What $180,000 bought in eight months
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Eight months after the first earthquake, the organisation published its own year-end figures rather than waiting for an audit to say them for it.
$180k
Raised in 2015
Approximate, unaudited at time of publication
175
Transition shelters handed over
100
Houses in the construction pipeline
A further hundred houses were due to be handed over in the first week of January 2016, and additional donations had been pledged for the coming year. The organisation also recorded, without elaboration, that it had implemented a strict process for tracking the flow of funds.
The more interesting half of the statement was the lessons it drew. The one worth quoting is the arithmetic, because it is the argument the organisation made to every donor it ever approached: with about $200,000 you can build sturdy transition homes for roughly 450 households.
The rest of the list is about method. That transparency was what built trust with the community. That the work was only possible because board members, staff, villagers and volunteers acted as one team. And that neither the economic blockade at the Indian border nor the terrain had stopped the building, though both had come close.
