Cote D’Ivoire Visit - Executive Summary
30 June – 7 July 2013
HF UK Attendee(s) : Fazal Ahmad
Executive Summary
Humanity First Cote D’Ivoire has been established since 2007-08 and has already delivered an
impressive breadth and volume of projects. There is a strong and dedicated local team. We have
recently added a role for marketing and a role for project analysis so that we can track outcomes
from our projects.
HF UK needs to have more regular contact with the team and to encourage a European affiliate to
share the financial burden. There could be huge merit in setting up a regional forum of HF teams.
So far, the impact of Humanity First’s work in Cote D’Ivoire is as follows:
Project
Medical Camps
Water for Life
Feed a Village
Orphan Care
Learn a Skill – IT
TOTAL
Estimated
Beneficiaries
9,000
158,245
8,900
96
2,000
178,241
HF CI Team
The HF CI team is very keen and dedicated. Key team members are as follows:
Name
TRUSTEES
Role
Email
Contact
Abdul Qayyum Pasha
Kone Yede
Trustee & Amir AMJ
Trustee & Auditor
Pasha2767@gmail.com
Yabako2@yahoo.fr
+225 2037 1039
+225 0473 0980
+225 0142 1818
Cisse Saidou
Mrs Deakite Maferima
Trustee & Sadr Ansar
Trustee & Sadr Lajna
diomandeahmad@36yahoo.fr
mfofanakolet@yahoo.fr
Yaya.ouattara@orange-cit.ci
+225 2241 0828
+225 0182 9366
MANAGEMENT TEAM
Diomande Vallet
Fofana Mamadou
Yaya Ouattara
Mamadi Sylla
Dr. Nizamudeen
Boodhun
Kone Fousseni
Semon Oscar Kouassi
Amidou Bapina
Nofal Ali Pasha
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President
Vice President
Finance Secretary &
Head of Water for Life
General Secretary &
Head of Feed a Village
Head of Medical
Head of Knowledge for
Life
Head of IT
Head of Project Analysis
and Sadr MKA
Head of Marketing
Matal_ci@yahoo.fr
nizamboodhun@gmail.com
semonoscark@yahoo.fr
Amidou2b@yahoo.fr
M: +225 7678 887
T: +225 2244 5387
+225 0720 2045
Nofal_ci@hotmail.com
Other key staff include Idrisa Chera (driver and water engineer), Dr Ahmad Coulibaly
(volunteer Doctor and Gastroenterologist), Massanji (HF Admin – paid staff), and some of the
local AMJ missionaries including Sadiq Latif (Bouake).
Some of them can visit HF projects in neighbouring countries such as Liberia, Ghana, Mali
and Burkina Faso to share ideas and build a regional network.
Marketing & Fundraising
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The local team has understood the importance of fundraising locally and has started
marketing HFIC. To encourage them, we should offer to double whatever they raise.
HFIC is setting up a surveillance function to review outcomes and benefits.
They are planning to build links with USAid, Save the Children, MSF etc to consider grants or
collaboration. Other potential business targets include:
o bottled water companies - Celeste, Awa
o retailers/ supermarkets – Hayat and Sococi (Lebanese), Olam (Indian)
o private hospitals
Need to get HF France/ Belgium/ Switzerland/ Mauritius to partner with us in Cote D’Ivoire
and Burkina Faso. They should provide funds (min $5k) and donated resources.
Look to start local fundraising, and also exploit local income for example fees from training,
medical services etc. Initial fundraising will be in AMJ IC with an initial target of 1M CFA by
December 2013. For potential capital projects, plan to do in phases.
