Transparency and reporting to our donors
When you donate to World Villages for Children, the money goes to the countries and schools within the Sisters of Mary programmes where the need is most pressing. It provides for the existing children in school and also funds new school places for the most deprived children who are urgently in need from the regions.
This includes funding a regular yearly intake of new children at the existing schools as well as help with school expansions within country (eg Honduras) and new schools in new countries (eg Tanzania).
When the Sisters of Mary utilise your donations in the care of the children, they report back to us in detail on the expenditure. We monitor this activity both from the UK and on-site at the schools. Our independent auditors scrutinise these reports and the entire grant distribution process to ensure accuracy and compliance with sector standards.
Your support in 2023
This transparency allows us to report back to our donors at a detailed level.
So we know the number of children seen by the Sisters in the community, the number of children accepted, how many are welcomed into school each year. This is January for Guatemala, Brazil, Honduras and Tanzania and June for the Philippines and Mexico.
We also receive detailed monthly progress updates from the Sisters on the activities of the children at school, their academic and technical progress, health and welfare and the operational needs at the schools which require our donors’ support, like the new water well at the Girlstown which will reduce dependency on water deliveries during the dry season.
Sustainability
Your support creates lasting change in poverty within every one of the communities where we operate our programmes today and our graduates help us to maintain our work with their commitment to ‘pay it forward’ .
They further our mission by giving a helping hand to the Sisters of Mary, assisting with the younger children who’ve come after them, helping current students into work experience, we call it On the Job Training (OTJ), or graduates into employment. Some return to teach or fulfil other jobs for the schools; a few others even find their vocation.
The programmes are also evolving new processes which focus on sustainability, longevity and kindness to the planet. These help us to lower operating costs and welcome even more children.
Together our efforts result in a lasting change that profoundly and effectively transforms many more lives than those who have experienced our programmes first-hand.
Impact
The programmes you fund break the cycle of poverty for children in the poorest regions. They transform families and entire communities.
As of 2023 more than 170,000 children have graduated from our education programmes and had the opportunity to realise a brighter future.
These children have gone on to support generations of their own families with access to better healthcare and education, multiplying the effectiveness of our mission and the impact of your donation many times over.