National Council

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"Khaya-lami"
374 Boundary Road
North Riding, Randburg.

P O Box 2913
North Riding, 2162

Tel: 071 674 6392 (from 08:30 - 13:00)

Fax: 086 646 7754

E-Mail: admin@saifundraising.org.za 

George Pappas

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President/ Member at Large

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Pam Lewis is the previous Chairperson of SAIF Eastern Cape and is trying to rebuild a professional fundraising network in the area under SAIF.

She is the Resource Facilitator for St Francis Hospice in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropole - Port Elizabeth which is HPCA Fully Accredited Member, Best Practice, Mentor Hospice and Centre for Palliative Learning (CPL) for the Eastern Cape.  Her work is mainly in the Corporate & Trusts & Foundations sector - proposals writing & reporting as well as developmental training into rural Communities with emerging community HBC groups. 

She is also the Hospice Palliative Care Association (HPCA) Regional Advocacy Officer for the Eastern Cape.

Her career background is in Nursing (UK & Zambia ) and the Financial Sector in Building Societies.

Pam was the Chairman of the previous Womens Bureau (EC) for many years, working with health and gender abuse she now works extensively in the holistic palliatiave care &  HIV/AIDS field.  Her passion is networking & sharing with fundraisers skills from 15 years fundraising experience with various NPO's.
 

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Crystal is the Director of MTR Smit Children’s Haven in Port Elizabeth.

Crystal obtained her BA(Hons) in Social Work from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in 1984 and then Masters Degree in Philosophia.  She obtained her Doctorate (D.Phill) in Social Work in 2008

Crystal has a great deal of experience in all aspects of social work with children as well as business management, marketing, public relations, public speaking, lecturing, judging event organisation and major fundraising.

She has vast experience of being Board chairperson of many Boards and committees, and also been a Ward counsellor.

She has been the recipient of many awards including the Algoa FM Woman of Distinction (2005/2006); Mrs United Nations SA 2006: Community Service Award Winner; Citizen of Year (2006); Woman of Courage (2006) and Woman of Distinction (2006-2007)

She is an accomplished sportswoman as well and also enjoys spending time with her three children.
 

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Position on National Council and/or Branch

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Zai initially qualified as a social worker and worked in many different fields of social work.

In 1980 she took up the position of Director of SANCA in Pietermaritzburg, but spent more time doing  fundraising and PR. After she moved to Johannesburg in 1986 she completed a PR Diploma and focused more on Fundraising and PR and Marketing for NGO's..

During the morning, she is employed by St Francis Care Centre, which is  an HIV /AIDS project,  and in the afternoon she works for Elim Clinic, which is a in patient specialist addiction treatment centre.

Zai  has had a vast experience in all aspects of fundraising from Corporates, mail appeals, bequests and events.

She has been involved with SAIF for more than a decade and is presently Chairperson of the Gauteng Branch.
 

Elrina Van Schaardenburgh

Veronica Pronk