Project Report
| Feb 21, 2019
Doroti org Djabal schools project update
Goal and Publication
On November 19, 2018, GlobalGiving published our fundraising page for our project Darfuris need 150 capacity schools in Djabal, Chad (GG project #36572). We also publicized this publication on our Facebook page, which had over 1100 followers.
Goal of the project was to pay for and monitor the building of these buildings: one of three classrooms, another with three classrooms and an office, and two latrines with two toilets apiece. Each classroom was meant to be large enough to accommodate twenty-five students and a teacher, with electricity and wireless internet capacity.
Fundraising goal for this project was set at $67,000. We arrived at this estimate after several months of discussion with UNHCR Chad and building contractors. Initial cost of project was estimated to be about $145,000, but we eventually found a contractor, --UK-based OMI-- willing to do it for about $63,000. OMI and DOHS have agreed to the following: that building of the school buildings will begin once 30% of the $63,000 is raised, with another 40% due when construction is half-complete, and a final 30% when it is finished. They agreed to let on-site monitors we would hire from the Djabal camp residents to keep close track of their progress (these monitors would then send back reports to us for our donors).
In the additional $4,000 we are asking are school supplies (pencils, pens, notebooks), chalkboards, and two 550 gallon water tanks.
A budget for all of this is posted on the GG website for this project.
Funding Update
As of February 18, 2019 five donors have given us $175, and GlobalGiving distributed $159.25 of that to us, keeping $15.65 of that as payment for services to us. We have received no donations for this project except from our GlobalGiving page, per GlobalGiving requirements.
The Board is concerned about the drastic decrease in donations since our successful GG project Winter clothes, guides to US for Darfur refugees (GG project # 30570) in December 2017. They are currently reviewing publicity options such as:
videos and pictures of Djabal students willing to be so publicized,
a video donation appeal to our FB followers from of our Vice President Mohammed Adam Abadallah, who lived in Farchana camp (near Djabal camp) from 2004 to 2007,
application for grants from companies which GlobalGiving helps provide such assistance,
an in-person director conference dedicated to coming up with more solutions to this issue.
![Share on Twitter]()
![Share on Facebook]()