Summary Map of Projects
A summary of the locations of the various projects in Cote D’Ivoire is shown on the following map:
Financial Summary
The headlines for the 2013 budget and spend to end of June in both GBP and CFA are:
Project Area
Medical Camps
Water for Life
Knowledge for Life
Feed a Village
Learn a Skill - IT
Orphan Care
Admin
TOTAL
Budget 2013
(GBP)
£2,550
£6,660
£0
£6,400
£2,550
£3002
£1,000
£19,4603
Budget 2013
(CFA)1
1,938,000
5,061,600
0
4,864,000
1,938,000
228,0002
380,000
13,488,750
Spend to date
(GBP)
£1,834
£750
£0
£05
£1,262
£2642
£1614
£4,271
Spend to date
(CFA)
1,393,500
570,006
0
0
958,850
200,320
122,500
3,245,176
Notes
1 Assumes an exchange rate of 760 CFA : GBP
2 Donation from Fazal Ahmad, total donation value is likely to exceed £800
3
Amount transferred to date is £3,766 + £300
4
HFCI has two paid staff, Massaji and Simon. Typical salary is c .£960 p.a.
5 Needed to allocate a machine from 2012 before they start on new FAV projects, but this move ahead in July/ August
Basically, as the new team was settling in, a number of projects were slow to progress, but now they
plan to have a big push in the next 3 months.
Income Summary (to end of June):
 Central Payments: £3,766 (2,842,500 CFA on 30 Jan ‘13)
 IT income from Carnot school: £265 (201,400 CFA)
o should be 3,150,000 CFA over the year i.e. £4,145
o owed 1,161,400 CFA by the school, delayed because Trustee is away till August, and
there are misunderstandings
 External Donations: £300
 Local Donations: £0
Typical Project costs:
Item
Village Water Pump
- Pump & pipes
- Installation
- Sign Board
Cassava grinding plant
Rice hulling plant
Maize threshing plant
Typical supply of medication for a camp for 500 patients
including transport
Computer
Sewing machine
Printing an A5 book of 50 pages @1,000 copies
Staff Salary
Hernia Operation
1
Cost
(CFA)
Cost
(GBP)
600,000
50,000
25,000-37,500
1,400,000
800,000
800,000
400,000 –
800,000
300,000
70,000
350,000
750,000
75,000
£800
£67
£35-50
£1,900
£1,000
£1,000
£500-£1,000
£400
£95
£500
£1,000
£100
For computers, if containers are planned, it would be better to send our reconditioned computers from the UK @ £65.
Water for Life
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111 pumps done so far since 2008 (got the full list) benefitting almost 160,000 villagers. Of
these, 99 are rehabilitations and 12 are new boreholes. So far in 2013, we have done 15
refurbs.
A small handful need sign boards. Board should include village name and pump reference#.
Only 1 established engineer able to do maintenance who also serves as AMJ driver
Costs for new bores are expensive but could start deploying the Indian style pumps
Sinematiali area has 16 villages served by 20 HF hand-pumps. In some villages such as
Nabanaka, pump hadn’t been working for 7 years so women walked 5km to fetch dirty
water. In that time, 30 children died and many villagers suffered blindness, malaria, diarrhea,
skin infections and other water borne diseases. Our pumps have drastically improved local
health and drastically reduced infant mortality. Some of the pumps need maintenance.
Asse (FAV site) are asking for 2M CFA (c.£2k) for a link from Medina village 2km away to their
(chateux) water tower from which they are already fed. Not a priority.
Plan to do a further 20 refurbs in 2013.
