Year ended 31 March 2017
Circuit’s first year as an independent organisation brought together community lending, grain storage, inclusive education and livelihood trials. The common aim was to help communities build their own ways to earn and support one another.
Reported activity
The initial Seed Bank helped 100 families; the report says local mill leadership added funds to double the programme. A 50-tonne grain-storage trial sold its maize after four months for twice its purchase price. This was a trading result, not a measured doubling of household income.
New Heaven supported students with special learning needs, alongside an awareness project and a soap enterprise. Dairy projects aimed to support older people and a rehabilitation centre.
Coffee for Opium remained in research. Field visits and a proposed feasibility study were intended to establish whether an alternative crop could support farmers.
These figures describe different programmes and must not be added as a total number of people reached. Funds retained for future expansion are not expenditure already delivered in the field.
This reader edition summarises the supplied Statement of Service Performance. It is not a complete set of financial accounts and has not been independently reviewed. The original PDF remains available below.