Finances

Since the founding in 2002 the German Cleft Children’s Aid Society is financed through donations from private persons, foundations, service clubs and companies. From 2009 onwards closely defined project-related public funding by the German Federal Foreign Office, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and state financing were added.

The donations are mostly used for the direct medical and therapeutic tasks in the project countries and, for a smaller part, towards professional training and education. The local administrations are very efficient and organised by the project partners themselves. The German Cleft Children’s Aid Society does not have any own development workers or organisations in the project countries which would have to be paid according to German standards. The medical development work from Germany is undertaken on a voluntary basis.

The German Cleft Children’s Aid Society operates like a kind of overseas health insurance company for needy children and their families who otherwise would not be able to afford the treatment for their children. The payments for surgery, therapies, education and the transport of the children are made once a month from Germany directly to the various countries.

The costs of administration and fund-raising here in Germany are at a level of 26% and therefore much better than the guidelines issued by the German Central Institute for Social Issues (DZI). Accordingly, an application for a certification by the DZI in order to obtain the DZI-Seal was entered in March 2010 and is currently being processed by the DZI.

Income and expenditures 2010 (audited financial statement by PricewaterhouseCoopers Freiburg):

Taking out the support of a German foundation for Africa which only became effective in 2011 the income through donations in the year under review, 2010, came to 1,544,145.72 euros. The expenditures set against amounted to 1,450,066.57 euros.

In the table below the allocations of the expenditures for tasks that are in compliance with the statues and the fundraising and administration costs are shown:

Expenses 2010 in euros

Project growth

The reserves dating as of December 31, 2010, which we have been able to constitute through the income, are the basis for the financing of projects in 2011 which we have already confirmed.

Increase in the expenses for the aid supplied: