How should a charity calculate beneficiary counts?
Define the unit, period, program, source, and deduplication method before publishing a people-reached figure.
What this means in practice
Household members, service visits, meal portions, bread collections, and infrastructure users are not interchangeable.
Repeated support can count as multiple service contacts but not multiple unique people without evidence.
Famidi avoids a lifetime total because its historical records do not support reliable cross-program deduplication.
What responsible proof looks like at Famidi
Famidi separates financial records, operational records, and field evidence because they answer different questions. It favors precise claims and can document work through supplies, infrastructure, process, wide scenes, and source trails without demanding maximum exposure from recipients.
Evidence should be read for what it directly supports. Archive coverage is not automatically a beneficiary count, a fundraising appeal is not proof of completion, and one image rarely proves an entire project cycle.
Check the underlying information.
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