CAP ~ CAKE Financial Statement for 2006
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1.SUMMARY
The CAKE project helps to provide assistance to the existing Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) project at Maluti Adventist Hospital in Lesotho, a land-locked country surrounded by South Africa. This OVC project has recently been renamed ‘Bana Ba Rona’ (meaning ‘Our Children’).
2. FINANCIAL STATEMENT
CAP sent out GBP6000 in September 2006 which translated at the time into approximately R70,000 (South African Rand) after bank charges have been taken into account (approx R12 = GBP1). This money has been used as follows:
Details |
Amount |
|
| 1 | Ntate Ntsapi, field worker for the Needs Assessment Program, annual salary | R 12,000 |
| 2 | Travel costs for Mr Ntsapi (average R 160/month for 12 months) | R 1,920 |
| 3 | Travel costs for other workers related to the Needs Assessment Program | R 1,200 |
| 4 | Foster care, 4 children | R 22,800 |
| 5 | House repairs for orphans | R 4,460 |
| 6 | School uniforms and supplies for 34 orphans | R 13,600 |
| 7 | Emergency food supplies | R 2,500 |
| 8 | Free medical care for orphans, contribution to general fund | R 10,000 |
| TOTAL | R 68,400 |
- Mr Ntsapi has been employed full time as a field worker in the ‘Needs Assessment Program’. One of the many problems faced by Bana Ba Rona is assessing the needs of the almost 5,000 orphans in the area.
- Travel costs for Mr Ntsapi.
- Additional travel costs for other members of the ‘Needs Assessment Program’ team.
- Full foster care for four orphans. The four foster mothers are receiving R350/month (R4200pa) plus R120/month (R1440pa) for formula etc.
- We paid for some necessary repairs for an orphan-headed household.
- These 34 orphans had no other means of getting access to educational supplies, approx R400 per orphan.
- Contributions to a generic fund run by Bana Ba Rona.
- The hospital has committed to providing free medical care for orphans. To help make this viable they put this amount in the Destitute Patients Fund. This fund relies entirely on donations from private donors. No large aid organisations give money to something as nebulous as this but it is a real and urgent need as two thirds of the hospital’s budget of R21 million must come from patient fees, the other third coming from the church (Which is in the process of phasing out their portion) and the government. If you take R25 as the average visit fee, this would cover 400 orphan visits. In reality there are over 3000 clinic visits by orphans charged to the DPF last year. This doesn’t take into account those who were admitted, which would up the costs significantly.