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In case you hadn’t heard,Feed theMinds is 50!

GROWTHANDSUCCESS

Weare taking every chance to celebrate,givethanks,have fun,lookback on our achievementsandplan for the future.Wearedelighted that somanypeople havebenefitted fromourwork;indeedmillions of people have had their livestransformed through education.

You can read someexamples of our approach and our recentsuccesses in these pages.But that is only part of the story;weshall continue to grow in reach and impact and you canbepartof that.Wewant our next big birthday to be an evengreatercause for celebration;for all of us,our partners,our supportersand everyonewhobenefits fromour education programmes.Our ambition is to grow, focussed on the power of grassroots

education in order to tackle challenges thatmanymarginalisedpeople face.Aswe are reminded in Jesus’parable of the sower,seedswhich fall on good soil yield a cropmany times greater thanthat whichwere sown.That is what education through Feed theMindsdoes year by year.

ANNUAL REVIEW 2013/2014

Feed theMinds at 50:Looking back, forging ahead 50

Our visionAworld inwhich all people everywhere havethe opportunity to live life in all its fullness.

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INTRODUCTION

Feed theMinds helpsmarginalisedpeople to transform their lives throughcommunity-led education projects.In 1964webegan as anArchbishop’s

appeal to improve adult education indeveloping countries. In 2013/14, asweturned 50,we ran 36 projects in 15countries – benefitingmore than 100,000people across theGlobal South.Andwecontinue to grow.Our projects combine literacywith

practical skills and knowledge to helppeople overcomeproblems such asinsecure livelihoods,poor health ordifficulties accessing their rights.Wework in partnershipwith grassroots

organisations of all faiths and none.Wecombine their first-hand knowledge ofthe problems communities facewith oureducation and project planning expertise.This ensures that our projects are tailored,cost-effective and sustainable – securinglasting benefits.

Growing fromgrassroots

Eachproject is unique,but each includesliteracy training and falls into one offive categories:

Health education, including nutrition,hygiene, reproductive health andHIV& AIDS.

Work skills, strengthening sustainablelivelihoods by teaching trade,agriculturalor business skills.

Civic education, enabling people toaccess their rights and participate indecision-making.

Peacebuilding, by reducing prejudiceand promoting positive solutions.

Practical theological education,building the capacity of churches of alldenominations to further communitydevelopment.

Feed theMindsis launched asa campaign forChristian Literacy.

The firstpublishingpartnership is bornwith Uzima Pressin Kenya.

Feed theMinds joinsother organisationsto form the JointAction forChristianLiteratureOverseas(JACLO)with theslogan Feed theMinds.

EUROLIT is set upto support educationin Eastern Europe.

TheOverseas BookService takes off.

Feed theMindscelebrates its30thAnniversary.

Word Feastawarenesscampaign islaunched.

Feed theMindsprovidesmoneyfor braille Christianresources in thePhilippines.

Feed theMindsfunds the firstSudanese PrayerBook ‘Buk Zomi Ro’.

‘Cycle for Sight’raises £10,000for two schoolsfor the blind.

A partnerorganisation,LEF,wins a KenyanGovernmentLiteracyAward.

Current Director,JosephineCarlsson,appointed.

Research Paperon FemaleGenitalMutilationpracticesin Kenya is launchedat theHouse ofCommons.

Our supporters inSalisbury host abook sale – almost50 years after thefirst one inYork.

War Horse authorMichaelMorpurgohosts a Radio 4appeal.

Feed theMindslaunches 50thAnniversaryUnlocking PotentialCampaignwith areceptionwith theArchbishop of York.

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CONTENTS05 Introduction:Growing from grassroots06 Health education: Lifesaving learning08 Civic education: Land of our mothers10 Peacebuilding: Integrating outsiders in South Sudan12Vocational Training:One problem, several solutions14 Practical theological education:Equality through e-learning16 Overseas Book Service:Decades of support to all denominations18 Financial summary: Sustained growth20 Conclusion:What’s in a number?


