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PROJECTS Beneficiaries:

2.26 Million Projects: AFRICA

Project J932N Landmine Clearing HeroRats works
in Cambodia where APOPO trains and deploys mine
detection rats to help solve humanitarian challenges. A Community Effort to Protect the Young and Vulnerable
When integrated into conventional methods these
HeroRATs help speed up landmine detection. In the
last 12 months in the provinces of Siem Reap, Oddar
Meanchey and Preah Vihear, 1,739,979 square metres of Irene Gleeson Foundation (IGF) has partnered with Global Over the past year IGF has worked to improve child protection
land was cleared with 301 anti-personnel mines and 133
unexploded ordinances found and destroyed by APOPO, Development Group for project J747 IGF Community implementation, following GDG training and support in 2018.
saving lives and returning valuable land to communities. Development Project in Uganda since 2006. A GDG This year the IGF team were rated number one organisation
monitoring team of Josh Edwards and Daniel Watts visited in for Child Protection in the region, with significant efforts
January 2019 to review the implementation of child protection being made to shift traditional views on discipline versus
strategies with the IGF leadership team across the project’s punishment in schools, families and the community. Weekly
comprehensive programs, including four primary schools, radio talk shows were held on child protection and recently
vocational training, medical care and radio community health police reported that community child abuse cases have
education. reduced by 23% from the previous year.

Physical disability can impede a child in a developing nation After surgery, house mothers, nurses and orthopaedic
significantly. In Tanzania, project J717N Plasterhouse/ therapists care for children onsite until rehabilitation is
Rehabilitative Surgery Programme provides life-altering completed. During their stay children receive education, many
surgery for children with correctable disabilities, enabling for the first time in the lives, and often return home asking their
them to have the greatest chance for success in the future. parents to send them to school.

A recent patient, Paulo, broke his leg when he was young and the
bones healed out of alignment. As he continued to grow he had
difficulty walking and experienced a lot of pain. For a 13 year old
boy passionate about football, receiving corrective surgery to
straighten his leg was a dream come true. He was determined
to do everything he could to help the healing and rehabilitation
process. After weeks of ambulation exercises he was proudly
running around with a ball in the playground!

Global Development Group presently conducts over 200 projects in 37 countries, implemented in
partnership with local in-country organisations.

Our passion is to provide comprehensive quality management to help achieve development effectiveness. We are committed to
achieving sustainable development in all our projects and support the Sustainable Development Goals, with an aim to address all
poverty-related issues as completely, effectively, professionally and sustainably as possible.
The following pages reflect a selection of GDG projects and the impacts they have had this year. Our reach spans developing
countries from the Pacific to Asia, across the Indian Subcontinent, the Middle East, Americas and Africa, where GDG projects and
partners work alongside local communities to address their unique challenges.

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