NIPSA Global Solidarity and Developing World Fund

Public benefits

Purpose 1: to prevent or relieve poverty, sickness, disease or human suffering; the relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage through the provision of financial assistance, training programmes and development of sustainable projects and in any other manner which the trustees

determine; The direct benefits include increased assistance to those in need of essential items, human dignity and an overall better quality of life as well as improved health and wellbeing of the beneficiaries. The benefits can be demonstrated through the direct provision of financial assistance for short and medium term projects, the numbers of homes provided, improved water and sanitation quality, health infrastructures etc. as well as the numbers of people escaping debt, entering employment and receiving rehabilitation/support. Purpose 2: the advancement of education and community development through the provision of financial assistance, training programmes and development of sustainable projects and in any other manner which the trustees determine; The direct benefits include children having improved education assisting them into adulthood, increased support for communities to develop sustainable programmes to help themselves. The benefits can be demonstrated through the numbers of training programmes and sustainable projects, records of for building schools, increases in the living standards of communities through development of agricultural and livestock projects and longer-term food provision. Purpose 3: to promote human rights (as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and subsequent United Nations conventions and declarations) throughout the world by various means; The direct benefits include the empowerment of people, especially in marginalised communities in the developing world, to stand up for their human rights. The benefits can be demonstrated through recorded improvements in basic human rights for workers in sweatshops in Honduras, the rehabilitation of victims of abuses, and increased international pressure to demand educational rights. There is no harm or private benefit flowing from any of the purposes. The beneficiaries for all of our purposes are persons in need of such assistance living in any part of the world.

What your organisation does

The Committee has the power to raise and accept money by way of grants, donations, bequests, legacies or other lawful method; and give, donate or disburse grants and loans to such related organisations or projects as are by law deemed charitable provided that in the exercise thereof the Committee shall not engage in any form of permanent trading.