In Africa

Zimbabwe

The Templer Foundation and partners have provided financial and practical support to existing programs that support disabled and terminally ill people, primarily lepers, amputees and AIDS orphans. We’ve provided and continue to provide prosthetic supplies, toys and financial support for extremely disadvantaged people. (+/-$500,000 worth of support to date.)

With funding, the Templer Foundation can:

1. Provide toys - Many of these children are dying, many are hungry and as orphans they’ve all been devastated by their loss. They’re still children and in those precious moments when they can play with a toy and with another child and enter that child world of make believe, they are free, for that moment, from their suffering. The toys given to these children, will often be the only possession that many of them will ever own.
2. Medical needs including funding antiretroviral drugs and ancillary support for people suffering from HIV/AIDS
3. Specific needs identified by our partners. A good example of this was when we found out that of the 3000 children at one of the orphanages, few of them had underwear.

Mozambique

Upcoming Projects: Mozambique Project #1

The Mozambique Project #1, a social enterprise farming project collaboratively designed by the Templer Foundation and our Africa based strategic partner G&G Cares to address the following concerns affecting citizens and N.G.O.’s in Mozambique and southern Africa.

1. Food security – food production and distribution.
2. Health, nutrition and human services.
3. Education and training.
4. Community development and stabilization through investment and job creation.
5. Sustainable social enterprise.

Mozambique Project #2 (Crocodile Cages)

Provincial Administrators in Mozambique, Africa report (a conservative estimate) that between January 2009 and June 2009 (the first six months of last year) 1,911 people were killed or seriously injured by wild animals on a 286-mile stretch of the Zambezi River. More specifically, during those six months there were at least 1,567 crocodile attacks and 344 hippopotamus attacks that resulted in human death or serious injury. In doing due diligence our strategic partner visited the area, shot 15 crocodiles and found human remains in 11 of them.

We are looking to provide the financial support to launch a program to install 3,600 wire mesh cages in villages along the Mozambiquan stretch of the Zambezi River. The cages are to be strategically placed at established washing, bathing, livestock drinking and vegetable watering access points.

We are in urgent need of financial support for this project! The proposed cost to get this program up and running is US$250,000.