WHAT EVENT OR PROJECT OR PROGRAMME OR CAMPAIGN THAT NEEDS SUPPORT ▼

We always have initiatives that need funding and/or other forms of support. 

We are currently appealing to you to support 12 ways of creating and sustaining peace for those in need in Africa, the Festive Season December 2019 to January 2020.

 

 

Bringing Peace to people in need this Festive Season for only £5

Please help meet basic life-sustaining needs for those in need.

Being in pressing needs of basic essentials of life could mean that you have no food, no education, no income, no sanitation, no health and no capacity to function as human beings.

Your Gift of Peace could mean helpful difference to those in pressing needs of survival.

 

=> WHAT IS A GIFT OF PEACE?

 

CENFACS’ Winter Gift of Peace to Africa is

 

• A CENFACS Wintry Gift Appeal initiative to support people living in poverty in Africa

• A festive life-sustaining support that helps reduce poverty and bring sustainable peace

• A festive life-giving and changing gift to acknowledge and do something about poverty over the Festive period, which is also an occasion to trans-give and think of those who are not as fortunate as others, those who don’t have peace because of poverty, particularly the ones living in the developing regions of the world like Africa.    

 

=> GIFTS OF PEACE: 12 WAYS OF BRINGING AND MEETING WISHES OF PEACE OVER FESTIVE TIME

 

In total, there are twelve selected Gifts of Peace to wish and donate over the Festive period, which are: climate, change, freedoms, security, togetherness, sustainability, recovery, democracy, friendship, justice, inclusion and creation. 

These selected Gifts highlight poverty issues that the majority of people in need in Africa face in their daily life. 

We have briefly illustrated below what a donation of for example £5 as a gift can do for each of the twelve Gifts of Peace. 

 

1) £5 AS A CLIMATE GIFT

Can help to buy building and housing materials to protect the people in need against the adverse impacts of bad weather and support climate refugees with low-carbon humanitarian relief products

2) £5 AS A GIFT OF CHANGE

Can be a long-lasting relief that assists in covering basic health costs for income poor people to use local rural medical clinic facilities and purchase medical drugs to change life into a healthy one.

3) £5 AS A GIFT OF FREEDOMS

Can contribute to the costs of training course helping poor people to develop skills about free speech and advocacy while setting them free from exposure to the forces of violence and global extremism or fundamentalism.

4) £5 AS A SECURITY GIFT

Can support poor defenceless and displaced people who have been subject to violence and armed attacks, as well as help them safely return to their homes and rebuild their lives in the context of peace process.

5) £5 AS A GIFT OF TOGETHERNESS

Can help the poor people acquire communications technologies (such as mobile phones) and access digital skills as an expression of sharing together basic but improved means of reducing poverty.

6) £5 AS A GIFT FOR SUSTAINABLILITY

To meet poor people’s needs of accessing sustainable and green energy for cooking and heating with the result of reducing deforestation and loss of natural land while protecting bio-diversity.

7) £5 AS A GIFT OF RECOVERY

Can offer a lifeline support to the poor people to rebuild their homes, properties and livelihoods after natural disasters; and restore life normality and bring hope for the future.

8) £5 AS A GIFT TO DEMOCRACY

Cannot buy democracy but £5 can fund the costs of peaceful and transformative activities towards democratic values and help the poor people to participate in the process of reclaiming their democratic and human rights to reduce poverty and to choose

9) £5 AS A GIFT OF FRIENDSHIP

To ethically invest in the poor people’s income-generating ideas and activities, in  doing so it is about acting as a friend and fool who can help them to develop and implement their poverty-relieving ideas.

10) £5 AS A GIFT OF ECONOMIC JUSTICE

Can help the poor people to open up a money mobile account and buy an insurance product for their life; as well as to set up an income generation activity for those who able to do it; in doing so you help bring or do economic justice to them.

