosper, food businesses are improving their yields, but tailoring (making simple things) is still the most popular and successful track: When facemasks stopped being the must- have accessory, training was given to shift to the production of menstrual hygiene kits, from local textiles and in growing demand. • As the six savings pots continue to grow steadily, and with interest added form loans repaid they are now getting the rewards: At ‘paying out ceremonies, interest is paid out according to your contribution to the shared pot, like shares in the company. • These profits are tiny sums to us but here (where all participants were living below the official poverty line at the outset) they are enough to make the difference between being able to afford to send your children to school and not. Conclusions • Three years is long enough to really see whether something is working, and this pilot project has proven itself to be very successful, self-sustaining and with a far-reaching impact. • Efforts are now focused on how to impress upon participants, almost all of whom are illiterate themselves, how important it is to use their increased income to support their daughters staying in school, this being the single best way to maximize the long-term impact of the work. 5 ⭐

EYAL (the Israel epilepsy association) Education program to combat myths in religious community Your grant Planned two year program, started in 2020 but second grant delayed to this year. Year Two (CHF 5,266 ) was sent this Summer but only received by them in October Reminder of who they are and how you have helped • EYAL is the leading non-profit in the country aiming to improve quality of life of people with epilepsy and those who love them. it isn’t a medical organization; their focus is on social advocacy and education. FLCF agreed to fund a new initiative: EYAL wanted to combat the dangerous and damaging level of ignorance which exists about epilepsy within the ultra-orthodox communities, to reduce the suffering and shame of those effected and to spread practical knowledge of what to do when somebody has an epileptic fit. This meant creating bespoke teaching materials, convening support groups and outreach events. Postponed release of year two grant • Submitted as a two-year proposal at our winter meeting in 2020 but grant two was not sent at the end of 2021, was instead held back until this Summer because they were behind on the tasks scheduled for Year 1, mainly due to covid. • By July all these jobs had been completed successfully, including the creation of a short, animate educational film which has now been shown in many schools and community centres. Ridiculous delay between your sending and their receiving of the money • The delayed year two funding (CHF 5,266) was sent to Eyal’s bank account in July this year. • In August, a stream of very confusing emails began, with them requesting complex paperwork which their bank was demanding before allowing the money to be released to the charity. Below one of my favorites. • The date on which they finally got the money was 27th October, after three months of nonsense. • It would be great to know how we might avoid this happening again in future with donations to Israel: They say it was not the fault of their bank but of general heightened due diligence in the country, which may be an issue for us if true. • Given all this, the reporting is limited to the ongoing impacts of the year one grant • The regular meetings of support groups of orthodox families look likely to continue organically without outside funding, due to the valuable friendships and mutual support created. • Discussions with the Ministry of Health are currently ongoing about their financing the replication in other areas, using the unique teaching materials that you helped to create. • It has been a very difficult project for us administratively, but the outcomes and legacy of the first year’s funding does seem to be very good: 6 !

Fair Planet New seeds and knowhow to double the incomes of farmers Your grant CHF 20,000 for a 12 month program, granted in July this year. Reminder of who they are • Fair Planet is an Israel-based international NGO whose mission is to build the capacity of smallholder farmers in sub-Sahara Africa, transforming subsistence agriculture into a profitable and sustainable source of income. • They do it by providing farmers with access to the best new seed varieties, tested locally, and by transferring agricultural technologies and methods. • They launched in 2012 can demonstrate dramatic impacts from previous work: Smallholder farmers’ vegetable yields 5 times higher in tomato, 11 times higher in hot pepper and 4 times higher in onion, for instance. How you are helping • The seeds and agricultural technology they bring to local farmers are sourced from private companies (agro-businesses want access to this market) but the main thing that makes the impact is teaching people how to get the most out of the new seeds and their land, which means intensive on-site mentoring throughout a full growing season. This work is done by volunteers, almost all Israelis. • Volunteers get their living expenses and airfare costs covered, which is how you agreed to help: Your grant is enough to send 8 volunteers to Tanzania, fund their flights and living costs ass well as some of the recruitment and selection process which is very important as each volunteer is expected to stay for a minimum of 3 months in country, not as easy task. News so far • Two volunteers are currently in Tanzania; Abigail and Tamar (shown in photo). They are working with smallholder farmers in the Morogoro region, staying in simple shared accommodation. Report says they’re doing a great job are well received and likely to stay the full 5 months. Plans for the coming months • Two more volunteers are expected to be in Tanzania by the time we meet (expected to fly out late November). They are currently going through the final series of interviews to select these two people out of 6 applicants. • Every three months they intend to send two more, so next pair scheduled for Feb 2023. • Until next Summer, one of each pair will mainly work on research, testing crops and suitability for various local soil and locations, to finalize the recommendations that will be given to local farmers. • So far trial harvests have proved excellent, with new varieties tested in many crops, and they remain confident that this intervention will lead to farmers significantly increasing their yields and so doubling their annual income from their small plots, in only one production season. 7

