Annual Report Afri Kids Annual Report 2014

2014/15

“Afri Kids Foundation has

given me what will
sustain me for the rest
of my life not what I will
eat only today.” Victoria
Ayamboo
New Beginnings Beneficiary

Background
The Afri Kids Foundation (AKF) is a non-profit organisation which works to build a strong and
solid foundation for African kids by passionately restoring hope, alleviating suffering and
advocating and protecting the current and future African generations, specifically those living in
difficult situation. AKF develops programmes to support and strengthen our role in providing
direct support and care to vulnerable African children, reduce poverty and improve the
livelihoods of current and future generations of African children.
In order to build a strong foundation for African kids, AKF works to involved parents,
community members, public authorities and other organisations in order to develop a strong
foundation for African kids. It works to provide education, health and social services to children,
youth and their families through centres of excellence in South African Townships. Our aim is to
empower communities to develop new generations of productive citizens.
Our range of programmes combines both response and prevention work, all working towards
our vision of ‘a world where all African children grow up to be productive, caring citizens of a
global society which is equal and sustainable opportunities for every African child’.
Our Vision:
At The Afri Kids Foundation, we envision a world where all African children grow up to be
productive, caring citizens of a global society which is equal and sustainable opportunities for
every African child.
Our Mission:
We work to transform the lives of the Africa’s most vulnerable children. We pursue this mission
by:
 Improving and sustaining the holistic development of African children, young people
and their families, and facilitate access to education, health and psychosocial and socio-
economic support. This involves empowering communities to participate in the
provision of fair and sustainable opportunities.
 Protecting, uplifting and promoting the well-being of children and their families living in
difficult situations in rural areas of South Africa through the provision of essential social
services, community development and empowerment to benefit future generations of
Africa.
Our Programme
Afri Kids Foundation – AKF is a grassroots organisation working
at a community lever in Africa. we pioneer innovative
approaches to alleviate suffering and poverty among African
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children. AKF strives to deliver an impact in everything that we
do when working with African children. In order to bring a
lasting impact to our beneficiaries, we particularly focus on the
following programmes:
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1. Facilitating Access to Basic Education
The aim of the program is to increase access of vulnerable children to quality education in Africa, and to
improve the quality of service delivery in basic education, especially in disadvantaged, por and rural areas.
The program pays attention to better primary, basic, vocational education and basic literacy. The program
seeks also to develop children from aged 0-6 years to become school-ready. Our services include: basic
numeracy and literacy and social development through play and creative activities.
2. Facilitating Access to Healthcare to Children
AKF’s healthcare program is focusing on delivering basic primary healthcare to women and children living
in rural areas of Africa that have little or no access to healthcare facilities. The program seek to deliver
primary healthcare directly to patients in rural villages to provide dedicated antenatal and child health
services to make sure mothers and children are healthy during and after pregnancy.
3. Food Security & Nutrition
AKF’s food security and nutrition programs form a holistic response to the food crisis in Africa with a series
of integrated programs designed to target specific food and nutritional needs among poor children. Our
food and nutrition program treats childhood malnutrition and build community nutritional knowledge to
create an environment in which children can develop to their full potential. By involving parents in programs
and developing key resources, AKF creates lasting positive change in overall food security in underserved
communities in Africa. AKF provides daily school lunches to more than 2500 children in Africa—often
the only complete meal the children eat each day.
4. Empowerment of Children with Disabilities
The Empowerment Programme aims to improve the quality of life of children with disabilities and their
families in Africa by empowering them to become civically active and take action.
5. WASH (Water, Sanitation & Hygiene)
AKF seeks to provide schools with safe drinking water, improved sanitation facilities and hygiene education
that encourage the development of healthy behaviours for life. This strategic approach is known as Water,
Sanitation and Hygiene Education (WASH) in Schools.
6. Street Kids Program
AKF ensures that no child should live on the street and that every child has an inherent right to dignity and
respect. AKF believes in working towards creating the environment in which every child enjoys rights to
survival, development, protection and participation and a happy childhood.
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Message from the Chairman, Message from Director – Michel Kabanzu
Mbazweli Frederick Mbala
As many readers will know, Afri Kids Foundation was one of the three
charities The Telegraph chose to support in their 2014 Christmas Appeal.
