Mission
Our mission is to transform the lives of children and families affected by poverty and AIDS in some of the poorest areas of South Africa.
Provide ONE MILLION school meals to hungry children: Cost £80,000
Many South African children live in poverty and dont have enough to eat each week. We want to provide a million school meals of fresh fruit and / or rice and beans to malnourished children in South Africa.
This food not only feeds the children, but also encourages many to attend school where they gain a vital education for the future.
We provided over three hundred thousands school meals last year alone, but need funding to expand our schemes further. Our simple schemes have proven so sucessful, that they have become a blueprint adopted by government.
Provide life savings food parcels to malnourished children: Cost £37,500
One in five South Africans does not have enough food to eat each week and many at risk parents are dying of HIV. We want to provide thousands of impoverished families and AIDS orphans with monthly food parcels and high nutritional meals of living saving e-pap.
We currently provide small grants to at risk mothers, looking after orphans, but we urgently need secure the continuation of a scheme which helps over 5,000 people a year .
Grant Access Project: Cost £25,000
An estimated 2.5 MILLION South African children are orphans and they are entitled to a variety of government grants depending on their circumstances. But only if they can produce documentation and complete a complex application process.
This is an impossible task for the average orphan and difficult for families affected by AIDS, who need professional help in accessing these grants, which range in value from ZAR 250 - ZAR 1,080 (South African Rand) monthly.
We want to employ a team of local grant access workers in one of the poorest towns in South Africa, to take up case work. This is a highly successful scheme, but funding runs out for in October 2010 and we are urgently seeking funding for its continuation.
Sizanani Orphange: Cost £20,800
Sizanani is the only orphange in Nkandla, one of the pooresr towns in Zululand. Sizanani is the first, last and only hope for the forgotten children of Nkandla and is a refuse for many AIDS orphans and abandoned children and babies.
We have been working with our partners at Sizanani for over five years, but due to the economic crisis the centre is under threat of closure. We urgently need to take over the day to day running costs to keep the orphange open and the children off the street.
Plant trees and fruit trees: Cost £270,000
Working with our partners we want to plant one million trees / fruit trees in Southern Africa. This massive project will help the environment, provide a sustainable source of food communities, create local employment and help offset carbon dioxide emissions!
Create an education fund: Cost £96,000
We are looking to create an education micro-loan fund to pay for life changing training courses to impoverished South African youths and school leavers. These courses teach invaluable skills, trades and vocations, which will allow teenagers to earn a sustainable living for the rest of their lives.
Open a Sports Academy: Cost £12,000
There are a desperate lack of facilities for many of South Africa's street children. We want to empower impoverished children through sports by opening a sports academy in one of the poorest towns in the country and provide much needed sports equipment to local schools.
We have already provided thousands of school children access to football this year by providing footballs to schools, and we have been donated land and buildings for our acedemy, but we need funding for operating costs.
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