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Public benefits
Purpose: To promote and financially assist with the provision of housing and educational support for the poor and underprivileged worldwide. The trustees are satisfied that both elements of the public benefit requirement are met. The direct public benefits which flow from this purpose include; 1. Housing: The direct provision of shelter and
housing to persons in need of it and the direct provision of building services and financial support for such projects; and 2. Education: The benefit will be that the schools will provide the safe haven for the children and provide education and well-being measures to provide hope and options for the future, improved capacity, better use of teaching resources and broadened educational and life skills. These benefits will be evident through the numbers of homes built and lived in, better results in school and pupils having clear choices and abilities to get out of the ‘poverty trap’. No harms arise from these purposes. There are no private benefits flowing from these purposes which are more than incidental, for example, teachers may be recruited and paid in order to provide their services in the relevant schools. The beneficiaries are potentially any poor or underprivileged persons worldwide.
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
Mellon Educate’s Mission is to provide sustainable education improvements for over 100,000 of the world’s poorest children. Since 2013, with the help of international volunteers we have built two schools in Kenya, 3 schools in townships or impoverished areas of South Africa, renovated an orphanange and drop in centre in the Eastern Cape, South
Africa and have started rolling out the Mellon Educate Results Programme, which aims to bring up the pass-rate in under-performing schools to an average of 75%, to the schools we built. We are rolling out the MERP through a team of mentor and specialist teachers from townships who are training the in situ teachers on teaching plans, scheduling and structure, as well as in classroom teaching. We are also working with the University of Wales – Trinity St David to establish a course that we can roll initially throughout South Africa and then further afield. We aim for this course to be accredited by the University. So far, the schools we have provided cater for over 5,500 students. Mellon Educate UK works with Mellon Township Ltd, a registered charity in Ireland (CHY 16238) and Mellon Housing Initiative, a registered charity in South Africa, to fulfill the Mission.
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The prevention or relief of poverty
- The advancement of education
- The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Who the charity helps
- Adult training
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- Overseas/developing countries
- Voluntary and community sector
- Volunteers
How the charity works
- Community development
- Education/training
- Environment/sustainable development/conservation
- Playgroup/after schools
- Relief of poverty
- Youth development