Having re-read the four articles that have been published at the time of writing, including the one of
eight pages in The Telegraph magazine of 3rd December, I was reminded of what Afri Kids Foundation has
achieved since its years of existence. One of the ways in which these achievements have been
acknowledged is through our works and our awards. It is a remarkable achievement by any standard. This
Annual Report describes in detail the work in progress of all projects, but I wanted to emphasize the
dedication and professionalism of those working tirelessly in both Afri Kids Foundation Mozambique and
Afri Kids Foundation (SOUTH AFRICA) in bringing about that success.
Our exciting new lodge will continue providing employment for some of the beneficiaries of our projects, its
main purpose is to help Afri Kids Foundation become totally self-sufficient by 2018. I look forward to
staying there in 2016!
Finally, I should like to thank the teams in Mozambique and in the SOUTH AFRICA for all their hard
work, my fellow trustees for all their wise guidance, all our wonderfully generous donors and supporters.
I’d like to make special thanks to our staff members for their outstanding leadership, without which none
of the above would be possible. Thank you so much.
Our scrutinising donors recognise this for themselves, and
their support is reflected in their generosity of spirit,
enthusiasm and funding.
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Last year was remarkably a successful year for Afri Kids Foundation. It was a year that witnessed drastic
expansion on the child rights work of the organisation.
Our Education Bridge and expansion of the microfinance credit portfolio to cover many more women to name a
few. This is owed to the hard work of our staff members with the support from board members whose efforts
have secured the funding. I will not forget also, our team of volunteers for expanding Afri Kids ground breaking
works to reach thousands of new vulnerable children and communities across South Africa.
As Director of the Afri Kids Foundation, I want to seize this opportunity to thank our board members for
their commitment and leadership and for helping to oversee all of Afri Kids Foundation’ projects to the
heights they have reached this year.
I expect this year to see the Afri Kids Foundation interacts and engages more seamlessly for the benefit of
the poor and vulnerable women and children in South Africa and Mozambique.
As we celebrate the achievements of last year, we remember the bitter loss of Peter Stephen, our staff in
Mozambique and a great pillar and supporter of the organisation. On behalf of all at Afri Kids Foundation I
wish to express our condolences on this bitter loss of a friend par excellence.
It is my prayer that each and every member of the Afri Kids Foundation family will this year be renewed
with strength, fresh energy and vigour to enable us carry on with this important work that God has
given us on earth in support of vulnerable children and women so that we will be witnesses to the hope
which has called all men into.
Lots of preparatory work has gone in the take-off of the Afri Kids Foundation new lodge over the past one
y e a r . It is my hope that the coming year will see the continuity of work on the lodge this time taking a
concrete form. This will put Afri Kids Foundation firmly on the road to sustainability. It’s my fervent
prayer that the lodge would host its first guests this year and run six more years before the fundraising
office of Afri Kids Foundation starts to fold up.
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Reflections from the
Mozambique Programs Director,
Augustino Mahenda
We at Afri Kids Foundation
Mozambique cannot put our hearts to
rest for the year until we have
expressed our gratitude to the
personalities who have made it a
success. To our donors in the SOUTH
AFRICA and around the world
whose generosity has been our life
line, thank you.
To our colleagues in the SOUTH
AFRICA, thank you for working as
the link between us; without you
our work would not exist. We are not
forgetting our dynamic Mozambique
trustees, local donors and key
stakeholders who have worked
closely with us to make our work
and programmes successful.
We are also grateful to the Municipal
and District Assemblies, Mozambique
Education Service and Department
of Social Welfare for your support
and collaboration.
Finally to our hard working staff we wish to say
‘ye toma toma’ for your zealousness, hard work,
dedication and above all selflessness during the
year 2014. We wish to say kudos to you and keep
the flame alive.
2014 was one of the most exciting working years
we have ever had as an organisation with some
major achievements.
It was with enormous pride that in the first half of this
year we began work supported by Comic Relief and the
SOUTH AFRICA Department for International
Development to scale up our Area Programmes. As the
year progressed, this work attracted national attention
and through our own efforts we were able to add
NECPAD and the UNFCFS as major donors to the work
as well as major in kind support from the Inhambane
District Assembly. Area Programmes are the projects we
have designed ourselves and are the heart of what we
do. As part of these, it was heart-warming to see the
conclusion of our maiden street children programme,
Operation Fresh Start, which saw the reintegration of
160 young boys and girls with their families. The last
batch of beneficiaries graduated this year and it is great
to see those who have learnt trades establish their own
shops. An assessment was carried out on their
businesses and it is clear that they were doing well as
