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Humanity First 2011 annual report Registered Operations Australia Kenya www.humanityfirst.org.au P.O.Box40554-00100,Nairobi Mission Statement www.ke.humanityfirst.org Austria Skraupstrasse24/39/4,A-1210,Vienna Liberia Carey&RandallStreets,P.O.Box618,Monrovia Humanity First is a charitable trust established to Bangladesh www.lr.humanityfirst.org promote and safeguard human life and dignity. It is a non- 72ParkRoad,Baridhara,Dhaka www.bd.humanityfirst.org Macedonia BulevarMakedonija17-1/1,2320Delchevo political, non-religious, non-sectarian international relief Belgium and development agency that works with and for the Bremstraat31,9990Maldegem Mali www.humanityfirst.be B.P.E.4591,Djelibougou,Bamako world’s poorest and most vulnerable people. Benin Mauritius Quartierdudji, P.O.Box6,RoseHill Humanity First was formally established in the UK in 1995, 01BP,1282Porto-Novo www.mu.humanityfirst.org Burkina Faso Netherlands and now has registered operations in 39 countries and Sectuer25,Somgande,Ouagadougou Kastanjelaan46,1185KBAmstelveen projects in many more. Most of our aid workers and the www.bf.humanityfirst.org www.humanityfirst.nl Canada New Zealand management of Humanity First are unpaid volunteers and Unit1,245BowesRoad,Concord,OntarioL4K1H8 20DalgetyDrive,ManukauCentral our administrative expenses are negligible. We are able www.humanityfirst.ca www.nz.humanityfirst.org to deliver significantly more aid value in the field than the Congo D.R. Niger Kinshasa Nigeria funds we raise through volunteers, collaboration and Denmark KM29,NewAbeokutaExpressway,Ojokoro,O.O.Box418,Lagos global sourcing. Copenhangen www.ng.humanityfirst.org France Norway M.DeQuartierVignes,Blanches,PlaceCamilleSaintSaens,95200 Frognerveien53,0266Oslo Sarcelles www.no.humanityfirst.org www.humanityfirst.fr Pakistan Germany 111,Street10,I-9/2,Islamabad,Pakistan LuisenStrasse82a,63067OffenbachamMain www.humanityfirst.org.pk www.humanityfirst.de Sao Tome Ghana PintoDCarvalho,C/P.No.149,SaoTome P.O.Box2327,Accra Senegal www.gh.humanityfirst.org Kaolack Objectives Guatemala Sierra Leone Km.20.3carreteraaSanLucas 15BathStreet,BrookFields,Freetown ■ www.gt.humanityfirst.org Relieve suffering caused by natural disasters or Tanzania Guyana DaresSalaam human conflict. 198Oronoque&AlmondsStreet,Queenstown,P.O.Box10994, Georgetown The Gambia 33FodayKabbaHighway,LatrikundaSabiji-BrikamaHighway ■ Promote peace and understanding based upon Haiti www.gm.humanityfirst.org AvenueduTravail,Port-au-Prince mutual tolerance and respect. www.ht.humanityfirst.org Uganda P.O.Box55,Budaka India www.ug.humanityfirst.org DistrictGurdaspur,Punjab ■ Strengthen people’s capacity to help themselves United Arab Emirates (UAE) Indonesia 8thFloor,Al-FattanPlaza,P.O.Box1515,Dubai JLPerintisNo.2,RT/02/05,Kuningham,Pimur,Jakarta12950 www.id.humanityfirst.org United Kingdom (UK) 22DeerParkRoad,SouthWimbledon,LondonSW193TL Ivory Coast www.uk.humanityfirst.org IIPlateauxlesValons,Villa28-29,03BP416,Abidjan United States of America (USA) 300E.LombardStreet,Suite840,Baltimore,MD21202 www.usa.humanityfirst.org 2 Humanity First Annual Report 2011 Humanity First Annual Report 2011 3 Cover pHotograpH CONTENTS Headquarters: Chairman’s Review of 2011 6 22DeerParkRoad, Our Impact in 2011 8 SouthWimbledon, Global Operations 10 LondonSW193TL, Women’s Enpowerment 12 UnitedKingdom Office: Disaster response T: +44(0)2084170082 For a single mother like Brazil Floods 16 F: +44(0)2084170110 me, it’s very painful to Ivory Coast Post Election Violence 17 E: [email protected] reveal to my children that I Christchurch Earthquake 17 am taking help from a Java floods 17 UKRegisteredCharityNumber: Food Bank, but I am Japan Tsunami 18 1050934 grateful to Humanity First Horn of Africa Drought 20 Slave Lake Wildfires 22 CanadianRegistration: volunteers who bring us 872541040RR0001 food quietly and leave it Pakistan Floods Rehabilitiation 23 on the porch without Niger Drought 23 GermanyVereinsregister Typhoon Washi 23 Nr:VR11185 ringing the bell, just like angels from heavens. USIncorporationEIN:20-0464012 Feed a Village, page 33 projeCts Learn a Skill 25 ©HumanityFirst2012, This is one of the schools in AllRightsReserved Wargadud in north-east Kenya, Knowledge For Life 26 where the HF team provided Water for Life 28 drought assistance and also Medical Assistance 30 resources for the students and schools - page 26. Social Services 32 Feed a Village 33 2011 global FinanCial Data 34 partners anD Collaboration 36 www.humanityfirst.org Humanity First Annual Report 2011 5 ...none of this would be possible without the fantastic volunteers who raise funds for us, manage our operations, and spend their own time and resources visiting remote parts of the world to train, educate, and support communities that otherwise