Take your step towards poverty eradication in Africa, IT’S OUR TIME! Join the movement and become an agent of change. Your support goes towards the development of sustainable business models amongst our vulnerable and impoverished brothers and sisters in Africa.
“It’s Our Time” is the watchword for a dynamic, ground breaking, proudly African campaign for AfricaWorks (AW).
We are boldly embarking on a yearlong public fundraising and awareness campaign “It’s Our Time”. The campaign is motivated and headed by ten select, self motivated and dynamic individuals who will work towards raising funds, awareness and creating a movement amongst the public to recognize their social and collective responsibilities to those in need and act upon it in order to help build Africa by Africans “IT’S OUR TIME”! It’s our time to help make protractible changes now, which will reap rewards amongst the marginalized that can be passed on from generation to generation thus contributing to the uplifment of Africa.
Funds raised will find its way into an AfricaWorks ‘regional bank’ from which AfricaWorks will feed its various Southern African country branch projects. AfricaWorks serves around 5 000 direct beneficiaries with its projects and we are enthusiastic, eager and raring to go with the aim of expanding this number enabling us to reach many more vulnerable groups suffering at the hands of poverty.
At the end of this one year journey, through sponsorships the team of Africans for Africa will climb Mount Kilimanjaro as our challenge for change for this cause, in order to further fulfill the objectives of raising awareness and driving funds to AfricaWorks and its mission of sustainable poverty alleviation. We wish to do this with an established media machine documenting this challenge. Upon this momentous occasion we will be thrilled to be able to take your companies name and brand message along with us to this great height.
(To find out more, read the two adobe proposals) Proposal 1 Proposal 2
Thus far the campaign has held a charity golf day embracing sponsors such as Daihatsu, Auto-international, Ecoweb, Photo-Fax, Where-Tell Transpo rt, Sperox, Trios, JKMG Marketing, TPT Transport Equipment, SamDay Holdings, and Southern Africa Commodity Brokers. The golf day was also featured in the largest Zimbabwean newspaper The Herald!
The campaign has also released silicon bracelets to create the movement and assist in raising awareness.
Our Other Campaign Strategies include:
- Involving large conglomerates, who will donate, contribute, support and affiliate themselves to the cause. (See Appendix D for a list of companies who have already contributed to this initiative).
- Production of merchandise which will be sold. Silicon bracelets in production.
- Hosting events to help create a buzz; a movement for sustainable poverty alleviation and allow this buzz to drive funds towards the cause.
- Mobilizing the youth.
- Searching for specific companies interested in sponsoring the Kilimanjaro challenge for change, for which we will take these companies name along with us to the highest point in Africa.
- Place AfricaWorks in the public eye in order for people to recognize of mission and its need. (Thus far we have been featured in the Herald Newspaper in Zimbabwe).
- Have an established media machine walk alongside us.
- Have a local celebrity endorse the campaign.
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To donate through the campaign go to http://www.africaworks.org/donations and reference IT’S OUR TIME CAMPAIGN. Additionally to sponsor the Kilimanjaro climb or find out more, please contact atjoseph@africaworks.org
