We had great pleasure to welcome back Jason and Damian, from the Rock ‘n ride for Rhino team to celebrate the amazing effort our primary school students showed in the philanthropy challenge. Despite the chilly Cape Town weather, we enjoyed the morning listening to the adventures of the team and the stories the children shared, about their philanthropy experiences.
We handed over the astounding amount of money raised, R35416 by the 90 odd children that took part in the challenge. Well done to each and everyone that participated.
A special mention to Finn and Luke in Year 6, that went above and beyond what was expected and contributed a substantial amount of money from their website initiative – they certainly took action! A very successful event that helped raise money and spread awareness for this very worthy cause – to help protect our rhinos from poachers.
Well done everyone!
Leanne de Waal
Below is an article written by the boys about how they went about the challenge to raise such an amazing amount of money.
How we worked on our philanthropy challenge by Finn Ractliffe & Luke Glass
We took a long time to think about how to make a difference for Rock ‘n Ride for Rhino. We thought about aiming too high, aiming too low, what would work and how we could get people to understand why it was so important to give. Eventually we set a target that we thought might be achievable though would be a real challenge. We set our goal on R50,000.
To raise that amount of money we needed to make sure we had some credibility behind us to make people give – to let them know we were for real and their money would actually get to the rhinos. We had to use all the contacts and networks that we had – including those that our parents could give us. We also had to get a message out there so would have to use social media and have to talk far and wide.
We therefore attached our campaign to a credible non profit organisation, The Impact Trust. Through that connection we set up a “Wildlife Protector” page on the GivenGain charity giving website with an easy link at www.givengain.com/wildlifeprotector. This told the public what we wanted to achieve. We made a video to talk about our campaign and we emailed everyone we knew (and a whole lot of people that our parents knew). We tweeted to many different wildlife and nature conservation accounts, we published photos of rhino that we saw ourselves in the wild, we engaged Cape Talk who helped us get the message out there and at every opportunity we went back to our donors to tell them of our progress and get them to spread the word further.
So far we have raised R24,300. We would very much like to get to R25,000 at least and have also now written to Cape Union Mart to see if they would match our overall raise to meet our target of R50,000.
Even if the challenge is over, you can still give to this cause! Do It today!