Welcome to CENFACS’ Online Diary!
23 August 2023
Post No. 314
The Week’s Contents
• All Poor, Poor Children, Young Carers and Families Need Your Support!
• Following the Direction of Poverty Reduction this Summer via Marine and Coastal Ecosystem Services, Trending Topic in Focus from Wednesday 23/08/2023: Supporting Services
• Happiness and Healthiness Journal – Creative Activity No. 5: Create Your Journal of Trust
… And much more!
Key Messages
• All Poor, Poor Children, Young Carers and Families Need Your Support!
All poor, children who need networking to protect them, undervalued young carers and poor families with children trying to tackle poverty via sports in Africa; they all need your donations and gifts. They need your assistance as the following data and facts speak for them.
According to the United Nations Development Programme and Oxford Poverty and Human Development (1),
“534 million (47.8 percent) poor people live in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2023” (p. 6)
“The number of poor people deprived in nutrition is around 245 million in Sub-Saharan Africa and almost 80 percent of poor people (i.e. 444 million) lacking access to electricity live in Sub-Saharan Africa (p. 12)
Likewise, the World Health Organisation’s Regional Office for Africa (2) finds from its work on the number of children unvaccinated in Africa that
“An estimated 33 million children will need to be vaccinated in Africa between 2023 and 2025 to put the continent back on track to achieve the 2030 global immunization goals that include reducing morbidity and mortality from vaccine-preventable diseases”.
The above-mentioned figures about the number of poor people tell us that there is a need to do something about this large number of poor in Africa where poverty is experienced in intensity and incidence. The number of unvaccinated children provide an indication of lack of health protection of these children.
Additionally, there are those poor who are lacking basic connectivity that could have helped them to navigate their way out poverty. Yet, they need basic connectivity. As ‘weforum.org’ (3) puts it
“In times of disaster, basic connectivity is a form of aid that connects people to the resources critical for survival and enables humanitarian organisations to quickly deliver life-saving information”.
The same ‘weforum.org’ adds that
“Technology can go where people cannot and where rescue efforts put the lives of responders at risk”.
Moreover, there are young carers (aged under 18) in Africa who take all sorts of caring responsibilities and roles such as collecting wood for energy to warm homes and cook a meal, looking after their family members and communities, cooking, cleaning, etc. They provide this support at their own expenses as they miss opportunities of education and learning. Their substantial, regular and unpaid care is not properly valued.
They are as well poor children and youth who have no access to sports and sustainable development opportunities to help them escape from poverty. There is a need to help and invest in poor children and youngsters (aged between 5 and 18 ) to take the opportunities of the sports sector to reduce poverty and enhance sustainable development in Africa.
All poor, unprotected children, undervalued young carers, distressed poor and those poor suffering from the lack of opportunities in sport development and sustainable development; they all are asking for support to reduce and or end the type of poverty they are experiencing.
Their requests are summarised inside the 2023 Edition of CENFACS’ Summer Humanitarian Appeal Projects.
The projects making this appeal include the following:
√ Win against Distress in Africa
√ All Gifts for All Poor
√ International Networking and Protection against the Cost-of-living Crisis
√ Iconic Young Carer
√ ELCLASSICO International.
Except CENFACS’ Win against Distress in Africa, the other four projects have been highlighted under the Main Development section of this post. The highlight about CENFACS’ Win against Distress in Africa can be found at cenfacs.org.uk/supporting-us/
The above five projects require donation or funding or influence.
The fundraising and influencing campaign for them will end by 22 September 2023.
To support and or enquire about these humanitarian relief appeal projects, please contact CENFACS.
• Following the Direction of Poverty Reduction this Summer via Marine and Coastal Ecosystem Services, Trending Topic in Focus from Wednesday 23/08/2023: Supporting Services
The last episode of our trending series in following the direction of poverty reduction via Marine and Coastal Ecosystems will be on Supporting Services.
In this last episode, we are going to try to understand these supporting services and to explain the way by which we will be following the direction of poverty reduction via supporting services.
