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Organisational Structure
TFS is officially
headquartered in London where all supporters are volunteers and work
from home (There is no London office and no non-Sudanese employees). TFS
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 Director Silas and Deputy
Country Director Neimat Hussein manage the work of our Khartoum and
Kadugli offices, supervise our 13 employees and provide 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.
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Together for Sudan Trustees:
Professor Herman
Bell; Norman Swanney (treasurer); Ambassador Alan F. Goulty, CMG
(secretary); Dr. Lillian Craig Harris
OBE (director); Adrian Thomas
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Together for Sudan Patrons:
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 (British Ambassador to Sudan); Dr.
Hania Fadl; Lady Greenbury; Prof. Yusuf Fadl Hassan (Khartoum
University); Sir Donald Hawley (The Sudan Pensioners Association); Dr.
Mohamed Ibrahim (businessman); Maulana Tijani El Karib (attorney); Mr.
Ian Mackie (former agriculturalist in the Nuba Mountains); Ambassador
William Patey, CMG; Ms. Lynne Rienner (American publisher); Mrs. Mary
Smith; Sir Alec Stirling; The Most Rev. Dr. Rowan Williams (Archbishop
of Canterbury).
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Fundraising and
Financial Accountability
TFS presently spends
approximately $200,000 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 London 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 TFS Trustees in London, monitored by the
Country Director and office accountant in Khartoum and subject to review
by the TFS treasurer and an external examiner in London.
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International Partners
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
Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD)
Christian Aid
Celtel
Department for International Development
(UK)
Diaspora
Gordon Memorial College Trust Fund
Manos Unidas (Spain)
Mohamed Ibrahim Trust
Mobitel
Refugees International Japan
Scottish Episcopal Church
UNDP
UNICEF
Vision Aid Overseas
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Local Partners
TFS 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)
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Capacity
TFS has been building
both projects and management capability since we opened a Khartoum
office 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 succeed 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.
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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.
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Your support for
the work of Together for Sudan
is
a contribution towards peace building!
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