“Our success will and must be measured in the happiness and welfare of our children, at once the most vulnerable citizens in any society and the greatest of our treasures.”
Nelson Mandela.

A little while ago we received a phone call from the Girls & Boys Town Regional Development Office. This is the team responsible for securing funding from private and corporates to keep the organisation afloat.

In our industry we all know how incredibly  hard cold calling is. People are just so busy that you really need to wow them if you’re going to get any kind of agreement from them. Can you imagine how much harder it must be to secure funding through cold calling?

Anyway, we agreed to meet with Girls & Boys Town to see how we could support the Regional Team. We then went on to meet the Regional Co-ordinator and we agreed to support Girls & Boys Town with the Avo training interventions.

Well, we’ve just had our first session with the team and it was awesome. We presented the team with the Brand of One workshop which Tracy facilitated. It was such a humbling experience to see how much the ladies appreciated Tracy’s work. It was equally rewarding to experience humbleness of the team. Nothing else matters to the ladies but the success of the organisation. Each and everyone of the ladies are wholey and solely committed to their jobs. They just have so much passion and belief in what they do. 

Below please find an e-mail from Elrina Bower, the Regional Development OfficerDear Elaine.

“Thank you once again for the wonderful workshop on Tuesday! We all enjoyed Tracy’s entertaining, but very professional presentation. You guys really know how to do it!

We will be overjoyed to have a follow up on this workshop at a time later this year, whenever it might suit you. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU from all of us. With much appreciation.”

Elrina  I think Tracy and I both realise that the privilege was all ours, sometimes meeting up with teams who are focused on enriching the lives of others actually puts our lives in perspective… Thank you Girls & Boys Town for allowing Avo to partner with you !