• • Understanding Supporting Ecosystem Services
Supporting ecosystem services can be understood depending on the way one tries to define or interpret them.
For example, the ‘millenniumassessment.org’ (4) contends that
“Supporting ecosystem services are ecosystem services that are necessary for the maintenance of all other ecosystem services [i.e., provisioning, regulating and cultural ecosystem services]. Some examples include biomass production, production of atmospheric oxygen, soil formation and retention, nutrient cycling, water cycling, and provisioning of habitat”. Ecosystem services are the benefits people obtain from ecosystems.
Another example comes from Katrina Brown et al. (5) who use a table relating to ecosystem services from coastal and marine ecosystems which contribute to the wellbeing of poor coastal dwellers (p. 17). For them, ecosystem supporting services include habitat provision, support for aquatic life cycles, hydrological cycle and nutrient cycling. The key ecosystems providing services linked to these supporting services are coral reefs, mangroves, seagrass; open ocean currents; coastal forest, wetlands, mangroves; and various coastal ecosystems.
Regardless of the way in which one tries to approach supporting ecosystem services, the commonality in these definitions is that supporting ecosystem services are services that are necessary for the production of all other ecosystem services. In other words, they underpin or support other services to function.
However, our understanding of supporting ecosystem services should not limit to the support they give to other ecosystem services. Our understanding needs to go deeper in trying to explore what else they can do, particularly what they can do for poverty reduction.
We can go deeper by following the direction of poverty reduction with or via supporting ecosystem services. It is our in-depth understanding of how supporting ecosystem services can contribute to poverty reduction.
• • Following the Direction of Poverty Reduction via Supporting Ecosystem Services
It is well known that supporting ecosystem services have indirect benefits to humans since humans benefit from them by way of the other types of ecosystem services. For example, supporting services (such as mangroves and estuaries as habitat and nursery for fish and other marine species) sustain provisioning services on which people rely for their livelihoods. Because of that, can we argue that there are links and relationships between supporting services and poverty reduction?
• • • Possible links and relationships between Supporting Services and poverty reduction
After quantifying the links and relationships between ecosystem services and poverty, Katrina Brown at al. (idem) argue that
“Supporting [and regulating] services are valued, but their role in poverty alleviation is not clear”.
Following their case study on poverty and ecosystem services in urban and peri-urban areas, Katrina Brown et al. (ibidem) think that
“The urban and peri-urban coastal poor are dependent on ecosystem services [including] to exposure to health risks resulting from inadequate sanitation and pollution in places like Mozambique”.
They call for urgent need to broaden understanding of the links between poverty and ecosystem services in urban and peri-urban areas.
It emerges from the studies of Katrina Brown et al. and of others about marine and coastal ecosystem supporting services and coastal poverty two messages:
1) the coastal poor indirectly rely on supporting services to decrease their vulnerability
2) the coastal poor bear the costs of ecosystem degradation and loss of ecosystem systems.
Considering what we have just said so far, perhaps the best way of finding out these links and relationships, if they exist, is to help in following the direction of poverty reduction through supporting services.
• • • How can you help in following the direction of poverty reduction via Supporting Services?
Each of our community members and supporters can follow the direction of poverty reduction via supporting services.
For those of our members, supporters and audiences heading towards coastal areas this Summer or just interested in this trending topic, they can enquire about whether or not supporting services are helping coastal poor to reduce poverty.
For those who have stories with hard evidence or are conducting studies on this matter, they can add their inputs by respectively sharing their stories or findings with us.
For example, those who may have opportunity to talk to coastal poor communities about the impacts of Marine and Coastal Ecosystem Services on them, they can share their findings with us. This is the same for those who have been involved in or running any pieces of research on these services in the form of focus discussion group, a pilot research project, a survey, etc.
The above is our way of Following the Direction of Poverty Reduction via Marine and Coastal Ecosystem Supporting Services.
To follow the direction of poverty reduction via marine and coastal ecosystem supporting services with us, please contact CENFACS.
