HOME / REPORTING

Reporting

What’s on this page 2021 by the Numbers Annual Reports Compliance FAQs

When managing finances, we practice transparency and accountability, consistent with our overall approach. You can find out more about our funding by reading our annual and international reports, and examining our financial reports. Our aim is to use your contributions in the most effective

2021 by the Numbers

Countries Aided

$20.65m

Amount Raised

4,015,439

Total Beneficiaries

Emergency Ramadan Orphan Aid Water Health Education Aqeeqah Food

Projects

Emergency

When disaster strikes, it is essential that help and relief aid arrive as quickly as possible. MAA leverages the skills, resources, networks and geographical coverage of our field offices and local NGO partners to provide quick, effective, and efficient assistance and humanitarian aid during disasters.

Operational Ethos: During Emergencies, MAA’s operational ethos is based on a holistic humanitarian and development assistance cycle of:

Relief: Provide immediate emergency assistance.

Recovery: Rehabilitate broken lives. Rebuild: Invest in long-term community development

Spend

$963,178

Beneficiaries

176,928

Ramadan

MAA’s Ramadan programme has evolved over the years to deliver more than just essential Food Aid to poor and needy people around the world during the blessed month of fasting. MAA has now focussed its efforts on expanding the Ramadan distribution to include Income Generating Gifts to beneficiaries to help them break the cycle of poverty.

The Ramadan programme covers families and individuals who are socially, financially, economically, and culturally disadvantaged and distressed. Whilst focusing on the poor and needy, we also focus on widows, orphans, the disabled, destitute, and the elderly

Spend

$2,857,535

Beneficiaries

84,399

Orphan Aid

MAA’s Orphan Aid programme is designed to address the basic needs of orphans and improve their lives in a way that respects the customs and traditions of the countries in which they reside

The programme supports the orphan’s health and educational needs, provides them with food, accommodation and clothing as well as takes care of their medical needs

Operational Ethos

Our Orphan Aid programme provides quality assistance to orphans regardless of their race, creed, or gender. Every effort is made to ensure that they receive the basic necessities of life

Spend

$1,076,201

Beneficiaries

262,800

Water

MAA believes that everyone should have access to clean water. This underpins all other aspects of development. Unfortunately, more than a billion people lack access to safe drinking water today.Our WASH programmes include building Community Water Systems, Boreholes, Deep Water Wells and Shallow Water Wells besides building Latrines and Bathrooms.

Operational Ethos:

Our Water and Sanitation programmes incorporate building infrastructure, improving sanitation, and developing hygiene awareness

Spend

$140,546

Beneficiaries

7,000

Health

Without good health, the survival and economic self-sufficiency of individuals, and their communities, are in jeopardy. Today, the exorbitant costs involved have made even basic medical treatment inaccessible to the poor and needy

MAA’s Health and Medical programmes include providing Emergency Medical Aid as well as developing long-term health initiatives, such as training doctors, providing medical equipment for camps and hospitals and developing health awareness programmes

Operational Ethos.

Our aim is to provide primary healthcare facilities and prevention of disease

Spend

$7,823

Beneficiaries

1,000

Education

Millions of children around the world do not have access to quality education due to the prohibitive costs. With their families struggling to even meet their essential needs like food and shelter, and with many children required to work to help support their families, it is impossible for them to seek and acquire an education

Many children who do attend school receive an inadequate education because of poorly trained or underpaid teachers, overcrowded classrooms, or lack of basic education tools and books

Operational Ethos:

MAA strives to educate and up skill people and the communities they live in by providing them essential education and vocational training with the aim to make them self-sustaining and financially independent.

Spend

$10,259,553

Beneficiaries

3,180,504

Aqeeqah

MAA conducts Aqeeqah or General Sacrifice in the neediest areas globally.

It is a Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) to perform Aqeeqah for the child by slaughtering two goats or sheep for a boy and one sheep or goat for a girl, usually on the seventh day after the child is born

Every year, thanks to this noble activity, thousands of beneficiaries around the world are able to enjoy a nutritious meal that is a change from their usual diet

Spend

$303,577

Beneficiaries

26,836

Food

Despite the best efforts of international aid agencies, the global food crisis continues to spiral out of control, especially in recent years. The direct impact of lack of food on the poor and needy is tremendous and this is the main reason why the food crisis is at the forefront of our agenda in MAA

Operational Ethos

MAA is committed to tackling the food crisis and its causes, with the aim of providing people and their communities’ access to basic food with the aim to make them self-sufficient. We also ensure that Food Aid is culturally appropriate to each country where distribution takes place

Spend

$10,259,553

Beneficiaries

3,180,504

Annual Reports

At MAA, we believe that sincere, transparent and accountable actions are the cornerstones of becoming one of Australia’s most trusted aid organisations. Our annual reports document our activities and performance for the calendar year in a clear and digestible format.

Compliance

At MAA we are committed to responsible and ethical operations. Our comprehensive compliance program includes policies, procedures, standards, and a code of conduct to ensure transparency, accountability, and integrity in all of our actions. We are dedicated to earning and maintaining the trust of our stakeholders and continuously improving our compliance program for a better service to those in need.

FAQs

MAA has a 100% donation policy for any donations made towards specific programmes or campaigns such as Orphan Aid or Emergency Aid. For general donations, there are 5 groups of expenses categorised by NGOs: 1. Distributed Funds & Project Pipeline 2. Administration 3. International Projects Support 4. Marketing & Fund-raising 5. Community Development & Education Since funds are pooled into categories, other NGOs may only give you their admin fee figures excluding all other expenses such as marketing fees. As part of our policy to remain transparent and honest to our donors, we have included all the above expense categories into our Admin fee total of 8.8% which can be further broken down into 6.3% admin ratio and 2.5% fundraising ratio.

MAA strives to maintain a high level of trustworthiness, efficiency, transparency and accountability across all levels of operations. Through these values we have been able to attain the DFAT accreditation, the ACNC (Australian Charities & Not-For-Profits Commision) Blue Tick of approval as well as obtaining full membership of ACFID (Australian Council of International Aid Development.) We also hold a comprehensive DGR status with the ATO (Australian Taxation Office). In order for us to maintain these approvals and memberships, MAA is subject to regular mandatory Audits. These audits ensure a high level of transparency and integrity for all our donors, field partners and sponsors. Finally, we publish our Annual Report every year in both document and video formats.

Yes, all donations made to MAA are 100% tax deductible. This is not restricted to any specific campaigns or projects. If you have not received a tax deductible receipt for a donation you have made please contact us on 1800 100 786 or email marketing@maainternational.org.au . To make this process easy, please also include the date of payment and the campaign you donated towards.

To create an account, click on the “Sign In” link on the top right of the page and fill out the form under “New to MAA?” Once the form is properly filled out, click “Register” on the bottom of the page. Creating an account will give you a personal Donor ID which you may quote when contacting us for information on orphan sponsorship, past or current donations or to receive Tax Receipts. Your MAA account will also allow you to keep track of your current and past donations for tax deductibility and donation management purposes.

Awesome! We are always thrilled to know people are fundraising for us! The first step is to contact us so we can have a detailed chat about what you have in mind. This will help us to advice you and guide you with the next steps. Please give us a call on 1800 100 786 or email us at marketing@maainternational.org.au to get in touch with us.If you have any other questions or concerns please do not hesitate to call us on 1800 100 786.