R42,000 cheque, said: “The Goedgedacht Trust is extremely
grateful to Conversations for raising this money for us, which
we will be using to fund our important work on food security,
with a specific focus on the transfer of skills around small
scale organic agriculture. We will be investing time, money
and effort in establishing living gardens at all our Path Out
of Poverty (POP) centres that will demonstrate the potential
of growing food at a household and community level. This
will improve nutrition and reduce expenses, thus promoting
the community-based economy. This large donation from
Conversations will go a long way in helping us to achieve our
aims in this regard.”
The next Conversations JHB event will be on Wednesday 16th
March at Protea Hotel Parktonian All-Suite in Braamfontein.
The April event will be on Thursday 14th at Hyatt Regency
Johannesburg.
Conversations in Cape Town is run through a Facebook page
at www.facebook.com/conversationsza. In Johannesburg, the
page is www.facebook.com/conversationsjhb.
Andrew Howard - CONVERSATIONS
Since this particular fundraising period for Goedgedacht
ended, Conversations has become a programme of the Other
Foundation, a Johannesburg-based African trust that gathers
support for those who are working to protect and advance
the rights, well-being and social inclusion of LGBTI people in
southern Africa.
Shekeshe Mokgosi, the Public Engagement Manager at
the Other Foundation, said “The Other Foundation is
committed to contributing to the expansion of the field of
African philanthropy. This involves raising money through
programmes such as Conversations to promote and support
innovative and effective strategies for social change with a
particular focus on supporting LGBTI people to realise their
full potential as individuals and full members of society.”
The Other Foundation’s next Cape Town event will be
held at Palma Cape Town, an Italian restaurant on Bree
Street, on Wednesday 30th March.
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