• • Concluding Note on Our Summer Trending Series
To conclude this Summer series of trending work, let us finally say that Following the Direction of Poverty Reduction via Marine and Coastal Ecosystem Services has improved our understanding on how marine and coastal ecosystem services (MCES) can help to reduce poverty, particularly through provisioning and regulating services they provide.
Marine and coastal ecosystems contribute or enhance climate aspects of sustainable development. However, the ability of poor people to benefit from MCES depends on barriers they face which could be related to access to resources, technology, markets and other factors. There is a need to have disaggregated data on coastal poor in order to know how these services are helping them.
• Happiness and Healthiness Journal – Creative Activity No. 5: Create Your Journal of Trust
The lingering effects of coronavirus, extreme weather and the cost-of-living crisis may have perhaps made some people to be sceptical or lose trust in poverty reduction. Yet, there is a need or reason to keep faith in the reduction and end of poverty.
You can create your journal for any aspects of Summertime linked to trust. You can explain your experiences, feelings and thoughts in terms of happiness and healthiness about trust over this Summer. You can use surveys, metrics and data about trust to write your journal.
Your journal of trust can cover any of the following three areas: trust in poverty reduction, trust in people/communities/institutions and initiatives that build, develop and sustain trust. Let us give some examples of what one can include in each of these journals.
• • Journal of Trust in Poverty Reduction
You can record your thoughts, feelings, experiences, souvenirs and memories about the following:
promoting trust where trust is lost, dealing with disinformation and distrust about poverty reduction, struggling to cope with trust in poverty reduction, etc.
• • Journal of Trust in People and Communities
You can record your thoughts, feelings, experiences, souvenirs and memories about the following:
correcting inaccuracies and misinformation, stopping the spread of false information/news within your community/network, building trust with people through transparency, speaking about the most trusted person in your community, talking about faith in your social networks (e.g., family and friends), etc.
• • Journal of Initiatives to Develop Trust
You can record your thoughts, feelings, experiences, souvenirs and memories about the following:
building and protecting standards of trust, rebuilding trust in each other, explaining interactive initiatives you have taken to protect trust, monitoring and collecting feedback to track changes in trust, etc.
• • Journal of Initiatives to Build Forward Together Trust
You can record your thoughts, feelings, experiences, souvenirs and memories about the following:
not supporting a return to the endemic structural disadvantages and inequalities, transforming your relationship with nature, dismantling structures of discrimination that disadvantage poor people, and building on the moral and legal framework of human rights that places human dignity at the heart of policy and action, etc.
The above four areas are just an example of the many about trust and journals of trust. If you have a different area of interest in trust that you would like to write for your Summer journal, please feel free to do it.
• • Impact Record and Share of Your Journal of Trust
You can impact record your thoughts, feelings, experiences, souvenirs and memories in relation to happiness and healthiness about trust over this Summer. This can be recorded in your journal and be shared by the end of Summer 2023.
To impact share the contents of your happiness and healthiness journal relating to happy, healthy and trustful Summer 2023; as well as to help build a better Summer holiday experience, you can contact CENFACS.
Extra Messages
• All-in-one Impact Feedbacks: Report on Reports
• Focus Group on Sustainable Security in Old Age
• CENFACS’ be.Africa Forum e-discusses Sports Economy, Competitive Advantage and Poverty Reduction in Africa
• All-in-one Impact Feedbacks: Report on Reports
Last month was our Analytics and Impact month. As part of the Analytics and Impact month, we asked some of you to report or give some feedback in your words, numbers, voices and infographics on the experiences you had about the projects and programmes we delivered in the last financial year.
We asked for two feedbacks: feedback from individuals as programme and project supporters and users, as well as feedback from organisations (Africa-based Sister Organisations). Some of you responded and others did not. We would like to thank those who responded.
For those who responded and gave us their mailing address, they will be contacted and will receive a copy of the above mentioned report.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank them again for their testimonial and experiential support.
