Third Year Distribution: Between November and January this year, the Trust distributed more than 4,000 textbooks and readers, 60,000 exercise books, more than 25,000 pencils and a variety of pens, pencil-sharpeners, drawing paper and other materials to schools in Zimbabwe, Malawi, Uganda and South Africa.
We also completed work on two new classroom blocks, creating a total of eight classrooms for two schools in Malawi.
Costs and Charges: In it’s third year, the Trust spent a total of £35,000 on educational materials and building projects, while building up a reserve of capital to fund the production of the CharCharChest and book- and poster-printing programmes.
Transport, travel, advertising and administrative charges were covered by donations from family, friends and the in-country coordinating schools who assist the Trust. As a result,
100% of all money donated to the Trust was spent on educational materials or placed on deposit for the 2011 distribution, when the Trust’s budget is expected to exceed £100,000.
