Annual report
With gratitude, Dorcas looks back on the past years in her annual reports. Each annual report is published in May or June and provides comprehensive and transparent information about our activities, results and impact.
2020 Saw Dorcas grow in resourcing change for realising change. Our collective efforts reached and impacted almost 900,000 persons in 14 countries in Africa, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. 41 Dorcas shops and 10,000 volunteers, over 63,000 individual supporters, 964 companies and 888 churches worked together with 404 Dorcas staff and many partner organisations to sustain change in extraordinary times, in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Olesea from Moldova
Moldova is the poorest country in Europe. Many young people have moved abroad in the hope of a better future. Despite the difficult circumstances, 34-year-old Olesea remained with her family in the country. She had little money, no home of her own and felt abandoned by the government. That all changed when Olesea came into contact with Dorcas’s Family Development programme. Here she learned how to set up her own company and also received financial support to raise her daughter.
Dorcas’s presence in the town also has an effect on the community. The people flourish and learn to lean on each other. Our activities are supported by the Moldovan government. Olesea: ‘These new developments are convincing people to stay in Moldova. It gives us strength to keep going and not give up.’
Strategic plan
Do you want to read more about our plans for the future? You can read all about it in our strategic plan.
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