• Focus Group on Sustainable Security in Old Age
One of the focal areas of the CENFACS’ 80th Issue of FACS, which deals with ‘Pension and the Reduction of the Old Age Poverty in Africa‘, is sustainable security in the old age. Sustainable security embodies the need to address the interconnected drivers of insecurity for the elderly by including economic, environmental and social sustainability for them while going beyond these well-known elements of sustainability.
We would like to focus on this area of security, in particular by encouraging needy people to learn and know the issues surrounding sustainable security in old age. We are going to gather opinions, perceptions, attitudes and insights from the participants around sustainable security in old age. The outcome to be yielded from the focus group will feed our efforts to hep reduce poverty, particularly but not exclusively old age poverty, and enhance sustainable development.
To take part in the focus group, please contact CENFACS.
• CENFACS’ be.Africa Forum e-discusses Sports Economy, Competitive Advantage and Poverty Reduction in Africa
There are arguments that sport is a promising sector in terms of development potentials and can be used to make real jumps on the road of poverty reduction and sustainable development in Africa. However, the Agence Française de Développement (6) notes that
“Sports only represent 0.5% of African Gross Domestic Product (GDP), compared to 2% of GDP in other parts of the world”.
Despite the low level of contribution of sports to Africa’s GDP, there is a development potential of the sports sector. These powers and resources not yet made use of provide arguments in favour of the development of sports sector and economy in Africa. These arguments revolve around comparative and competitive advantages that Africa possesses in comparison to other regions as far as sport is concerned.
• • Africa’s Advantages in Sports Economy Compared to Other Regions
Africa has a number of advantages in various areas, like:
√ Africa has both absolute and relative cost advantages to offer good quality sports products and services at lower costs and through competitive economies of scale compared to other regions of the world
√ Africa can produce zero net sports goods and services more cheaply than other places of the world without destroying the environment
√ Africa has unexploited pools of raw talents and skills in sports
√ Africa can have a favourable and competitive advantage if it develops and applies policies to nurture and retain home-grown talents and abilities
√ Africa is endowed with a great number of entrepreneurs per capita
√ Africa is mostly populated with young populations
√ Africa’s sports industries have the capacity to generate extra money or revenue that can be invested in poverty reduction programmes, projects and activities
√ Africa can link the appraisal and development of industrial development projects with the development of sport complexes and infrastructures that can help reduce poverty in local areas hosting those projects
√ Africa can relate its sports sectors with other industries (such as hospitality, hotels, health, transport, tourism, education, forestry, agriculture, mining, and so on)
etc.
• • Question for e-discussion and Thought
From the above-mentioned arguments and other ones, CENFACS’ be.Africa Forum is asking the following question:
What can Africa do to best use its natural endowments and assets to continue to invest in sports industry and economy to further reduce poverty and enhance sustainable development?
Those who may be interested in this discussion can join in and or contribute by contacting CENFACS’ be.Africa, which is a forum for discussion on matters of poverty reduction and sustainable development in Africa and which acts on behalf of its members in making proposals or ideas for actions for a better Africa.
To communicate with CENFACS regarding this discussion, please use our usual contact details on this website.
Message in French (Message en français)
• Le Forum ‘Une Afrique Meilleure’ de CENFACS discute en ligne de l’économie du sport, de l’avantage concurrentiel et de la réduction de la pauvreté en Afrique
D’aucuns soutiennent que le sport est un secteur prometteur en termes de potentiel de développement et peut être utilisé pour faire de véritables sauts sur la voie de la réduction de la pauvreté et du développement durable en Afrique. Et purtant, l’Agence Française de Développement (5) note que
“Le sport ne représente que 0,5% du produit intérieur brut (PIB) africain, contre 2% du PIB dans d’autres parties du monde”.
Malgré le faible niveau de contribution du sport au PIB de l’Afrique, il existe un potentiel de développement du secteur sportif. Ce développement potentiel fournit des arguments en faveur du développement du secteur et de l’économie du sport en Afrique. Ces arguments tournent autour des avantages comparatifs et compétitifs que possède l’Afrique par rapport à d’autres régions en ce qui concerne le sport.
