How We Work
1. ) Working with local Partners.
- The aim of each of our Partnerships is to improve the lives of children through increasing the range, effectiveness and sustainability of the organisation's impact.
- Our Partners are grass roots organisations selected as doing, or having the potential to do, exceptional, innovative and cost-effective work in providing care, health and education for orphans and vulnerable children in Lesotho.
- Often the emphasis is on identifying outstanding individuals - people who, although their organisations might be at an embryonic stage of development, have the courage, passion and ability to really make a long term difference.
- Typically our partners have little or no recurrent funding and exist on the voluntary efforts of energetic, entrepreneurial leaders in their communities and occasional grants or assistance in kind from local businesses, individuals, churches, overseas aid organisations or government.
Sentebale invests significant time and money in each selected partner for:
- Long term support of the core costs of providing services for children and young people.
- Management, development and support
- Funding of capital projects designed to improve those services
2.) Management Development and Support
- In order to become a Sentebale partner and receive guaranteed operating funds the existing operation must be willing to develop good childcare management and accounting practices. Through our Partnership Management work we are committed to assisting such organisations build their capacity so their activities can be put on a firm and transparent footing and the direct benefit to the children can be measured.
- Many of the business and administration skills that we take for granted are lacking in Lesotho. In addition, basic knowledge on nutrition and childcare is also poor
It is also the condition of our funding and part of our terms of agreement with each of our partners that:
- all sources of donations are disclosed to ensure that Sentebale does not double fund
- detailed budgets for income and expenditure are provided
- receipts for money spent are provided to ensure a clear audit
- an effective governance and reporting structure is established
3.) Sentebale's own initiatives
Where no current local partner exists, Sentebale will implement its own initiative in order to meet the real need. Sentebale's own current programmes include:
Strategic Themes
- Care
- Health
- Education
- Special Needs
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