About MondoChallenge - Vision and Values

MondoChallenge is run as a not-for-profit organisation. Its overheads are as low as can be managed, whilst assuring a top level of service to new applicants, existing and past volunteers, and to our partners based in many countries abroad.

MondoChallenge started in 2001, taking over from the Sermathang Project, that I had run in Nepal for some years. Whilst maintaining sustainability at a community level the growth of MondoChallenge continues to rise at a dramatic pace. Currently we are supporting 60 individual projects, involving business development in 4 countries and education programmes in 9. This has a direct impact on well over 6000 people, many of them at the poorest level. The growth is due to the support and hard work of the 600+ volunteers who have been working on the programmes so far and to the teams here in the office and abroad, who have worked so hard to support the volunteers in the field.

My vision has always been "People first, money second". We are NOT a funding organisation, but I know from experience that the small amounts we do provide go much further than many international aid programmes! Although much of the volunteer contribution must inevitably go to covering our running costs, the MondoChallenge Foundation, our sister charity (no 1106237) fundraises and supports our development projects financially in the countries where our volunteers are working. This funding together with the work of volunteers has already had a huge impact on many schools, orphanages, and small businesses and ultimately the lives of many thousands of people that Mondo has been lucky enough to work with. This is how I planned it, and this is how I intend it will continue.

AnthonyLunch
Managing Director