Rating reports
Key data
| Income | £1.97m |
| Programme ratio | 88% |
| Admin. expenses ratio | 9% |
| Fundraising efficiency | 3p |
Output
>54,000 beneficiaries with improved access to medication, earnings opportunities and rights
Reports
- Afghan Connection
- Africa Educational Trust
- Africa Now
- African Initiatives
- AfriKids
- Andrew Lees Trust
- BasicNeeds
- Blue Dragon
- Book Aid International
- Build Africa
- Cambodia Trust
- Excellent Development
- Health Unlimited
- Homeless International
- IMPACT Foundation
- International Childcare Trust
- MicroLoan Foundation
- Motivation Charitable Trust
- MSAVLC
- MyC4
- Nepal Leprosy Trust
- Pestalozzi Overseas Childrens Trust
- Prospect Burma
- Pump Aid
- Refugees United
- Riders For Health
- ShelterBoxTrust
- SolarAid
- Survivors Fund
- Target Tubercolosis
- Tools for Self-Reliance
- Tree Aid
- VETAID
- Vision Aid Overseas
- Women and Children First
Community-based care to reach the rural population: Not only is it cheaper and more convenient for mentally ill people not to have to travel to the city for treatment, but there is greater likelihood that the participant will stick with the treatment under the programme and achieve stability or recovery.
Spreading entrepreneurship opportunities: Training for work and micro-credit helps stabilised mentally ill people contribute to the local economy. Selling home-grown lime plants helped one woman being treated for depression to earn ~£95 in 6 months, the most money she had ever earned.
Integrating mentally ill people back into society to achieve local development: The exclusion of a potentially productive group of a community undermines local social and economic development and the wider Millennium Development Goals.
Policy and NGO capacity development: National and local governments are beginning to include mental illness in health policy decisions. Communities are helped to appreciate that mental illness is not contagious and can be successfully treated and stabilised. Local partners receive training to improve NGO management and administration to develop local sustainability of their organisations.
“I was due for my next appointment at Mulago Hospital, but I decided to go to KCCC [the local partner] because it is nearer. I have seen a difference! At KCCC, the drugs are always available and I have a community volunteer who is responsible for following up and checking on my progress.”
Beatrice, a mentally ill person in Kamwokya, Uganda.
“I now have friends who come to sit with me throughout the day while I work. They, my neighbours and friends, are now even encouraging me to get married … Life now makes meaning to me!”
Sulemana, Ghana, who began having epilepsy attacks at 19 and suffered exclusion. He now receives treatment and has begun work as a cobbler.
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