Francis and Lua Grace Enablinga single mother to attend fast track degree course Your grant £15,000 (After adjustment) for a 14 month project, agreed in July this year. Reminder of who they are and what you have made possible • This is a women’s economic empowerment and vocational training project but is also an(other) exception to the ‘no individual beneficiaries’ rule. Francis is a single mum living in London whose daughter Lua was both at the start of this year. • This Spring, she was offered a place on a highly competitive fast-track degree course with excellent prospects of beginning well paid employment from 2023. The course, called Think Ahead, takes two years at the end of which as a qualified mental health social worker, 93% of graduates enter full time work employed by local councils. • Think Ahead has 23 applicants for every one place on the London course and were so impressed with her that they held her place open pending the result of this funding application, which was for the money needed to cover the cost of childcare for Lua for the first 12 months of the training course. Progress and results so far • The report doesn’t pretend that it is easy or that she gets enough sleep, but it does show that they are both thriving. • The intensive Summer Academic program started in August, she passed all exams easily, with a high 2:1 for her first two essays, which after a twenty-year break between degrees isn’t bad. Feedback from the tutors (shared with us) says with minor changes these would have been firsts. • On 23rd September she had a Viva exam which by all accounts went great and she then moved on to start working directly with service users, under supervision at Wandsworth council. • On 21st October she had her first placement midway review, which reported in glowing terms on her performance. Next steps • If everything continues as it has been so far, she confidently expects that by August next year her childcare will be covered by Wandsworth and Richmond Borough Council where she will be employed as a supervised social worker, as planned. Currently she is considering specializing in work with victims of domestic abuse, as the feedback she’s had when meeting those clients has been particularly good Lua is doing well too, she seems to enjoy nursery, staff there confirm that she’s bonded with them well made friends and is a happy baby. The nursery has been paid monthly upfront (a financial report showing all outgoing payments for the nursery and for private childminder when that is needed is included in the documents we’ve been sent). 8

Friends International Women’s vocational training and income generation, Laos Your grant CHF 20,000 given at the end of 2021, for the second year of a two-year program Reminder of who they are and how you are helping • Friends International is a network of non-profits, across Indonesia, Thailand and Laos. • Most of their work is directly with street children, whom they provide with education and income opportunities, but this project is targeted at the mothers of very young children, a preventative strategy. • The project aims to give women currently trapped in risky low paid jobs (like day labour on construction sites, prostitution, and begging) safe employment as a means to secure homes, using a mix of at-home enterprises and training and employment in Friends International’s several cafes and restaurants. Outcomes to date • The project has exceeded all its targets, despite very difficult conditions and the quality of reporting has been exceptional throughout. • In response to the severe impact of stringent covid lockdowns, you agreed last winter to their request to widen the target beneficiaries to include female youth (girls up to 18 who are in the city with no secure home or job) as well as mothers, the original target group. • The vocational training centers and restaurants had long waiting lists of girls and, when they finally reopened, this enabled them to allow them to join, split half-half with the originally planned mothers. • In Q3 of this year, 55 new students were enrolled in the project, 15 in hospitality training, 30 in various agricultural businesses, 9 in sewing and 1 was sent to external training as a beautician. • Outreach and recruitment focused on an area of Vietanne city near the landfill site, where many women work scavenging plastic waste for resale, for pitiful wages and in terrible conditions. • Inflation and currency volatility have made life very difficult– the Lao Kip had by October lost 42% of its value against the dollar compared to same time last year. This means staff at Friends International struggled, let along the beneficiaries. They released some of their emergency reserves and distributed food to the worst impacted, and so overall project has been able to continue as planned. • The agricultural enterprises have been doing especially well, with new trainings added, and women who began their businesses last year coming back for further learning on diversification and expanding their successful existing businesses. Some are also drawn to this for food security for themselves and their loved ones, in an increasingly volatile time. • As tourism begins to return, the hospitality trainees are finding paid jobs although less quickly than in the original project plan (created pre-covid). 18 external jobs have been secured this quarter, same as in Q2, with cafes restaurants and hotels gradually coming back to life. Pictures show barrista training at Friends’ non-profit café and the project’s most successful fish farmer with her pond, a single mother with 4 kids who now sells significant amounts of Tilapia every week. 9 ⭐

