Round up of 2024
2024 was an exciting year for Made with Hope. With the help of our amazing donors we achieved some incredible things. We are eternally grateful for every single person that generously helped the chlidren within our projects this year.
Our top 3 highlights
Turning 15 classrooms from dilapidated and dangerous to safe and inspiring. Plus building 4 new classrooms!
Working alongside Muungano and Manyire community we were able to transform their primary school’s into a place children could learn safely. Before, their classrooms had broken windows, doors, roofs were caving in, rain would blow into the classrooms and it was overall an awful place to learn. Now, 1066 children are benefitting from the renovation and construction of classrooms that will last for decades.
We would not have been able to do this without hundreds of local community members coming out to volunteer their time to dig foundations, paint walls, move stones, carry supplies. It was such an incredible effort to make this project so cost-efficient.
We are so grateful to Jonny, Matt and Tom’s Iron Man campaign, Alex and Zac, Guernsey Overseas Aid, One Kind Act, Anil Kalra and Anila Dattani for helping to make this happen.
This cost around £80,000 to complete these projects.
Manyire classrooms before
Inside Muungano classrooms before
Manyire classrooms after
Inside Muungano classrooms after
2. Lush vegetable gardens at two schools to feed 1000 students
With the success of a garden at Umoja primary school growing hundreds of kilograms of fruit and vegetables to feed the children lunches, we knew we needed to roll this project out to our other 9 local partner schools. In 2024 we implemented a school garden at Mzimuni and Oldenderet primary school to help feed over 1000 students fruit and vegetables every day.
Each school garden costs around £16,000 depending on the water supply available.
3. Volunteers from the UK, Belgium and Tanzania
Charley, Diana, Eve, Joshua and Lise were all incredible volunteers this year.
Charley and Lise were very generous with their time this year and visited our projects under our international volunteer programme. Charley is a student at East Anglia University in the UK and came for 7 weeks over her university summer break. Charley acted as a project assistant and worked closely with our partner in Tanzania, Ndoto in Action. Her days consisted of working in the office and going to the projects in our partner communities. She did an amazing job at helping Lilian, our Community Development Worker, develop project reports, social media content and generally being a great help with any task Ndoto in Action needed doing.
Lise is a Senior Auditor on the International Board of Auditors for NATO and came to us via Accountants for International Development (AFID). Lise volunteered with the team in Tanzania for 3 weeks in April 2024, then again in October 2024 and is returning again in 2025. She has helped audit our partner, Ndoto in Action, review and improve all of their financial systems and helped to recruit a Finance Manager for Ndoto in Action to help continue her work.
Both Charley and Lise made such good friends with the team in Tanzania that they are in contact with them on a weekly basis via Whatsapp.
We do not have an extensive international volunteer programme, but we do have 1-2 volunteers each year who work very closely with the team on the ground. All of our volunteers know that they are making such a huge impact because they’re so embedded with the team and they share our values of avoiding a ‘western saviour’ approach to volunteering.
If you are interested in volunteering with us. Please get in contact with our founder, Eleanor.