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NEAD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT NPC Profile Overview

June 2016

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CONTACT INFORMATION

1. Name of Organization

NEAD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT NPC

2. Contact information

Mailing Address: 31 Dassenberg Street, Tafelsig, Mitchells Plain 7785, Cape Town,

Western Cape, South Africa

Contact Person: Joanie Fredericks: Executive Director

Cell 1: +27 76 621 0245

Cell 2: +27 61 058 7245

Email: joanie.fredericks@gmail.com

Face Book: http://m.facebook.com/NEAD-Community-Development-NPC-1511037072530919/

3. NPC Registration Nr:

2015/431328/08

4. Banking Details:

Account Name: NEAD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT NPO

Bank: Standard Bank

Business Current Account: 310920922

Branch: Promenade

Branch Code: 02660917

Swift Code: SBZAZAJJ

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Highlights since inception NEAD was registered in December 2015. Highlights over the organization‟s first 6 months include:

These are just a few highlights of our successes so far:

Developed an ongoing partnership with the City of Cape Town‟s, Swartklip Indoor Centre

recreational programme to operate joint youth workshops and recreational programmes.

Formed a dance group coaching 30 boys and girls HIP HOP, KWAITO and BREAKDANCE

dance genres. The dance group has practiced with a group from Battery Dance Company

from New York, United States for a performance with the group at the Artscape Theatre on

Thursday the 3rd of December.

Established an after school homework assistance programme for struggling students.

Providing regular cooked meals to the children who are part of the dance and afterschool

homework assistance programmes.

Source and distribute clothing and shoes to our youth programme members.

Established CV writing services and a job preparedness programme for youths and adults.

Created jobs for 15 out of school youth in the construction sector at Bright Ideas

Construction Company.

Encouraged 4 young men and 2 young women to stop using drugs and continuously to

stay drug free.

Took 65 children on an excursion to attend a Puppet show called Butterfly Dreams by the

Theatre in the Company Gardens in Cape Town.

NEAD sent 13 unemployed young men and women on an intensive 2 week Skills Transfer

Programme on event management, project management and entrepreneurial skills. The

programme is part of the Ministerial Special Projects of MEC Albert Fritz‟s office and was

facilitated by the well-known Community Chest. All 13 young people have stayed

throughout the accredited programme; they all graduated on 10 March 2016 and are now

skilled to start their own small businesses.

Organized and hosted a community modeling/ talent show where the NEAD dancers

together with 30 other children and adults showed off their modeling and dancing skills.

Appeared 4 times in the local newspapers (Peoples Post, 22 March & 26 April and

Plainsman, 23 March and 26 April).

Invited by Sensei Trevor Rustin to the Kyokushin Karate School in Westridge Mitchells

Plain to observe karate training on the evening of 15 June 2016 where we received food

and meat worth almost R2000 for the NEAD dancers food programme and bags of

clothing, shoes and curtains to hand out to our underprivileged dancers and other

community members.

NEAD hosted a successful Youth Day 2016 event at the Freedom Park community hall in

Tafelsig. The event was attended by Sensei Trevor, students and parents from the

Kyokushin Karate School and live demonstrations allowed NEAD dancers and Tafelsig

community members to test their karate skills.

Executive Director accompanied dancers and dance coach to the Hiphop Dance South

Africa (HHDSA) Championship workshop at the Dance for All Studio in Athlone on Saturday

18 June 2016.

Executive Director accompanied dance coach to the Cape Town provincial HHDSA

choreographer‟s course at the Redz Kidz Academy on Sunday 19 June 2016.

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Overview

NEAD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT NPC, is a nonprofit organization with a dual mission: committed to

providing a platform for the inspiration and empowerment of a sustainable and progressive economic and

social development environment and to provide community development services that are constitutionally

sound and upholds the human rights of local communities. NEAD is the only organization in the Tafelsig area

in Mitchells Plain that provides registration education services for nonprofit organizations and small

businesses alike.