The Garage, Israel Performance and exhibition space for Arts College Campus Your grant CHF 34,800 at the end of last year, a one-off construction grant. Reminder of who they are • The Garage is an unusual Arts College based in South Tel Aviv. It offers first class education in four strands - Music, Fine art, Performance and Movement, Communications and Media - for very talented young people with emotional difficulties / mental health issues. • Opened in 2014. Not for profit. Takes around 170 students per year, from all over the country. • Teaching is combined with skilled staff support for the student’s mental health needs. Students’ tuition fees are funded by the Ministry of Welfare. What you have enabled them to do • After years of negotiation, in 2020 they secured a new campus building in Tel Aviv. The building and adjoining land was given to them by the government after years of hard work and Phase 1 of the rebuild was fully funded (renovating the building) when they approached us. • You have funded the transformation of the outdoor space, turning it from a disused yard into a multi-use space for exhibitions, concerts, performances, and events. Latest news from the art college • Work on the campus building began towards the end of January 2022 and they say everything has gone to plan, according to schedule and within budget. • They were able to move into the new campus in September, three months earlier than originally anticipated, although work on the outside space continued and is still to some extent ongoing. • The stage they have purchased is one which can be assembled in different formations and stored away when not needed. • They say the lighting is a particular success, looks magical when in use. Some of the budget for lighting remains unspent, they are going to let the new plants grow and then install further spotlights for ambience. • Report says they are delighted with the new space, the opening celebration was a packed event for families and since then there have been various concerts and talks and performances. 10

Hand In Hand International, Tanzania Giving women the tools to lift themselves out of poverty Your grant CHF 18,410 for year one of a two year program was given in July this year. Reminder of who they are and what you are making possible • Hand in hand tackles poverty by offering women the chance to earn an income as entrepreneurs with their own small businesses. • We have worked with them twice before with great results, impacting over 1,600 people directly • Focus is on women because, when women work, they invest 90 per cent of their earnings into their families, compared to men who, on average, invest 40 per cent, meaning long term generational change. • • This most recent grant will support the creation of 600 new entrepreneurs, 80% of them women, in rural Tanzania. The core of the work is training: For 30 months women meet in groups and learn, from local trainers, all aspects of starting and managing a small business, including financial literacy as well as receiving practical training in their chosen skill. • This time, as a pilot, they are adding a layer of work with the wider community and influential male leaders to challenge traditional views that women should not work outside the home. Progress so far • The new project is still in its inception stages (as planned in the original application). • Training of the selected 600 participants will begin in early 2023. The selection of beneficiaries is still underway but most have already been signed up (all of them are currently living on less than $1.90 a day). • The past months have been all the preparation stages including outreach to the three target regions, ensuring the involvement with stakeholders including local government, influential male leaders, local microfinance banks, and research on baseline finances of household and local market conditions. • A steering committee of 25 respected local men (church leaders, village chiefs, local government men) has attended weekly meetings where the huge benefits of women’s participation as economic actors has been respectfully demonstrated. These are expected to play an important role going forwards in promoting the benefits of not just allowing but encouraging this to happen. Results from your previous cohort The new program is in its early stages, but detailed results are now available on the previous project, its impact and ongoing legacy: - Participants’ average monthly income increased from $1.53 (this is not a typo) to $42.20. - In addition, 93% said their households would now be able to withstand a severe financial shock, like a bad harvest or a sudden illness. - Report includes some great case studies, one of the stars being this lady, pictured with her business trainer, who used the seed funding to set up a daycare center, which has been hugely successful, now that more women are working. - She currently employs a qualified teacher and two other full-time staff and she is now earning $428 a month, profit. - As a result of her newfound influence and confidence, she has become a vocal campaigner for the need for better hygiene facilities in local schools and public spaces like markets. 11

Humana Teacher Training Qualifications tailormade for rural Malawi Your grant CHF 7,610 for the third and final year of training was sent at the end of 2021. Reminder of who they are and what you are making possible • One of Humana’s core activities is their Teacher Training program, which they have been refining for decades and tailor to the specific needs of the target locations. • You are funding the training of five new teachers to work at rural primary schools, a 3-year program, with a curriculum designed to enable high quality teaching with almost nothing by way of materials (no technology, very few books) as will be the case when they are stationed at village schools. • The five trainees, selected from over 2,500 applications, started their studies just before the pandemic. Latest news • All five trainees passed their final exams this Summer and are now qualified to teach at government schools anywhere in Malawi. • Two have already taken up their posts, at rural primary schools, the other three are waiting to be deployed. • All 5 graduates were formally invited to take up full time jobs at the schools where they did their work experience placements, but it is up to the government to say which schools will get a new teacher (according to numbers of pupils and staff ratio). • A 3-year program with only 5 direct beneficiaries might not be our usual focus but the impact of this reach far beyond these young teachers themselves: They are each expected to teach around a hundred children per year and will on average support 5 family members with their salaries. • We have short videos of the newly qualified teachers, speaking to camera about what this opportunity means for them and expressing their gratitude to fresh leaf. Screenshot on right from some of these interviews. 12 ⭐

