In April 2026 we held our 4th AGM and we were able to report that in the previous 12 months we had spent a total of £60,000 on 10 different projects in 7 of the least developed countries of the world. Dr Nick was also able to report that in January 2026, he and Claudine had visited both of the projects we had supported in Bangladesh and that he had then travelled on to Cambodia to spend a week on the Tonle Sap Lake with the floating Lake Clinic, another of the trusted partners we regularly support.
The ‘Ship of Life’ – Jibon Tari Floating Hospital in Bangladesh
In 2025 we made two separate donations to support the work done being by the Impact Foundation Bangladesh (IFB) at the Jibon Tari Floating Hospital which provides a mobile riverside community hospital facility at otherwise isolated and inaccessible sites around the country. Dr Nick and Claudine were made extremely welcome when they visited in January and spent a night on board.
As well as providing an emergency service and community based primary health screening clinics, the hospital specialises in ENT and Ophthalmic surgery. It is not unusual for them to perform as many as 30 cataract operations in a single day which can be life changing for the patients involved who would otherwise be unable to work because of their poor vision and unable to pay for the treatment they so desperately need.
The Waymaker Learning Centre in Lungcawi Village, Maraland
OAA have not only funded a much needed community centre in the isolated Mara village of Lungcawi, they have gone on to fund a brand new school building and teacher accommodation block next door. The project has been so successful that the school is already at capacity with 145 children but more are arriving from villages nearby and it is very hard to turn anyone away… (see full report below)
LAMB Community Hospital, NW Bangladesh
During 2025 we made two separate donations to LAMB Health to help them purchase an ECG machine and other items of essential medical equipment for use in their community hospital in NW Bangladesh. Dr Nick and Claudine briefly visited the hospital in January and were able to see some of the equipment being put to good use on the maternity ward. They were incredibly impressed by the skill and dedication of all the staff who work there.
St Paul’s Secondary School, Chinhenga, Zimbabwe
An OAA donation of £5,000 enabled this sanitation block with wash stations, gender-specific latrines and girl’s hygiene rooms to be built at the rapidly expanding St Paul’s Secondary School in rural eastern Zimbabwe. The new and much needed facilities are linked to the solar powered borehole we helped to fund last year and will lead to a reduction in drop out and absence rates especially amongst the girls.
The floating Lake Clinic, Tonle Sap, Cambodia
The Lake Clinic provides a primary healthcare service to the neglected families living in floating villages on the Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia. The team travel out to the lake each week by boat and are based at a series of floating platforms from where they deliver medical clinics and run their community outreach programme. It is always a great privilege to join them and see at first hand the vital work they do.
Having built up a close working relationship with the Clinic over many years, we sponsor their work as often as we can and we have awarded them several grants which have in turn been match-funded by our trusted partners at Impact UK. In May the Clinic had to launch a crisis appeal for remedial work to be carried out on the steel framework of the hulls on all their floating platforms and we were again able to make a match-funded contribution amounting to half of the total cost.
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