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Education & Child Poverty in Africa
Child poverty in Africa is a big problem. Without the proper resources, children in poverty grow up without the most basic of necessities, like food and education. The problem of child poverty in Africa is worsening due to factors like HIV, which is leaving behind thousands of AIDS orphans who have no way to support themselves.
But there is hope out there, thanks to the many child charities that are looking to give underprivileged children a fresh start in life by lifting them out of the poverty trap.
Projects That Support Children In Poverty & Promote Education
Breadline Africa supports a number of projects that aim to assist children in poverty with education facilities and access to food and shelter. There are also programmes that look towards helping children out of a disadvantaged mindset, through counselling and a variety of creative activities. Below you will find some of the projects we support.
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Ikhayalethemba Project - Featured Project
The Ikhayalethemba Project is changing the lives of many children living in Imizamo Yethu, a Township in Hout Bay, Cape Town. By transforming old shipping containers several volunteers are teaching these children new skills and allowing them to have a fun and safe place to spend their after school hours while their parents are at work.
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Sikhula Sonke
Sikhula Sonke is transforming pre school education in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. This organisation works with Early Childhood Development Centres (ECD's) or crèches to train and support teachers, educate parents & improve facilities to develop children to their full potential and prepare them to face the challenges of Primary School Education and life.
Dominican Convent School
The Dominican School is a school that has an outreach programme focusing on bringing AIDS orphans, refugees, street children and vulnerable children into a normal school environment and to positively assimilate them into the social and academic classroom environment.
Dorcas Family After-Care Institution
The project focuses on previously disadvantaged and educationally neglected children in Oudtshoorn, Western Cape. It offers a remedial education service to children struggling at school. In addition subsidised meals are made available for the children and families.
Good Hope Development Fund – St Kizito’s
St Kizito Programme for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC's) aims to encourage Catholic parishes to set up groups with the purpose of identifying and providing community-based support to these children in order to ensure that their physical, emotional, intellectual, psychological and spiritual needs are met. Numbers of OVC's is estimated at 35 000 in the Western Cape alone.
Salesian Youth Project - Maputsoe
The Don Bosco Oratory has created a place where children and youth at risk could spend their afternoons in sport, recreation and games. The centre is open six days a week and is used by an average of 300 youth daily. There is also an in-house leadership training course for some of the youth to become leaders of the centre.
Kannaland Mobile Library
This is a mobile library promoting literacy and a love of reading in farms in the Western Cape, Little Karoo region. The library takes books and literacy material to schools and playgrounds in the Kannaland area in order to uplift their literacy levels and raise opportunities for employment.
Ubuntu Self-Help Education Centre
Ubuntu provides training and support for teachers of kindergartens in rural Limpopo province. They provide a resource centre where teachers can have access to computers, photocopiers and fundraising resources. In addition to this they operate four remote toy libraries and train teachers in how to use these toys effectively.
West Coast / Winelands – Mobile Library
This Mobile library serves the rural schools in of the Western Cape with educational resources. It also supports HIV/AIDS training and promotes adult literacy. The project visits 24 school communities.
Biblionef South Africa
Biblionef aims to encourage literacy and a culture of reading by donating books to schools, libraries and resource centres throughout South Africa & Lesotho. Biblionef provides children's books in all eleven official South African languages, Braille and big print books. Since 1998 they have donated more than 250,000 books, giving over 1,5 million children access to literature.
Contact us to get more information on the child charities that we support.
PROJECTS WE SUPPORT
Agriculture and food gardens 
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