The Karuna Trust and Jan Sahas Human rights and justice for girls from ‘untouchable’ castes Your grant CHF 29,050 for year one of two was given in July this year Reminder of who they are • Jan Sahas (‘voice of the people’) is a grassroots non-profit active across central India. The Karuna Trust is a UK-based organization who works closely with them, supporting their efforts. • The focus of both is the upliftment of people at lowest rungs of the caste system who face severe discrimination in every area of their lives, from school to employment and the most basic things like access to water and housing. • Caste-based discrimination has been against the law in India for decades, but the law requires enforcing. • You have helped them before and In early 2020, just before covid, it was possible to visit and witness the amazing work being done. And how you are helping • This grant is enabling Jan Sahas to implement their core program in a new area, bringing change to 35 villages in an area called Dewas, in Madhya Pradesh. This region (poor, religious, largely supportive of the current government) has very serious problems of overt discrimination, including within the school system. Each village has a significant Dalit (untouchable) community living on its perimeter. • The aim is change both immediate and long term, both practical and in the minds of all villagers. • Every aspect of life is impacted but the focus is particularly on children and most especially on girls – the extra barriers and threats that they face. Progress so far since Summer • 1,150 adults been linked to various government schemes which entitle them to things from access to clean water to funding for a solid roof, through to jobs which are legal and (relatively) well paid, replacing indentured labour or ‘manual scavenging’ (poo collecting). • 28 community groups have been formed, who meet weekly to discuss the issues, learn about their rights in the law and gain the confidence to challenge the illegal treatment they are subject to. • Alongside these, 28 ‘child parliaments’ are up and running, where focus is on early intervention, support to get back into or stay in school. • 13 older children are training as “barefoot lawyers”, the name Jan Sahas uses for young people who receive extensive training, who then enable villagers who may be illiterate to deal with complex paperwork required to access these entitlements and opportunities. • A new aspect has been added to the program, which brings Dalit children to ‘open days’ at local police stations in an effort to ensure that trust might be built so that crimes be more readily reported. • The extreme poverty of this particular district poses some unexpected issues, such as children’s attendance at school being impacted by harvest season. Outreach (by visiting the family’s home) is underway to try to improve this but in the economic circumstances it is hard. 13

The Karen Hill Tribes Trust Access to education for left-behind children in Thailand Your grant CHF 12,500 given in July this year for a one year program Reminder of who they are and how you are helping • The Karen Hilltribes Trust (KHT) is a small charity which has worked with the Karen people living in Northern Thailand since 1986. They partner with rural Karen communities to create sustainable solutions to improve community health, secure livelihoods and increase access to education. • In 2021 you agreed a grant of CHF 12,500 toward their Access To Education program, to allow them to expand their network of school buses (and tuktuks) getting children in remote mountain villages to and from school. The costs of each route varies, the longest being 90km one way. • This Summer, you agreed to support the same work again, a repeat grant following good outcomes and great reporting. The Karen people: Thailand has made huge progress in social and economic development across the rural provinces of the north, poverty and inequality continue to pose huge challenges and especially for ethnic minorities like the Karen. Mae Hong Son province, where KHT works, is mostly rugged mountains and forests and 64% of the population live below the official global poverty line (which means on less than $2 a day). Outcomes so far since the summer • The grant this time has been split between the school transport program and the provision of lunches uniforms and essential stationary for those children whose families could not afford these things otherwise. • Your grant has directly paid for the provision of 18 school bus routes serving 368 children from 30 different villages. This is about two thirds of the whole school transport program (688 children). • Of the passengers are girls, in line with their aims of addressing the disproportionate rates of attendance between the sexes. • As before, their report details every route, how many children use it and their attendance figures. • One of the routes set up in 2021 is now being funded by the villagers themselves, the parents of the students who rely on it. This is a result of other work that KHT has done with them, on income generation – they are very proud of this achievement, it proves the viability of their long-term aim which is that the families are able to take over ownership of the routes themselves. Your grant is also providing two good varied and nutritious meals for 321 children at 6 school ‘dormitories’. These are Karen children whose families live so far from the schools along such bad roads that the children sleep at the schools and only travel home when they can on weekend. 14

