Profit for all

For the fourth consecutive year, Van Os-Sonnevelt received the certificate ‘Go for more than profit’ of the Belgian NGO Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs. The certificate is awarded to companies with a heart for people in the southern hemisphere.

‘Ondernemers voor Ondernemers’ or Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs, formerly known as the Corporate Funding Program is a volunteer organization that raises awareness with business in the northern hemisphere about stimulating entrepreneurship in the southern hemisphere. They raise funds and sponsor a variety of NGO’s with entrepreneurship-oriented programs in the south.

Under the motto ‘I sign for more than only profit’, Ondernemers voor Ondernemers stimulates its members to develop their business in a sustainable way: you only make genuine profit when the south has something to win too.

Van Os-Sonnevelt actively supports Ondernemers voor Ondernemers in its ambitions to make this world a better place and allocates part of its profit to development programs in the south.


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New CFP brochure

The new Corporate Funding Programme brochure was recently published. In the brochure you can, among other things, read an interview with manager Gerard van Os on the relevance of investing in projects in the southern hemisphere.

The Corporate Funding Programme is a bridge builder, bringing business in contact with development projects in the southern hemisphere. Since 2004, Van Os-Sonnevelt has sponsored an FOS project in Chitima, Mozambique via the CFP. In this programme, the rural population is instructed in the finer points of ox plow farming so that they can work their plots of land more intensively thereby having a more fruitful harvest.

In the brochure, Gerard van Os explains how a project of this nature can create more internal awareness and make the entire team aware of the privileged position which they occupy. Everything depends upon obtaining and taking advantage of opportunities.
You can read the entire interview (in French or Dutch) via the download link below.

CFP

Corporate Funding Programme promotes the North-South dialogue.

Since 2004, Van Os-Sonnevelt is an active member of the Corporate Funding Programme. This organization works in close cooperation with FOS, the North-South movement of the social democrats in Flanders, supporting development programs in the South. The project we endorse is located in Chitima, Mozambique, where locals learn to use ox traction to work the land. Community workers use the training center as their homebase.

Corporate Funding Programme build bridges between humanitarian organizations and companies who wish to spend a part of their profits for development aid.

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More than making money...

Van Os-Sonnevelt endorses the Sustainable Entrepreneurship Principles of the Corporate Funding Programme organization and obtained the Corporate Social Responsibility Certificate.

Corporate Funding Programme or CFP is a unique network of companies interested in supporting development programmes on the one hand and non-governmental organizations with development projects that support local economy. CFP prepares, monitors and fulfills the engagements taken by member companies, thus enabling to develop corporate social responsibility and corporate citizenship without losing too much time and energy in follow-up of projects.
Since 2004, Van Os-Sonnevelt has been supporting a rural development programme in Chitima, Moçambique, where farmers learn to use oxen to work their land.


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Oxes soon in Manica

Since 2004, Van Os-Sonnevelt has been actively supporting CFP and the ngo FOS in their rural development programs in Mozambique. Now that a first project in Chitima is about to stand on its own feet, efforts are redirected towards a new development project in the southern province of Manica.

In 2004, Van Os-Sonnevelt joined a funding program for an aid project in Chitima, central Mozambique. Belgian non-governmental organizations and local farmer organizations joined forces in an effort to give the local population durable aid. The goal of the collaboration was to provide local farmers with the means and tools to become self supporting. In Mozambique, being self supporting means: having a piece of farmland, water, some sowing seed, some simple farming tools and an ox to pull them.
From 2005 onwards, the Chitima project gradually evolved to autonomy. The local organization TLC set up a system of micro-credits, thus allowing farmers to buy their first traction ox and the necessary sowing seeds. In the local dispatching centre, they get familiar with the most effective farming techniques for that particular area. AIDS prevention and information on the country’s land ownership laws also make part of the program.
Now that the Chitima project is fully independent from foreign funds, Van Os-Sonnevelt is redirecting its efforts and funding to a new, similar project run by Uniao Provincial de Camponese de Manica, a farmers organization operating in the southern province to help farmers make a living.


Read more about FOS and its African development projects here.


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