11) £5 AS A GIFT OF INCLUSION

To enable the poor people to take part in needs assessment workshops and surveying programme so that their needs are better included and recognised and their poverty problems get tackled; as well as providing them with inclusive space to exchange ideas and showcase their cultural products about the reduction and end of poverty.  

12) £5 AS A GIFT OF CREATION

To provide purchasing power to the poor people to buy basic farming and gardening tools to produce crops and create basic wealth to reduce poverty; in doing so this will empower them to become basic wealth creators and income generators to survive and win over poverty.  

In every gift mentioned above, there is relief and a touch of poverty relief.  Although we have given above an example of £5 as the amount of donation for each gift, there are no limits on the amount of donation.  That is why we are appealing to supporters or donors to go extra mile in their support.

By providing a gift of peace or a £5 (or more), this will help people in need to leave poverty and hardships behind and may be for ever.

A full 2019-2020 Festive Gifts Guide presenting them is available at CENFACS on request. 

Remember! For every gift (donation) you give, we can together help unfortunate and needy people in Africa to change their lives.

 

=> HOW IT WORKS: 3-Step Poverty Relief Gift

 

Three simple steps to make a Gift of Peace: 

Step 1:  Choose your Gift of Peace

Step 2:  Donate

Step 3:  Give needy people a Peaceful and Happy Festive Time

 

We hope that you will be able to join us by considering this Wintry Gift Appeal to support deserving causes and pressing human needs of poverty relief in Africa, this Festive Season.  

You can still have a great Festive Season while voluntarily giving something to those who do not have.

We look forward to you becoming one of our Life Savers over the Festive Time.  

To smooth the process of supporting these projects, CENFACS is ready to post to you and or to any other potential supporters projects proposals or an information pack about them for consideration to support. 

Likewise, CENFACS is ready to talk to you/potential funders about them if wanting us to do so.

To donate, gift aid and or support differently, please contact CENFACS.  You can donate over phone, via email, text and by filling the contact form on this site. 

On receipt of your intent to donate or donation, CENFACS will contact you.  However, should you wish your support to remain anonymous; we will respect your wish.

Thank you in anticipation for your willingness to give and share peace with those in need in Africa.

 

THIS WINTRY CAMPAIGN ENDS on 31 January 2020.  

However, CENFACS will accept any support given beyond the duration of this campaign.

Please do not wait until the end of January 2020 to donate as the needs are pressing there.

We look forward to you, to your help for those in need in Africa so that they can start the New Year and New Decade with helpful difference.  

Thank you again for your generosity and with best wishes of the Season!

 

How you can further support CENFACS ▼

You can help by

● Sending a one-off voluntary giving
● Sending a yearly contribution to CENFACS
● Providing a legacy or donation
● Sponsoring a particular project, need, cause or programme
● Promoting particular events or publications or even activities

You can as well support with No Direct Cash Donations 

Those who would like to support CENFACS by using other means than directly giving cash, they can consider the following.

• Give unwanted goods and items to CENFACS charity e-store (details about this way of supporting are given below)

• Sign up for a Gift Aid declaration

• Nominate CENFACS for a donation at charity fundraising and donation events

• Select CENFACS as your preferred charity for donation from advertising revenue

• Choose CENFACS as a donation recipient of some of the profits raised from online shopping

• Donate your unwanted and unused points and cashback to CENFACS as your chosen charity from your loyalty shopping rewards or good cause gift cards

• Name CENFACS as your favourite deserving cause from click online option “donate cashback to charities”

• Donate any unwanted excess points of your loyalty card from apps

The above is just the few examples of helping that one can think of to support CENFACS without they have to directly give cash.

Supporting by Donating Unwanted Goods and Products for CENFACS Charity e-Store ▼

You can donate unwanted and unneeded light and easily movable goods and products to CENFACS’ Charity eStore to support good and deserving causes of poverty reduction. 

