UK Trusts and Foundations
AMREF works with a wide range of Trusts and Foundations who generously fund our work. Below are examples of trusts currently supporting our work:
The Headley Trust
The Headley Trust, one of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts, has supported AMREF since 2004, supporting our work preventing and treating trachoma. The trust is currently supporting a three year project, started in 2010, in the remote district of Oromia in Ethiopia.
Stavros Niarchos Foundation
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation is an international philanthropic organisation making grants in the areas of arts and culture, education, health and medicine, and social welfare. While prominent in its support of Greek-related initiatives, the Foundation’s activities are worldwide in scope. The Foundation funds AMREF’s Maternal, Newborn and Child Health project in Nairobi, Kenya. The project provides over 40,000 mothers and 35,000 children in Africa’s largest slum, Kibera, with good quality health care, treatment and education.
Rowan Charitable Trust
The Rowan Charitable Trust first funded AMREF in 1992 and the trust is currently co-funding a malaria prevention and treatment project in the Mtwara region of Tanzania. The project is helping over 200,000 people by improving the health system in the region to prevent, treat and control malaria.
Wolfson College AMREF Group
Wolfson College is an Oxford University College which has supported AMREF for 30 years. Students raise money for AMREF’s projects from events held throughout the year and through contributions from their college fees. Each year, Wolfson College supports one health professional to take part in the year-long Diploma in Community Health course and also supports an additional AMREF project. This year, Wolfson College is supporting an integrated health project in Soroti, Uganda.
Sylvia Adams Charitable Trust
This Trust began supporting AMREF’s work in 2011, and is currently supporting Tanzania’s National Fistula Programme, which is a partnership between the Tanzanian Government, AMREF, and other health organisations, conducting fistula repair operations across the country.
Medicor Foundation
Medicor Foundation is an independent charitable foundation based in Liechtenstein. Founded in 1995, the Foundation supports sustainable development projects in Africa, Central- and South America, Eastern Europe and the Caribbean. Medicor is supporting AMREF’s Pastoralist Health Project in South Omo, remote and isolated area of Ethiopia where health indicators are among the worst globally. The project is delivering an innovative health programme that is appropriate to the pastoralists’ way of life, and contributing to reducing poverty in the region.
The Allan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust
This Trust has supported AMREF since 2001, and is currently supporting AMREF’s innovative Electronic Learning (eLearning) Programme in Tanzania. The programme is using eLearning to rapidly train and up-skill nurses from remote regions in Tanzania, equipping them with the skills to address the country’s growing health needs. As a result the nurses will have increased confidence at work, and a much better awareness of new and re-emerging medical conditions.. Ultimately, the nurses will become better equipped to do their jobs and save more lives.
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