Update on donations

Thanks for bearing with us while the donation button has been down. Going forward, Paypal won't work for fundraising in South Africa. Our solution is to have donors pay their contributions directly to the Bulungula Incubator. This is, in fact, better as it reduces transaction fees.

So here's how to donate by credit card:

1. Click here to make a contribution via the Bulungula Incubator website. Donations are accepted in South African Rands (ZAR). To calculate into rands from other currencies, click here.
2. When prompted, choose "I'd like to support education activities" and complete your donation.
3. Email WOF at writeourfuture@gmail.com to confirm your donation. Please include your name and amount donated. This final step is the only way the WOF team knows that your donation has gone through.
   

We recognize that this involves several steps for you, but it is important to us that we are able to track our donors and donations.

Donations are still accepted by bank transfer, and details are listed on our "What can you do?" page. We ask that you still please send us a confirmation email.

Many thanks for your patience and support. We look forward to hearing from you soon!

technical difficulties

Thank you to everyone for the fantastic support during the first four days of our Bulungula School Feeding Initiative. To date we have raised the funds to feed 12 children for a year! We hope you will continue to spread the word and help our success grow.

Also, we are currently having some technical difficulties with our donation button. Please bear with us as we sort this out. We will let everyone know via the blog and Facebook once it has been reactivated. Many thanks in advance for your patience!

Write Our Future's launch

We are excited to launch WOF's first outreach project: the Bulungula Incubator's school feeding program.

In 2007 the Bulungula Incubator took action to rebuild the No-ofisi Primary School, a dilapidated mud structure on the Eastern Cape’s Wild Coast. In 2008, they started a school feeding scheme and set up a permaculture garden for vegetables for the lunches. No-ofisi is, however, a government school and in 2009 the government started funding their school feeding scheme. Now, at the start of 2011, the Eastern Cape Education Department has cut all funding for school feeding schemes due to a lack of resources. This is a devastating blow to impoverished families whose children depend on this one meal every day.

A word on BI

Both the Bulungula eco-lodge and the Bulungula Incubator (their sister organization) are deeply embedded in their local community and have been a source of job creation, community upliftment, and environmental stewardship. Read more about BI and their mission here or visit their website at www.bulungulaincubator.org.

A word on school feeding

School feeding schemes are powerful tools for change. Read more about why we support school feeding programs here.

The details

• It costs R3 per day to feed a child at No-ofisi. That is less than $0.43.
• R60, or roughly $8.50, will feed a school child for a month.
• R600, or roughly $85, will feed this child for the school year.

Our goal

To feed 100 children for a year at the No-ofisi Primary. To do this we need to raise $8500.

This is a time-sensitive issue and these children need our support now. WOF will transfer all donated money raised within the first two weeks of this initiative to BI on February 14^th. All subsequent funds in support of their school feeding program will be donated on a monthly basis.

To donate now, click here.

To learn more about how you can support WOF, click here.