Friends:
The Giraffe-Heroes Foundation is looking back at a year full of surprises – in many ways. One thing is for sure, our slogan, Where there are Giraffes there is Hope, perhaps has never been more fitting than during these days…..
We devoted a lot of time and resources to our Giraffe for Climate Adaptation – The Bees and Trees Initiative – . Even though the crowd-funding campaign was without success, the cooperation among Dimi Dumortier, Hendrik Haers, André Wermelinger, Chris Malins, Cosco and ourselves was much of a reward and produced a good understanding of how to cooperate in the future.
Then there is our newly found cooperation with Kanthari, Sabriye Tenberken and Paul Kronenberg. It is absolutely delightful to have someone as a partner who has developed an operating program under which the Giraffe Spirit is groomed in young people from all over the world so that they can become successful change makers in their native communities.
And since three month’ by now Yampier is conducting weekly podcasts with Kantharis and Giraffes alike (these are in fact different names for the same or very similar characters) which is a great contribution in the process of bringing these fascinating personalities closer to us and providing an opportunity to reach out. Yampier, thank you so much!
Last not least, together with Thomas Witte, I’m preparing a rather specific fundraising application for donor foundations with the aim to receive necessary funding for a growing number of activities in 2021. Please let me know if you are interested and we are glad to provide a copy of the document.
With Season Greetings for a Merry Christmas and a Fortunate 2021!!
Tom & the GHF Team
PS: If you like what we are doing and are not a member yet, we would be greatly delighted to see you joining!