Our first newsletter!
Newsletter November 2020 Vol.1
Welcome note from Founder
Wow! What can I say… our first newsletter already!? We have made so much progress since our Facebook launch about a month ago.
The Help4Nam Food Bank network initiative was founded by 3 Namibians now living and working in the UK. We’ve always had the idea and ambition to help our fellow Namibians back home and now seems to be the most pressing time. Our main aim is to help families who are struggling to feed their children. The most immediate challenge that low income families face is a lack of food and basic toiletry essentials. Food banks are a common (and increasingly more popular) operation here in the UK but the concept is not as familiar to Namibians hence we felt that a similar operating network would be an effective and self sustaining way to help stop hunger in children. It’s going to be a mammoth task but with your help, it can be done!
-Stephanie x
Food Poverty
We recognise that food poverty is also a concern here in the UK and that fundraising for the children in Africa is extra challenging at the moment, however; as people face the economic consequences of the pandemic and lockdown restrictions, helping the children in Africa has become even more urgent.
Help from friends and family
The current exchange rate is in our favour at the moment with a whopping N$20 received for just £1, your donations will go a long way to feed many families in the poorer communities in Namibia. We therefore appeal to our fellow expats and their friends and families abroad to please help in any way you can. Donate, spread the word, share our posts, or fundraise on our behalf.
Ndoro Children’s Charities
We are so very grateful to be partnering with a well established, registered charity here in the UK. Ndoro Children’s Charities have agreed to take us under their wing and to help us get off the ground by giving us a platform to raise awareness, fundraise and network via their website www.ndorocc.org.uk
Roseline Ndoro, founder of the charity is a Zimbabwean national residing in the UK since the 1970s. She initially founded the charity to help the AIDS orphans in Zimbabwe but it has since grown to become an umbrella charity that helps other projects elsewhere in Africa.
A very big THANK YOU also to our founder donors Alexis Collins, Claudine & Nick Collins, Faghma Coetzee, Sarah & Adam Hollier, Seb & Claire Collins and Bianca Fernandes who were the first to send us a donation. We now have £100 in the kitty already and these funds will go directly towards the set up of our new website!
If you would like to donate, please do so via our JustGiving Page
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/stephanie-collins-2
Trustees News
Our Board currently consists of 3 members: myself, Stephanie Collins as the Chair and Founder (based in London),
Marliese Williams-Gill as Co-Founder and Head of Fundraising (based in Manchester) and
Catherine Paisley as Treasurer (based in Liverpool).
We are also happy to report that we are in the process of registering Help4Nam with the Charity Commission.
Christmas Appeal
Do you shop online at Amazon? Did you know we can benefit from the purchases you make? Simply log in via smile.amazon.co.uk/ch/1120984-0 to shop in your usual way while donating 0.5% of your spend to us via NdoroCC- at no extra charge to yourself.
Coming soon!
* Our very own website! Watch this space….
* Text-to-Donate option for donors to make a donation via their mobile phone bill.
Please let’s keep in touch …
Facebook: Help4Nam Food Bank
Email: help4nam@gmail.com