After donating products or goods, these will be converted into cash to support good causes or our work.  The cash converted can also be used to support CENFACS‘ work.  

When thinking of donation, please ensure that your donation does not bear high costs for us to handle, otherwise the impact you want to create through your giving will be reduced or nullified.   

Items to donate include:

Mobile phones, IT accessories, laptops, digital and communication devises, art and design objects, children gadgets and toys, and miscellaneous.

Notes for goods and products donors (Products Acceptance Policy):

1. • We do not take electrical equipment and devises

• • Items donated need to be functioning, not requiring fixing, repair or testing prior to use

• • Products given must have environmentally-friendly contents and be sustainable

• • We do not accept heavy items such as books, metals and a heavy bag of clothing

• • We do not take items requiring large storage capacity as we are not a profit making organisation

• • We do not refund or give back the products donated as we expect products givers or donors to act in good faith and in the interest of poverty alleviation

• • We do not take stolen properties or items in dispute

• •  We can arrange for collection if you live locally

Help us to convert your unwanted goods or products into cash to help reduce poverty.

To donate or enquire about your products donation, please contact CENFACS.

Thank you for your support!

Choosing the Beneficiaries of your Support▼

You can choose or indicate

● The type of beneficiaries of your contribution
● The project or country where your support has to be allocated
● To help CENFACS’ running costs
● To leave to CENFACS the choice (freedom) to decide on the best possible use of your support
● To delegate your responsibility to CENFACS to execute your wishes

Reporting on your support ▼

 

As a result of your giving, you can ask us to send you

● Either the report or a summary of change that your support has brought to beneficiary people.

● Either the report on the project or area or even country that you have supported

● Either the report on CENFACS’ works and activities

MAKING A DONATION TO CENFACS IS NOT ONLY ABOUT THE TRANSFER OF MONEY.  IT IS FIRST AND FOREMOST THE SHARING AND DEVELOPMENT OF KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

Executing your wishes to support ▼

● Through donation in cheques, postal orders, vouchers, online and paper free payments made payable to CENFACS

CENFACS offers straightforward and easy ways for individuals and organisations to help projects and project beneficiaries. Donations can be made directly to CENFACS Fund for Poverty Relief and Development or CENFACS grant making programme or even indirectly to help with CENFACS‘ running costs in order to deliver its programmes.

Making a donation to CENFACS is not only about the transfer of money. It is first and foremost the sharing and development of knowledge and skills. Through our Development Programmes, we work in strategic partnership with Africa-based organisations through a participative and bottom-up approach to set up and develop sustainable initiatives. Our African project partners initiate projects and CENFACS help them to plan, execute, control and close the project in the most successful way. CENFACS also helps them to develop a viable, accountable way to helping them to help themselves in building their capacity, particularly in the ever changing development landscape as it deems the case now with the 2030 Agenda and Global Goals for Sustainable Development, the new International Climate Change Agreement and the African Union Agenda 2063.

● Other ways of supporting us include: Legacies, gifts, sponsorship, premises, web advertising, direct marketing, events, training, digital technologies, public relations and social media (communications).
It is in this way your support can make a world of helpful differences.

Volunteering at CENFACS ▼

<> About CENFACS Volunteering Opportunities

Volunteering at CENFACS is about giving the opportunity to volunteers to acquire direct exposure to CENFACS’ work and/or to compliment development-oriented learning with practical experience for those who are planning to take up a career or to further their practice in international development. We review our volunteer opportunities every quarter. To find out and/or discuss what opportunity is available, please contact All in Development at CENFACS and read/check our BLOG page every quarter. When contacting us,
● Either you could let us know the role or kind of work you would like to carry out
● Or we can explore together areas of work or role which may be suitable for you
● Or even we could simply tell you what voluntary position is available

<> Applying to become a CENFACS Volunteer

To apply for a voluntary position you need to send us your Curriculum Vitae (plus a covering note/letter) and or to complete the following online form and submit to CENFACS