Características principales

Método de recaudación de fondos Movilización de recursos con particulares, Venta de productos, Venta de servicios

Rural/urbano Rural

Resultado financiero neto (€) 7,911

ROI 9.0

Inversión de tiempo 12 months

Organización	Nguzo Africa
Tipo	CBO
Idoneidad	Poco experimentada
País	Kenya
Fondos necesarios para	Planting trees in three schools, promoting use of solar lanterns at household level, promoting use of domestic biogas units as clean source of energy
Período de acción	August 2012 - July 2013
Donaciones en especie recaudadas	n.a.
Tipos de donaciones	Individual donations and earned income
Tipos de donantes	Friends and members of Nguzo Africa

Resumen

Nguzo Africa is working in Narok South County, a rural environment where trees have been cut to enlarge the agricultural area. This is causing drought problems and lack of firewood. Nguzo Africa promotes tree planting, especially in the vicinity of schools and at the same time encourages the population to switch to renewable energy, such as biogas for cooking and solar energy for lighting. The current fundraising campaign was designated to raise sufficient funds to plant trees near three schools, while at the same time informing the community about the advantages of biogas and solar lighting. Personalised letters were sent to the ´Friends of Nguzo´ and several organisations. Nguzo Africa dedicated part of the income from its farm and tent hire unit to this purpose and also income from consultancies and services offered to the government. Kenyan Change the Game Academy partner KCDF matched the amount raised with an equal grant.
As a result of the action many households are now aware of the importance of using solar energy. Tree planting has also increased. Private nurseries were even struggling to meet the demand.

Consejos y lecciones aprendidas

Nguzo Africa will repackage Nguzo Social Enterprise of planting trees near schools, and sell it as a product to the county government, business community and local farmers.                   
Nguzo Africa is organising a dinner for local leaders, professionals, large scale farmers and the business community to support the initiative. When organising an event like this you have to take into account the costs of publicity materials, media attention, location bookings, etc. After all it costs money to raise funds and you have to budget for this.                    
Local professionals and business people should be made aware of the importance of giving back to the community. And don´t forget to give them proper recognition when they do donate. Personalised thank you letters, awards and maybe even their names linked to the initiative are some good ideas.                   
And finally: call regular community meetings to share the project outputs. With stakeholders share prompt and transparent financial and project status reports. This will encourage people to support your future projects.                   

Evaluación de Wilde Ganzen Foundation

Nguzo Africa tried to get matching resources from a local development institution and found this to be very difficult. This fundraising campaign taught them how important it is to involve the local community, local leaders, and local businesses in your activities. If you inform them well and continue to do so, if you give them proper appreciation and recognition when they support you, you may not even need institutional support in order to fund your projects. Nguzo Africa is making a strong plea for local fundraising and obviously learned a lot from this experience too; see their ´Tips and lessons learned´.