Funanani was founded as an organisation in 1998 and was registered as a charitable trust in 2003. The founder of the Trust, Rina Norden, is the chairperson of our Board of Trustees. The Trust has been constituted as a non-profit making and public benefit organisation with the principal object to raise funds and accept donations for the purpose of establishing, promoting and/or supporting community development for poor and needy persons and anti-poverty initiatives. The beneficiaries of the Trust shall be persons of all ages in need and distress, irrespective of race, religion or sex, as determined by the Trustees in their sole and absolute discretion.