Region
Yamassoukro
Bouake
Oume
San Pedro
Number
of W4L
installs
4
5
3
21
Recipients Villages
1,550
3,800
3,100
50,400
Korhogo
20
6,700
Man-Danane
Abengourou &
Bondoukou
18
40
19,500
73,195
111
158,245
TOTAL
Assamoikro, Faiteassou, Kosse, Blekouamekro
Tiekeledougou, Ouelaguera, Kokolo, Pono, Bounadougou
Lukukro, Ucao, Balahio
Scaf(2), Bida, Yanokpo, Goh, Kremoue, Narobrousse, Baba
Dioubougou(3), Dahora, Dagagji,
Lamekaha, Tyenvogokaha, Kagnenekaha, Ladjokaha, Legbrekaha(2),
Ziekaha, Donatekaha
Pagbin, Cagbin, Dougbe, Tieni-Sabli, Gbantongbi, Sieleu
Adinikro, Anianiaou, Tessoukro, Kouakoukro, Angoikro, Accekro,
Mazanoua, Akouakro, Tenkouakro, Seydoukro, Tenkeuce, Amoriakro,
Berada, Tanda, Nassian, Assakro, Pala, Boglaai, Shantie, Erebo,
Apoisso, Kroiminbla, Kamelle, Anekouadiokro, Setikana, Koitinkro,
Zebenou, Bronamoin, Pokoukro, Pierkro, Etrokro, Kokonou, Akasso,
Gounian, Sadiahui, Sapia, Pougouvagne, Anyayan, Adoukrou,
Tounzoukrou
Knowledge for Life
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Potential to provide books to schools, though the need is less than in countries such as Mali
and Burkina Faso
Students use the West African syllabus, but general reference texts in French would be very
helpful
7 Nusrat Jehan primary schools (Abidjan x 2, Samo, Kofikro, Baniekre, Appoiso, Oume) but
not a good fit for our project (visited Samo and Kofikro). Need to focus on secondary
education i.e. Lycee level. Need books in French. Try to get HF France on board.
Carnot Lycee which hosts our IT centre has a small library for 1,500 children, but needs more
books. Could also assist Lycee Sinematiali
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Could print our own smaller books for primary schools in the AMJ press in Adjame much
more cost effectively for elementary books of vocabulary. Could show in English and French
to help young children pick up both languages.
Feed a Village
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Cassava (maniok) grinder in Asse is working well and supporting 4,000 local and 2,000 other
villagers since Oct ‘10. Cassava is grown year round. Other crops grown there include palm
oil, pineapple, corn, rubber and coconut. Village chief Antoine is very happy with the grinder.
At Diemberessedougou (103km east of Bouake), HF has provided two machines to thresh
maize and rice in 2013. The project is going well, and there are around 900 recipients.
Cassava grinder install at Nandibo is going well since 2010.
Also have a grinder in store and need to deploy in the village of N’batta-Bouake in the
direction of Asse. Have budget to do a further 3 projects in 2013.
Some issues as Cassava plants need maintenance. Plan to get village leaders to take regular
small payments from farmers in trust to pay for fuel and maintenance.
Can also consider plant to support maize and rice in Sinematiali area.
In arid areas, could explore the ancient Zai method to stop desertification and restart crops.
Also some local demand to help process cashew nuts.
Learn a Skill
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IT centre in Carnot is in school and serves students only, but is therefore also closed for 3
months every summer. Running since 2009. 60 students being assisted at a time in multiple
shifts. It has 15 computers and capacity for a further 15. Training is in MS Office, basics of
Computers and computer maintenance.
Needs posters, and 8 computers need replacing. Some damage as lack of ventilation leads to
overheating.
Trained over 2,000 students so far, but do not provide certificates yet.
Issues with Carnot:
o Students should be charged 5,000 CFA per annum of which 3,500 is due to HF
o School has been slow in taking cash from students and is trying to put the onus on HF
o As a result, we are not getting our monthly payments from the school
o Meeting planned with the Trustee of the school in August to clear up matters or pull
out
Plan to establish a training Centre/ Cyber Cafe in Bouake where there is decent demand.
AMJ is building a new mosque (due to open by end October 2013), and next door has rented
a property as a mission house and another as a backup. HF could use that final property (with
its own gate and grounds) as a training centre for IT, sewing and other skills. The courtyard
could be used for mechanical and trades training.
o Capacity is 15-20 computers, 20 sewing machines.
o Monthly rental is 50,000 CFA for the property
o Internet costs would be 17,000 CFA
o Typical monthly fees are 5,000 CFA for IT and 2,000 CFA for Sewing. Projected
income is around 120,000 CFA per month, and could open up the IT centre as a Cyber
Cafe in the evening to generate a further 120,000.