Kolmila & RCC Sharon Text-based anonymous helpline for young people, Israel Your grant CHF 20,000 for a 1 year program Reminder of who they are • This application came from the Hasharon Sexual Assault Crisis Center (RCC Sharon), one of 7 linked centres in the country who collaborate to share resources to people who have suffered sexual assault, offering guidance, accommodation and legal assistance as required • The project you are contributing towards is an anonymous helpline called Kolmila, first point of contact for most of the people accessing all seven centres, with a 24/7 phoneline in 3 languages. What you are making possible • Since 2018 Kolmila has been offering a textbased helpline as well as the telephone one. • The text service (using WhatsApp and online text) is by far the best way of reaching younger victims, typing on a phone being much more comfortable for most teens than speaking on it • The grant is being used to enable them to expand this text-based service, which up until now has only operated for a few hours some days of the week. Your funding is allowing them to 1) Train up new volunteers for the anonymized service and 2) Publicize its existence in ways designed to reach the demographic they intend to serve, which means on social media platforms. Progress so far • They are on course to train up two batches of new volunteers, as planned, and their social-media awareness-raising has been going well, statistics demonstrate a clear month on month growth of new users following adverts on Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram. • They have now got confirmed matched funding from The National Insurance Institute Fund for Special Projects which is covering in full the salary of a part-time Social Media and Publicity Coordinator and also 60% of the campaign expenses. • The first volunteer training course started at the end of October. This is later than planned, and the reason is they were determined to make this the first time they have trained men as well as women and it was not easy to find the right male volunteers; Tthere is a waiting list of women who want to help but getting applications from men who then went on to pass their stringent selection process was depressingly challenging. • A women-only training course will follow after that, in early 2023. • From July to September, monthly rates of new callers (texters) has risen from 35 to 54%, proving that their social media outreach is working and demonstrating the need for this service. • Many of the callers are younger than they were expecting, which has led them to develop a new program designed especially for teenagers only, an online “Youthline’, operated by a small team of professional educators and not by volunteers. The National Insurance Institute has stepped up and agreed to fund the development of this new program. 15

LankaHelp Continued support for scholarship program, Sri Lanka Your grant CHF 24,000 this Summer (as year two of a planned two years repeat support) reminder of who they are and what you are making possible • Introduced by RR in 2019, a small Liechtenstein-based non-profit run by a dedicated couple who have been supporting students in Sri Lanka for decades, from kindergarten up to university. • FLCF’s support has been towards their ‘Stipenden’ program, which consists of case by case help according to need for students aged 14 and above who have finished their (free) education and need help to continue. Support may cover transport, housing, meals, and educational supplies when necessary as well as tuition fees. The crisis in Sri Lanka hasn’t gone anywhere it just stopped making the news Any hope that the resignation of the president in June was going to make things better were destroyed within a week when his replacement was installed, an ally of the previous one, just another kleptocrat but one with more enthusiasm for jailing protestors. The country is bankrupt, power cuts frequent, there’s often no petrol and the food prices are through the roof: World Food Program says that 4 in 10 Sri Lankans are now malnourished. The scholarship program is stretched but more vital than ever • LankaHelp’s quarterly updates on the general situation have been despairing for some time, as they set out the spiraling chaos politically and economically in the country that they love. • But their pride in the success of their students and they gratitude to you for your support is only increased against this backdrop. • There have been several periods where some schools and colleges have been shut for days at a time due to no fuel, meaning nobody can get there, but despite it all, whilst the political and economic chaos continues around them, teachers have done their best to kept teaching and students who have the financial means to do so have continued to study. • The report lists in detail the exam results of some of the youngsters you’ve been sponsoring and their hopes for what comes next. • We also have seventeen thank you letters from university students all supported by Lanka-Help. One for instance (pictured right is a young man who Lanka-Help began to support when he was in primary school and is about to graduate at the end of this year from his Law degree. Another (left) is about to finish her BA in political science. All seventeen of them are the first in their family to have gone to university. • Before FLCF began helping, their scholarship program was able to assist in the education of 80 students (2019 figures). Since you got involved, this stands at 140, almost doubling their capacity. • With the huge impact of inflation on food and fuel, the budget is stretched tight but not a single scholarship student has dropped out so far, their letters show how determined they are to grasp tightly the opportunity given them, especially in these impossible circumstances. 16

