The Future in Our Hands Education and Development fund achieves a significant milestone
Future in Our Hands Education and Development Fund having been established by founder Mike Thomas in 1995 is just reaching its 30th anniversary this year. We would like to thank all our regular donors and helpers for their selfless support over this time period.
As treasurer, I have trawled through our detailed accounts and aggregated all of our past donations. What began in the 1990’s, as a grant of £20 to test the water has grown into multiple affiliated NGOs across Africa and India. The incredible final total raised and donated stands at £548,748. All of this fundraising has gone to the most marginalized and deserving of causes and is far beyond our expectations at the outset. Who would have believed that a small official UK registered charity, administered from a small front room in Swindon, would issue grants way in excess of half a million pounds.
The list of individual beneficiaries must run to tens of thousands as our grants have been able to transform lives and livelihoods. Our updated website www.fiohnetwork.org illustrates a detailed archive of our work and highlights a network of organizations which share the same ethos. We have always encouraged individuals and non governmental organizations who share our ideas of a bottom up grassroots approach to solving problems of development.
Our goal is to help some of the poorest and most marginalized people in the world by empowering them and their local communities to find sustainable ways to overcome poverty, raise ecological and environmental awareness and create lasting just and equitable social change.
- Reafforestation schemes developing tree nurseries of millions of indigenous trees
- Built and continue to fund a medical clinic for disabled children
- Support the education of orphaned street children in India
- Assisted displaced persons from Civil wars
- Built and developed 5 schools in Sierra Leone
- Responded to climate induced emergencies in India and Pakistan
- Supported educational programmes of sustainability Cameroon and Sierra Leone
- Helped fund Integrated Organic Agricultural Development
- Promoting gender equality through womens’ banking cooperatives
- One of our partners even achieving U.N. Equator Prize award recognition
- Supported Youth Leading the world in Sierra Leone
- Encourage effective networking between organizations