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Can ship computers with Tabshir press shipment later this year and contribute to container
cost.
Cyber Café potential charges in line with other centres would be 200 CFA/hr for access, 50
CFA per page printing, 250 CFA per page scanning, 1000 CFA per page fax. Potential monthly
income would be 120,000 CFA. HFCI did try a Cyber Café in Yopougon but it failed as both the
location and the quality of the machines was very poor.
Very interested in construction trades and sewing, so plan to get the team to visit the centres
in Liberia and Burkina Faso.
Medical
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Running medical camps in various regions including Korhogo, Man etc
Typically 500 patients per camp for inoculations and cases of malaria
o Ran a camp in Foro Foro/Touro on 4 July for 400 villagers, and earlier in 2013, ran a
camp in Agnibilékro (nr Amoriakoro in the east) for 600 patients
o Need for medical mission in Sinematiali as nearest clinic is 25km away
o So far, in the last 5 years, HF has done 18 camps supporting 9,000 villagers
o Previous camps have been in Ouragahio, Vitré, Oumé, Grébgé, Gagnoa (Tipatipa, Issa
Goboua), Abengourou, Grand-Lahou, Nandibo, Dabou, Bloléquin (Tinho, Doké,
Diboké), Bouaké ( Sakassou), Man ( krikouman, Tiénéssably ) and one in Ghana
Potential to establish a Maternity clinic on land gifted to AMJ in Abobo, a suburb of Abidjan
o Capital costs would be £100k over 3 years
o Annual income £50-75k, annual running costs £40k, potential estimated surplus £20k
o One potential high value donor known to Dr. Boodhun who could raise over £40k.
Orphan Care
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Provided resources to Orphans in Yopougon and Bouake.
Donation from the UK was 228k CFA. 225k was spent on the two orphanages.
Yopougon has 61 children, 30 of them disabled. Facilities include dorms, school, playground,
playroom, library and pharmacy. HF donated 105k CFA worth of items including sweets,
diapers, milk, sugar, cleaning fluids, washing conditioner and oil as requested by them. Could
later send books and toys.
Bouake has 35 children and very similar facilities to Yopougon. HF donated 95k CFA worth of
items including cakes, sweets, diapers, milk, sugar, cleaning fluids, washing conditioner and
oil as requested by them, and also a number of football shirts and stationery items.
Regional Summary
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Abidjan – well developed city. Focus on IT centre, small-scale support for orphanage and
fundraising/ partnerships. Consider case for setting up a Maternity Clinic.
Bouake – Establish regional links. Expand FAV, K4L, W4L and medical camps in outlying areas.
Consider setting up a skills centre. Maintain low level support for orphanage.
Korhogo – focus on water and health projects in remote areas and continue to strengthen
links in Sinematiali. Run periodic medical camps here. Consider for FAV and K4L projects.
Asse – Continue to focus on FAV and water projects. Consider potential for schools projects.
Actions
Action
Establish official HFCI website in French
Provide official HFCI email addresses to the team
Confirm locations of all water pumps and set up
references, sponsors and plaques for all
Get the team using the HFCI webjam site as their
intranet
Abobo Clinic Business Case
Bouake Training Centre business case
Buddy up with France, Switzerland, Mauritius,
Belgium to raise funds for the Francophone
countries
Post project review and benefits analysis
Start local fundraising in CI especially during
Ramadhan with CI AMJ members
Provide posters in French and a roller banner
Liaise with Tabshir for any items to be sent with
their container
Owner
Noor Ahmed
Fazal Ahmad
Mamadi Sylla
Due Date
August 2013
July 2013
August 2013
Sa’adullah Bhunnoo
August 2013
Dr. Nizamudeen
Boodhun, Farooq Safir
Farooq Safir
Masood Lone
Amidou Bapina
Yaya Ouattara
Noor Ahmed
Bashir Sharif
September
2013
July 2013
November
2013
Ongoing
Ongoing
October 2013
October 2013