2021 Annual Report

 2021 was perhaps the best year in Humanist Global Charity’s 8-year history. $122,424 was raised in donations (our second-highest total ever). $89,102 was distributed to our partners in 23 nations (our second-highest distribution to the greatest number of recipients), and $35,000+ remains in our account - we’ve never started a year with this much available.

HGC’s policy of small funding ($100-$300) is a resounding success; with this strategy we can fund more people & projects than ever before, plus we avoid miss-spending, incomplete projects, and corruption. Our new project - Humanist Youth Committee - is also enthusiastically supported.

Below is a list of nations we funded, from most to least, with brief descriptions of the major ones:

UGANDA: $32,752 - This nation has always been our largest recipient. We provided funds to the 4 humanist schools in Kasese (we built three of them) directed by Bwambale Robert Musubaho. Additionally, we delivered project funds to numerous humanist worker collectives, we helped dozens of humanist scholars with their school tuition, we assisted a new school near Jinja (Eagle’s View Humanist School) and we’re helping a new Safe House for victims of domestic violence (ShelterMi in Mpigi).

NIGERIA: $15,892 - The most populous nation in Africa received HGC funding for projects in numerous cities: Minna, Abuja, Maiduguri, Lagos, and Makurdi. We assisted almajiri by purchasing them blankets and mosquito nets, we provided dozens of small project and education grants, we funded sex education and computer training workshops, we spent over $4,000 assisting LGBT, and our Critical Thinking teacher - Dan Beaton - went to Abuja to conduct workshops.

INDIA: $11,960 - HGC is presently more active in India than any other nation; we have projects in Maharashtra, Sikkim, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar, and Jharkhand, and we will expand to Karnataka and Kerala in 2022. Our 2021 activity included support for three humanist schools (Apna, Birsa, and Shikshit) plus charity work in the slums of Mumbai, assistance to Dalits (untouchables) and Adivasi (tribals), and food & rent money to the widow & family of an assassinated ex-Muslim in Coimbatore.

NEPAL: $8,735 In this Himalayan nation we happily work with Atheist Republic Nepal, primarily in Kathmandu, Pokhara, and Dang province. We provided sanitary pads to rural and Dalit girls, we delivered school supplies to orphans, we sponsored workshops in vermiculture and mushroom-growing, and funded campaigns against child marriage.

KENYA: $5,790 - Our activities here primarily supported Humanist Orphan Centre (with our partner Secular Rescue / Center for Inquiry), plus we funded numerous women collectives.

BANGLADESH: $2,770 - We primarily fund widows here, with sewing machines or financial support to start small businesses. We also fund impoverished widowers, with items like rickshaws.

KOSOVO / NORTH MACEDONIA / SERBIA: $1,900 - We assist Roma humanists here, with building repair costs, geese, goats, and other food items.

SUDAN: $1,675 - We primarily help humanist widows here, whose husbands were killed in civil wars in South Sudan or Darfur. We provide them with startup funds for businesses like tea & coffee, ice cream, and baked goods.

ZAMBIA: $1,638 - Startup funds for businesses were delivered to humanists here, plus we offered online Critical Thinking, Entrepreneur, and Mediation workshops.

PHILIPPINES: We collaborate on projects here with HAPI - the most successful enterprise is buying bulk rice for impoverished women that they sell in small amounts.

MYANMAR: $1,332 - It is difficult to send money here due to the military junta’s interference, but we have succeeded in delivering food to refugee camps and food & sewing equipment to Safe House for victims of domestic violence.

Zimbabwe $600

USA $400

Ethiopia $300

Cameroon $300

Taiwan (aborigines) $300

Turkey $250

Tanzania $200

Peru $200

Romania $155

Sri Lanka $100

Greece $100

Saudi Arabia $15

Miscellaneous - $224

$89,102 TOTAL