The Mwezi Foundation Solar powered portable lights for study after sunset, Kenya Your grant CHF 13,550 given this July, for the first of a planned two year project. Reminder of who they are • The Mwezi Foundation is a small non-profit which does one simple and surprisingly effective thing: give solar powered portable lights to schools to lend to their students.Solar lights mean students can read and do homework after sundown at home where their families have neither electric light nor money for kerosene lamps. • In Summer 2021 you granted them £10,595 to provide 800 lights to be distributed to schools, and the reporting and outcomes were really impressive, leading to this slightly larger two year grant agreed in July this year. Outcomes so far since the Summer • Communication and reporting have continued to be excellent, and again they have provided photographs of every light that has been distributed with your money so far, in the hands of some of the children at each recipient school. • Early this year they made some changes to the design of their lights, making them more robust and brighter but also slightly more expensive to produce. • There were some issues with delayed delivery of a particular component part from China but those are now solved. In the meantime, they were able to continue providing the older design of lights to ensure that rollout didn’t stall. • From July to the end of October, with your grant, 346 lights were delivered to 36 schools of which 14 are new to the program and 22 are existing partners getting additional lights for their libraries. • As before, pupils in the last two years (ages 12-14) are prioritised, as they are getting ready for the exams which offer a real chance of social mobility through continued education if they do well (data from prior years shows that grades go up significantly when children have light to study by). Below are a handful of the photos they have provided, of the direct beneficiaries of your grant. 17

Play Action International Portable multi-functional mini-playgrounds for refugee kids Your grant £15,000 at the end of 2021, for a one year pilot program Reminder of who they are and the context that gave rise to this pilot project • Play Action International works in disadvantaged communities enhancing children’s learning, development and quality of life through access to play. • They were planning to build a series of new playgrounds in refugee settlements in Uganda (home to 100s of thousands of children) but circumstances changed: The UK government cancelled their funding and then the Ugandan government closed every playground in the country in march 2020 and had still not unchained them in December last year. What you have made possible • Your grant has allowed them to trial an innovative solution: The provision of mobile play karts, like a mini playground that fits into a vehicle and can travel anywhere. It’s compact, robust, and allows ‘Loose Parts Play’, meaning play with materials that can be moved, carried, redesigned, taken apart and put together in multiple ways. • The grant also trains a local playworker, who travels with the equipment across 5 refugee settlements on a rota and involves teachers and parents as well as the kids Outcomes as we near the end of the year • The travelling project has been running since March (after delivery of the equipment and training of the playworker). Attendance figures show that there have been over 23,500 attendances at these sessions so far, up to mid-October. • The main issue they were grappling with at the start was crowd control, and the report now details the changes made in response to this: • Instead of limiting total numbers, they found that splitting the sessions into three age groups worked best, allowing over under 5s and then 5-11s to play separately, then a brief session also for children over 11. The gender of every child has been logged, and along with the splitting of age groups, efforts have been made to ensure that girls get as much time with the equipment as boys. Conclusions • An experimental pilot program executed very skilfully and with a focus on what can be learned: They now plan to roll out portable play across a broader area and believe the benefits of this kind of versatile equipment for children’s social interaction and learning are greater than fixed playgrounds whilst the also costing less. • They will need slightly more robust equipment, are thinking to make it from recycled plastic instead of the wood as currently used but what your grant enabled them to trial will they say be rolled out funded by others and reaching many thousands more kids, which is great. 18 ⭐

Potipher Banda Repair and maintenance of 48 water pumps in Malawi Your grant 10, 201,000 MKW (≈CHF 12,300) given this Summer, for a one year project Reminder • Potipher is a highly skilled project manager with a degree in development studies and many years experience working for international aid agencies. Contact first made back in 2015 when visiting a FLCF funded project in Malawi. • In Summer 2021 you agreed to fund a project he designed and led, repairing 42 water pumps in an area called Nkalo in the south. All work was completed successfully and on time and he was invited to re-apply in July this year. What you are making possible this time • Similar to last year’s project but with more pumps and more of them requiring major overhaul. • This time, we are working in a mountainous area called Zomba, and targeting 48 broken pumps. • Again, the focus is not on a short-term fix but on sustainable maintenance to be implemented by local people formed into management committees which will be responsible for funding regular maintenance visits and replacement when needed of the spare parts which will wear out. Progress so far – repairs nearing completion much sooner than expected • The project has progressed much faster than expected, with 34 pumps already repaired. • Reason for this speedy rollout is that there was a cholera outbreak in Malawi, this year, with a total of 6056 confirmed cases up to the end of October. The outbreak started here in the south. • Because of this, the Ministry of Health therefore got involved, jumping onto this vital project which we started, by helping with transport and two technical personnel. • This has allowed repairs to happen fast, with 85% completion rate as at end of October. • The increased cost of parts from China has swallowed up most of the money saved by their contribution towards the rollout, but the speed of the repairs has no doubt saved lives. • The repair of the pumps is still only one part of the work, and the community-led maintenance regime will still take months to set up and monitor. • Report says that the impact on children’s school attendance and attainment is already evident in those villages where girls no longer start their days by fetching faraway water at dawn. 19

