Community Support
Connect people and organisations around practical local needs, initiatives and opportunities.
Letsema by KEW
Community progress through shared effort.
Letsema is the KEW community-support pathway for bringing people, skills, projects, mentorship and partnerships together around practical needs and opportunities.
What Letsema brings together
Different forms of support can move a community forward.
Letsema is designed to make community participation broader than simply asking for money. People and organisations can contribute through skills, time, mentorship, partnerships, opportunities and, where properly structured in future, transparent community funding.
Skills & Capability
Bring practical skills, knowledge and capability into community projects and local development activity.
Community Projects
Create clearer visibility around worthwhile projects, their purpose, what is needed and how people can participate.
Mentorship
Connect experience and guidance with people, businesses and initiatives that can benefit from practical support.
Partnerships
Create routes for businesses, organisations and community partners to contribute capability, resources or opportunity.
Future Community Funding
A future transparent campaign pathway for properly reviewed donation-based or reward-based community projects.
How participation can work
Start with the need, then build the right support around it.
Letsema is intended to make participation understandable and accountable rather than creating an open-ended request for support.
Identify
Define the community need, project or opportunity clearly.
Review
Understand what support is genuinely required and what should be verified before the initiative is presented.
Connect
Match the need with relevant skills, mentors, partners, resources or future funding pathways.
Track
Keep the purpose, progress and outcome clear as the initiative develops.
Ways to participate
Contribution is more than money.
Letsema should make it easier to see the different ways people and organisations can help build something useful.
Offer Skills
Contribute technical, professional, creative or practical skills where they can make a real difference.
Mentor or Guide
Share experience with a project, entrepreneur, community group or developing business.
Partner
Support a relevant initiative through capability, access, equipment, resources or opportunity.
Support a Project
Participate in practical community initiatives with a clear purpose and defined need.
Create Opportunity
Open access to work, training, exposure, supply opportunities or other meaningful economic participation.
Express Funding Interest
Register interest in future transparent community campaigns once the proper review and payment framework is in place.
Community funding
Funding should be transparent, reviewed and separate from other financial activity.
The longer-term Letsema concept can include donation-based and reward-based community campaigns with a clear purpose, target, progress updates and milestone history.
That future model remains separate from lending, investment products and stokvel savings. Those are different activities and should not be mixed into a community campaign.
Have a skill, project, partnership idea or community opportunity?
Connect with KEW and tell us how you would like to participate in Letsema.