Part-time Administrative Assistant/Book-keeper
The Joliba Trust, a small
African charity, is looking for a person with computer
and administrative skills to provide flexible and varied
assistance in its UK Office. Duties will include dealing
with correspondence, providing fundraising support and
helping with publicity, exhibitions and research. The
ideal candidate therefore will be a talented and caring
person who will be interested in taking the work of the
charity forward.
5-10 hours a week £7/hour.
Please apply by email to:
Joliba Trust, 8
Nattadon Road, Chagford, Devon TQ13 8BE email jolibatrust@hotmail.com
www.jolibatrust.org.uk
How to give
You can set up
a standing order or donate by sterling cheque by downloading
this donation form
or for credit
card donations (pounds sterling, Euros and US Dollars)
see bottom of this page.
* £1.00 per month over a year means a woman who
has nothing could raise 2 pigs, and plant a field of peanuts
to bring more security to her family.
*
£2.00 per month over a year would plant 150 trees
which would make the soil and land richer and less vulnerable
to drought, or provide valuable income resources to women
such as fruit and nuts.
*
£6.00 per month over a year would train a Village
Birth Attendant to greatly improve the health and safety
of women giving birth, help children to be healthier,
and reduce the incidence of female genital mutilation.
*
£12 per month over a year would buy a donkey cart
for an extended family so that they can transport many
essential materials and reach new markets.
*
£20 per month over a year would provide literacy
and management training for 10 villages to run their own
Credit Unions and Cereal Banks to overcome hardship and
alleviate problems of drought years.
Laptop computers
We are always in need of laptop
computers for our 3 field offices, for our staff and for
local community organisations. If you can let us have
one when you upgrade, this would be extremely useful.
There is no electricity in our area, but we can operate
laptops from locally available solar panels.
Sponsor a Well!
If you would like to transform
the life of a whole village, or if a business or group
would like to fund a well as a memorial, we are able to
do this. A particular name can be inscribed into the well,
and photos can be provided. The wells we build are substantial,
allowing 6 women to draw water at once, and are very durable.
As the water table in our area is so deep (50-80m) and
the geology is variable, building costs are high and range
from £1,500-9,000 for the materials only. All labour
is given voluntarily by men in the village.
If
you would like more details about our work, please email
jolibatrust@hotmail.com with your address.
Why not leave us a legacy.
THANK
YOU!
Marisa Lassman dressed
up as a lion for the day and raised £371 for our literacy
training.
A
very big thankyou to everyone who has supported our work.
It is wonderful to see the transformation taking place:
how much healthier and brighter so many women and children
look from when we started, and the many ways that living
conditions are improving. We are very grateful to everyone,
and especially to those who make standing orders, or who
leave us a legacy, and to the remarkable individuals,
as well as family trusts and Churches who give us such
key support.
Thank
you to all of you who chose to sponsor specific projects
such as the training of a Village Birth Attendant, a family
donkey cart, tree planting, to increase our Women's Credit,
or to sponsor a well.
We
are also very grateful to people who have donated to Joliba
through organised events, such as open gardens, garage
and car boot sales, auction sales, coffee mornings, sponsored
events, people who have replaced Christmas or birthday
presents with a gift to one of our projects, or encouraged
funds to be donated to our work by organisations or businesses
you know.
Ruth
Mapes, who raised an astonishing £2,307 through making
and selling jam and plants in a local art gallery and
on a table outside her house in Clun, Shropshire.
Joliba
is a small charity and so not so many people have heard
of it, so its need is great. I like the fact that the
people in the villages are consulted in which projects
are to be funded and that less money used in administration
and it's unlikely that money will be wasted. I also like
the type of project that Joliba funds such as the microcredit
and all the smaller ways in which the lives of the villagers
can be improved.