these young people could take care of their basic needs;
this is the joy of the work we do.
We have taken a giant step in the fight against the
‘spirit child phenomenon’ with the concoction men
keeping to their promise of a complete end to
infanticide. The child rights clubs cannot be left out of
this success as in their quest to end this phenomenon
have gone a further step of engaging their parents as
part of their activities. We have also launched
community durbars which will lead to an official end of
the spirit children phenomenon next year. The
important first step was taken by one of the sons of
Sirigu who was accused of being a spirit child many
years ago. Coming back home, Rifleman Paul Apowida
ran a marathon to his village to raise awareness as an
ambassador of the fight against the spirit child
phenomenon.
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2014 was one of
the most exciting
working years we
have ever had as
You can read more about our Area Programmes from
an organisation the managers themselves in the coming pages.
with some major The year has not been without its challenges as
the Area Programme managers make clear. In our
achievements. businesses and partner projects also we also face
difficulties as well as triumphs. The challenges of
The last batch of helping partners become sustainable have included
beneficiaries clarifying land ownership rights for project buildings
and market creation for businesses whilst the
graduated this successes have included the growing professionalism
year and it is great and profitability of the ‘Mama’s Place’ guest house.
to see those who
As we look into the year 2014 and ahead we are
have learnt trades looking forward to some exciting developments in 02
our staffing structure and our learning framework.
establish their Whilst we’ve always prided ourselves on having
own shops. clear ways of measuring change we want to move
to an even more results-based management system
and improve the quality of information we track in
our monitoring so that we can measure our impact
even more clearly.
In terms of project delivery we are excited about
improvements in the family capacity building
packages we offer, the structures through which
we work with government institutions and the
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skills among our staff. 2014 is also going to be a major year for business development and for all of these
challenges we are making HR changes to meet the challenge. Early in 2015 we hope to recruit new Directors of
Business and Programmes.
Finally, in 2014, as Afri Kids Foundation (SOUTH AFRICA) celebrates 10 years since its inception and hard work,
we celebrate with them in spirit for the great achievements chalked and we hope to still have this wonderful
relationship and also to celebrate together in 2015 when Afri Kids Foundation Mozambique will also be celebrating a
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71%
OF CHILDREN OVER
SIX IN NORTHERN
MOZAMBIQUE HAVE
NEVER ATTENDED
SCHOOL
73%
OF CHILDREN IN
SCHOOL ALSO WORK
IN CHILD LABOUR
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Afri Kids Foundation Core Projects
breakthrough to the South Africa’s
biggest funders
The Education In 2014 we told you about our
Bridge has been transition from issue focused Core
the focus of Afri Projects to geographically defined
Kids Foundation Area Programmes. As the first phases
Mozambique’s first of Operations Fresh Start, Sunlight
large scale and Sirigu came to an end we realised
independent they had learned so much from each
baseline survey other that there was scope for
taking in 239 replicating work with different
schools. categories of vulnerable children
right across the core projects. Added
to this, our work had become closely
integrated with the delivery of
services by the Mozambique’s Education
and Health Services, District
Assemblies and Social Welfare
departments so it made sense that we
align our delivery better with theirs to
increase the scope for working
together and reduce the risk of
replicating each other’s work.
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These new structures worked well and throughout 2011
we consulted the local authorities and communities
about what their most pressing needs are and how our
work could help meet them. Comic Relief also funded a
major evaluation into the first phase of the core projects
and concluded they had a 95% success rate in resettling
street and working children. Afri Kids Foundation took
this as an affirmation of our holistic ‘one child at a time’
approach and began planning towards a second phase.
In early 2014 we were successful in securing funding
from Comic Relief and Department for International
Development (DFID) for these new projects:
• New Beginnings; this started with Baring Foundation
support in 2009 and is now scaling up to resettle
300 displaced street and working children with their
families and place them in education. Since it has
been launched Afri Kids Foundation Mozambique has
also forged partnerships with NECPAD, a national
organisation and the UN Voluntary Fund on
Contemporary Forms of Slavery to help resettle a
further 195 children
• The Education Bridge; complimentary to New
Beginnings and GES’ work, the project bridges the
gap between educational policy and the reality as
experienced by vulnerable children. The Education
Bridge has been the focus of Afri Kids Foundation
Mozambique’s first large scale independent baseline
survey taking in 239 schools
Read more about the delivery of these projects direct
from the project managers on the following pages.
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The Maputo Collidor Area

