Preschool Training

In Wells for Zoe, we do things a little differently. We have no offices, no bureaucracy, no paid executives and full transparency. We deliver 100% of all public donations to fund our projects in Malawi and we do no handouts. We are a fully voluntary organisation. We work on a shoestring budget and enable Malawians to do most of the work (for themselves) on a voluntary basis. Of course this is the way it should be. Malawian plans driven by Malawian people with a little help from their friends.
The chief executive of any tin pot international organisation gets paid more that we spend altogether. (and that will include us providing clean safe drinking water to maybe a quarter of a million people). How is that for value, and we do it with little corporate and no Government funding.

The picture shows a training day for preschool carers. You might see Casca's bike in the background and it's about 20 miles from home. He is head of Preschools and cycles on the most potholed roads in the universe!!
The whole area turns up for training, the chiefs, the development people, the parents, the porridge ladies and the caregivers of course. These women,regularly without much formal education are learning to deliver an amazing service to kids from 3 to 6 after which most now transfer to Primary Schools. Our 31 preschools have about 700 active volunteers, who get no pay. WHY? Because it's THEIR plan and THEY insist on it succeeding.
Note the absence of the 5 star location and the catering service, the expenses and the 4x4's which are the normal hallmarks of the AID Brigade.

Oh is they plan for buildings, they can come to us when the building is ready for metal sheets, because they can make and build bricks without any bother. We then supply the sheets and about 3 bags of cement for the floor. The little ones sit on grass mats on the floor.
We teach them to make teaching aids from local materials, but bring a little chalk.

Good development is not about money