Contact Us
Post Office Box 8160 Sunnybank Queensland 4109 Australia
Telephone: +617 3345 2506 or +61 7 3868 3466
Fax: +61 7 3216 9838
History
The Hearts for Africa Foundation (ABN 53 929 177 237) was formed on 30 September 2005 to raise funds for the Amani Development Organization an NGO that exists to support the community in the Dodoma region of Tanzania, Africa irrespective of race, colour or religion.
It is registered as a Charity in Queensland and is exempt from paying Income Tax.
Trustees
The Trustees of the Foundation (other than John Naumann) are all former parishioners and friends of the Reverend John Naumann in Brisbane Australia. The same Trustees are also Trustees of the Hearts for Africa Fund:
Ian William Donaldson AM FCA, President
Ian is a Chartered Accountant who is an experienced Director of public Companies and Not for Profit Organizations.
Alison Cameron Jackson, Secretary
Alison is an Interior Designer and is the Matriarch of the Foundation and the driving force behind its formation.
Helen May Keith, Treasurer
Helen is a retired schoolteacher who currently operates a travel business.
Reverend John Frederick Naumann, Poverty Adviser
John is an Anglican priest who is Managing Director of the Amani Vocational Training and Poverty Relief Center at Makang’wa, Tanzania, Africa where he now resides.
Hearts for Africa Thrift Shop
The Hearts for Africa Thrift Shop was opened in March 2007 as a source of funding for the Foundation. It is a registered business that is entirely staffed by volunteers.
The proceeds of the Thrift Shop are devoted to building the Amani English Medium Primary School at Makang’wa and providing for other educational needs.
What you can do for us
The Hearts for Africa Foundation receives no government funding and relies on people like you to fund our care for people in poverty in Tanzania.
Donations
There are a variety of ways to contribute financially:
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You can make a one-off secure online donation now (see below)
•Make In Memory gifts
•You can arrange a program of regular giving.
•Make a bequest in your Will
Donations of $2 or more to the Hearts for Africa Fund are tax deductible.
If you care to assist our work, please make your donations by cheque to The Hearts for Africa Fund or deposit direct to our Fund’s bank account: BSB 034041 ACCOUNT NO 226300. When depositing direct please provide details by email: donations@hearts-for-africa.org so that we can issue you with a receipt.
Volunteering
Volunteers are crucial for The Hearts for Africa Foundation to achieve our goals, and there are many ways that you can assist us:
•All the other work of the Foundation is done by volunteers (including the Trustees and over 30 personnel at the Thrift Shop) and there are no paid employees; volunteers also provide banking, accounting, data input and data base maintenance, administrative work, mail-outs, organization of fund-raising events and assistance at functions;
•We also rely on fundraising events for our income. So please contact us and tell us how you can fundraise to assist the underprivileged children of Africa; and
•Volunteers with appropriate skills such as school teaching, nursing, medical training, farming, engineering, carpentry and the other trades can apply to work directly for the Amani Development Organization on site at the Amani Centre outside Dodoma in Tanzania.
Support us by providing goods to our Thrift Shop
You can provide quality clothes, bric a brac , toys, games, paintings, books, records, jewellery, Ladies accessories generally, kitchenware, Manchester, soft furnishings…and lots more. But we do not normally sell electrical appliances and bulky items such as large items of furniture.
What we can do for you our Donors and Supporters
We can provide you with:
•A tax deduction for donations of $2 or more;
•Assurance that your donation is spent for the purposes that it was provided and that administrative costs will be no more than 5%;
•Regular updates by newsletters on how your money has benefited the children and older people of Tanzania. To subscribe, please click on the following and send: Subscribe Now
•Satisfaction that every dollar donated has a multiplier affect and will go a long way to help our people in Tanzania where there is a subsistence economy and average wages are only $10 to $15 per week;
•Knowledge that all the programs that we support were devised in consultation with Village Leaders and have their approbation;
•Comfort that your money will be spent on building sustainable long term solutions to poverty because handouts are avoided except for the aged, the sick and the young orphans and other homeless children; and
•Joy of knowing that where there were emergency handouts of food to the aged, sick and orphans in the famine of 2007, the official government figures state that Amani saved the lives of thirty people in one village alone and we believe the total lives saved were circa one hundred and ten over the total program that year.