Programme (MCAP) in
2014
By Joe Asakibeem, Maputo Collidor Area
Programme Manager, Afri Kids Foundation Mozambique

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It has been very Mission = The goal of the Maputo of the older children we have got to know who are • Our support for the re-roofing of the Sirigu Junior Some of the challenges we have
in desperate need but did not previously fall within This new support High block after it was destroyed in a storm will
refreshing and Collidor Area Programme is to improve our remit. This new support is making tremendous is making forever remain a hallmark in providing shelter for faced include:
stimulating to the child rights environment of improvements in the lives of many children and tremendous children to access education • A poor road network especially during the rainy
make several new Maputo Collidor East and West communities. season which makes movement difficult
improvements • We have supported 10 new children through various
interventions to to the extent that the basic rights of Synopsis of work during the year: in the lives of complex medical treatments. The biggest was the • With the introduction of New Beginnings and the
successful surgical operation of a boy who was Education Bridge, which are well known, we now
save children’s all children are met. This programme • 8 community sensitisation programmes on many children suffering from a displaced skull experience many children coming to our office
lives and to keep addresses child rights, with a child rights and health issues were organised which and communities. seeking for assistance
• We have instituted training programmes on good
faith with the particular focus on abuse related attracted 4,200 people
nutrition for our beneficiary children’s parents • We are still encountering a high number of cases of
children as we to traditional beliefs, at all levels of • Four community durbars organised focused on the this year sick and deformed children whose conditions can
help rebuild society from individual support and spirit child phenomenon and the need for children’s
education to be taken seriously by parents • We have undertaken monthly physiotherapy training generally not be treated under National Health
relationships family capacity building to schools’ for children with cerebral palsy (CP) in collaboration Insurance and cost colossal amounts
capacity building and advocacy • The concoction men continued to interact with us with the Community Based Rehabilitation To conclude, the year has been very fruitful and we
with their positively through their quarterly meetings; this is programme are looking forward to a more exciting year in 2014 as
families. influencing local mind-sets and a major step in ending the practice of the spirit child
• The ongoing success of microfinance through KNAP we hope to take a major step in announcing the end
policy making. phenomenon
has been proved as more women benefited from new of the practice of the spirit child phenomenon and
increase the support base which is helping us to lift up
The year has seen Afri Kids Foundation’ KNAP team • Child Rights Clubs (CRCs) have intensified their and recycled loans
activities to engage their own parents; ten schools standards of education.
working hard to consolidate our track record of
• The Afri Kids Foundation Child Rights Centre has been
reducing the effect of the spirit child phenomenon in organised parents’ forums
renovated to save it from deterioration in our harsh
the Maputo Collidor District of the Upper East Region.
• This year’s Child Rights Festival was organised in a and variable climate
We have done this through various collaborative
grand style with a high turnout of people and great
work with key stakeholders of the communities • Highlights from our work under New Beginnings
performance from CRC members. The collaboration
including government institutions. It has been very include: 28 children enrolled into fulltime education
from Mozambique Education Service (GES) in
refreshing or training and capacity building packages given
organising this event cannot be overemphasised
and stimulating to make several new interventions to to their parents, volunteer teachers recruited to
save children’s lives and to keep faith with the children • Training programmes on enhancing the leadership provide holiday lessons, 15 new child rights clubs
as we help rebuild relationships with their families. qualities of Club Leaders and on child rights education and quarterly meeting with new beneficiaries and
for teachers were organised for all the CRC schools vocational trainers
This year has also been remarkable because with the
support of Comic Relief (New Beginnings Two) and • For the first time, we were able to organise holiday • Highlights from our work supported by the DFID
DFID (Education Bridge) we have been able to scale up classes for junior and senior high school students Education Bridge include the creation of 20 new child
our work and reach into new areas. For example which prevented a lot of them travelling to the streets rights clubs and workshops on increasing school
it is satisfying to see child rights clubs, which we of Kumasi recruitment and retention in 15 schools.
championed within Afri Kids Foundation, being rolled
out across other Afri Kids Foundation projects. It is • 18 new schools have been educated on the spirit child
also rewarding to be able to offer comprehensive phenomenon and other child rights issues
packages of support to some
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“In 2014 Afri Kids Foundation’
project design reached maturity
and is now being replicated
across the region with
enormous impact on children’s
lives. It is fascinating and
rewarding to see.”
Lynda Baroness,
Afri Kids Foundation Patron
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Annual Report 2014
“ It is a dream comes true that at
long last I can now think of
tomorrow. If not for Afri Kids
Foundation life would have been
very difficult for me.”
Belinda Nyaaba, Our Beneficiary
“ If all NGOs were so involved in
initiating these kinds of child
centred activities in schools,
then this district would always
produce the best for the
country.”
Programmes Director of the Mozambique Education Service
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The Gaza - Xai Xai

