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This charity was removed from the register on 22 Aug 2024
Public benefits
The benefits from the work of the trust are perceived as: the changed lives of the charity’s beneficiaries which are children or youth and women, especially struggling mothers, living in Kenya and Zimbabwe who are marginalised or disadvantaged due to their gender, age, disability, infirmity or social and economic circumstances. Informed by our
Christian faith we seek to see the teaching and adoption of Christian values including a clear awareness of self-worth. Our aim is the increase in educational opportunity, levels of knowledge and transferable skills resulting in improved working practices leading to a reduction of poverty and growing autonomy for beneficiaries enabling them to be more self-supporting. We would expect that there will be an increased creation and growth of self-sustaining projects with a decrease in necessary funding and on-going growth in household incomes for beneficiaries. Key outcomes should be improved nutrition, alleviation of hunger, the decline in unsustainable environmental practices and improved self-sufficiency. We would hope to facilitate easy access to an improved quality of healthcare with higher standards of living and quality of life for beneficiaries and their communities. The purpose of our charity may lead to the following harm: (i) possible injury to volunteers or beneficiaries, however, on-going risk assessments will be carried out to mitigate against potential hazards. (ii) the possible unintended side effects from promoted healthcare treatment, however, the risks will be assessed on a case by case basis. (iii) possible overdependence of the beneficiaries on the trust’s support that could result in hardship should funding be cut for an unforeseen reason. The charity’s beneficiaries are the impoverished especially young people, teenagers and young adults with, in selected cases, the women in Kenya and Zimbabwe. There is no private benefit from the purposes of our charity.
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Boabab Christian Trust seeks to alleviate poverty, develop educational programs, encourage the spreading of the Christian faith through discipleship programs, and promote and cultivate sustainable development/ self-sustainability for the impoverished and marginalized people of Kenya and Zimbabwe.
The charity’s classifications
- The prevention or relief of poverty
- The advancement of education
- The advancement of religion
- The advancement of health or the saving of lives
- The advancement of citizenship or community development
- The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
- Other charitable purposes
Who the charity helps
- Adult training
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- Overseas/developing countries
- Women
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Community development
- Education/training
- Environment/sustainable development/conservation
- Human rights/equality
- Medical/health/sickness
- Relief of poverty
- Religious activities
- Volunteer development
- Youth development
Charitable purposes
Objects 3.1 The trust is established to support by means of financial assistance and voluntary works to any charitable project for the prevention and relief of poverty, suffering and distress, the advancement of education, the promotion of the Christian faith, the promotion of sustainable development, the promotion, preservation and protection of public health and the promotion of the benefit of those inhabitants who are in need of assistance as a result of their poverty or social and economic circumstances in the countries of Kenya and Zimbabwe in particular but not exclusively (hereinafter referred to as "the area of benefit") by associating with the statutory authorities, community and voluntary organisations and the inhabitants of the area of benefit in a common effort to improve the conditions of life for the said inhabitants and in particular: 3.1.1 to maintain and manage or co-operate with any local authority, charity or other voluntary organisation in the maintenance and management of a residential centre or centres in the area of benefit for activities promoted by the association ("the Centre"); 3.1.2 to relieve poverty and hunger in the area of benefit by any charitable means and in particular the provision of grants and training to enable poor people to establish and maintain projects which will enable them to relieve their own poverty; 3.1.3 the relief of sickness among the beneficiaries by the provision of medical facilities and counselling and by the provision of advice, information and financial assistance with the costs of medical treatment and the provision of items and services required to ease their suffering; 3.1.4 to train the beneficiaries in sustainable trades through teaching skills in agriculture and sustainable environmental management; 3.1.5 to advance the education of the inhabitants through their educational and leisure activities so as to develop their spiritual, physical, mental and emotional capacities in such ways as the trustees may from time to time think fit; 3.1.6 to promote or assist in promoting capacity building programmes and projects for the benefit of the inhabitants within the area of benefit who have need of such assistance as a result of their youth, gender, age, disability or infirmity, or social and economic circumstances, in an effort to increase the abilities, skills, self-esteem and self-confidence of such children and young people in the area of benefit; 3.1.7 to recruit, select and send out volunteers for both short and long term service within the area of benefit; 3.1.8 to advance any other exclusively charitable purpose, as the trustees may from time to time decide, in accordance with the law of charity.