Annual donations to Malealea Development Trust
One of CORRENTI’s founders spent time with MDT in 2008 and has maintained close contact ever since, vouching for the tireless and essential work that they do.
Since 2010, through annual donations, CORRENTI has donated over 37.000€ to Malealea Development Trust.
Working on the ground, with the community, Malealea Development Trust knows best where to allocate the funds, so we leave it up to them. Over the years, our donations have contributed to the orphan support programme, providing food, medicine, school books to children and their foster families. They have been used to purchase school uniforms and shoes for children, to pay for school fees and even to pay for a Christmas party.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, CORRENTI’s donations were also used to provide food packages for 35 families over a period of six months.
Crowdfunding – BMX Future Stars
Maseru, Lesotho is one of the poorest cities in Southern Africa with significant health problems associated with HIV and AIDS. BMX Future Stars is an inspirational programme in Maseru, offering children and young people a safe community space. Its founder grew up in Malealea and worked with MDT.
It is developed around an existing bike track, set up near the Bicycles for Humanity NGO in Maseru, where children and young people can learn to care for themselves, be safe and be ambitious for the future, breaking the cycle of ill-health and poverty in their community. Above all, it is a space where they can be happy, laugh and play and enjoy their youth.
CORRENTI ran a crowd-funding campaign in 2016 and raised 2.125€ for this initiative. We also donated 3000€ during the COVID-19 pandemic to purchase regular food parcels for 80 children.
Crowdfunding – for one more child
CORRENTI donors raised 2720 € in our 2018 Crowdfunding campaign. Malealea Development Trust supports orphans and vulnerable young people to have a safe, healthy and fulfilling life
This crowdfunding supported seven teenage orphans with training to acquire life skills, in dress making, catering, carpentry and hair dressing. The campaign was designed to help break the cycle of poverty for these young people.
Ukraine humanitarian aid
In 2022, CORRENTI supported fundraising for female workers in Ukraine. We were contacted for a fund-raising campaign organised by a close friend of one of our members, who has spent time in Ukraine and knew people there personally. This is the first donation outside of Lesotho, but we all agreed that this unprecedented situation deserved support.
Funding was sent to the families of 9 employees of a small company in Kiev, all with small children. One of the women was killed along with her 13 old daughter and brother during bombing on 1st March. The money was sent to her mother, to support the surviving children. Another woman lost her 27 year old son in Iprin.
CORRENTI donated 1.500€. A total of 4.750€ was raised (150.138 Ukraine grivnia, after the exchange).
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