FE Fenmaa Foundation Reading corners in island schools, collection drives, and clean up mornings in the lagoon

Collection drive at the store

A Saturday morning sorting, checking and packing what has come in.

Ask for a booking

Send us a request and we will confirm it. Nothing is paid online.

What it costs

No charge Per person

Volunteer days, clean up mornings and briefings cost nothing. Reserve a place so we know how many people to plan for, and tell us if you cannot come, because a place on a boat that nobody uses is a place somebody else wanted.

Donations reach us by bank transfer to the account on the donations page. Send the reference to the office afterwards and we email a receipt with our own reference on it. Nothing is collected on this website, there is no card payment here, and nobody from the foundation will ever ask you for money in a message you did not start. If somebody does, it is not us, and we would like to know.

There is no recurring giving arrangement, because we have no way to take one. People who give every month set up a standing instruction at their own bank and tell the office, which works perfectly and costs us nothing to administer.

A seat at the fundraising dinner is reserved here and paid by transfer within five days. The seat is released after that, and the office will tell you before it does.

Goods are as welcome as money and often more useful. Bring them to the store on a Saturday morning rather than posting them, and read what we can and cannot take first, because sending back what we cannot use costs the foundation money.

Three hours at the store in Galolhu, on a Saturday morning, with between twelve and twenty people. It is the least photographed thing the foundation does and it is most of the work.

What a morning actually is: opening what has arrived, checking every book and every piece of equipment, throwing out what cannot go to a school, sorting the rest by age and subject, listing it, and packing it into boxes that will survive a cargo boat. The listing is the part that matters and the part everybody wants to skip. A box arriving at a school with no list is a box a teacher has to inventory in their own time.

You will handle things people have donated in good faith that we cannot use, and you will put them in the waste pile, which is uncomfortable the first time. A book with the last forty pages missing is not a gift to a school; it is a problem posted to somebody with less storage than us.

No skills needed, tea is provided, and the store has a fan rather than air conditioning, so wear something you can work in. Sixteen and over, or twelve and over with a parent who stays.

Our details

  • Where we are Dhandhimagu Goalhi, Galolhu
    Malé, Maldives
  • Call us +960 331 8842
  • WhatsApp 9603318842
  • Email us office@fenmaafoundation.example
  • Opening hours Sunday to Thursday, 10am to 4pm Saturday, 10am to 1pm, sorting at the store Friday, late afternoon only when a clean up is running