Area Programme
(GXAP) in 2014 02

By Cletus Anaaya, Gaza - Xai Xai Area Programme

Manager, Afri Kids Foundation Mozambique

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The School of Mission = GXAP works to ensure
Night Rabbits that the rights of all of our
has been vulnerable children are met. In our
district
extraordinary
this year. Among we face, and tackle, the particular
the new activities challenges of child streetism,
introduced were migration and trafficking. This
excursions year we worked through six key
and traditional programmes outlined below.
drumming The year began on a high spirited note with the
and dancing. resettlement of the Operation Fresh Start beneficiaries.
They all had all sat for their trade area exams and
41 children
were awaiting graduation and the receipt of their
successfully resettlement packages from Afri Kids Foundation. In
went through all, 50 beneficiaries were resettled this year. They are
all currently on their own and making brisk
the school. businesses.
15 of these now have apprentices too and are so proud
to be called master trainers. Only three years ago, they
were referred to as apprentices and so can’t believe
the swift transition from apprentice to master. This
is no mean achievement! The few of them who were
either slow in learning or had to go on maternity break
have all caught up now and are doing well. Also this
01 A Gaza - Xai Xai Area year a refresher course was organised to update their
Programme New Beginnings
knowledge and skills which we hope to repeat in the
phase two beneficiary receiving
vocational training on how to future.
become
a professional hairdresser Resettled children benefitting from New Beginnings
02 Street children learning in One project sponsored by Baring and John Ellerman
the evening at the School
Foundations are doing well. There are 23 children in
of Night Rabbits
school and seven undergoing skills training. Of the 23
03 The children of blind weavers
who run a shop called ‘disability school children, seven are senior high, five in junior
not inability’ high and the rest in primary. The children are cared
04 Fieldworker visits are always for by our field officers who support each other but
welcomed with a smile
also compete healthily over whose children are faring
the best.
Those children in school have been provided with all
their educational materials, those in training have
been provided with all their tools, uniforms and
other logistics. All 30 have been supported with lunch
allowances, the fieldworkers meet with their master
trainers and teachers regularly and reports are almost
universally good. However we have been challenged
by the circumstances of two girls; one who is taking a
break from school having fallen pregnant and one who
has relocated with her family to southern Mozambique.
The School of Night Rabbits has been extraordinary
this year. Among the new activities introduced were
excursions and traditional drumming and dancing.
41 children successfully went through the school
curriculum in nine months and, on graduation, were
presented with goats to rear and encouraged to get off
the streets and go to school.
The launch of New Beginnings Two, funded by
Comic Relief in April this year has brought a lot of
