Partnersfordevelopment

How to obtain donations

admin — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:25:00 +0000

There are many different ways to get money from donaters to finance the cost of relief programs and infrastructures. Often in NGO’s the majority of the donation income is provided by institutional doners. Different governements or big companies donate millions for a year. But they want to see results and make sure that the money is well spent. Therefore they have a team of consultants which each year go through the accounts and check the expenses and verify that is money is not being wasted or stollen. It is then quite important to archive every transaction to make sure that a there is a record of everything. Then in case of a problem or a doubt they can be consulted and used to verify certain expenses.

Donations are also collected from the general public. There are several methods used to raise such donations. The first is to do advertising, creating videos, having and updated website, giving flyers, organising events, radio and television broadcast etc. On the best ways is adverstising, a typical way is to send out letters to a lot of people, asking them for donations, out of the thousands of letters send a couple hundred will become donaters. Then special events can be organised and all the revenue will go to the ONG such as a sponsored race. Where the runners raise money from divers sponsors, friends and family, the money collected then is donated. Videos explaining the field situation and needs and the objectivs of the ONG can also be broadcasted on the national television, this will have a lot of audience and will be sure to get new donations. All year round a team is working on getting donations in all these different forms, because it is important to keep a steady amount of cash to do suddenly be overwelmed by a project or to run out.

Welcome to partnersfordevelopment.com

admin — Sat, 09 May 2009 17:38:00 +0000

Our mission is to help vulnerable populations in third world countrys and help them improve their life style and quality. The most important that must be achieved is access to drinking water for everyone. That is a must and is the first step. Drilling and well experts work hand in hand to find the most suitable solution. Local communities always help and share theire knowledge about possible water sources. The second part is getting everyone a shelter. Although it is often hot enough to sleep outside the weather conditions are not always good and a good and solide shelter is needed. The first step in this procesedure is to construct the best quality short term houses. These will only be used for a short periode of time but can be step up quickly to able everyone to get a good place.

Two other important aspect are food and medicine. Is is important that in addition to non poluted water the population also have access to enough food. Having a variety is also important. This helps agains illnesses if the people have a good diet. These populations often live isolated villages and have very little access to doctors and medical assitance. Therefore it is important to be able to assist them and treat the sick. This is also in order to prevent an epidemic. This is one of the key points and is one of the harder to fufill. We need doctors, nurses and mid wifes, as well as good temporary facility and a lot of medical equipement. All of this is expensive and hard to finance.

An other medical aspect is veterinary health, since most of these people live as farmers it is important that their animals are healthy. They need the cows and horses to be strong to help plow the fields. They of course do not have tractors or any modern farming equipement. Although in some case we try and help finance a tractor or some other farming tools to help them work quicker, get a better production rate and therefore gain more money to feed their families. This is an important aspect, getting the work and helping them become independent again after a natural disaster such as a flood, tsunami, hurricane, mudslide etc or a war or civil war.

Then next step is getting a good schooling system to educate the children. Most of them have only ever helped their parents work, but they need to get this education to later on be able to

Disasters and wars

admin — Tue, 05 May 2009 10:45:00 +0000

First aid relief is often needed straight away after a specific event. The most commun are natural disasters and wars. Some african countrys have never been lucky, they always ended up with dictators which would exploit the population and the country’s natural ressources such as gold, diamonds, petrol etc. Then often rebel groups would rise to confront this injustice, but would often create a civial war, kill and steal. If they do eventually manage to overthrow the dictator or president, the leader is often replaced by someone just as bad. And the same process starts all over again. This is due to a lack of education and a bad governement, as well as simple geed and need of power. Natural disasters are the other reason some populations suddenly need help. Because we cannot forcast such events often many people die. One of the most terrible and fairly recent disaster was the tsunami in Indonesia. It destroyed entire coasts city’s and killed hundred of thousands. Another big and terrible event was the hurricane in Haiti. It destroyed nearly everything. The goverement before the event was already corrupt and the life style was bad. Therefore it was unable to react and help the population after the disaster and a whole country was left in chaos, with no system.

These events often happen in the same area’s, because they are prone to civil wars due to there bad governement system or are located in a an area with frequent earthquakes. Although we cannot prevent such events, we can get ready to face them and react quickly, however most of the countries hit by these natural disasters are poor, and cannot invest money. Therefore ONG’s and other governements need to be willing and ready to help as soon as possible, in order to save as many lives as possible.