BirdLife South Africa’s staff have been working remotely for almost 12 weeks and, very pleasingly, our team remain hardworking and productive.
The future is not going to be easy, but we’re planning for how we adapt and how we are innovative, especially in terms of fundraising. We need to continue to support our important bird conservation work and, with the world’s current and predicted future economic difficulties, it will certainly not be easy!
One of our 2020 fundraising initiatives is a raffle. The prize was going to be an all-expenses paid birding trip for two to Brazil, but Covid-19 put paid to that prize. We therefore changed it to a R100,000 cash prize.
We’re selling 1000 tickets at R500 each and thus far we have sold just under 500 tickets, so we’re halfway there. We would like to sell the remaining tickets as our organisation needs this funding to support…
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