‘‘Wewill be using themanuals tocontinue educatingmembersof our community at gatheringsand in the churches.Mamfe[city] women always look onus fromEyangntui as fools butthis time it is different.’’CATHERINE,A LITERACY LEARNERANDMOTHEROF SEVEN.

The 4,300 residents of Eyangntui inCameroon facemultiple challenges.The village is remote and impoverished,with no runningwater or health facilities.Only a tenth of households includesomeonewho is literate.Malaria is rife, and is the leading cause

of death amongpregnant women andchildren under five.TB,HIV&AIDS andeven cholera also blight Eyangntui.But Feed theMinds andAbangAshu

Academy’s health education projecthas begun to transform the villagers’wellbeing.Childhoodmalaria hasdecreased as, families now sleep undermosquito nets to prevent the disease.Pregnant women nowget tested for HIVand receive counselling if required.Theyalso knowhow to preventTB and choleraby boiling drinkingwater, regularhandwashing and improving sanitation.Thanks to our project, 60 villagers

can now read andwrite, increasing theirself-respect and future prospects.As theybecome healthier,Eyangntui’s childrenare attending schoolmore regularly, sothey should face fewer challenges thantheir parents.

We achieved all this by teaching literacyand health education classes, alongsideweekly community awareness initiativesand home visits to pregnant women.Wetrained two community literacy teachersand produced accessible educationmanuals to ensure that the positive healthmessages continue to spread in Eyangntui– unlikemalaria.

Lifesaving learning

‘‘I have learned to be a communitychangemaker, to fightmalariaand other diseases that threatenour community. I went for thecelebration of InternationalWomen’s Day inMamfe [city]and spoke onmaternal andchild health.’’EMILIA,A LITERACY LEARNERANDMOTHEROF FOUR.

HEALTHEDUCATION

Strengthening our partners

Feed theMinds andAbangAshuAcademy have been partners since2009.Our collaborations havestrengthened the organisation’sproject planning andmanagementskills.We’ve also increased its abilityto produce timely reports, a keyfactor in effectivemonitoringand evaluation and in attractingexternal funding.

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HEALTHEDUCATION

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In Rwanda,subsistence agriculture iscommon and access to land is vital.Marginalisedpeople,particularlywidows or singlemothers,often havetheir land seizedby relatives orneighbours.Thosewith little educationor knowledge of their rights struggle toreclaim their land,leading to extremepoverty,malnutrition and forcedmigration.Feed theMinds andHuman Rights First

RwandaAssociation’s (HRFRA) ambitious,long-termproject is solving this problemin 506 southern Rwandan villages inseveral ways.

Land of ourmothers

CIVICEDUCATIONCIVICEDUCATION

We’re raising community awareness ofland rights through radiomessages andposters.We’re training 1,500 paralegaladvisers andworkingwith 300 lawstudents to support women andmen toregister their land titles and pursue theirrights.To underpin these activities,we’relobbying the government to ensure itsnewproperty laws are enforced locally.This is already showing dramatic results.

The 900 paralegals trained so far haveresolvedmore than 10,000 land ownership,eviction or inheritance cases – largelythroughmediation rather than formalhearings.This enablesmarginalisedpeople,primarily female-headedhouseholds, to earn a secure incometo support themselves.

‘‘I now have trust and respectfrom the community,whocome tomewith problemsand I can help them.’’GAUDENCE HEARDOUR RADIO ADVERTSANDTRAINEDASAPARALEGALTOHELPOTHERWOMEN. SHEHASRESOLVED52CASES SOFAR.

‘‘Nowmy life has changed.I have security for the future[and] the opportunity to earn an income.Now I cannotbe evicted, and canplan for the future ofmychildren.’’Fortunée, a widowedmother of fourwas a subsistence farmerwhose relatives repeatedly tried to seize her land.We helpedher gain legal title to the land,enabling her to raise a small loanto buy a goat, chickens and seeds. This has improved the familydiet and income,enabling Fortunée to fund her children’seducation and health insurance.



