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Helping displaced communities and vulnerable children affected by natural disasters is what drives international non-profit, BuildAid.

Since 2005, BuildAid has been constructing schools, orphanages and healthcare facilities across the world. Some of their notable work has been in response to the natural disasters of the Tsunami in south-east Asia in 2004, and the earthquake in Haiti in 2011.

With a team of just two people, BuildAid has made a difference to the lives of more than 25,000 people. And with the support of CAF Donate, the charity has been able to raise nearly £23,000 to fund their latest construction project – the Trinity Angels Orphanage in the Philippines.

Responding to disaster with CAF Donate

When Typhoon Haiyan claimed the lives of more than 6,000 people in the Philippines in 2013, BuildAid were at the scene to respond to the disaster.

BuildAid’s Trinity Angels Orphanage on the island of Bohol helped to house and protect displaced vulnerable children, many of whom were abandoned or left to fend for themselves.

“We are very donor conscious, we like to keep our supporters informed about what they are contributing to and also it is nice for people to know where their money is going. CAF Donate has made it really easy to set up multiple funds besides our general one and track those donations, because they all appear under the same campaign code,” says Ashley.

Successfully raising almost £23,000 from the telefundraising campaign, he tells us that without the ability to set up the project-specific fund with CAF Donate, their campaign “would have been impossible.”