By: Johanna Hendricks

Johanna Hendricks — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:42:29 +0000

I have read your emails and are really interested to learn more because we are in the rural West Coast Region of the Western Cape Province of South Africa. We have the Khoisan decendants in our area and development is slow because transport is too expensive. Most of the people in our region have seasonal work and earn less than $125 per month. Assisting rural projects with personal development is almost non existant in our area. the Foundation tries to support these project to the best of its ability. We have a a website http://www.wccf.org.za where you will see our region that we cover. this year we were not able to give grants to our projects. We have now adveritsed for a marketer in our area to assist us to run our Give As You Earn campaign. At the same time we are busy with endowment building and have acumalated at least $10750. I will appreciate it if there is a manner in which i can obtain more material on personal development from the COF website. We have an Annual Non Profit Conference where at 60 leaders are able to come together every year to learn and discuss with government representatives and service providers about the regions issues. the West Coast Community Foundation started in 2001 and is registered as Non Profit Organisation.I like to learn more and rupdate myself with current issues. It will be interesting to see what we in South Africa can learn form Rural America. Everybody is always focussing on the big cities. It is so true that some information that is developed for urban areas does not always apply to rural areas. Johanna Hendricks, CEO of the West Coast Community Foundation, South Africa

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By: Johanna Hendricks