How we work

WF-AID is the humanitarian arm of The World Federation of KSIMC, which is a registered charity in the UK. UK charity laws require a number of different steps to be followed to ensure we are working with reliable and reputable partners and that they are using charitable funds in the correct way, and we are compliant to the UK Charity Commission. In addition, as custodians of your donations, the organisation takes this responsibility very seriously.

We have put processes in place, which we follow for every appeal, project, and remittance, which you can see here:

We are largely a grant-giving organisation, which means we work with local partners to distribute your donations. There are various benefits to this model, the main one being that we are empowering these small and local organisations who are trying to help local people.

This furthers the international development sector’s ‘localisation agenda’. The local organisations with whom we work are often based in the same countries and communities they operate, so they are well versed on the situation the beneficiaries find themselves in. They also buy local products, which helps the local economy and gives the beneficiaries some familiarity when they receive the products.

Many of these organisations we work with are very small and don’t have the capacity to communicate with donors in the way that we at WF-AID do or reach an audience the size of which we can. It’s difficult for donors to judge which small organisations in small towns and villages around the world are trustworthy, so on behalf of our donors, we do the due diligence of all of our partners to ensure they are legitimate and use your donations in the best way.

We also handle the reporting and are able to receive and translate reports quicker than individual donors would be able to as we send agencies large amounts of funds in tranches and receive the reporting for the whole tranche.