The notorious Tafelsig community is located in Mitchells Plain, part of the so-called Cape Flats of the Western

Cape. Ruled by different violent gangs such as the 26‟s, 27‟s 28‟s with more and more new gangs being

formed by young unemployed boys and girls, poverty is at the order of the day and children spend their days

scampering for food or collecting scrap to sell to be able to buy food instead of going to school. There is very

little if any official research about the problem but if conducted, research will confirm the high prevalence of

poverty, sexual violence, domestic violence, alcohol and drug abuse and HIV/AIDS in this neglected

community. Research will no doubt also expose lack of comprehensive programmes to address these social

problems as well as the absence of support services to persons whose lives are affected by these social

problems. By just visiting the local clinic, talking to community members and noticing the increasing number

of unfed children on the streets, it is clear that the Tafelsig community has reached point of complete apathy

where no one is willing to take charge and do something for themselves and the greater community. The

Cape Flats communities in the Western Cape of South Africa remains the most impoverished and vulnerable

group: job insecurity, cramped and poor housing conditions, isolation, illiteracy through early school

dropouts, play a role toward creating an environment that is susceptible to sexual violence, including drug

and alcohol abuse and HIV/AIDS. This contextual overview paints a bleak picture for youth in the community

and it is against this backdrop that the NEAD organization has started its youth leadership and job creation

programme in its aim to remove the barriers that restrict access to sustainable job opportunities for the

youth of Tafelsig.

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE OF NEAD

NEAD offers a unique product and service. It is the only organization that provides registration education

services to nonprofits and small businesses in the area. NEAD has already started building a substantial

reputation as an organization that can deliver what it promises and aims to become the no 1 expert in

empowering communities to achieve their development dreams. Its social and economic missions make it

the only socially responsible organization in Tafelsig that builds its principles on providing community

development services that are constitutionally sound and upholds the human rights of local communities in

every aspect. The youth programmemes inspire young people to make better life decisions and touch many

aspects of their lives. To the youth participants, NEAD offers improved emotional well-being and the drive to

rise above their circumstances, provides a goal- oriented social structure (youth leadership development and

job creation), and helps improve self-esteem. An “I can do it” attitude pervades NEAD.

BUSINESS MODEL

The organization serves local communities in the Mitchells Plain area. The organization was founded to

address a number of challenges in the target community with a long-term vision to expand its work to other

local communities in South Africa. NEAD acknowledges the importance of building a support platform for

comprehensive community service delivery by co – creating various community based initiatives with other

sectors of industry:

Organizational Support for Non Profits and Small Businesses (Goal 1)

Goal 1 (Registration Services): NEAD supports the organizational well-being of start-up non profits and small

businesses by providing registration education services.

Objective 1A (Recruitment): Start-up non profits and small businesses in the Tafelsig area are being recruited

and assisted to register their organizations and businesses.

Objective 1B (Training and Development): All successfully recruited start-up non profits and small businesses

attend training workshops on good governance, financial management, fundraising, project management,

report writing, marketing and human resource development. NEAD also provide a platform promoting

opportunities to support and connect communities in business, through lobbying, mentoring, networking,

strategic alliances, and developing and recognizing excellence in small business owners.

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Activities:

NEAD‟s business development training programme connects start-up non profits and small businesses to

community resources, using existing relationships case managers have with community programme as

well as forging new relationships with government.

NEAD‟s business development training programme helps start-up non profits and small businesses

achieve specific goals to overcome barriers. Case managers contact start-up non profits and small

businesses once a week to personally help them connect with community resources.

NEAD‟s business development training team also helps connect to networking with like-minded

organizations.

Comprehensive workshops cover topics such as writing of business plans, fundraising and community

development.

NEAD‟s business development training programme provides workshops on setting up and managing

small, medium and micro enterprises.

NEAD‟s business development training team provides ongoing mentoring, advice and support.

Youth Leadership Development & Job Creation (Goal 2)

Goal 2 (Youth Leadership Development & Job Creation): NEAD supports youth success in academics,

extracurricular activities, peer and family relationships, and avoiding drugs, alcohol, and contacts with law

enforcement. NEAD‟s Case Management helps young adults obtain training, career development, and life

skills resources.