This collaboration,HRFRA’s largestproject to date,has helped theorganisation hone its projectmanagement andmonitoring skills.Wealso advisedHRFRA how to produceeffective, accessible informationmaterials. Furthermore, this project hasgiven 300 law students valuableworkexperience to further their careers.


30 years of conflict displaced 740,000people in South Sudan,and the recenthostilities has again forced over amillionpeople to leave their homes.The countryalso hosts around 230,000 refugees fromarmed conflict across the region.Thishas led to poverty,insecurity and furtherconflict – and literacy rates as lowas 20%.Feed theMinds’ three-year project in

five counties of Western Equitoria aimsto overcome tensions andbuild peace.We’re doing this in partnershipwith thegovernment, Sudan EvangelicalMission(SEM) and several other grassrootsorganisations.We’ve trained 75 facilitators and

established 23 learning centres to hostliteracy,mediation and conflict resolutionclasses.So far, 1,265 people haveattended our classes,building their abilityto resolve domestic and communitytensions peacefully.Whilemost learnersare displaced people, some are prison,police andmilitary staff – helping tospread trust and understanding betweendisplaced people and authority figures.

Integrating outsidersin South Sudan

PEACEBUILDING

‘‘Education is a right for all.NowI knowmy rights – everybodyhas his/her own rights andnobodywill preventmefromeducation.’’JAMES,ONEOFOUR LITERACY

STUDENTS.

More than110 learners are now involvedin peacebuilding and communitydevelopment.These activities includebecoming ‘democracy champions’,mediating between groups of farmers,tackling conflicts amongyoungpeople andjoining local health orwater committees.The impact of this project goes beyond

our classrooms.We’re feeding into thegovernment’s new adult literacy policyand have trained staff and students atKotobi Institute of Education on teachingadult literacy, a topic not covered in theteacher training curriculum.We’ve alsoshared our government-endorsededucation and rights toolkit with otherNGOs and are translating it for use inother regions of South Sudan.


This project enabled SEM to build thecapacity of other community-basedorganisations, notably by strengtheningits workshop planning and facilitationskills. Based on our belief in the valueof ‘South-South’ learning (organisationsfrom theGlobal South sharing skills),we arranged for SEM to gain newinsights fromour Kenyan partner,Peacebuilding,Healing andReconciliation Program.


‘‘Themid-termevaluationsuggests that the acquiredconflict resolution skills haveenabled SEM staff, facilitatorsand learners to resolve conflictsat the family, community andorganisational levels.’’EXTERNALPROJECTEVALUATION.

PEACEBUILDING


Secure livelihoods are the key toimproving independence andwellbeing.Feed theMinds ran severalwork skills projects in Uganda in2013/14,adoptingdifferent approachesin different context.In Nakisunga,we’re running a long-term

programmewithGlobal LinkOrganisation(GLO).So far,we’ve trained 1,079 peoplein literacy and sustainablework skills,such as ecotourism andbicycle repairs.This has directly increased local earningsby 13.4million Ugandan shillings (around£3,000).To ensure ongoing impact,we’reestablishing 10 training centres in the area.

VOCATIONALTRAINING VOCATIONALTRAINING

In rural Nabbaale, 86%ofworkingage people lackwork skills.We andTACrusade are training 120marginalisedpeople, including teenagemothers, tosupport themselves by acquiring literacyand IT,hairdressing or carpentry skills.To help them intowork,we’ve alsoarrangedmentoring andworkplacements for trainees.And inWakiso,we and Friends of Canon

Gideon Foundation (FOCAGIFO) trained96 orphans and vulnerable youth in literacyand life skills aswell as trades.Alongsidethis,we established a youth developmentassociation that has a savings club anda small poultry business.To ensure lastingbenefits for the people of Wakiso,wealso trained three social workers inliteracy teaching.

