Our charitable object is:
'To advance education and aid in the relief in poverty in any part of the world'
We do this through a variety of means:
- Supporting and working as a project partner with indigenous communities and Non-Government Organisations.
- Raising funds and distributing grants to appeals, including international emergency and disaster appeals, and projects that fit within our objectives.
- Providing scholarships to children and young people from developing countries to assist them in furthering their education.
- Providing business start up grants to individuals from indigenous communities.
- Enabling under-privileged young people from the UK to ‘give and gain’ by working on a community project in the developing world.
The Mottey African Development or Mad Foundation was established in 1999, by John Lawler following his experiences during his gap year in Ghana. John was enstooled as a Ghanaian Chief, Torgbui Mottey I, for his contribution to the local community and he continues today to visit Ghana, raise awareness and funds for people living in poverty all over the world.
To date we have enabled community development projects in the following countries: Ghana, Togo, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Peru, Thailand and Sri Lanka and hope to expand our work into more developing countries including Senegal, Guatemala, South Africa and India in the near future.
Mad Foundation’s overall objective is to enable community development projects in Africa and throughout the developing world. At its core is the desire to assist with sustainable programmes, which are not funded from central government, aimed at improving the quality of life for impoverished indigenous communities with an emphasis on children, education and health.
