SAMVOZA Remote Community Upliftment Project

SAMVOINT - Remote African Community Upliftment Foundation (RACUF)
Incorporating SAMVOA, SAMVOZA & SAMVOUSA
Updated 25th November, 2017
Supersedes previous date of 10th August, 2017
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We believe we should not attempt to duplicate what other organisations are doing and we should also break away from “just talking” about things, but actually “doing things”. ","decorations":[]}}],"paragraphData":{"textStyle":{"textAlignment":"AUTO"},"indentation":0}},{"type":"PARAGRAPH","id":"m5rl913447","nodes":[],"paragraphData":{"textStyle":{"textAlignment":"AUTO"},"indentation":0}},{"type":"PARAGRAPH","id":"a8ibw13448","nodes":[{"type":"TEXT","id":"","nodes":[],"textData":{"text":"Since 2015, SAMVOINT has focused on our “Remote African Community Upliftment Foundation” (RACUF), which is steadily gaining momentum. This differentiates SAMVOINT (SAMVOA, SAMVOZA and SAMVOUSA) from other veteran organisations, in that this community development program is entirely dependent on applying the skills of our members to the benefit of communities around us. 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Where SAMVOINT members can help
SAMVOINT RACUF has started in South Africa and we have the potential to cascade this project to other parts of the world with our network of pilots, available crewmen and other skilled tradesmen.
Even if just assisting, members can contribute in putting back into the community and helping the needy whilst enjoying what they are achieving as well as the comradery with fellow veterans.
The project basically runs itself through committed partners, so the financial commitment on our veterans is minimal, but the reward is in knowing that we are helping people.

Enquiries
Colin Bowring – Project Coordinator and Fund Raiser – Johannesburg – colinb123c@gmail.com;
Tony Macquet – Project Champion – Melbourne - tony@samvoa.org","decorations