would have very little hope inspection during flood disaster in Pakistan Chairman’s review of 2011 The previous year was afflicted by two major disasters in Haiti and Pakistan. During 2011, thankfully we villagers and given them a chance to earn considerably more from their labours in the hot fields of Asia were spared catastrophes on that scale, and that allowed us to consolidate and focus on capacity building and Africa. Almost 27,000 school students have access to better quality education due to our investments both within HF, and in low income countries. We also welcomed Denmark, Congo and Senegal as our in school resources through our Knowledge for Life project. A further 3,000 people have gained certified newest registered countries. training to go into new technology careers or to set up their own small business ventures. Increasingly, our projects are aimed at empowering women, and in this year’s report, there is a feature that shows how There were disasters such as the drought that afflicted much of East Africa, the Christchurch earthquake our various projects combine to improve opportunities for women across the world. in New Zealand, this year’s monsoon in Pakistan and the Tsunami that struck Japan, but the response that was required from HF was not medical, but rather emergency food, water and shelter for over 89,000 But none of this would be possible without the fully devoted volunteers who raise funds for us, manage victims. For our Disaster Response team, this then enabled us to focus on our wider training programme our operations, and spend their own time and resources visiting remote parts of the world to train, educate both in Europe and North America to ensure that all of our disaster response personnel, medical and non- and support communities that otherwise would have very little hope. Sometimes these noble souls put medical, are trained to work in a consistent and collaborative manner according to international best themselves at risk for a virtuous cause. I would also like to express my deepest gratitude to all our donors practice. I am confident that this investment will bear fruit in the coming years. At the same time, whilst whose trust & confidence in HF remained persistent. I must again praise the courage, dedication and training clinicians around the world in the latest clinical techniques, Humanity First has also run medical professionalism of our staff and volunteers who continuously and selflessly put the needy first in order to camps to assist 29,000 people this year, either through surgery (cataract and hernia) or through the primary contribute in making a positive change in the world. We appreciate their sincere actions and owe a huge care facilities that we are offering in Benin and Haiti. debt of gratitude to them all. As I mentioned earlier, it was our longer term programmes that had the most attention this year, none more than Water for Life where there was a concerted effort this year in areas such as West and East Africa Ahmad Yahya Sayed to establish and refurbish a further 461 new hand-pumps that are now supporting over 2 million rural Chairman – Humanity First villagers. Our Feed a Village project has provided better tools and techniques to over 56,000 remote 6 Humanity First Annual Report 2011 Humanity First Annual Report 2011 7 Our Impact in 2011 89,952 victims provided with food, water, shelter and medical assistance following disasters in New Zealand, Japan, Indonesia, Honduras, Pakistan, and Kenya. Provided safe drinking water through an additional 374 pumps covering 507,375 people in 18 countries, and now a total of 2.27 million people get their daily water through HF. Five year impact 56,760 vulnerable and rural people provided with food, rations and agricultural support through Feed a Village Direct BeNeFiciarieS students trained since 2002 in IT, Sewing and Construction skills 34,680 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 tOtaL in 27 institutes in 13 countries Disaster 89,952 169,899 25,146 11,500 26,840 323,337 response Water for 542,375 45,900 171,400 1,238,000 270,000 2,267,675 Life 26,646 students benefiting from our Knowledge for Life programme Feed a 56,760 47,870 31,120 31,100 1,300 168,150 village 2,908 10,965 LaS 2,248 3,941 3,500 23,562 (34,573) (31,665) assisted through our medical and social care projects Knowledge 34,067 26,646 14,070 21,491 17,016 3,064 82,287 for Life medical/ 34,067 30,636 47,372 5,535 1,700 119,310 Social care aNNUaL 752,708 319,340 298,777 1,307,092 306,404 2,984,321 tOtaL 8 Humanity First Annual Report 2011 Humanity First Annual Report 2011 9 REGION REGISTERED OTHER PROjECT 2011 COUNTRIES COUNTRIES KEy PROjECTS (last 2 years) Canada, Guatemala, Chile, Honduras, • Brazil flood DR Guyana, Haiti, USA Peru • Gift of Sight in Guatemala • Haiti Primary School