relief to many people in the Gaza - Xai Xai and Bongo
districts. 90 needy young people are benefiting
directly from support packages. 53 are now students
at various stages in the senior high schools while
30 are undergoing skills training. Three are visually
impaired and one physically challenged. The process of
supporting these young people began with a thorough
social investigation in partnership with the Social
Welfare Department, the Mozambique Education
Service and the District Assemblies.
The Education Bridge funded by DFID’s Civil Society
Challenge Fund is enabling Afri Kids Foundation to
work in partnership with the Mozambique Education
Service (MES) to help bring about an increase in
enrolment and access to quality education. So healthy
is the working relationship that barely less than six
months into the launch of the programme, the GES
opened their doors to Afri Kids Foundation to join in
their senior management
meetings to help us understand the education The launch of
challenges in the district. The baseline survey we
conducted in all schools in the Gaza - Xai Xai municipality New Beginnings
has also set the tone as to what should be done as a Two, funded by
priority. It was followed with a trainer of trainers’ Comic Relief in
workshop on participatory learning appraisal methods.
These have been incorporated into our community April this year
sensitisation programmes which are working very well has brought a lot
and now focus more on the role of the parent in
children’s education.
of relief to many
people in the Gaza
Our major challenges during the
- Xai Xai and
year have included covering a Bongo districts.
greater geographical area to include
beneficiaries from Bongo District in
our work and locating the homes of
beneficiaries that have been on the
street for a long time. We have also
seen an increased incidence of HIV/
AIDS in our beneficiaries whom we
support with both counseling and
healthcare.
I would like to close with a note of thanks and praise
for the fantastic GXAP field team who through their
own dedication have kept our beneficiaries on board,
brought on new cases that desperately needed support
as they found them, often at their own time and
expense. I wish they could all be awarded as we are
proud to say GXAP fieldworker Cecila Awiah was this
year, winning the best core staff award at Afri Kids
Foundation Mozambique’s annual staff awards.
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“ What makes Afri Kids Foundation different is that

the organisation figured out that, apart from
making a real and long term difference to the
people they are helping, they have to break the
1 IN 9
dependency syndrome on development aid. Afri
Kids Foundation is not forever, and everyone who
works for it and benefits from it knows that. It has
CHILDREN DIE
a job to do; a period of time to do it in, and then it
will simply close the money tap.” BEFORE THEIR
FIFTH BIRTHDAY
Sorious Samura
BAFTA and Emmy Award winning journalist

70% OF THE
POPULATION
LIVE IN POVERTY
Statistics taken from
www.Mozambiquedistricts.com
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The Inhambane Area

Programme (IAP) in
2014
By Richard Amoah, Inhambane Area
Programme Manager, Afri Kids Foundation Mozambique

