A picture drawn by a child at Noah's Ark Kindergarten in Serbia.
Group Assistance
As a participant in a group assistance project, you will be one of several sponsors contributing toward the same group of children and young adults and their needs.
You will learn about this group through an initial report. Periodic reports will keep you updated on the project and people of the community with whom you are linked.
Advantages
- strengthens the foundation of family and community life
- maximizes the use of the funds, i.e., help more people
- provides support and income to local staff and administration
- allows local staff to spend more time and energy helping people, rather than doing paperwork (monitoring individual students' performance; completing funding requirements, etc.)
- serves and empowers the entire community (residual effects), e.g. better schools attract better teachers; daytime care with nutritious meals benefits care-givers and children
- provides flexible funding for organizational needs, e.g. buy coal if no funds left for heating, provide food or medical care, as needed
- projects are more efficient and cost-effective in administration and personnel, both for in-country MCC offices and local projects, providing better opportunity for MCC to offer assistance in record and financial management, educational quality, etc.—capacity-building
- allows MCC to offer assistance to smaller partner organizations which are "on the periphery" geographically and economically that would likely never be considered for assistance by other organizations
- gives credibility to partner organizations (because of MCC assistance) thereby increasing their visibility among local people, who then also offer to help
* All projects are Group Assistance unless specifically marked as Individual Assistance.
