Touching Africa - Changing lives
About Us
About Us
You Touch Africa arises from a group of friends who are passionate and committed to bringing about profound changes in the lives of the African poor. In a close corporation with, and guidance from an experienced missionary from Africa, they have visited and lived in villages with the people. They have been touched by the African’s resilience to poverty and they have established lasting bonds which they would like you to be a part. Our Vision It is the vision of You Touch Africa to establish a direct support to the efforts of the local poor with 100% of money donated to projects going to those projects . Volunteers and supporters of You Touch Africa will be able to receive first hand information about their contribution. |
Goals
Founded as a charitable trust in 2007, You Touch Africa is a new Registered Charity.
Our goal is to work with local people in Africa to achieve the objectives of our trust:
- To relieve sickness, poor health and old age amongst disadvantaged people living in Africa.
- To advance the education of disadvantaged children and adults living in Africa.
- To relieve financial hardship amongst people living in Africa through the provision of grants goods or services.
We believe that we can be a very effective organisation by setting ourselves achievable realistic targets, working in close partnership with local people and maintaining very tight control of costs.
Achieving the Goals
Projects
You Touch Africa has knowledge of Africa and contacts there. Hence we can determine needs and the availability of the necessary skills. Careful choice of projects are necessary, as is linking with trustworthy volunteers in the area who can organise work on projects in Africa.
Wherever practical materials for our projects will be sourced by buying materials from the area, and employing labour from the local workforce.
For more information on our current projects, please click see our Projects page.
Control of costs
You Touch Africa has no paid staff and no expensive offices. All work running the trust is undertaken by volunteers. These measures enable us to keep our overhead costs to a minimum. Our administration costs are funded by the trustees and other supporters, hence we are able to make a commitment that 100% of donations for projects will be spent on those projects.
We also recognise that control of the expenditure in Africa is essential. Hence the need to work in partnership with trustworthy local people in a framework of accountability.
Background
To find out something of our history and about work in
refurbishing a local hospital, please click here.
Annual Report
To download our Annual Report, please click here. (Requires Acrobat Reader.)
We believe that by working with Africans we can change their lives for the better and, in so doing, change ours too. |