Businesses empowered with skills for writing proposals in Dobsonville
The purpose of the workshop was to help the community improve their proposal writing skills as well as provide them with the tools and knowledge to get head start in writing a compelling for their proposal.
The Lesego Tau Education Foundation hosted a proposal writing workshop for community based NPOs, NPCs, local business owners and interested residents on August 23, at Kopanong Community Centre, Dobsonville.
The purpose of the workshop was to help the community improve their proposal writing skills as well as provide them with the tools and knowledge to get a head start in writing compelling proposals.
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Lesego Tau Education Foundation Stakeholder Relations Manager, Rethabile Moloi said, “As a foundation we have realised that our community based NPOs, NPCs and local business owners have short-sighted knowledge of proposal writing which causes them to write to the wrong people and target the wrong stakeholders.
“This also hinders the growth of their organisations or businesses and that’s why we decided to host this productive workshop.”
Moloi added that they intend to hold the proposal writing workshop again in future because they think there are still a lot of people who will enter the NPO, NPC and business sectors who will need the knowledge and skills of proposal writing.
She further stated that as an educational foundation, they believe that the programme is essential because it will support the growth of numerous businesses and organisations, which will boost the South African economy.
Lebogang Ratlala who runs an after school programme said having previously struggled with proposal writing, she found the workshop to be very beneficial.
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“I’ve had a lot of trouble writing proposals in the past, so when I received the invitation to attend, I knew I couldn’t turn it down for anything.
“This workshop has helped me understand the process of writing proposals because sometimes we write proposal thinking they are good only to discover that everything we wrote was incorrect,” said Ratlala.
Johannes Seahlodi, a member of the Community Policing Forum (CPF) said, “Today’s session was very beneficial because coming from a committee that protects the community and fight crime, we don’t get assistance from the government and the stations we come from.
“So this workshop made us see that we have a chance to approach people who can help us with resources that can help us execute our responsibilities.”