What we do with your donations
•Grow, purchase and distribute food to needy individuals suffering from the effects of drought, famine and natural disasters normally in return for work;
•Construct and run vocational training centres to demonstrate more effective agricultural and building techniques, to encourage “self help” in growing various food products and to grow food products for distribution;
•Build and operate schools and other educational facilities;
•Support disadvantaged children to attend local schools and receive higher education at colleges and universities;
•Provide books, computers and other materials to local schools;
•Develop water wells and irrigation systems to reduce the impact of drought conditions and foster crop yields;
•Support schools, a group of single mothers and a group of Aids Victims through a Nutrition Program that provides water, irrigation equipment and know how to enable these groups to grow their own nutritious vegetables;
•Directly support (through providing shelter and education) two hundred orphans or homeless children as a result of malaria, cholera and Aids at two different centres (Dodoma Childrens Multipurpose Centre and Igondola Childrens Project);
•Provide emergency relief; and
•Improve the health of the local communities
Fundraising
The Hearts for Africa Foundation has raised its funds through the following sources:
•Owning and operating the Thrift Shop using volunteers;
•Donations by the public, various church organizations (not only Anglican) across Australia and former parishioners of John Naumann in Australia;
•A variety of fundraising events held at the residences of the Trustees;
•A variety of events organized by support Groups at or associated with the Anglican parishes at Sunnybank, Laidley, Bundaberg, Pine Rivers, Strathpine, Holland Park, Toowoomba and Wooloongabba. Father John Naumann once served as the Rector in some of these parishes; and
•A number of fabric sales, a Walk-for-Water fundraising event in Toowoomba, a “Dinner with John” and other events when John Nauman visits Australia, and a Feast of Music featuring brilliant pianist Jayson Gillham that was generously sponsored by Steinway Pianos.
Hearts for Africa Fund
History and Purpose
The Hearts for Africa Fund (ABN 32 500 596 962) was formed on I July 2007 as a vehicle for providing income tax deductions for supporters of the Hearts for Africa Foundation. The funds that are received by the Foundation for which tax deductions are sought are paid into the Hearts for Africa Fund. The Fund then arranges to distribute the funds to the Amani Development Organization for the relief of poverty.
The Hearts for Africa Fund does not itself carry out any fundraising and its only activity is to receive funds raised by the Hearts for Africa Foundation and forward these to Amani in accordance with resolutions of the Trustees. All such payments are for approved development programs.
Trustees
The Trustees of the Fund are also the Trustees of The Hearts for Africa Foundation:
Ian William Donaldson AM FCA, President
Ian is a Chartered Accountant who is an experienced Director of public Companies and Not for Profit Organizations.
Alison Cameron Jackson, Secretary
Alison is an Interior Designer and is the Matriarch of the Foundation and the driving force behind its formation.
Helen May Keith, Treasurer
Helen is a retired schoolteacher who currently operates a travel business.
Reverend John Frederick Naumann, Poverty Adviser
John is an Anglican priest who is Managing Director of the Amani Vocational Training and Poverty Relief Center at Makang’wa, Tanzania, Africa where he now resides.
Taxation
Donations of A$2 or more that are paid to the Fund are tax deductible to a donor who is an Australian resident.
The Australian Taxation Office has endorsed the Hearts for Africa Fund as a “deductible gift recipient” in the “Ancillary Fund” category. We are an approved aid and development project – Project J283 – with our partner Global Development Group (GDG). GDG is a Non Government Organisation carrying out quality humanitarian projects with approved partners to relieve poverty and provide long-term solutions.
