The beginning of 2022, marked by a new war whose international consequences remain largely unknown, encourages us to work even harder towards our ambition: the existence of free media in fair, democratic and peaceful societies.
Caroline Vuillemin - General Director
Factual and accurate information focused on essential needs has become a tool that offers people not only a glimmer of hope in often desperate situations but also a compass to help regain a little humanity.
Tony Burgener - Chairman of the Board
Highlights 2021
Our Annual Report goes digital
246 team members worldwide
Studio Kalangou, 1st African media certified by the Journalism Trust Initiative – JTI
Launch of the Burundi Project
Policy paper on « Our Response to Disinformation »
5 Studies on Media Impact
Key numbers
10
10
Media operations in 20 countries, on 3 continents12522
12522
Hours of audio programmes327
327
Hours of video programmes10602
10602
Articles on the Web1159470
1159470
Users of our websites542172
542172
Followers on Facebook and Twitter545
545
Medias supported7
7
Million regular listeners of our 6 media (Kantar survey 2020)Our Operations in 2021
Our Impact
We like Radio Ndeke Luka very much because it changes our way of seeing things. It opens our eyes on misinformation and how we have to verify information before we act. Awareness must continue.
Testimony gathered in the Central African Republic during a focus group organized in the village of Voudambala, near the town of Mbaiki, with a group of 12 young women aged between 15 and 29 years old.
When you arrive in a place, you are disoriented. On the radio, very important information is given. It is thanks to Studio Yafa that I learned there was a camp in such and such a place and that I could go there. Otherwise I would have just wandered around the town.
Abdoul Ouedraogo (not his real name), displaced Burkinabe.
Project expenditure
| 2021 projects | in CHF |
|---|---|
| COVID- 19 | 3 089 816 |
| CAR | 2 719 426 |
| Niger | 1 901 108 |
| Mali | 1 836 763 |
| Headquarters | 1 464 083 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 199 458 |
| DRC | 604 836 |
| Madagascar | 478 417 |
| Transitional Justice | 411 094 |
| Myanmar | 284 876 |
| Bangladesh | 216 411 |
| Burundi | 107 310 |
| New projects | 74 228 |
| Research | 64 083 |
| Tunisia | 50 329 |
| Media education | 4 245 |
| TOTAL | 14 506 483 |
Our 2021 Accounts
Operating account of Fondation Hirondelle (in Swiss francs)
| 2021 | 2020 | |
|---|---|---|
| INCOME | ||
| Public funding | 12 322 964 | 12 089 166 |
| Private funding | 2 043 238 | 1 420 153 |
| Other income | 828 310 | 743 837 |
| TOTAL INCOME | 15 194 512 | 14 253 156 |
| Income allocated by the Fondation | 1 071 770 | 900 210 |
| Tied funds | - | - |
| Allocated funds | 14 122 742 | 13 352 947 |
| 2021 | 2020 | |
|---|---|---|
| EXPENDITURE Direct project expenditure | ||
| Staff | 6 905 149 | 6 940 431 |
| Operations | 5 672 498 | 4 804 555 |
| Equipment | 464 752 | 446 061 |
| 13 042 399 | 12 191 047 | |
| Administrative expenditure hirondelle | ||
| Staff | 638 466 | 732 241 |
| Operations | 478 480 | 329 482 |
| Equipment | 31 472 | 37 391 |
| 1 148 418 | 1 099 114 | |
| Fundraising and communication expenditure | ||
| Staff | 246 538 | 201 192 |
| Operations | 68 989 | 116 678 |
| Equipment | 139 | - |
| 315 666 | 317 870 | |
| TOTAL EXPENDITURE | 14 506 483 | 13 608 030 |
| Operating result | 688 029 | 645 125 |
| Financial results | ||
| Financial income | 121 | 456 |
| Loss on foreign exchange | -184 212 | -127 475 |
| -184 091 | -127 019 | |
| Exceptionnal result | ||
| Exceptionnal Expenditures and Incomes | -13 368 | -1 311 |
| -13 368 | -1 311 | |
| Annual result before allocations | 490 570 | 516 795 |
| Allocations / deductions | ||
| Allocations to equity capital | -490 570 | -516 795 |
| Surplus/(deficit) for the year | - | - |