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.
Grant Access Project: Cost £31,000
An estimated 2.5 MILLION South African children are orphans. Most 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 re-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 ran out in October 2010 and we are urgently seeking funding to restart this scheme.
Provide life savings food parcels to malnourished children: Cost £40,000
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 live saving e-pap.
We currently provide small grants to at risk mothers, looking after orphans, but we urgently need to secure the continuation of a scheme which helps over 5,000 people a year .
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.
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 within the communities, create local employment and help offset carbon dioxide emissions!
Zulu ARK: Cost £2.75 Million
Our dream is to establish the world’s largest child village, to provide a loving home and a safe and secure environment for a thousand of
We have identified a large game farm in
The child village will enable us to bring orphans and impoverished street children away from danger and poverty, and allow them to flourish in a safe, loving environment, in the place of their birthright.
The site will enable the children to retain and reclaim their heritage, which is often lost when they become orphaned or fall into extreme poverty.
The site will also act as a vital outreach centre for the wider community and a base from which to expand our humanitarian work across Zululand. It will create employment and training opportunities for youths and the poor, empowering them with vital life skills and incomes, thus helping to remove them from poverty permanently.
Cost
Operational Costs £ .5 million
We have identified numerous income generating sources to take over the ongoing operational costs, meaning the entire project will be self sustaining in little over a year.
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