Sometimes, fundraising is not about money. In-kind resources can be just what you need. Change the Game Academy changed my thinking about fundraising. I thought that fundraising could only be done from rich countries, but now I know that it can also be done successfully locally.
The Change the Game Academy training helped us to renew our work and our knowledge about mobilising support, emphasizing the importance of planning and systematization for political action. It is also valuable to experience all this in a context of so much care, affection and grace in the details.
Local fundraising is fun, it is creative, it connects you with your stakeholders. What I like the most, is the idea of ‘friend-raising’. We find sponsors that support us with ICT: laptops, mouses, internet, that’s of great help to our students.
It is so important to know how to carry out political advocacy activities. You cannot continue to mobilise support in an amateur fashion.
We need to involve the community in every aspect of mobilising support. The programme belongs to them. That is what I realized through Change the Game Academy.