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Accolades for MRDF partners

CDVTA was recently named NGO of the Year. Director Francis Njuakom Nchii (left) received the award on the charity’s behalf.

 

We are pleased to announce that two MRDF partners have been honoured for their outstanding work with people living in poor communities.

Rural Action in Development Society (RAIDS) and Community Development Volunteers for Technical Assistance (CDVTA) were recently singled out for their work with flood survivors and the elderly respectively.

RAIDS, which is based in India, launched a quick response when devastating floods hit Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh in southern India in October 2009. The disaster left 250 dead and 2.5 million homeless. Supported by an emergency grant from MRDF, RAIDS provided food, clothes and counselling support to 900 at-risk families.

CDVTA, which works in Cameroon’s North West Province, was recently named 2009 NGO of the Year at the Cameroon Guardian Post Media Awards in March. The local organisation helps elderly people – through training and small loans – to support themselves and sometimes numerous grandchildren in rural Cameroon. CDVTA volunteers visit frail elderly people to assist them in practical needs, like collecting wood for their fires or re-thatching their roofs. CDVTA is also actively campaigning to improve the rights of elderly people in Cameroon.

Kirsty Smith, MRDF’s director, said: ‘We are absolutely thrilled that our partners have been honoured in this way. These organisations are well placed to deliver the kind of assistance people need because they are based in the heart of poor communities. The accolades have thrown a spotlight on the crucial work that these organisations carry out all year round with some of the world’s poorest people, and we are privileged to be a part of this.’

CDVTA’s director, Francis Njuakom Nchii, will be the guest speaker at our spring supporter conferences, Journeying out of poverty, in London and Leeds. Find out more here.