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Big Give Winter Challenge

Network for Africa hopes to take part in Big Give Winter Challenge 2021 to continue raising funds for our mental health project in Rwanda. We will be asking for your support again this year – more to come soon.

How the Big Give Winter Challenge works

The Big Give Winter Challenge is an annual match funding campaign that Network for Africa has taken part in since 2012.

The initial match funds come from two sources –

  • Network for Africa needs to secure promises of funding (also known as pledges) over the summer (which are then collected in the winter); and
  • A Big Give Champion who contributes to the match fund.

This collective pot is used to double donations from online supporters when the campaign goes live.

From 2017 to 2020

A counselling group

You helped Network for Africa to raise over £92,000 for our SURF project in Rwanda. While the 1994 Rwandan genocide is well known, less understood is the conflict’s lingering impact on survivors’ mental health and therefore their ability to lead normal lives and support themselves. Many orphans had to raise their siblings, some are single mothers, and others have been cheated out of their inherited property by distant relatives and strangers. The funds have helped to train Rwandan counsellors and lay counsellors so they can provide counselling to genocide orphans, in fortnightly group therapy sessions and one-to-one counselling.

In the years 2012 – 2016

You helped Network for Africa to raise over £70,000 for our Patongo Counselling Community Outreach (PCCO) programme in northern Uganda, where the recent civil war left many people traumatised. The PCCO transformed people’s lives by alleviating the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder and its associated social and economic problems.

Our Big Give Champions

Network for Africa is grateful to our Big Give Champions who have helped us to raise large sums of money over the years through their donations:

The Coles-Medlock Foundation | Friends of the Reed Foundation | Human Rights Fund | Reed Foundation – International

Make a Donation

With your financial support Network for Africa can give the counselling training needed to help resourceful and resilient community members leave the harmful legacy of conflict behind.

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Network for Africa UK

14 Saint Marys Street, Stamford
Lincolnshire PE9 2DF

Phone: 0203 951 0863
Email: information@network4africa.org

Network for Africa US

PO Box 6609
Charlottesville VA 22906

Email: information@network4africa.org

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Network for Africa is a charity registered in the UK - 1120932.

Network for Africa is a 501(c)(3) and our tax ID is 26-1502938.

Network for Africa is a charity registered in both the USA and the UK, but we use the spelling most commonly used in Africa on this website.

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