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AFC/PL001	BANANA APPEAL By supporting the Banana Appeal, sponsors can help provide one million meals to hungry children in Zululand, South Africa - and impress their suppliers, motivate their staff and win more business: cost £60,000. Banana Appeal has provided over a million school meals to malnourished children and AIDS orphans over the last five years through its food to school schemes in Zululand, South Africa. These schemes not only feed the children but also help many attend school, where they gain a vital education. Today the charity supplies over 1,600 meals daily through schools, providing 1,100 children with fruit each day and over five hundred children with a hot meal of rice and beans (or similar). The charity is on a mission to deliver one million school meals a year, to help the forgotten children and orphans of Zululand. This may sound expensive, but, at only 6p per day, £60,000 will pay for a million meals of fruit. At only 10p per day to feed a hot meal, £100,000 provides a million school meals of rice and beans (or similar). Over 2.5 million South African children are orphans and it is predicted that 32% of South African children will be orphans by 2015 due to AIDS. Today South Africa has the largest HIV population on earth. Each orphan is left to a terrible fate, often in abject poverty. By providing malnourished children with food security at school, Banana Appeal can help remove them from begging or worse, allow them to attend school and give the hope of a better future. It also operates numerous schemes through SavetheZulu.org, including child sponsorship. "We are in the process of setting up a sports academy in Zululand and need £10k for this - and our ultimate goal is to set up the world's largest child sanctuary, caring for thousands of children. This project will cost £2.3 million. Our work has been featured on radio in the UK, South Africa and Canada, in papers and magazines in the UK and South Africa and on UK TV. We seek private and corporate sponsors to help expand our work. Please contact our founder Kevin Allen at kev@BananaAppeal.org or on 0783 773 1131". Contact: Kevin Allen. Address: Office 12 Maritime House, Off Alfreds Road, Wirral CH43 5RE. Tel.: 0783 773 1131. E-mail: info@BananaAppeal.org. link to website	Ongoing
AFC/PL002	BIRDS - STAGE DECADENCE - SOUTH AFRICA Bringing to life a beautiful production of original dance choreography, puppetry, original music and lighting ... is Stage Decadence. The company is made up of established professionals, home grown dancers and performing arts/youth development ambassadors. Nicki-Ann Rayepen and Noleen-Noel-Hefele from Stage Decadence Productions, along with established international designer Sibu Dladla (Jaded Lifestyles) are the conceptualisers of this project. Drawing on the inspiration of nature, creatures of flight, their natural habitats and social issues ... Birds. This is a 100% South African work, from story, original music score and ground-breaking costume design to the unique combination of puppetry with dance, here lie the ingredients that create this unique show. "We have a team of ambitious project members, including Sarah Hill as Director (Cape Town Opera, Janice Honeyman) and two apprentice choreographers/assistants - hence equipping young performers with the 'know how' to operate in the business world of the arts, as well as talented up-and-coming dancers and choreographers. The debut performance is scheduled for June 2012 at the Theatre in The District in Cape Town and has already been accepted for its first Fringe Festival performance at the prestigious National Arts Festival 2012™ in Grahamstown. This will be a fifty minute production. We are incorporating different dance forms like Latin American Fusion, Contemporary, Classical/neo-Classical, Funk and Hip Hop and costumes using colour, feathers, gems and edgy fashion design together with clever shadow puppetry techniques and - of course - amazing lighting!   •   How this will be done The aim of this project is to transform young individuals and provide opportunities for work for artists in South Africa. We started with the process of pre-production. This takes us to the beginning of the rehearsal process in April 2012. This will be the process culminating in all the elements which our strong preparation and pre production have set in place. A strict pre-show rehearsal process will be in place for eight weeks, with Director, stage manager, managing cast and backstage, choreographers, assistants and performers. 1. Birds Of Paradise: these birds represent people who live in luxurious surroundings with lavish backgrounds, detached from the harsher environments of their counterparts. 2. Birds Of Prey: these birds represent the advanced bird, smarter, sharper, respected. 3. Birds of the City: these birds have evolved to survive in the concrete jungle; their plight - living in a harsh, manmade environment - makes this our last piece.   •   Conclusion: we are in need of sponsorship for this venture in order to fund a quality original product. A full proposal with visual presentation is available on request. As the funding is needed within the next two months, the sooner sponsors get on board the more exposure they will receive, as branding will be on all advertising and media material. Also, bear in mind that we will be profiling birds and endangered birds too - this is a strong environmental awareness aspect, offering associations with which many corporates would wish to be aligned. We look forward to your support! With thanks, the Birds team". Contact: Noleen Noel-Hefele. Address: 30 Upper Warwick Street, Woodstock, Cape Town, South Africa 7825. Tel.: 0730190265. E-mail: noleennoel@yahoo.co.uk.	Ongoing
AFC/PL003	FILMAID INTERNATIONAL UK Communities in crisis need knowledge and empowerment. FilmAid provides both, to millions of people suffering the effects of war, poverty, displacement or disaster. Film screenings provide a way to reach many people at once, overcoming literacy boundaries, bringing forth information where it is needed and inspiring hope where it is lacking. Since 1999, FilmAid has worked in partnership with other global aid organizations to bring critical information to more than a million people, in places as diverse as Macedonia, Kenya, Tanzania, Afghanistan and the US Gulf Coast. FilmAid engages communities to shape the messages most needed for their survival and strength. The charity works with communities to create films and videos in their own voice, and to show these films in the most impactful and appropriate settings. FilmAid screenings range from intimate discussion of forty people to large outdoor screenings, reaching tens of thousands at one time. FilmAid UK is looking for sponsorship for fundraising events and more. Contact: Vicky Suzman. Address: 11 Thurloe Square, London SW7 2TA. Tel.: 0207 581 6546. E-mail: vicky@filmaid.org. link to website	Ongoing
