Supporting Ligali

 

INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT
The ways in which you can support Ligali are flexible and often based on your personal circumstances.

Active Supporter (AS)
This would require you to submit your details (name, contact number and email address) via our Supporter Form, which we will then enter into our internal database where your information will be stored securely.

Our Supporter Form also requires you to list your particular areas of interest and a summary of the ways in which you can support the organisation. The main difference between an active supporter and a ‘occasional supporter’ is that we are permitted to contact you (during reasonable times and at a reasonable level) should we require your advice or assistance on a particular matter. You can clearly state the terms, level and means of contact on the Active Supporter Form.

What can I do?
Below are examples of the ways in which some of our current Active Supporters assist the organisation;

- Regularly (usually weekly) contacting us with information about news stories, websites, organisations, events and programmes that relate to our community.

- Provide feedback on our website and newsletters.

- Organise screenings of our film

- Promoting our events and our work amongst friends, family, work colleagues and other organisations.

- Conducting research on our behalf

- Writing letters of complaint to the relevant bodies (e.g. Broadcasters, CRE etc)

- Attend and help out during our events

- Keeping us informed of recent developments in the areas we work in.

- Providing legal advice.

- Undertaking specific projects or initiatives with or for us.

- Inviting Ligali representatives to participate as panel members and speakers in various community forums.

Occasional Supporter (OS)
As an Occasional Supporter (OS) you do not have to provide us with any of your contact details. Occasional Supporters tend to support us by undertaking some of the tasks mentioned above for the Active Supporter but to a much lesser degree.

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ORGANISATIONAL SUPPORT
It is a core part of our ethos that we should actively encourage interaction and interdependency of African organisations, regardless of their remit. It is particularly important that organisations with different emphasises work together to foster greater African unity and the pooling of resources. For example, mentoring organisations could work with Pan African focused organisations on a fundraising and cultural awareness raising event. Inevitably, each organisation will benefit from this union. We encourage all organisations to undertake this ethos of organisation union with a high level of ferocity.

Organisational support is not a one way process. We practice what we preach. Please see below for a list of ways in which African organisations can and should support each other on a practical and moral basis;

- Promote the events, campaigns, protests, initiatives etc of other organisations your website/ newsletter or by word of mouth.

- Keep each other informed about our organisations events and initiatives so that we can try to attend each others events.

- Do not hesitate to suggest ways in which other organisations can positively move forward. It is better that we speak directly to each other and be upfront with our views, than discuss such matters in a closed setting where they turn into meaningless chat.

- Share resources and information! Know where to get cheap computers? Let other organisations know! Found a block of recently built, relatively cheap office space? Share the information!!

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Supporter Form

Name:
Email:
Phone:
Area of Interest:	General Media Education and Crime Reduction Youth Concerns Asista WakeUp! Spirit Me2We
Membership:	Active Supporter (AS) Occasional Supporter (OS) Organisational Supporter (OGS)
Postal Address:
Please list your particular areas of interest (including a summary of the ways in which you can support Ligali)

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