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 would like to ask you to help People with Acute Needs in Africa Wanting to Rebuild and Renew Their Lives. Can You Help?
• What Is ReLive?
ReLive is one of CENFACS’ Spring campaigns and a bridge between CENFACS’ Winter Lights and Spring Relief seasons.
ReLive advocacy, which is both an advocacy tool and a programming framework, aims to provide help, protection, assistance and economic security to affected populations in Africa. It is designed to plead for help to the peoples and communities whose lives and livelihoods have been destroyed to rebuild themselves. The current appeal will try to achieve this for the People with Acute Needs in Africa this Spring 2026.
Although this appeal is a seasonal appeal related to Spring, it is also a consolidated one following our Winter Light appeals. It is a strategy to plan, fund and implement response to emergencies and disasters in Africa.
• What Is the Focus for ReLive in 2026?
The 18th issue of CENFACS’ Once-a-year Spring Appeal for Renewing Lives (ReLive) will focus on advocating for the support of People in Acute Needs or Those in the Most Serious Humanitarian Crises in Africa who require help to rebuild and renew their lives this Spring 2026.
Indeed, this Spring 2026 humanitarian needs in Africa are at record highs with millions of lives/people requiring urgent rebuilding and renewal due to the intensification of civil wars, regional armed conflicts, severe climate shocks, massive displacement, and resulting famine conditions.
Statistics and facts speak for these Acute Needy requiring rebuilding and renewal.
According to ‘humanitarianaction.info’ (1),
“In 2026, more than 56 million people [in Southern and Eastern Africa] are estimated to need humanitarian assistance, representing 24 per cent of the global humanitarian caseload and a decrease compared to 2025, mainly as flash appeals in the region expired”.
Likewise, in its country analysis on Burkina Faso ‘acaps.org’ (2) notes that
“In 2025, over two million people – nearly 10% of the population – are internally displaced, while 39,000 refugees and asylum seekers, mainly from Mali, remain in the country”.
Additionally, the website ‘rescue.org’ (3) states that
“Nearly 800,000 displaced people [in Tigray] still reside in the region, living in dire conditions with limited access to basic services”.
Moreover, ‘unocha.org’ (4) points out the critical funding gap in the Democratic Republic of Congo and its consequences on those in acute needs by saying that
“The consequences of underfunding were already evident in 2025. For example, reduced operational capacity led to the closure of more than 1,000 nutrition centres, depriving children suffering from severe acute malnutrition of essential treatment… Due to insufficient funding, the 2026 humanitarian response will focus on 7.3 million people, out of nearly 15 million individuals who require life-saving assistance and protection”.
These few statistics and facts provide some information in terms of acute needs in Africa. The most acute crises are centred in Sudan, the Sahel, the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, and the Horn of Africa.
• What Is ReLive in 2026 about?
It is about working with those in the most serious humanitarian crises in Africa to create enhanced relief so that they can rebuild and renew their lives. They need rebuilding, renewal and support due to the convergence of armed conflict, climate-induced disasters, and economic distress.
• Who Needs Rebuilding, Renewal and Support (RR&S)?
This appeal will cover all those needing RR&S, particularly but not specifically the following affected populations:
σ Those who were forcibly displaced and under famine conditions in cities like El Fasher (in Sudan)
σ Affected populations in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger where violence has triggered massive displacement
σ Women and children requiring nutritional assistance in the region surrounding Uvira and Bukavu in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
σ Communities in Tigray, Amhara, Oromia in Northern Ethiopia where they are enduring continued displacement
Etc.
The People with Acute Needs in Africa require support of all kinds as they face high vulnerabilities.
• Key Vulnerabilities They Face
They include the following:
σ Women and girls face high risk of gender-based violence and lack of maternal health services, particularly in Mali and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
σ Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons are trapped in temporary settlements with limited protection
σ Health and school facilities have been catastrophically destroyed and are requiring long-term rehabilitation
σ Communities in Southern Africa affected by extreme flooding between late 2025 and January 2026 need urgent infrastructure and agricultural recovery
σ Rural pastoralists and farmers in the Horn of Africa facing La Niña-induced drought need to manage crop failure and livestock losses.