• • Les avantages de l’Afrique dans l’économie du sport par rapport à d’autres régions
L’Afrique présente un certain nombre d’avantages dans divers domaines, tels que:
√ l’Afrique a des avantages de coûts absolus et relatifs pour offrir des produits et services sportifs de bonne qualité à moindre coût et grâce à des économies d’échelle compétitives que d’autres régions du monde
√ l’Afrique peut produire des biens et des services sportifs de bonne qualité à moindre coût que d’autres endroits du monde sans détruire l’environnement
√ l’Afrique dispose d’un vivier de talents et de compétences bruts dans le sport
√ l’Afrique peut avoir un avantage favorable et compétitif si elle élabore et applique des politiques pour prendre soin des talents et des capacités locaux
√ l’Afrique est talentueuse avec un grand nombre d’entrepreneurs par habitant
√ l’Afrique est principalement peuplée de jeunes populations
√ les industries sportives africaines ont la capacité de générer des fonds ou des revenus supplémentaires qui peuvent être alloués à des programmes, projets et activités de réduction de la pauvreté
√ l’Afrique peut lier l’évaluation et le développement de projets de développement industriel au développement de complexes et d’infrastructures sportifs susceptibles de réduire la pauvreté dans les zones locales où ces projets seront implantés
√ l’Afrique peut relier ses secteurs sportifs à d’autres industries (telles que l’hôtellerie, la santé, les transports, le tourisme, l’éducation, les mines, la sylviculture, ainsi de suite)
etc.
• • Question pour discussion et réflexion en ligne
D’après les arguments mentionnés ci-dessus et d’autres, le Forum ‘Une Afrique Meilleure’ de CENFACS se demande la question suivante:
Que peut faire l’Afrique pour utiliser au mieux ses richesses naturelles et ses atouts pour continuer à investir dans l’industrie et l’économie du sport afin de réduire davantage la pauvreté et de renforcer le développement durable ?
Ceux/celles qui pourraient être intéressé(e)s par cette discussion peuvent se joindre à et / ou contribuer en contactant le Forum ‘Une Afrique Meilleure’ de CENFACS, qui est un lieu de discussion sur les questions de réduction de la pauvreté et de développement durable en Afrique et qui agit au nom de ses membres en faisant des propositions ou des idées d’actions pour une Afrique meilleure.
Pour communiquer avec le CENFACS au sujet de cette discussion, veuillez utiliser nos coordonnées habituelles sur ce site.
Main Development
• All Poor, Poor Children, Young Carers and Families Need Your Support!
The following Summer 2023 Humanitarian Appeal Projects summarise the needs of All Poor, Poor Children, Young Carers and Families who Need your donation or funding or influence:
∝ All Gifts for All Poor
∝ International Networking and Protection against the Cost-of-living Crisis
∝ Iconic Young Carer
∝ ELCLASSICO International.
Let us briefly summarise these projects and the request of each potential beneficiaries relating to them.
• • Summer 2023 Humanitarian Appeal Projects
They are as highlighted below.
• • • All Gifts for All Poor (AG4AP)
AG4AP, which stands for All Gifts for All Poor, is the holiday makers’ and travellers’ free and voluntary contribution to poverty relief in Africa via CENFACS. It is a noble cause which consists of appealing to indiscriminately give a gift to the poor people in Africa, who are currently affected by multiple overlapping crises (such as the lingering effects of the coronavirus, changing climate and the cost-of-living crisis).
The feature of this appeal is that donations or funding are done without making any distinctions between the poor.
• • • • How you can support AG4AP
Donors or funders can support this project by giving a holiday gift or treat in kind or money to support those poor people suffering from these crises (e.g., the lingering effects of the coronavirus, changing climate and the cost-of-living crisis). A holiday treat is a perfect way to add a layer of happiness and healthiness to the poor.
For example, a donor or funder can donate £7 or any amount of money they can afford to urban and peri-urban coastal poor who are dependent on ecosystem services and who are exposed to health risks resulting from inadequate sanitation and pollution.
This amount can contribute to the improvement of their sanitation and help fight against polluting agents.
