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.
The Dulverton Trust
The Dulverton Trust has been supporting our programme work for many years. The trust is currently funding the education of school children in Turkana on the importance of water and sanitation in preventing the spread of disease.
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.
Somerset Local Benevolent Fund
Somerset Local Benevolent Fund has supported AMREF’s Clinical Officer training school in South Sudan for two years.
Big Lottery Fund
The Big Lottery Fund has supported AMREF since 1998 to implement projects across Kenya and Tanzania. It is currently funding AMREF’s nomadic health care project in Turkana, Kenya.
Direct Relief International
Direct Relief International provides medical assistance to improve the quality of life for people affected by poverty, disaster and civil unrest. It has provided medical equipment and drugs to many AMREF project sites as well as funding to support the training of health workers.
Gerald Palmer Eling Trust
The Gerald Palmer Eling Trust is a long term supporter of AMREF. The trust has funded our core work over many years and their support has been essential in AMREF UK's growth and in the development of our programme work.
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