Fundraising guide

Originally a student body campaigning for an end to apartheid in South Africa, today CUSAFE continues to facilitate the support of education projects in South africa and many other Sub-Saharan African countries. CUSAFE helps coordinate the sixteen college SAFE schemes as well as promoting awareness of the issues and concerns relating to the educational needs of this region, within the university community. SAFE schemes are a vital source of funding for several NGOs and charities working in this region to promote education. SAFE schemes are sustainable, have minimal administrative costs and all the money raised is from direct contributions of members of Cambridge University.

The academic year 2002-3 saw CUSAFE expand its activities - the central committee took up a fundraising activity for a fantastic project called the Edutainer Appeal. This project is now completed and the edutainer installed at Thari-ya-Bana (Baby in a Blanket) pre-school, Soweto. This new, secure and brightly painted edutainer-classroom, fully equipped with books, chalkboard, tables, toys etc., has now profided its first class of pre-school children with an education which will ensure that the start of their mainstream schooling can be as successful as possible. The pre-school is run and maintained by the African Self Help Association and fabricated and installed by the Bright Kid Foundation.