• • • • Who and what your support will help
Their gift will enable an urban and peri-urban coastal poor family to reduce the probability of catching diseases linked to poor sanitation; in doing so the family will improve its health and hygiene while surviving against the above mentioned effects.
• • • International Networking and Protection against the Cost-of-living Crisis (INPCC)
INPCC is designed to help and support vulnerably poor children to escape from HARMS, THREATS, ATTACKS, EXTREMISM, RADICALISATION and RISKS of any forms of exploitation, neglect and abuse in all contexts in Africa. At this time of the cost-of-living crisis, the threats and risks are higher than ever before. These threats and risks are even life-threatening and destroying in places of war like in the African Sahel.
To win the fight against the forces of exploitation and destruction of children and over the dangers children in Africa and elsewhere are facing, it requires winning the battle of communication via a reliable flow of information and connections.
Likewise, the fight against the cost-of-living crisis requires an international collaboration and exchange of information between all those who are working on poverty reduction and sustainable development.
Furthermore, if defence against harms, danger and threats from COVID-19 was done globally; the fight against the cost-of-living crisis can also be conducted worldwide.
• • • • How you can support INPCC
You can support this appeal by helping in networking and protection equipment or gift of communication to enable Africa-based Sister Organisations to speak loud and better access information about the cost-of-living crisis to protect people and communities. particularly vulnerably poor and unprotected children.
For example, a donor or funder can give £10 to contribute to the cost of running internet and mobile solutions to work remotely and collaborate with Africa-based Sister Organisations as way of exchange life-saving information and tools on child protection.
• • • • Who and what your support will help
It will help to raise awareness and take action against the forces of exploitation and destruction of children and young generation. It can as well help children who need social protection, particularly those who receive no child or family cash or tax credit benefits and those who are forced to live on or below £3.65 a day (at 2017 purchasing parity power).
• • • Iconic Young Carer (IYC)
IYC, which is a deserving cause that supports poor children and young people who prematurely become Africa’s unpaid caregivers and labourers because of poverty, aims at improving the quality of life of young caregivers and labourers by responding to their basic needs and human rights.
In times of the lingering effects of the coronavirus, extreme weather and the cost-of-living crisis; young carers have been forced to take caregiving and labouring role side by side with adults. They are often doing it for free and without any financial help. These young carers deserve support as well.
So, supporting these young carers could mean mitigating the lingering effects of the coronavirus, changing climate and cost-of-living crisis on them. Your support can help preserve the lives of future generations.
• • • • How you can support IYC
You can donate whatever you can to support these iconic young carers to end these effects.
For example, a donor or funder can provide material or £5 to buy distance learning materials to help these young carers to access e-reading and digital books or to buy new books (including the cost of shipping) to support these young carers in need and suffering from digital divide.
• • • • Who and what your support will help
Your donation will help to pay for the educational and development costs of these poor children who miss school opportunities and prematurely become young caregivers and labourers. It will also assist in tackling any health issues (like emotional issue) they experience due to their premature caregiving roles and responsibilities.
• • • ELCLASSICO International (EI)
ELCLASSICO (which stands for Elevating Local Community Lives and Achievements through Sports, Sustainability and Inclusion to Common Objectives) is a CENFACS combined Sports Development, Child Protection and Sustainable Development initiative that aims at reducing child and youth poverty, while protecting children and bringing a better change to impoverished people, communities, children, young people and future generations in Africa. It is international as it involves more than one nation in Africa.
ELCLASSICO is also the Sports Development Manager’s Project, which focuses on the function and role of the Sports Development and International Managers, local elements of sustainability and aspects of Sports Development to deliver the poverty reduction outcomes in the African context and within the framework of reference of the future world of sustainable development we all want.
To organise any sports development activity and sustainability activity for children, these activities must be safe and child protected. It means that in the preparation of these activities, some health (e.g. COVID-19 secure) and child protection tests must be conducted. They also need to be sustainable, that is meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. So, integrating health and safety rules as well as various dimensions of sustainable development will help to protect these activities and everybody involves in them.