Etc.
• What ReLive Campaign Will Bring to the People with Acute Needs
The Campaign will help meet rebuilding and renewal needs like
σ Healthcare facilities, water systems, and local food production in Sudan
σ Reconstruct razed villages, damaged schools, and transport infrastructure in the Sahel
σ Re-establish health and create special protections from gender-based violence in the Eastern DRC
σ Rebuild economic base for pastoralists and farmers
σ Provide clean water, education, and healthcare to the Internally Displaced Persons
σ Rebuilding destroyed homes for communities in South Kivu (DRC)
σ Restoration of basic services and civilian infrastructure for communities in the Central Sahel
σ In brief, rebuild and renew lives in a gradual, safe and sustainable way.
Like before, the Campaign is done through Gifts of Renewing Lives or Life-renewing Projects.
• What Are Gifts of Renewing Lives (GoRLs) and Life-renewing Projects (LRPS)?
• • Gifts of Renewing Lives or Life-renewing Gifts
In terms of poverty reduction, Gifts of Renewing Lives (GoRLs) refer to charitable initiatives, often in the form of vocational training, income-generating assets, or direct cash transfers, designed to move people from a state of dependance and extreme poverty to one of sustainability, self-reliance, and dignity.
This approach focuses on breaking the cycle of poverty by providing the necessary resource for families to change their circumstances permanently, rather than solely relying on continuous emergency aid.
Examples of GoRLs include the following:
Income-generating assets (e.g., providing tools), asset upgrading (e.g., giving materials), direct cash transfers (e.g., to purchase tools or start a business), restoring dignity and agency (e.g., empowering people with skills), lasting impact (e.g., creating long-term stability), capacity building and training (e.g., to gain skills to find job or start a business), community-led development (e.g., to identify their own problems and execute local solutions).
In brief, GoRLs are the presents to break the generational cycle of poverty. They are an investment that enables those who receive them to transition from survival mode to thriving.
• • Life-Renewing Projects
Life-renewing Projects (LRPs) refer to focused initiatives designed to restore, improve, or fundamentally change the quality of life, environment or community for the better. The term is mostly used in the contexts of community-powered residential retrofitting (such as the European Union’s ‘LIFE Renew-it’ project) and of biodiversity/environmental restoration (such as ‘RENEW’). It can also be used in the context of humanitarian relief work.
LRPs have core principles, which are:
σ Participatory: It involves the people are directly impacted by the change
σ Sustainable: It focuses on long-term ecological or social viability
σ Transformative: It moves beyond mirror repairs to fundamentally battering conditions.
In the context of poverty reduction, there is a difference between LRPs and GoRLs.
• • The Difference between GoRLs and LRPS
The difference between a gift of renewing lives (often conceptualized as direct, sometimes faith-based, relief, or life-changing gifts) and a life-renewing project (structured, systemic, and community-driven initiatives) lies in the scope, duration, and approach to empowerment.
A GoRL refers to direct, often one-time or tangible assistance (gifts) that provide immediate relief, such as emergency kits or microfinance funds that change an individual’s immediate circumstances.
A LRP refers to systemic, long-term programmes that involve community-driven, sustainable change, such as collective home retrofitting or comprehensive community rehabilitation aimed at changing the structure of poverty.
Although GoRL addresses immediate needs and provides hope, it can help beneficiaries to develop LRP which builds systemic, lasting, and sustainable change.
So, LRPs are poverty relief and Spring like gifts designed to materialise ReLive advocacy 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 2026 Gifts will be about bringing the same benefits to the People with Acute Needs in Africa Desperately Wanting to Rebuild and Renew Their Lives in Africa.
• 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 or materials to choose from and enable the creation of 20 Reliefs (that is, impacts or values) to select from to make helpful differences to the acute needy.
Please find below these gifts and what a donation of, for instance, £10 can bring in terms of relief.
1) Gift of Reconstruction
£10 will serve
~ to rebuild infrastructures such as damaged schools, water systems, roads and healthcare clinics in the African Sahel (Relief 1)
~ to create a stable and welcoming environment for the Internally Displaced Persons (Relief 2).