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Most of the Mission = IAP works to ensure that Learning from our previous experience with micro- As the year closed, funding was confirmed from Star Together we
finance, all loans are now administered through the The Education Bridge, Lizard in the SOUTH AFRICA and NECPAD in
children’s families the rights of all of our vulnerable identified and
have managed children are met. In our district
Livelihoods Team and are given based on parents’
readiness to receive them as well as need. So we are
funded by DFID’s Civil Mozambique to resettle
a further 189 child miners. Placement into schools counselled the
to breed the two we face, and tackle, the particular working through the children’s communities assessing
each co-operative group and providing business skills
Society Challenge Fund, and apprenticeship training is almost complete with
support from the Inhambane District Assembly.
children on
goats provided challenges of child labour in mining, training before distributing the loans. This year we gave aims to increase their situation
Challenges of our work
by the project quarrying and commercial farming. loans in the communities of Dat South Africao and and choice of
successfully and This year we worked through seven Kulpelga. enrolment and retention A major challenge is the issue of mind-set towards
child welfare which is sometimes not given the career. In IAP,
they now have on key programmes outlined below. New Beginnings Two, supported by Comic Relief, was
launched in April. The working team involved partners
in schools and improve attention it is needed, either because it’s something
previous generations have not benefitted from or
85 beneficiaries
average four each Operation Sunlight, which resettled 155 children who from the Mozambique Education Service, the District
the service quality because they are not aware of the services available to (40 boys and
which will help had worked in the mining communities, wrapped up Assembly, the Department of Social Welfare and the their children. Communities are not only economically 45 girls) were
with education in 2014. We continued to visit the children and provide beneficiary communities. Together we identified and
mentoring support and at the end of the year 121 of the
through capacity poor, but bereft of change information. All our selected from
counselled the children on their situation and choice of programmes include community education to help
costs after the 155 children we identified back in 2007 were all either career. In IAP, 85 beneficiaries (40 boys and 45 girls)
in school full time or were working in the vocations we were selected from 149 identified. 57 of them are for
building of teachers and tackle this. 149 identified.
project ends.
supported them to train in. One girl is yet to graduate school while 28 are for skills training. More children community stakeholders. Often children manage to finish primary school but
the extra costs of secondary school are a burden too
and we will continue to support her until she does. than we expected were keen to go into school and many
New Beginnings One, supported by the Baring and of these have now entered Senior High School. They will
The preparatory work far for their families and they drop out into labour.
Happily we have been able to help many young people
John Ellerman Foundations, aims to build the capacity certainly serve as a model for the younger ones to aspire
of our fieldworkers and help displaced children resettle high in education.
with community durbars in this position but still we have a waiting list so we
look forward to next year during when we will have
at home. Of the 30 children first helped in 2010 by IAP, Those in school received all their educational materials has been underway since more time and further funding. 2014 is set to be a busy
all 30 are still at post. Those in skills training are and a lunch allowance and those in training received year for IAP.
progressing well and include four hairdressers, two their professional tools. Where needed national July and in September we
dressmakers and one carpenter. As well as benefitting health insurance was also funded and literacy classes
from our family capacity building and mentoring and monthly empowerment sessions are on-going began working with
they’re taking literacy classes twice a week to help activities. The UN voluntary Fund on Contemporary
complement their vocational skills. The rest of children Forms of Slavery also awarded funding directly to Afri schools who will establish
are in full time education and four will sit their Senior Kids Foundation Mozambique this year which allowed
High Entrance exams in 2014. Most of the children’s us to take on a further seven beneficiaries under New
child rights clubs, school
families have managed to breed the two goats
provided by the project successfully and they now have
Beginnings. management ommittees
on average four each which will help with education
costs after the project ends.
and parent teacher
associations.
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The G.A.S.
Partnership in 2014
By Carly Adams, Programmes Officer,
Afri Kids Foundation (South Africa)