Objective 2A (Youth Mentoring Support): NEAD provides the Empower and Achieve mentoring programme,

matching high risk Tafelsig children and youth with adult mentors who are role models in the community.

Objective 2B (After School Home Work Support Programme): An after school home work support programme

serves struggling youth each week with their school work.

Objective 2C (Dance Programme): The organization’s flagship programme is its Dance Academy that

offers an after school dance programme that teaches children the art of dancing. The different dances being

taught are the very popular hip hop and kwaito dance styles with a mixture of a unique contemporary ballet

style. Children who join this programme have dreams of becoming professional dancers and they take their

dancing very serious. Only children attending school are allowed on the dance programme because NEAD

uses this programme to encourage the youth to practice respect and discipline in their everyday life including

academics.

Objective 2D (December School Holiday Enrichment Camp): Each year a December school holiday

enrichment camp serves the youth over a 2 week period.

Objective 2E (Job Creation): Young adults enrol and complete a job readiness/career search programme, and

families participate in a support programme for job seekers.

Activities:

Empower and Achieve is a year-round mentoring programme that matches adults and high risk youth.

Participating youth comes from dysfunctional homes, schools, and social workers. Mentors are recruited

from the Universities of Western Cape, Cape Town and Stellenbosch students and faculty, businesses,

community organizations and individuals who are role models in the community.

Mentors and programme participants meet for four to six hours per month to provide after school

tutoring help, career guidance, and support.

Structured meetings led by mentors and supported by the NEAD team cover topics such as family

relationships, school conflicts, problem solving, and dating relationships and peer pressure. Mentors

provide job shadowing opportunities and help their mentees identify careers of interest. High school-age

participants are employed during the school holidays by different community organizations or other

appropriate job sites.

The NEAD December Enrichment programme provides a 2 week programme for children between the

ages of 6 through 16. Programme modules include dance, singing, arts and crafts, soccer, and cricket.

The children are also given the opportunity to explore career choices. The City of Cape Town‟s Swartklip

Sports and Recreation Programme provide team leaders for soccer, cricket, arts and crafts, and other

related activities.

A weekly pro-social programme focus on topics such as resisting peer pressure, teenage pregnancy

drugs, HIV and AIDS, alcohol and gangs, improving self-esteem, and solving conflict peacefully and

positively. Guest presenters include Bounceback, Department of Social Development, and Nicro

amongst others.

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A fast track career programme through different community organizations and Community Skills

Colleges providing life skills classes, covering balancing work and personal time, stress management,

conflict resolution, anger management and workplace expectations.

Job coaching. After placement in a job, coaches meet at least monthly with the employee and immediate

supervisors.

Case management to help families address issues such as transportation, housing, child care, substance

abuse treatment, family relationships, and cultural barriers at work.

Constitutional & Human Rights Law Advice and Referrals (Goal 3)

Goal 3 (Constitutional & Human Rights Law Advice and Referrals): NEAD is serious about upholding its social

responsibility towards local communities, recognizes that many South Africans still don‟t know the South

African Constitution and the rights and responsibilities contained within the Constitution, nor do they

understand their Human Rights and how to access these rights. NEAD is committed to provide information

and advice on Constitutional & Human Rights Law issues and provide legal advice, assistance and referrals

to access these rights. NEAD forms partnerships with law firms that are able to take up cases of human

rights concern pro bono.

Activities:

Key Constitutional & Human Rights Law activities available at the NEAD Centre include:

Simplifying the Constitution so that it is accessible to the general public.

Information sessions on the Constitution and what Human Rights are about.

Provision of basic advice on Constitutional & Human Rights issues.

Assistance to access Human Rights.

Referrals to law firms that takes up cases of Constitutional & Human Rights concern pro bono.