2) Gift of Climate Change Mitigation
£10 can assist in
~ mitigating the adverse impacts of climate change (Relief 3)
~ promoting sustainable resource management to prevent displacements caused by environmental disasters (Relief 4).
3) Gift of Transportation
£10 will contribute to voluntarily and safely transport the internally displaced persons from their place of refuge to their homes, as well as to connect them to opportunities (Relief 5).
4) Gift of Security
£10 can
~ secure basic services and civilian infrastructure for communities in the Central Sahel (Relief 6)
~ protect children from violence and human rights abuses (Relief 7).
5) Gift of Documentation
£10 will enable the acute needy to obtain and replace lost or damaged identity documents and have a legal status (Relief 8).
6) Gift of Sustainability
£10 can be an actionable amount tailored to provide tangible relief or farming tools/seeds for renewal (Relief 9), and community-level infrastructure like wells (Relief 10).
7) Gift of Dignity and Agency
£10 will contribute to the restoration dignity and agency by empowering people with livelihood skills development (Relief 11).
8) Gift of Protection
£10 will be used to provide protection from sexual and gender-based violence, exploitation and abuse like in the Eastern DRC (Relief 12).
9) Gift of Basic Needs
£10 can help improve access to shelter, food, water, sanitation, healthcare and education for the acute needy and their host communities (Relief 13).
10) Gift of Assets
£10 can
~ provide income-generating assets (like production tools) to support the creation of jobs and income-generation opportunities in acute needy communities (Relief 14)
~ rebuild economic base and assets for pastoralists and farmers (Relief 15).
11) Gift of Psychosocial Support
£10 can be used to offer counselling to help returnees from internal displacement have a relief or cope with the trauma of involuntary displacements as well as reintegrate into their community (Relief 16).
12) Gift of Community-led Engagement and Development
£10 can help
~ involve the acute needy to identify their own problems and execute local solutions (Relief 17)
~ promote the ownership of the local development process (Relief 18).
13) Gift of Social Cohesion
£10 can facilitate the inclusion of the acute needs (particularly the returnees from internal dispplacement) to participate in their community and feel safe and respected (Relief 19).
14) Gift of Collaboration
£10 can ease to work with local African organisations and communities to ensure that interventions are culturally appropriate and responsive to the needs of the acute needy (Relief 20).
In total, our Spring 2026 Poverty Relief Campaign is providing to potential supporters 14 GIFTS of rebuilding acute needy lives in Africa in 20 RELIEFS to make this happen. These 14 Gifts and 20 Reliefs will help ensure that the acute needy have access to essential services and opportunities for poverty reduction and developemnt.
For this rebuilding or renewal to happen, support is needed towards LRPs.
These acute needy need your life-saving and -sustaining support NOW.
You can help save, rebuild and renew their lives this Spring 2026.
You can help the acute needy to help themselves.
• Supporting the Acute Needy
You can DONATE, PLEDGE AND MAKE A GIFT AID DECLARATION for £10 or any amount as a way of supporting the Acute Needy.
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. After donating, should you wish your support to remain anonymous; we will respect your wish.
THE FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN FOR THE ACUTE NEEDY will end by 20 June 2026.
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 Acute Needy in Africa at this Springtime.
Thank you for your generosity.
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• References
(1) https://humanitarianaction.info/document/global-humanitarian-overview-2026/article/southern-and-eastern-africa-0 (accessed in April 2026)
(2) https://www.acaps.org/en/countries/burkina-faso?acaps_mode=advanced&cHash=b73abd4f80c9c9f00819ce98c1578ec# (accessed in April 2026)
(3) https://www.rescue.org/article/ethiopia-crisis-why-millions-need-support-and-how-you-can-help (accessed in April 2026)
(4) https://www.unocha.org/publications/report/democratic-republic-congo/facing-critical-funding-gap-humanitarian-community-frdc-forced-strictly-prioritize-its-response-2026 (accessed in April 2026)
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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 Zero Waste 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!
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