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We always have initiatives that need funding and/or other forms of support.
We would like to ask you to support the following initiative:
Will You Help The Conflict-related Food Insecure in Africa to Rebuild and Renew Their Lives This Spring 2024?
This is a Spring 2024 Renewing Life Appeal to provide life-saving and food support to the forcibly displaced in Africa, particularly in Central African Republic, Chad and Republic Democratic of Congo.
It emerges from the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis published in March 2024 by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (1) that
“The number of severely food insecure people (IPC Phase 3 [Crisis] and above) was projected to 2.5 million in the Central African Republic between April and August 2024, including about 521000 people in IPC Phase 4 (Emergency). This situation reflects the impact of the conflict and civil insecurity, as well as the limited market access and rising food prices in the Central African Republic”(p. 2).
The same publication explains that
“From the latest Cadre Harmonisé (CH) analysis, nearly 3 million people in Chad are projected to experience severe acute food insecurity during the June to August 2024 lean period, including approximately 294000 people in CH Phase 4 (Emergency), as well as nearly 91000 Sudanese refugees in the departments of Dar Tama (Wadi Fira) and Kimiti (Sila Region), who are projected to be severely acute food insecure (CH Phase 3 [Emergency] and above” (p. 3)
It further highlights that
“According to the September 2023 IPC analysis, 23.4 million people are projected to experience acute food insecurity between January and June 2024 in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This is due to the intensification of the conflict in north-eastern provinces” (p. 3)
Also, according to the ‘reliefweb.int’ (2),
“One in five Central Africans is either internally displaced or found refugee abroad due to ongoing violence”.
The same ‘reliefweb.int’ (3) argues that
“Chad hosts nearly 1.4 million refugees impacted by the conflict in Sudan, making it one of the five countries with the highest number of refugees in the world”.
In a different report, ‘reliefweb.int’ (4) further states that
“Since the beginning of 2024, nearly 358000 people have been displaced in the Democratic Republic of Congo, bringing the total number of Internally Displaced Persons around 7.1 million. Women are 51% of the displaced population. More than 80% of displacement is caused by armed conflict“.
The above-mentioned figures speak for themselves about conflict-related food insecurity and human displacement in the Central African Republic, Chad and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Because of the similarities of conflict-related food events and humanitarian issues in these countries, we are launching a unified appeal to cater for the three countries. We are doing it through what we call Gifts of Renewing Lives or Life-Renewing Projects or ReLive Campaign. The underlying principle of ReLive Campaign is to help rebuild or renew lives.
• What Are Gifts of Renewing Lives or Life-renewing Projects (LRPS)?
Life-renewing projects (LRPs) are poverty relief and Spring like gifts designed to materialise ReLive Campaign by helping people to set free from multi-dimensional deprivations and hardships so that they can start up again, renew and rebuild their lives with hope.
LRPs are part of CENFACS’ African Rebuilding and Sustaining Infrastructures and Lives Programme. Spring Gifts of Renewing Lives are about bringing renewal, joy and hope to needy people. These Spring 2024 Gifts will be about bringing the same benefits to the peoples of these three African countries.
• What Are These Ways or Gifts of Renewing Lives?
This Spring, we are running 14 Gifts in a world of 20 Reliefs or Helpful Differences. What does this mean?
It means donors or funders have 14 Gifts of Renewing Lives to choose from and 20 Reliefs to select from to make helpful differences to the conflict-related food insecure peoples (CrFIPs).
In total, our Spring Relief campaign is providing to potential supporters 14 GIFTS of rebuilding lives in the three African Countries in 20 RELIEFS to make this happen.
• What Are These 14 GIFTS and 20 RELIEFS?
They are as follows.
1) Gift of Nutrition
£5 will help
~ to buy or cook a meal and alleviate food pressure that CrFIPs are experiencing (I)
~ to create food secure future for children in the areas of the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Chad affected by acute food insecurity (II).
2) Gift of Food Self-reliance
£5 can incentivise household initiatives for homegrown food by depending on their own capabilities, judgements, resources to enhance food independence (III).
3) Gift to Farming
£5 will assist in rebuilding farming through initiatives such as livestock farms and chickens (IV).
4) Gift of Investing in Girls’ Food Education
£5 can ameliorate girls’ food education conducive to the achievement of food security while reducing girl trafficking and early child marriage (V).
