The day before: the time to answer why: what is this all about?
It started with "Accounting for International Development", an organisation who provides non-profits and social enterprises with a specialist volunteer programme designed to build the financial management capacity of small community organisations (www.afid.co.uk).
I'm the volunteer and this seemed to be a perfect fit for me: as a financial professional and chartered accountant I wanted to be able to offer my specialist skills to help others on a voluntary basis.
AfiD matched me with Youth Action for Change International (www.yaci.co.uk) who support children and vulnerable adults in poor countries through local charities. They needed a finance volunteer to help them help a charity called Espoir de Demain (EDEM) based in Porto-Novo, Benin.
EDEM aims to support orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs) in Benin through schooling, apprenticeship, social support and awareness raising. They have already managed to school 158 OVCs in Porto-Novo, but there is always greater need.
In order to expand they need to strengthen their financial management. That's where I can help, and that's why I'm going. In a brief couple of weeks the plan is to perform a financial and strategic audit, review the financial controls and accounting systems, and advance with funding applications.
The journey starts tomorrow!
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