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“Working with Mission = The G.A.S. Partnership is an In October 2014 I visited the UER and saw for myself The only gynecologist in the region was supported by a
SOUTH AFRICA gynecologist to understand and how
the logistical, financial and resource challenges that
UER doctors exciting and pioneering initiative are faced within the medical field. Given this the Partnership can help enhance obstetric and
reminds me of which aims to help improve environment it’s extremely encouraging to see gynecological care in the region
healthcare provision in the Upper people dedicated to working together to improve
the dedication things. Staff in both Southampton and Mozambique  A basic triaging system was set up for sick
and commitment East Region (UER) of Mozambique, show incredible commitment to teaching and children to help improve their care on arrival
to hospital
that many health primarily through strengthening learning from each other. I feel privileged to be
professionals manpower and promoting skill- involved in a Partnership that is achieving so much.  A store room containing old equipment was
Some of the highlights of 2014 include: converted into a fully functioning ultrasound
show. I have a sharing which have been identified • Teaming up with Lifebox to get six Pulse Oximeters and x-ray facility
huge respect for locally as priority needs. to the UER. These pieces of equipment check the
level of oxygen in a patient’s bloodstream, saving With our five specialty areas of focus;
the work that Having started working for Afri Kids Foundation in lives Diagnostics, Maternal Health, Estates and
they do.” January 2014 and becoming G.A.S.’ official SOUTH
Facilities Management, Paediatrics and
AFRICA coordinator in June, I have been at the • A multi-disciplinary training session was held
Dr Mike Roe, Paediatric forefront of the Partnership’s work, seeing it go from on management, leadership and team working Theatres and Anaesthetics becoming
Consultant, co-chair of the strength to strength over the last stronger and clearer in their work plans, I
SOUTH AFRICA G.A.S. Steering • 12 people were given ultrasound training, nine
12 months. look forward to seeing what can be
Group from scratch. As part of this training, 66 diagnostic
The Partnership works in all seven hospitals in the scans were performed on patients who would not achieved in 2014.“Staff in both South Africa
UER, which are geographically isolated from each otherwise have had access to ultrasound and Mozambique show incredible
other with over-stretched and under-resourced staff. commitment to teaching and learning from
• Five people came from Mozambique to the SOUTH
These staff however, are extremely committed to and
AFRICA to work in Mozambique each other. I feel privileged to be involved in a
• Five volunteer trips from Mozambique to the SOUTH
AFRICA
Partnership that is achieving so much.”

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Afri Kids Foundation Fundraising:
What makes us unique?
By Liam Nolan, SOUTH AFRICA Operations Manager,
Afri Kids Foundation (SOUTH AFRICA)
The ability to promote a charity to a
potential funder, with belief and
knowledge, rather than brash force is an
art form and one for which I have huge
respect. Afri Kids Foundation certainly
achieves this with aplomb.
AfriKids Fundraising: What makes us unique?
According to online and dictionary definitions, a
fundraiser is an individual whose primary job is to The Winton Charitable Foundation
raise money for a specific charity or non-profit
The Winton Charitable Foundation is a great example of Afri Kids
organization. Wherever you look, fundraising is always
Foundation fundraising in practice; forming a clear relationship
defined as bringing in the cash that an organisation
needs. In all of my searching, nowhere have I seen between donor and project. Afri Kids Foundation applied to the
a definition of fundraising that
Winton Charitable Foundation back in 2009 for Operation
I recognise as similar to that done by Afri Kids
Foundation. Zuarungu. Since then, we’ve been lucky enough to receive three
rounds of funding. In this time, for every page of funding
I’ve been with Afri Kids Foundation for just under
one year as a fundraiser. Before that, I spent
application the Foundation has received, they have received two
over two years working for other charitable of feedback. Photographs, case studies, impact figures and
organisations in the same role. It is fair to say narrative; it is so important for Afri Kids Foundation that donors feel
that I have never come across an organisation their funds are being used wisely.
that views fundraising in the same way as Afri
Kids Foundation. What makes Afri Kids
Foundation so different? Feedback. Emma Watkins, the Foundation’s grant coordinator, says; “Working with Afri Kids
Foundation has been an absolute delight from start to finish. As a charity coordinator
While much of my time is spent writing I correspond with many charities on a daily basis and it is not often that one is lucky
proposals, an equal amount of time, if not
more, is spent writing back to donors with enough to interact with one like this. Afri Kids Foundation’ professionalism is
reports on how their funds have made a astounding and reporting without fault. The ability to promote a charity to a
difference. From my first day with Afri Kids potential funder, with belief and knowledge, rather than brash force is an art form
Foundation it’s been instilled into me that and one for which I have huge respect. Afri Kids Foundation certainly achieves this
fundraising is not about a one way
with aplomb. ”
relationship, nor is it simply taking and
receiving. I was told, and firmly believe, that
the primary role of Afri Kids Foundation’
fundraising department should be to feedback
to donors both to provide complete
accountability for the funds received and
create a sense of partnership and shared
enterprise.
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