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projects/children-and-youth
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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On the slopes of Chapman's Peak under the shade of some tall pine trees rests a Breadline Africa container packed with children reading, learning and playing. Located in the township of Imizamo Yethu in Hout Bay, this is the Ikhayalethemba Project. The project was started by a local church to help |
Location: Khayelitsha, Western Cape Sikhula Sonke is transforming pre school education in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. This organisation works with Early Childhood Development Centres (ECD's) or créches to train and support teachers, educate parents and improve facilities to develop children to their full potential and prepare them to face the challenges of |
Location: Zambia A Project started in 1999 in the Kaoma Parish in Zambia as a response to people dying of various illnesses including HIV/AIDS and the resultant orphans. Presently they care for 115 patients and 124 orphans. They have started a project using poultry, pigs and fish to generate income |
Location: Pinelands, Western Cape Lerato's Hope was founded to support children and families affected by HIV/AIDS. Objectives include:
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Location: Mpumulanga Makhundu
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Location: Swaziland Manzini Youth Care assists in the provision of basic needs to youth in Manzini, Swaziland. Their main aim is the reintegration of marginalised children and street children back into the community. MYCs work includes:
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Location: Elgin, Western Cape This initiative runs music interventions at rural schools in the Elgin valley bringing music to classrooms. Learners are taught music appreciation, music theory and song and dance movements. |
Location: Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Mustle Africa is an organisation run with volunteers from the UK and local people in Bulawayo who wish to work with street youth and rehabilitate them using various methodologies so as to build their self confidence, perceptions and, where appropriate, encourage them to return home and /or finish |
Location: Helderburg, Western Cape PATCH supports victims of sexual abuse each year with:
The organisations reaches around 8000 youth per year through it's awareness programmes in High Schools. |
Location: Maputsoe, Lesotho The project offers activities for young people in their youth centre through sporting and recreational activities. Included in the activities is a life skills and mentorship component. |
Location: Western Cape 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. |
Location: Elgin, Western Cape This project is based in the Elgin valley and was developed because the rural primary schools in the area have little or no extramural activities. Children often swim in farm dams but have no ability to swim themselves or rescue someone. This results in many farm drownings |
Location: Cape Flats, Western Cape The work of the Theatre Company is based on the theatrical form of playback theatre. Playback theatre is socially responsible theatre and allows young people the opportunity to tell their stories, hear other people?s stories and realise that they are not alone in their experience. This project |
Location: Ocean View, Western Cape The project provides dance classes for youth in the communities of Ocean View and Masiphumelele as a process of providing after school activities in a safe environment and to develop skills and self respec |
Location: Western Cape The Project runs a mentorship programme for 30 grade 10 youth from communities across the Cape flats. The 3 goals (trinity) are:
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Location: Gugulethu, Western Cape |
Location: Gauteng YFC has been working with street children since 1995 and now operates a boys and girls home for vulnerable children. The shelters provide a place of security with food, shelter and caring House Mothers who build trust and friendship. |
Ivy Konisi is a remarkable woman. She has spent the last 6 years looking after up to 15 children. What makes her special is that none of these children are hers by birth but all of them are loved and cared for her as if they were her own. This home |
Leap School takes youth from previously disadvantaged educational backgrounds and offers them excellent schooling with extra focus on science maths and English and community upliftment. www.leapschool.org.za |
Location: Bulawayo, Zimbabwe T he project runs workshops for Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.Workshops build up confidence of OVCs, inform them of their rights and provide them with information about health issues. |
Location: Montagu, Western Cape MYP aims to further the opportunities for the young people from disadvantaged communities of Montagu in the Western Cape and to provide opportunities for personal growth and development. The Project is a response to the problem of unemployed youth as well as the lack of "healthy" places and |
| Edmund Rice Camps is a project of the Christian Brothers. They co-ordinate and run weekend and holiday camps for vulnerable children. The camps allow children to engage one to one with a young adult volunteer over a period of 3 to 5 days. Children may be HIV+, orphans, refugees or |
Location: Cape Town Activities include:
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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 |
Ukwakha Sports Project is a project in the rural Eastern Cape with a main goal of establishing sports clubs and fields in 21 rural villages. The project aims to provide sporting opportunities for youth, train referees and administrators and promote sport in the rural areas. Want more information about the youth |
The Bosco Youth Centre in Gauteng runs this youth charity programme for youths between the ages of 13 and 19; it's a five-day program aiming for behavioural change of youth to prevent them from contracting HIV and STDs. |
The Music Therapy Community Clinic (MTCC) was founded in 2002 to provide music therapy to children from disadvantaged communities as a means of psychological and social support. The children helped by the MTCC are dealing with trauma associated with living on the Cape Flats. The trauma includes violence, abuse, gangsterism |
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 |
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. |
Location: Thohoyandou, Limpopo 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 |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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