5) Gift to Sustainable Agriculture
£5 will make a difference by renewing small-scale and developing climate-smart farming activities (VI).
6) Gift to Finance Food Supplies
£5 can aid CrFIPs afford nutritious food and improve the overall quality of life (VII).
7) Gift of Equality in Access and Consumption of Healthy Foods
£5 will contribute
~ to stop difference in treatment in food availability, access, utilisation and stability among the CrFIPs (VIII)
~ to reduce food inequality due to the distributional asymmetrical impacts of the conflict on the CrFIPs (IX).
8) Gift of Entrepreneurship in Food Activities
£5 can support women to set up an income-generation activity (e.g., stalls or shops) by opening up or running food business (X).
9) Gift of Food Technology
£5 can assist in acquiring and employing modern technologies and sustainable practices to enhance crop yields and food products (XI).
10) Gift of Climate Change Mitigation
£5 can mitigate the adverse impacts of climate factors on food production like drought or heavy rains that affect crops and nutritious foods (XII).
11) Gift of Women’s Economic Empowerment
£5 can
~ open up ways of unleashing women’s capacity to make lasting contribution to food for their families and communities (XIII)
~ create economic opportunities for women to restore their destroyed livelihoods because of conflict (XIV)
~ generate/re-establish their earning power while providing more opportunities to have food (XV).
12) Gift of Vegetable Garden
£5 can ease
~ to harvest crops, develop sustainable source of fresh food and guarantee a consistent access to healthy food (XVI)
~ to enjoy fresh, delicious and natural vegetables (XVII).
13) Gift of Capacity Building in Food Produce
£5 can serve in
~ building the skills that women need to access credit, savings account, business support, to access to land and farming inputs like seeds (XVIII)
~ creating food-secure communities (XIX).
14) Gift of Food Sovereignty
£5 can enable CrFIPs to set up land-based education, food forests, and community gardens to fight food insecurity (XX).
The above-mentioned 14 Gifts and 20 Reliefs will help ensure that the conflict-related food insecure, who are already living below food poverty line, regain both short and long-term food security as well as to have healthy and fresh food produce all year long.
These conflict-related food insecure need your life-saving food support NOW.
You can help save, rebuild and renew their lives this Spring 2024.
You can empower CrFIPs to feed themselves.
• Supporting The Conflict-related Food Insecure Peoples (CrFIPs)
You can DONATE, PLEDGE AND MAKE A GIFT AID DECLARATION for £5 or any amount as a way of supporting the CrFIPs.
To donate, gift aid and or support differently, please contact CENFACS.
You can donate
*over phone
*via email
*through text
*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.
THE FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN FOR CrFIPs will end by 20 June 2024.
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 acute now.
We look forward to your seasonal support to make helpful difference to the CrFIPs in Africa at this Spring time.
Thank you for your generosity.
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• References
(1) FAO. 2024. Crop Prospects and Food Situation. Triannual Global Report No.1, March 2024. Rome. https://doi.org/10.4060/cd0022en (accessed in March 2024)
(2) https://reliefweb.int/report/central-african-republic/central-african-republic-situation-report-25-mar-2024 (accessed in March 2024)
(3) https://reliefweb.int/report/chad/chad-humanitarian-needs-analysis-and-response-plan-2024-enar (accessed in March 2024)
(4) https://reliefweb.in/report/democratic-republic-congo/democratic-republic-congo-internally-displaced-persons-and-returnees-february-2024 (accessed in March 2024)
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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.
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Give unwanted goods and items to CENFACS charity e-store (details about this way of supporting are given below)
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Sign up for a Gift Aid declaration
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Nominate CENFACS for a donation at charity fundraising and donation events
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Select CENFACS as your preferred charity for donation from advertising revenue
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Choose CENFACS as a donation recipient of some of the profits raised from online shopping
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Donate your unwanted and unused points and cashback to CENFACS as your chosen charity from your loyalty shopping rewards or good cause gift cards
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Name CENFACS as your favourite deserving cause from click online option “donate cashback to charities”
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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 e-Store 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):
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- We do not take electrical equipment and devises
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- Items donated need to be functioning, not requiring fixing, repair or testing prior to use
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- Products given must have environmentally-friendly contents and be sustainable
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- We do not accept heavy items such as books, metals and a heavy bag of clothing
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- We do not take items requiring large storage capacity as we are not a profit making organisation
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- 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
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- We do not take stolen properties or items in dispute
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- 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!
