2025 has been a busy year for the Overseas Aid Alliance!
£28,500 was allocated to 7 deserving projects in 6 different countries around the world at our AGM in March and a further £27,000 was allocated to an additional 4 projects at our autumn meeting in October….
Ripple Africa – Farming and borehole project in Nkhata Bay District, Malawi
An OAA grant of £10,000 has enabled a successful fruit tree and vegetable growing project to be extended to 20 fishing communities on the shores of Lake Malawi encouraging crop diversification and supplementing household incomes during the closed fish breeding season. The grant also funded the repair of 5 village boreholes (see full report and photos below)
LAMB Community Hospital, NW Bangladesh
During the year we made two separate donations to LAMB Health to help them purchase an ECG machine and several other items of essential medical equipment for use in their community hospital in NW Bangladesh.
Greetings from LAMB Hospital!
Thank you for your generous support in funding the purchase of our new ECG machine, three pulse oximeters, three adult probes, and six neonatal probes.
The ‘Ship of Life’ – Jibon Tari Floating Hospital in Bangladesh
We also made two separate donations to support the work done being by the Impact Foundation Bangladesh (IFB) at the Jibon Tari Floating Hospital which Nick and Claudine are hoping to visit early in 2026.
With the benefit of match-funding, our donations to the Impact Foundation were able to help two of our other trusted partners as well as the Jibon Tari Floating Hospital, namely the Zanzibar Outreach Programme (ZOP) in Tanzania and the floating Lake Clinic (TLC) in Cambodia. Both of these organisations continue to do life-saving and life-changing work in the disadvantaged communities that they serve.
Namatoa School in Atsimo-Andreafana region, SW Madagascar
A £10,000 grant was approved at our meeting in October to help with a rebuilding project being implemented by United World Schools at Namatoa in the impoverished SW corner of Madagascar. Construction costs are high because of the poor transport links and the need for the classrooms to be cyclone-resistant but when completed the school will cater for 816 children from 4 different local communities.
St Paul’s Secondary School, Chinhenga, Zimbabwe
An OAA donation of £5,000 has enabled a sanitation block with wash stations, gender-specific latrines and girl’s hygiene rooms to be built at this rapidly expanding secondary school in rural eastern Zimbabwe. The new and much needed facilities will be linked to the solar powered borehole installed last year and will help to reduce drop out and absence rates especially amongst the girls.
Lungcawi Village School near Chapi in Maraland
Since opening its doors at Easter, this brand-new primary school in Lungcawi Village has gone from strength to strength. It has been entirely funded by the OAA and although it was originally designed as a community and women’s development centre, the lack of any other educational facility in the area has made its use as a school even more important. Pupil numbers are expected to exceed 100 next year and another OAA grant has been approved to enable the Waymaker Trust to build some desperately needed teacher accommodation nearby.
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