CivSource Africa 2022 Report

Looking back is always a humbling experience for me. When you are going through every one of the 365 days of the year, when you are dealing with the daily grind and deadlines, it is easy to miss all the progress you have made. This report helps us to look back and to celebrate all we did.

Reading the highlights and the high moments fills my heart with gratitude. The key focus of my gratitude is the team. All this work can only be done with and through a team. And my, do we have a terrific team at CivSource Africa! The team gives their all, they serve with joy, we celebrate each other a lot, we laugh a lot and we tease each other a lot. We also rally around each other a lot, we support each other and we do not let any one person do the heavy lifting. We are each other’s shoulder. We have each other’s back.

The CivSource team is surrounded and nurtured by a village, which includes our families, all the partners that we work with, all that fund our work, all who pray for us and believe in us, all who speak highly of us in rooms where we are not. We are surrounded by our various advisory committees and other governance structures. We are surrounded by the networks to which we belong at local, regional, continental and global level. We are surrounded by the philanthropy and civil society ecosystem that we serve. We are not just surrounded, we are believed in, loved on, and guided.

You are all part of our success of 2022. We honor you. Our hearts are filled with gratitude for you.

Indeed, as the TEAM acronym says – Together Everybody Achieves More. As you read through our 2022 milestones and achievements, I hope you see yourselves in them. I hope you see these achievements as a collective win, for good, for social justice, for philanthropy that works and civil society that thrives.

And at the heart is TEAM.