What we do

These are some of our current projects: (click on each for details)

• Evidence that our vocational training programme dramatically helps children

• Helping children to protect themselves

• Helping children in Soweto

• Helping children to be happy, healthy and safe (this page)

• We are finding out more about perpetrators

• Why what we do matters

• Making sure we know the facts

A wonderful crèche

In 2008 we started to support a new crèche in northern Limpopo, working with Childline. This is an area of great deprivation, no employment, and poor prospects for anyone.  Here, in the hidden rural spaces, there are hundreds of children of all ages left alone all day and at the mercy of any potential danger.

We have worked with Childline to setup and develop a new crèche specifically for the little ones most at risk. And what a success it is being!

We are now in our third year and over the months have helped to setup toilets, running water, a Jungle Gym, a range of toys and learning materials. There are currently over 70 children from 8 months to 5 years old and the transformation of the children from when they arrive to when they leave the crèche is remarkable.

I can always tell the new children because they are so down-at-heel, quiet and often sick, but with the care of the teachers and good food they blossom – the Head teacher of the local primary school tells me that the difference in these children and those who have not been cared for in such and environment is quite startling – he says, without a blink, these are the children who will go to University and are the future of the country!

This year we are hoping that the crèche can become fully registered and we can move on to support a new crèche somewhere equally as deserving.