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We hope to raise $4000 to support our community meet-ups and for bounties for local developers.\n\n## Node Stewards\n\n- [Shawn Alimohammadi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawn-alimohammadi-4b34b3139/) (Node Lead)\n- [Shaun Conway](https://www.linkedin.com/in/drshaunconway/) (Advisor)\n- [Alwyn van Wyk](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alwynvanwykyounglingsafrica/) (Advisor)\n- [Keoikantse Tsholofelo Botlholo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/keoikantse-tsholofelo-botlholo-586906103/) (Collaborator)\n\n## Focus Areas\n\n- ReFi Cape Town seeks to empower young developers to create regeneration champions, using Web3 and ReFi to tackle the city's socio-economic and environmental challenges and inequalities.\n- We give disadvantaged youth opportunities to learn new skills in Web3, better coordinate community action for positive change, and foster ReFi startup ventures.\n- Our key partners are [IXO](https://www.ixo.world/), [Younglings Africa](https://www.younglings.academy/), [RLabs](https://rlabs.org/), and [Codetelligence](https://codetelligence.org.za/) and [ReFi DAO](https://www.refidao.com/). We hope to build relationships and integrations with [Celo](https://celo.org/), [Mento Labs](https://www.mentolabs.xyz/), [EBF](https://www.ebf.eu/) through local hackathons. We also hope to expand to other parts of South Africa and work with local governments and NGOs in our city.\n\n## Projects & Initiatives\n\n- Monthly ReFi Cape Town Community Meet-ups where we invite guest speakers to discuss broad themes from Web3 to agroecology.\n- Annual Tokenised Impacts Hackathons with values-aligned local partners. See [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zBeo4pSv56Gur558MgUbxtd0tZtqnIjHbiOLK_dNST4/edit) for the announcement of winners.\n\nFundraising history: $2347,99 received from GG 18 and $1000 donation from a local renewable energy company. 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