Raising Futures, Kenya New classrooms for a high impact vocational training center Your grant £25,000 given at the end of 2021, for a one year construction project. Reminder of who they are • Raising Futures is a small award-winning non-profit, based in the UK but working through local partner organisations in Kenya. They have 3 vocational training centers located in areas of extreme poverty and very high youth unemployment, providing taining in life skills, business skills and vocations including fashion design & tailoring, hair and beauty and motor vehicle mechanics. • These ‘Seed of Hope’ vocational training centres are life changing: Over 90% of graduates are either employed, self-employed or in further education. What you are making possible • The training centre in Dagoretti, a slum district of Nairobi, is a currently a collection of shipping containers and sheds, and is far too small for the amount of people who want to study there: You agreed to fund a quarter of the cost of transforming this into a purpose built facility which will allow them to increase their student numbers hugely. • Your grant is earmarked for the ‘The Business and Entrepreneurship’ classroom, where IT skills financial literacy and business basics are taught, required classes for every student. Below are photos of the existing IT room and the architects plan for the new building Unexpected delays • In the original timeline, construction was to begin in July, but when an election was announced for that month, decided to wait until August, to avoid any risk of work being interrupted. • Unfortunately, the election itself held everything up for much longer than expected: Results took a whole month to be announced during which no government business moved forwards and then a change of ruling party meant that all the people employed at the office which manages approving new buildings were replaced by new ones, who only got to work in September. So, all very slow. Next steps • Their architectural plans have now been given the green light, but a civil engineering survey is still awaited. They are doing everything in their power to speed this up. • In the meantime, classes continue at the existing training centre. • As soon as the required government paperwork is done, they’re ready to go, plan slightly adjusted for the impact of inflation of materials. • The new start date for construction is April 2023, and first students in the classrooms in Jan ’24. The increased capacity means they expect to be able to welcome 510 students each year, instead of the current 195, a huge increase over years to come. 20

SEED Madagascar Livelihoods opportunities for traditional weavers in Madagascar Your grant £ 14,990 this July, for a two year project running up to Summer 2024. Reminder of who they are • SEED stands for sustainable environment, education & development. They are a small charity, registered in UK, working in rural Madagascar with a largely local team. Started with the aim of protecting Madagascar’s unique flora and fauna but focus now is on improving the lives of local people, understanding that the problems of poverty and environmental degradation are connected. • We have worked together before, on a project to increase incomes and financial stability of women who practice the local art of colorful intricate embroidery. The women’s incomes were hit hard by the lack of tourists over Covid, but project continues to do well, being largely independent of their help now, though RR remains their single biggest client to date and is remembered fondly. What your grant is making possible this time • Similar to our previous collaboration, this is a again a women’s livelihoods project, but instead of embroidery the craftswomen practice the traditional art of weaving Mahampy, a local wetland reed. • There are no viable alternative jobs for these women, given the cultural educational and geographical circumstances, so the plan is to turn their existing skills into a decent livelihood, so that their children can attend school and have more options than their mothers do. • One traditional rug/ mat (which everyone locally uses as floor coverings in the home) usually takes about 3 days to make and up to now such a product has sold for something like USD$1.25. This is what the project wants to change, step by step. • Step 1 was forming the Mahampy Weavers' Cooperative and setting up the Weavers' Workshop, so that instead of each working and selling alone they can work communally and command better prices. • 166 women are anow active members. • Step 2 is developing their skills, both practical and businesswise. That’s where we are at now. Literacy and numeracy is needed, as well as basic business and financial training. Many of the weavers are starting from scratch with all of this. Classes take place whilst they carry on weaving, so nobody is losing work-time to come to class. • They are for now still focusing on products with a mainly local market, so mats and baskets, but aiming for a more uniform and higher quality so that bulk buyers will pay more for them. • Covid-19 and 20 months of border closures identified the challenges that arise from having a touristdominated market, which is why there is a current focus on maximizing revenue from local sales. • Step 3 will be diversification of product lines, into the kind of items that would fetch good prices from tourists and international buyers. Ideas for new product lines along with handbags include woven handbags, placemats for the table and yoga mat carriers. This won’t happen until next year though, so nothing for the Liechtenstein Christmas markets. 21

