By Jessica Huntley | Social Enterprise
We are 16 days in to the Global Giving Gateway Challenge and I am delighted to report that we are ¼ of the way to our target of £2,000, thanks to your support.
As the Gateway Challenge began we enlisted the volunteer support of 3 local students to assist with an overhaul and tidy of our stock room. The stock take will begin next week, to make sure we keep accurate accounts of our clothes assets. I am building a database of local businesses and embassies, for a sustainable supply of second hand clothes, and I will begin collections in the Johannesburg and Pretoria area next month to make sure that we have a continuous supply of stock for our community entrepreneurs to select from.
Next week we have a meeting with a Future Families colleague who runs the HIV support group in one of our communities. That group will be our pilot group for our training plans, and market research. This will help us to ensure that we plan a programme that will truly add value for community entrepreneurs wishing to take hands with us in this micro-business opportunity.
The profits that are sourced from this micro-business model will be recycled back into the Future Families original mission, 'to empower families to create their own future'. In our new Social Enterprise strategy we are working hard to re-position ourselves and scale up the income generating activities that our Enterprise Company runs, with the ultimate goal as financial self-sustainability. The shared value of a project such as Phetoho is important to us, as we seek to create empowerment environments for our communities; boost the local economies; and ultimately recycle the benefits from these activities back into our original services rendered in the community.
You can keep track of some of our recent activities in addition to our daily programmes via our Facebook page, where we often post photos and share stories.
Next month it is Global Refugee Day and we have activities planned around that day, and in its lead-up, to encourage awareness about the challenges that face refugees, and to provide them with a dignified forum in which to tell their individual story. We are partnering with UNHCR on a competition for story-telling.
We are grateful for the support of those who know and believe in our work, and invite you to share our excitement in this new strategic direction towards Social Enterprise.
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