Together for Sudan was originally
based in the United Kingdom where all supporters are volunteers and work
from home (There is no central office and no non-Sudanese employees).
However its director and secretary operate from the USA. Together for Sudan trustees and patrons are
prominent individuals who promote the charity by policymaking, publicity,
fundraising and other forms of facilitation.
In January 2005 Together for Sudan merged with its sister charity The Bishop
Mubarak Scholarship Fund for Nuba Women. Country Coordinator Neimat Hussein manages the work of our Khartoum and Kadugli
project centres, supervises our 13 aid workers and provides bi-annual reports to
Trustees and project updates and financial reports as needed. Director
Lillian Craig Harris remains in over all supervision of projects by email
and frequent visits and does the majority of the fundraising and publicity.
Professor Herman Bell; Dr Rosalind Marsden CMG (Current British Ambassador to Sudan); Retired Ambassador Alan F. Goulty, CMG (secretary); Dr. Lillian Craig Harris (director); Mr Adrian Thomas; Mrs Carol Part; Mr Desmond Birmingham; Mr Norman Swanney (treasurer).
Dr. Hasan Abdin (Ambassador of Sudan to the United Kingdom); Prof. Zakieldin Ahmad (surgeon); Maulana Abel Alier (attorney and southern Sudanese leader); Prof. Gasim Badri (President, Ahfad University for Women); Lady Bingham of Cornhill; Ambassador Ian Cliff (former British Ambassador to Sudan); Dr. Hania Fadl; Lady Greenbury; Prof. Yusuf Fadl Hassan (Khartoum University); Dr. Mohamed Ibrahim (businessman); Maulana Tijani El Karib (attorney); Mr. Ian Mackie (former agriculturalist in the Nuba Mountains); Ambassador William Patey, CMG (current British Ambassador to Saudi Arabia); Ms. Lynne Rienner (American publisher); Mrs. Mary Smith; Sir Alec Stirling KBE CMG (former British Ambassador to Sudan); The Most Rev. Dr. Rowan Williams (Archbishop of Canterbury).
Fundraising and Financial Accountability
Together for Sudan presently spends approximately £250,000 per year. Fundraising is carried out in both Sudan and abroad by proposal writing, solicitation of individual contributions and occasional fundraising events. Overheads are low due to lack of a central office and reliance on volunteers. All project funds are strictly used for those purposes for which they were given. Use of funds is authorised by Together for Sudan Trustees, monitored by the Country Director and office accountant in Khartoum and subject to review in Sudan by Hassabo & Co 5 Baladiya Street, Khartoum, a specialist firm of international auditors who kindly donate their services; and by the Together for Sudan treasurer and an external examiner in the UK under the provisions of the Charities Act 1003.
Significant financial, facilitation and other support has been received
from many individuals as well as from corporate and charitable foundations.
Among these are:
British Embassy Khartoum
Canada Fund
Christian Aid
Celtel
Department for International Development (UK)
Diaspora
Gordon Memorial College Trust Fund
Manos Unidas (Spain)
Mohamed Ibrahim Trust
Refugees International Japan
Scottish Episcopal Church
UNDP
UNICEF
Vision Aid Overseas
Local Partners
Together for Sudan works closely with a variety of local community-based organisations. We help build capacity in CBO partners through management and training assistance as well as through project such as payments of teachers’ salaries and basic school scholarships. Among our local partners are:
Atar Community Association
Fulla Falls School
Kimu Charitable Society
Nuba Women for Education and Development Association
People Living with AIDS Care Association
Ru’ya (Nuba Mountains)
Saraf Gamous (Nuba Mountains)
United Vision Association
Sudanese churches (Catholic, Sudanese Church of Christ, Coptic, Episcopal)
Together for Sudan has been building both projects and management capability since we
opened a Khartoum project centre in late 1998. It has been a constant concern that
we never take on more work than we could successfully manage and monitor. We
have not always succeeded in this ambition but are far better in managing our
projects than we were even two years ago, for example consistently
monitoring now with checklists. All projects have written guidelines by
which we require beneficiaries to abide. An office database has been set up.
Major Short and Medium Term Plans
To expand partnerships with UN agencies so as to serve more broadly as an
implementing partner between them and community-based organisations
To increase teacher training and other support for basic self-help schools
in the Khartoum area and the Nuba Mountains
To increase training of basic and pre-school teachers in the Khartoum area
and the Nuba Mountains
To continue to train literacy teachers in the Reflect method and to expand
the women’s literacy project
To support, through provision of teachers’ salaries and in cooperation with
the South Kordofan Ministry of Education, the opening of basic schools in
the Nuba Mountains
To expand the HIV/AIDS Orphans Scholarship Project
To continue to expand the HIV/AIDS Awareness Project
To strengthen the home-based care component in the HIV/AIDS Awareness
Project
To extend the Eye Care Project to the Nuba Mountains
To open more Medicine Box Project sites in displaced communities and in the
Nuba Mountains
To train more health and hygiene teachers for work in the Nuba Mountains
and the Khartoum area
As displaced southern Sudanese return to their homelands from the Khartoum
area, to expand TFS work into the south, beginning in the Juba area where we
are already paying a few teachers’ salaries
To continue to improve our monitoring capabilities and our database
Together for Sudan recognises that much of the work we do is rightfully the responsibility of the Sudanese authorities and we hope to turn projects such as teachers salaries over to them as soon as the country stabilises.
Your support for the work of Together for Sudan
is a contribution towards peace building!
To
make an online donation via the 'Give Now' website for the "TOGETHER FOR SUDAN" charity.