b'This year our African Proverb is a winner is aIn 2022, we also joined forces with Lend with dreamer who never gives up. It feels like thisCare, part of Care International. This partnership sums up the founding stories of both Deki andallowed us to increase our loan portfolio and IADES, our sister organisation in Togo. support even more families to achieve their dreams, by working their way out of poverty. Our As two founders, we set up our organisationsdream is to triple the impact of our microfinance based on a dream to empower women throughportfolio over the next 3-years, allowing the microfinance. In 2016, the two organisationsproject to be both community-led and financially joined forces to achieve our collective goalsself-sufficient.together. As we have grown and developed, our dreams have continued to grow, and we nowIt is true that not all dreams come true. In 2021, focus on much more than microfinance. we launched Akadi our solar lamp project, however even after significantly subsidizing the 2022 was an astounding year for Deki andsolar light systems our community members IADES. Incredibly, together we supported overstruggled to afford the costs. We have decided 49,000 people. But we didnt do it alone, weto put this project on hold until another solution decided that for our dream to create a biggerbecomes clear.impact to come true we needed to work with more partners. We could not be prouder of theFinally, we have big dreams for MUSA our relationships that we have built, and the impacthealthcare mutual that supported over 800 this has allowed us to make.people in 2022. We have plans to spend the start of 2023 fully understanding the needs and In 2019, when Deki visited Togo and carriedchallenges the project may face and to develop a out needs assessments, one of our key findingsstrategy for growth.was that 8 out 10 of the rural communities we support did not have access to safe drinkingWe certainly could not achieve this success water. We knew that this needed to bewithout our commitment to collaboration, and addressed, but with no experience in managingthe support of our funders.water projects it felt like this was just a dream. In 2022, we partnered with Co2Balance toThank you for all the support you have given, we rehabilitate 110 boreholes, bringing safe waterare incredibly grateful for your part in bringing to over 33,000 people. This dream will continueour dreams to life.to grow into 2023 as we work towards our goal of bringing safe water to 520 communities,Best wishes,benefiting over 150,000 people. Vashti Seth and Christian KadangahFounders and Directors of Deki and IADES'