‘‘ The project has helpedmebecome literate inmanydifferent aspects. I havelearned tomanage a profitabletree nursery,where I earn60,000 Ugandan shillings[about £14] permonth. I nowsupportmy children to goto school.’’MAGALITA, A MOTHER OF EIGHTWHOPARTICIPATED IN WORK SKILLSTRAININGRUN BY US AND GLO.


Our partnershipwith FOCAGIFOprovided the organisationwith usefulskills and contacts for the future.Weenabled staff to integrate literacyteachingwithwork skills training,withgreat success, and strengthened theirwebsite building skills.We alsofacilitated networking opportunitieswith the UgandanMinistry of Healthand otherNGOs.

‘‘I trained inmotorcycle repairing.The projectmade a big difference[and has] givenme hope.Mywork givesmegoodmoney.I am financially literate now andwill sharemy skills throughtraining other youth.’’JOHN,WHOPARTICIPATED INWORKSKILLSTRAININGRUNBYUSANDGLO.

One problem,several solutions

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Across southernAfrica,poverty andlow levels of education contribute toa high incidence of violence againstwomen.WithTheological EducationbyExtension Zambia andpartners inMalawi andTanzania,Feed theMindshas equipped 130 church andcommunity leaders to tackle thisissue in practical and innovativeways.First,we developed and launched a

simple e-learning platform,a cheapand accessibleway to share learningresources.Thenwegave the 130 leadersin-depth training in gender justice issues,through contextual Bible study andspecially devisedmaterials, aswell ascommunication and IT skills.We alsotaught them towrite and upload their ownmaterials to share knowledgewith others.These leaders have already taught

around 500 others across southernAfricaways of tackling gender-based violence.In time,we expect that number to riseconsiderably.


The very purpose of this project isstrengthening the capacity of churchand lay leaders to support theircommunities.Bringing together severalpartner organisations on this innovativeprojectmeanswe have all learneduseful skills and gained helpful insightsfromeach other – Feed theMindsincluded.

‘‘I learned how to use theplatform andwrite e-learningmaterials – an excellent way toreach out to people.Thiswillenable people to study at theirown pace. I intend to put whatI have learned to good use.’’Since attending ourworkshops,GILBERTCHIRWA FROMTHE LUTHERANEVANGELICALCHURCH IN ZAMBIA hasdevelopedane-learning course onChristianethics andmade it available to church leadersacrossAfrica via our platform.

PRACTICALTHEOLOGICALEDUCATION

‘‘Many of thewomenwithwhom Iwork experience gender-basedviolence,but their response is just to be strong and pray. I learnedthat gender-based violence has to be rejected and howhuman rightsorganisations and the police can help.We [TheDiocese ofTanga]plan to run seminars to teachwomen about gender issues.We arealso starting to empowerwomen economically, aswomen aremorevulnerable to violencewhen they are financially dependent.’’JOYCEMHANDO,CHURCHCOORDINATOR,TANZANIA.

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Equality throughe-learning


OVERSEASBOOKSERVICE

Decades of supportto all denominations

OVERSEASBOOKSERVICE

Fifty years ago,webegan as aChristianappeal to providebooks to enhanceadult literacy in developing countries.Most of ourwork now involves hands-oneducation projects,but ourOverseasBook Service remains to this day.Through the service,we regularly

support 200 theological colleges aroundtheworld.This helps equip churchleaders of all denominations to supportmarginalised people and promoteeducation,peace andwellbeing.

Wedo this in a practical way,bydistributing high-quality theological booksto religious colleges in theGlobal South,enhancing their libraries and learning.Each college requests titles fromourcatalogue of donated books, and receivesup to 50 books a year – for free.With the help of volunteers and donors,

our reach has grown over time. In 2013/14,we sent 3,125 books to 125 colleges in29 countries. In the short term, this willassist 7,000 current theological students.In the long term, it will benefit manymorestudents, church leaders – and of coursemarginalised people.