Tools for Inner Peace Training refugee women to be yoga teachers, Lebanon Your grant CHF 6,750 given this July, for a 2 year program Reminder of who they are • Tiny charity with a hippie-sounding name but run by a group of professionals who have many years experience working in war zones (as diplomats, aid workers or journalists). • Since 2017, they have been volunteering in the Bekaa valley in Lebanon where 800,000 Syrian refugees live in informal camps, having survived Putin’s last adventure. • Research suggests that 45% of women and children here have symptoms of PTSD. • There is strong evidence that even the simplest yoga and relaxation practice, done regularly, has a profound impact on a persons’ wellbeing, recovery from trauma, ability to sleep and cope with stress. • Their aim is to connect refugees and survivors of war to the teachings of classical yoga with its proven benefits for wellbeing, with particular focus on the methods and poses of yoga for trauma survivors. What you are making possible • Your grant is enabling them to train local Lebanese and Syrian women as yoga instructors. • This will make classes in the refugee camps sustainable and independent of outside instructors and will also give these women transferrable skills, which may generate an income in due course. • Half of the budget for this training was donated by an organization which supports women refugees, Fresh Leaf closed the funding gap allowing work to begin on this long-held plan. Progress so far since the grant was received this summer • The 20 women who are training to be community yoga teachers had already been selected, so the project was able to get going immediately upon receipt of your funding. Participants come from conflict-torn neighborhoods in Tripoli and Arsel in the northern and eastern parts of Lebanon, refugee camps in Beirut that have received a further influx of refugees from Syria in recent years, and from neighborhoods affected by the Beirut port blast in 2020 • Four training weekends have already taken place (first was in August and most recent was at the end of October). • Transport to the training weekends is provided or refunded and friendships are being formed between this diverse group of women. One woman dropped out due to illness and another joined in her place, otherwise attendance has been 100% so far. • They learn physical asana, breathing, relaxation and meditation practices, alongside lectures on yoga theory, anatomy and physiology, and teaching methodology. • The report includes personal testimony from one woman, whose house was blown apart by the explosion in 2020, talking about how the things she has learnt have enabled her to sleep well for the first time since that day and how excited she is to pass on the methods to others. • They will continue to meet roughly once a month for these teacher training weekends until May 2023, after which they will be assisted to set up their own regular classes for people in their various communities. 22

) learning how to make their own reusable pads from readily available resources, supported by a local tailor (photo shows some of the girls with their colourful creations). • They are delighted with these outcomes and say that, thanks to your agreeing to fund this first trial program, they plan to add a version of it to every future school washroom construction project. 23

The Wonder Foundation Vocational training for 20 young womenin The Philippines Your grant CHF 24,000 released this Summer, for the second part of a two year project Reminder of who they are and what you are making possible • Wonder (Women’s Network for Development and Educational Resources) aims to empower women and girls through access to quality education and training. They work with carefully selected partner organisations who provide training designed to meet the long-term needs of participants and of their local economies and societies. You have helped them before, putting 5 nurses through a degree course in the DRC. • This project is taking 20 young women, all from very poor families and half from rural villages, through a highly respected 2 year hospitality and catering course in Manila. Progress halfway through year two • Adjustments to the curriculum were made last year to keep learning on track despite the covid lockdowns and by June all in-college classes and tests were complete. • Your students all passed, the lowest score being 86%, so they have all done well. • They then began their 7 months on-the-job training in various well-known establishments, hotels cafes and restaurants, some in customer-facing roles others behind the scenes in the kitchens according to their preference. These placements will complete at the very end of this year. Plans for the coming months • The students are now in the last month of their work placements: All are expected to graduate in January 2023. • Eleven have already received full time job offers from the places they’re doing their work experience and the school administration is confident the others will do likewise by early 2023. • These women will now earn at least 15,000 pesos (about £225) as a starting salary per month, which will in most cases triple their families’ income. Many will also get extra from tips and all can expect to progress in their career, so this is just the starting rate. • The report includes personal testimonies from four of your scholarship students, which spell out how life changing this help has been. Pictured right is one of them, whose family was left destitute by covid (father being a rickshaw driver). • She has just been offered a job at a five-star hotel; says she will take it gladly but plans eventually to be the head chef on a cruise ship. Others include a pastry enthusiast who has taken up employment in a city café but has ambitions to open her own cake shop one day. They al talk about the self-confidence and hope they have gained, as well as the opportunities. 24