Downpatrick Third World Group

Public benefits

Public Benefit • Relief of Poverty – Feeding programmes for malnourished school children in Uganda and Zambia. Providing one nourishing meal per day for the children assists them in their physical development helping to alleviate sickness and aids their concentration levels in school. • Medical - Provision of solar panels in hospital for children

in Sierra Leone gives a constant supply of oxygen for weak new born babies. Provision of Solar panels in a hospital in Angola has reduced the need to reply on local sporadic electricity supply. Providing water wells for clean drinking water towards eliminating disease. • Education – Providing financial assistance for school fees in Kenya and Peru helping students become self sufficient and enabling them assist in the education of other members of the community. Promoting female literacy in India helping women gain employment. • Feedback – We receive regular reports from all our beneficiaries supported by photographs of completed or developing projects if applicable. Returning aid workers present at our meetings on the benefits derived from our grants. • We do not consider any harm arises from our grants • There are no private benefits to unintended beneficiaries. With exception of printing costs and bank fees, 100% of funds raised go directly towards poverty related causes in developing countries. • No feeds whatsoever are charged to beneficiaries.

What your organisation does

We organise fund raising events, e.g. concerts, BBQ, sponsored cycle runs etc. to assist with relief of poverty in developing countries by way of providing school lunches and school fees for those children unable to access them due to poverty, medical care for the sick, providing water wells and sanitation.