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3,125BOOKS

125COLLEGES

29COUNTRIES

7,000STUDENTS

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‘we regularly support200 theological collegesaround theworld.’


FINANCIALSUMMARY

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Sustained growth

During the year,wegrew in impact,efficiency andprofile.We continued tomove towards our goal of becoming a£1.5million organisation,and increasedour incomeby 15%.Thiswas a fittingstart to our 50th anniversary year.It alsomarked aprogression in our upwardincome trend,enabling us to invest inmoreprogrammeactivities.We improved our cost of generating

funds by 1.6%, to 9.5%of total expenditure.And our charitable activity grewby£150,530, accounting for an additional2.2% (86.5%) of our total expenditure.Our Education forChange programme

ran 36 projects in 15 countries during2013/14, comparedwith 34 in 2012/13.More than half (55%) of these projectsaremulti-year initiatives,progressingtowards our aim ofmaking all ourgrassroots education projects long-term.

2013/2014was the first year of Feed theMinds’three-year strategy,which focuses on growth.

A key objective for the yearwas toshare our expertise and raise our profile.We reported impact, sharedbest practiceand actively participated in networks,strengthening our profile and expertreputation.We contributed to an all-partyparliamentary group and presented atseveral conferences.We also sharedguidelines for cross-organisationallearningwithmore than 50NGOsfollowing a series of workshops.This strong performance positions us

well for sustained growth and ongoingimprovements in the quality and scaleof our impact.Hundreds of thousands ofpeople in theGlobal Southwill benefitfrom this growth in our education andknowledge-sharing activities.Thousandsof supporters,partners, staff and volunteersshould be proud of the collectiveachievements of our first 50 years.

This is a summary of Feed theMinds’ financial activities, extracted from the auditedaccounts for the year ended 30April 2014.

INCOME2013/2014

EXPENDITURE2013/2014

‘This strong performancepositions uswell forsustained growth.’

EXPENDITURE 2013/2014 £ %

Charitable activity 761,339 86

Fundraising 83,560 10

Governance 35,046 4

TOTAL 879,945

INCOME 2013/2014 £ %

Grants receivable 825,590 84

Donations 127,534 13

Legacies: 31,126 3

Other incoming resources 3,287 0

Investment income 409 0(interest)

TOTAL 987,946

FINANCIALSUMMARY

Copies of the full Annual Report andAccountsare available fromour head office (see backcover for contact details).


JosephineCarlssonDirectorFeed theMinds

CONCLUSION

What’s in a number?“50 is a just a number”is a popularphrase thatwomen aroundmyage useto downplay thismilestonebirthday.But I like to think about it as almost20,000 days – amuch larger number.I’m convinced that Feed theMinds has

contributed to building life-changing newskills forwomen andmen on each of its20,000 days. It’s happening today, throughprojects in Pakistan,Sierra Leone andEgypt and inmany other countries too.It’s happening through our support topractical theological education in 200institutions across theworld.This fillsmewith pride,but also inspiresme to continuegrowing Feed theMinds’ reach in thecoming days.

What we do reallymatters, every day.Thanks to ourwork,mothers in Pakistanaremore able to look after their own healthand that of their babies.Parents in poorEgyptian communities can help theirchildrenwith schoolwork.Farmers inSierra Leone (above) can negotiate fairand better prices at themarket. Indigenouspeople in Nepal have the confidence tomake their voices heard.Church leaderscan link Bible passageswithways toreduce community violence.The list ofour life-transforming achievements islong – and growing.

The growth and successes highlightedin these pages are only possiblebecause Feed the Minds enjoys thesupport of many individuals, groupsand organisations.

Thank you all for helping us make aworld of difference through education.

‘Farmers in Sierra Leonecan negotiate fair and betterprices at themarket.’

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