AFC/PL004	GENERATION FOR CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT Generation for Change and Development (GENCAD) is a UK-registered charity committed to helping communities experiencing extreme poverty in the Horn of Africa. Its aim is to work with partner organisations and communities on programmes and projects which have strong poverty alleviation objectives, such as: education; skills training; health care provisions; and income generating projects that empower the most vulnerable and needy communities. Currently GENCAD is working in North Eastern Province of Kenya in partnership with local community organisations, schools, and NGOs. The charity works with local partners in assessing needs and targeting assistance to the most deserving projects with a strong poverty alleviation component. This way they are able to maximise resource allocation and increase the number of beneficiaries. GENCAD organises an annual charity walk in July (Step Up for Africa Sponsored Walk) along Regent's Canal. "If you want to make a positive change to an orphan's well-being or believe that every child, no matter what background they come from, should be accorded a reasonable chance of achieving his or her potential, please help us by sponsoring this event". Contact: Abdirashid. Address: PO Box 2108, Ilford, Essex IG1 9LE. Tel.: 07950 539806. E-mail: admin@gencad.org. link to website	Ongoing
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AFC/0001	THE AFRICAN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION The African Conservation Foundation is working towards the protection and conservation of Africa's endangered wildlife and their habitats. Founded in 1999, ACF fills a unique niche by creating an Africa-wide network for information exchange and capacity building of conservation efforts in the region. Address: PO Box 105209, Msasani, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. Tel. +255 754 653881. link to website	Ongoing
AFC/0002	THE ANGOLAN ADVICE AND INFORMATION CENTRE The Angolan Advice and Information Centre provides free, high quality, impartial advice and information to Angolan nationals in Greater London and elsewhere in the UK. Its advice is always independent of the policies of any funders, as it develops its outreach work services to meet the needs the most vulnerable members of the Angolan community. The AAIC is now seeking sponsorship for a TV programme. The centre is planning a 30 minute programme about the community matters which affect members of the Angolan community in their daily lives. The programme will consist of news, interviews and music and the centre is aiming to have the programme broadcast on either OBE or BEN Television (available on the Sky network). Contact: Joao-Pedro Lunguela, Co-ordinator. Address: Imperial House, 64 Willoughby Lane, Tottenham, London N17 0SP. Tel.: 0208 808 1255. Fax: 0208 885 3471. E-mail: aaic@btinternet.com. link to website	Ongoing
AFC/0003	THE MALAWI EDUCATION TRUST (MATEMA COLLEGE) The objectives of the Matema Educational Trust are 1. To improve the quality of human resources in Malawi by   •   identifying 'beacon projects' where facilities can be established for vocational education by financing colleges, classrooms and equipment   •   providing vocational courses so that people can gain the necessary skills, either to enhance their employment prospects or, and preferably, so that they can start their own enterprises   •   providing the opportunity for school-leavers to improve their communication skills (literacy, numeracy, computing) so that they can upgrade their leaving certificate and thereby gain employment; and 2. To indirectly contribute to the development process in Malawi by   •   supporting the nation's struggle in poverty alleviation by breaking the poverty cycle and initiating a grass roots model   •   promoting sustainability in the economy by introducing concepts and practices of energy and appropriate technology. The first project is to establish Matema College near Karonga in the northern region of Malawi. Sponsorship funds would help build the first classroom block. Much of Malawi's population is in distress through periodic crop failure during drought, HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB - and one of the world's highest population growth rates. After universal free primary education was introduced, enrolment leapt and primary schools have a pupil:staff ratio of 62:1, resulting in a considerable decline in quality. Entry to secondary education is highly selective, just 140,000 pupils gaining places in essentially fee paying schools, where theoretically the pupil/staff ratio is 36:1, but in reality is much higher. More vocational education is essential to empower people with the skills to start their own small business ventures. As the country is burdened with considerable national debt - unlikely to be relieved in the immediate future - and heavily dependent upon outside aid, it's extremely important to support the Malawi Government's intervention into vocational education. Contact: John Weeks. Address: 21 Oakhurst Avenue, Barnet, Hertfordshire EN4 8DL, England, UK. link to website	Ongoing
AFC/0004	TSOELOPELE WOMEN'S CLUB Tsoelopele Women's Club aims to create jobs for the needy. The club has opened a school where unemployed people are taught lifeskills like knitting shoes, catering, baking, etc. Club members run a soup kitchen for needy children. The club is seeking sponsorship support to continue its work. Contact: Mrs. Gladys Thinane. Address: 1636 Zone 10, Sebokeng, 1983 South Africa. Tel.: (016) 592-1617. Fax: (016) 592-1617. E-mail: rafube@telkomsa.net.	Ongoing
AFC/0005	WILDLANDS CONSERVATION TRUST Bio-diversity in KwaZulu-Natal, indeed in South Africa as a whole, is under severe threat. Recognising this threat, the Wildlands Conservation Trust aims to reverse this trend by developing innovative programmes to conserve biodiversity. These include support for both formal and informal conservation. Some of the programmes comprise conservation-based community development projects – so that previously disadvantaged communities can take ownership of biodiversity preservation and use it as an empowerment tool. There are also programmes that act as catalysts for the protection of threatened species and to foster increased conservation awareness amongst the people of South Africa. Concerned corporate organisations can help in a number of ways, for instance via sponsorship support of the Trust's events programme. Contact: Sponsorship Department. Address: PO Box 1138, Hilton 3245, South Africa. Tel.: +27(0)33 343-2669. Fax: +27(0)33 343-1976. E-mail: trust@kznwildlife.com . link to website	Ongoing