One of Alex’s fast-growing campaigns, #Hope4Alex, hosted a workshop on 23 June at Ikemeleng Youth Centre to assist leaders of local NPOs to register their organisations and look for sponsors.
The campaign was launched last year by NPO Rays of Hope to assist these institutions during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The workshop dealt with NPO capacity building which delivered some important points about running such an organisation.
Rays of Hope educational manager Bafana Mohale encouraged these NPOs to draw in young people to keep themselves relevant “By drawing in young people you breach the gap between young and old,” Mohale said.
“I would suggest that people utilise the correct channels to register their organisations.”
Spokesperson of #Hope4Alex and also the founder of Lufunani Family Centre, Andrew Tshikota said, “My organisation is still a child, so the reason I attended the workshop was to learn how to build an organisation and strategies on how to run it.”
He added that most of these NPOs took a hard hit due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the workshop was a way of reviving them.
“We are saying to those organisations that formed #Hope4Alex, ‘Remember why we started this, we started this campaign to save Alex and if we do not wake up our sleeping organisations then we might as well see the campaign die too.”