• • • • How you can support EI
You can support EI to reduce poverty for families whose children would like to engage with sports and sustainable development activities. You support will enable the three aspects of this project to stick together; aspects which are: child protection, physical and sustainability aspects.
For example, a donor or funder can give less than £10 to help provide food packages to feed a family of five to seven. The food package will enable any of children benefiting from it to take part in sports development as ELCLASSICO International helps to tackle child poverty through sports development, child protection and sustainable development activities.
• • • • Who and what your support will help
Your giving will have a triple effect:
√ Protection of children, young people and their families
√ Sensitisation about climate change and environmental issues
√ Support of their development through sporting activities and other events.
• • Donation or Giving in Kind or Your Influence Regarding these Four Summer 2023 Humanitarian Relief Appeal Projects
Those who would like to support the above mentioned beneficiaries can donate money and / or give in kind or their influence.
• • • Money donation
At this challenging time of the cost-of-living crisis, we know that it is difficult for some people to donate. For those who are in position to donate, there is no limit in terms of minimum and maximum amount to donate, despite the examples of amount we have given above.
You can donate and or support the way it suits you and your affordability.
CENFACS will accept any amount to be given or donated.
• • • Giving in kind
For those who would like to make a donation in kind, it will be a good idea to check with us that what they are giving will help to meet the above stated needs. This will help to save time, money and the environment for both sides. Also, any donation in kind must be COVID-19 secure and health proof.
• • • Donating your influence
You can donate your influence to reduce or end poverty in Africa in the context of this Summer humanitarian relief campaign.
To donate, please contact influential persons (or those having the keys) to reduce or end poverty experienced by all poor, children in need of protection, unpaid young carers and poor families with children trying to tackle poverty via sports in Africa.
You can as well influence the things or factors that determine poverty and hardships experienced by the above-mentioned poor.
Thank you in anticipation for your willingness to make helpful difference to All Poor, Unprotected Poor children, Unpaid Young Carers and Families Tackling Poverty via Sports at this challenging time of the lingering effects of the coronavirus, changing climate and the cost-of-living crisis.
For more details about ways of supporting the above initiatives and other ones, please contact CENFACS.
Please remember, the fundraising campaign about the above mentioned projects will end by 22 September 2023.
CENFACS will accept any support given during and beyond the duration of this campaign.
Please do not wait to donate as the needs are pressing and urgent NOW.
We look forward to your generous support to make helpful difference for the All Poor, Poor children, Young People and Families in Africa
Thank you for your generosity.
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• References
(1) United Nations Development Programme and Oxford Poverty and Human Development (2023), Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2023, Unstacking global poverty: Data for high impact action at https://hdr.undp.org/system/files/documents/hdp-document/2023mpireportenpdf.pdf (accessed in August 2023)
(2) https://www.afro.who.int/news/africa-needs-vaccinate-33-million-children-put-progress-back-track (accessed in August 2023)
(3) https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/01/4-ways-technology-can-play-a-critical-role-in-disaster-response/ (accessed in August 2023)
(4) www.millenniumassessment.org/documents/document.767.aspx.pdf (accessed in August 2023)
(5) Brown, K., Daw, T., Rosendo, S., Bunce, M. & Cherrett, N., (2008), Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation: Marine and Coastal Situational Analysis; Synthesis Report at https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/57a08bb640f0b652dd000e36/MarineandCoastal_Synthesis-Report.pdf (accessed in August 2023)
(6) https://www.afd.fr/en/actualites/africas-sports-economy-window-rapidly-changing-continent (accessed in August 2023)
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• Help CENFACS Keep the Poverty Relief Work Going this Year
We do our work on a very small budget and on a voluntary basis. Making a donation will show us you value our work and support CENFACS’ work, which is currently offered as a free service.
One could also consider a recurring donation to CENFACS in the future.
Additionally, we would like to inform you that planned gifting is always an option for giving at CENFACS. Likewise, CENFACS accepts matching gifts from companies running a gift-matching programme.
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