What We Do
22STARS Foundation became officially reregistered in March 2017.
See here our Policy Paper 2018-2022, Financial Year Report 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021
Policy Paper 2018-2022
In this policy paper, we will give an insight in the following:
o Mission statement, vision and aim of the foundation
o Work Activities of the Foundation
o Finances
o The way in which the Foundation raises moneyo Management of assets of the Foundation
o The spending of the assets of the Foundationo The functioning of the board
Financial Year Report 2019
Thanks to our sponsors and volunteers, we grew to 319 sponsored kids by the end of 2019! We focused more on the quality of our kids than the quantity, meaning we started to invest more in our After-School programs to provide them with homework help and help with their basic needs. We continued with our weekly hot meals, small business programs and health program. We had many highlights in 2019, among them was that our Eye-care sponsor R. Walzer from ‘WirhelfenSehen’ visited us for the second time in Uganda with his family, making sure that more families and kids get access to eye care. We also received a volunteer, Lucy Mueller, for our Eye Program for three months in Uganda and started to send two students to an optician school. Film maker Jannik Gramm came to Uganda to help us explain better the story and projects of 22STARS through video. Our Founder Stella Airoldi spoke at several conferences throughout Europe and was in Uganda herself in January, May, June, August, September and December. We had 10 sponsors visiting us on a Social Workation and additionally, our 22STARS ambassador Stefanie Oeffner stared to co-organize a Social Impact Trip with us and brought 8 more girls to Uganda in May. Susan Laker continued leading the project in Kampala and Aidah Wafula in Jinja. We celebrated Independence Day, Women’s Day and Christmas together!
Financial Year Report 2018
In 2018, we celebrated that our Foundation became one year old and received the ANBI (Public Benefit) Status from the Netherlands. We kept our focus point on holistic education, leadership and entrepreneurship. In 2018 we continued providing our children every week with a hot meal, we continued with small business trainings and zero interest loans and expanded our programs. We created a Health Program with a specific focus on also Eye –care thanks to our sponsor R. Walzer from WirhelfenSehen who visited us in March 2018. A big highlight in 2018 was that our Kampala project leader Susan Laker came to Europe to visit many sponsors and join the Nomad Cruise to give a talk at this conference together with Stella Airoldi about our programs. We also had 17 sponsors of the children coming to Uganda to visit the projects in March and September. Susan Laker continued leading the project in Kampala and Aidah Wafula in Jinja. Stella Airoldi – the founder of 22STARS Foundation- was in Uganda in January, March, August and September. We grew from 180 sponsored kids in 2017 to 295 sponsored kids by the end of 2018!
Financial Year Report 2017
The 22STARS foundation became an official reregistered foundation in March 2017, but started already with fundraising and carrying out their programs in 2016. Hence we take also the first months of 2017 into account and compare our results of this year with the year 2016. We stared to focus on five program pillars: education, nutrition, development, after school, small businesses. In 2017 we provided our children every week with a hot meal, we held our first parent conference, started with the small business trainings and zero interest loans and expanded our programs. In addition to the Acholi Quarter slum we expanded our programs to the Danida slum in Jinja. At the end of 2017 we had 180 children in school. We also had several sponsors of the children coming to Uganda to visit the projects. Stella Airoldi – the founder of 22STARS Foundation- was in Uganda in March, April, July, August, October and November.
Financial Year Report 2016
22STARS Foundation only became an official reregistered foundation in March 2017, however in this report we like to already show how we spend the money raised with the GoFundMe campaign and the money received from individual sponsors to sponsor their specific child. 100% of the donation money was spend on the kid’s! We started raising money for school fees through GoFundMe in December 2015. And started spending it in 2016 to pay school fees for the children. At the end of the year we also started paying medicine, clothes, food and other expenses for them. Stella Airoldi – the founder of 22STARS KIDS- was herself in Uganda in March, April, October and November 2016.
