Every financial support counts. It changes lives and brings aspiration for a better future; a dignified world we desire to live in. You can donate in many ways:
- Give a small gift of as low as €10 (or $12).
- Target your donation towards a specific project which is aimed at a poor household of 7 people to improve its productivity and voice so as to engage with the wider community, market, and political arena. For example, by supporting a smallholder farming household to grow Irish potato or rear chicken it will be able to acquire the basic production tools and skills training with which it will improve its farming practices, increase its yields and ultimately food and income. You can also help a poor illiterate youth join a vocational skills training in order to gain marketable skills for own-account job creation that will give her/him income to meet the individual basic needs and support to the family well-being.
- Provide corporate financing for community-wide projects. This financing targets community group projects which benefit more than an individual poor households. It can be in the form of agro-enterprise development e.g., milling services, tree planting, and scholarship or in a social project like a safe water source (borehole) or a community school.
To do so, water pump you help to install, every vegetable plot you dig, every campaign you add your voice to, every child you send to school creates new opportunities for communities worldwide. Your support gives people affected by poverty and injustice a voice. Make a difference today.
Where does the money go?
At AFARD we believe that we only hold whatever funds in trust of the community we serve. Transparency and accountability is therefore a critical tenet of our programme and financial management. Thus the Board of Directors annually hires competent internationally Certified Public Accountants to audit our finances and the audit reports together with programme annual reports are made public on our website besides sharing with donors, local government, and other stakeholders.
Overall, we spend 85% of all our funds annually on programme costs and 15% covers personnel and administration cost. This is a very high cost-efficiency standard for our sector and for a young and growing organization like AFARD.