Our resources
Resources
What keeps the orphanage running day to day: the men and women who work there, and those who fund it.
Staff
The team comprises 30 staff members: 25 women and 5 men. Among them:
- 13 nannies, who take turns every two days
- 2 laundry assistants, who take turns every two days
- 1 cook
- 1 cleaner, from 8 am to 5 pm
- 1 security guard
- 1 coordinator
- 1 secretary
- Assistants, drivers, a nurse and caretakers
Salaries amount to 1,575,000 F CFA per month, out of a total monthly budget of 4,000,000 F CFA.
Material resources
These come from:
- membership fees, from 50 members;
- contributions from women organised into groups (Ndayi Jirim), from Touba, Taïf, Tindody and other localities;
- contributions from anonymous benefactors and the diaspora;
- the Alkhidma association in Italy;
- support from the Magal Organising Committee;
- the sale of Barkélou cards by the Ndayi Jirim;
- milk donations from the CEO of CCBM;
- in-kind donations from volunteers: baby bottles, cots, milk and nappies.
Towards self-sufficiency
The chicken coop, donated by the Senegalese government, is already up and running and has started generating its first sales. Plans for a bakery are under consideration. The aim is to gradually reduce the proportion of donations in the budget.