Management Team

The management team consists of three highly skilled and dedicated staff with over 20 years of experience

in organization and community development, 15 years in small business development, 20 years experience

in youth leadership development, 20 years in workshop material development, facilitation and training and 2

years in basic legal advice, 20 years in nursing and medical experience (one team member is a qualified

senior nurse in psychiatry, special care and general nursing). The team has proven its ability since inception

of NEAD and is continuing to develop new strengths. The three key staff members are:

Joanie Fredericks - Executive Director & Co-Founder (Full time)

Nonprofit Development and Constitutional & Human Rights Law Advice and Referrals

Ms. Fredericks is the co - founder and leader of NEAD. She has over 20 years of experience in the nonprofit

sector. She honed her skills as volunteer, staff and board member across different organizations and has a

solid understanding of the intimate workings of nonprofits through personal experience. Coupled with this are

her technical skills and qualifications obtained from esteemed training institutions. She recently completed

certificate courses in Constitutional Law and Human Rights and Business Management at the biggest Law

firm in Africa, ENS AFRICA. During the week of 4 Oct – 9 Oct, 2015 she completed a Community Capacity

Enhancement – Facilitators Training workshop facilitated by the National Department of Social Development

(DSD). She obtained certificates in Governance from the Non Profit Consortium (NPC), Monitoring Funding

against Expenditure from C. Masters Development Services (CMDS), Management Programme for NGOs and

NPOs from the University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB), Dynamic Facilitation and Negotiation Skills

from Southern Hemisphere, one of the leading consultant and development firms in Southern Africa. She

received a certificate from the Southern Africa HIV and AIDS Information Dissemination Service (SAFAIDS) in

recognition as a SAFAIDS Regional Master Trainer on the „Changing the River‟s Flow‟ – Culture, Gender,

Women‟s Rights and HIV Integrated Responses. She also attended the Workers College (school for trade

union women) where she received a certificate in labour Issues in 1996. She worked amongst others for the

Centre for Rural Legal Studies in Stellenbosch, the Public Health Department Medical School of Cape Town,

and the Industrial Health Research Group at the University of Cape Town.

Mogamad Salie Titus - Co-founder & Projects Manager (Part – time)

Youth Leadership Development & Job Creation

Mogamad Titus is a qualified senior male nurse in psychiatry, special care and general nursing. He worked at

various medical institutions and hospitals for the past 27 years. His great passion and care for people has

brought him to volunteer for various community structures such as the Delft Chambers of Business, the Delft

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South Society, Raising Hope Feeding Scheme, DTI (Development Training Industry) Building and

Development Centre and the Chambers of Commerce. His vision is to empower young people with skills

through an integrated sustainable development approach and his mission is to raise the quality of life of

young people in all communities, to empower young people with the minimum of skills to give them a better

life. He has a particular passion to work with unemployed, unskilled persons, even those who dropped out of

school, those from drug rehabilitation and people with disabilities. His aim at NEAD is to establish training

facilities for self-sustainability of the organization. His main focus is to recruit young people into permanent

jobs and manage both their career and personal growth.

Bathembu Kokose - Director & Co-founder (Part – time)

Business Training & Development

Bathembu Kokose has a strong background in business management and has been instrumental in

assisting various communities to set up enterprises like spaza shops, small butcheries, clothing stores and

cash & carry stores. His vision is to create an enabling environment for entrepreneurs through training,

development and mentorship. Bathembu believes that his background, growing up in the vast rural areas of

the Eastern Cape will be instrumental in NEAD working towards the reality of owning land that can be

developed and farmed for the benefit of the community. He believes that everything is possible through

commitment and hard work and people don‟t have to wait for money to make their dreams come true but

instead use their initiatives and turn them into reality through working together.

Eleanor Polansky - Director (Part – time)

Community Liaison and Child Welfare Officer

Eleanor Polansky has as passion for working with children and her vision is to create an environment where

children feel that their voices are heard and equally important in decisions about their lives. A grand mom of

3 boys she understands the challenges of raising kids in a community which faces big challenges such as

gangsterism etc. She is a mother figure within the organization and has the role of peace maker having

managed to break up many fights between the kids.

MEET OUR NEAD VOLUNTEERS:

Members of the community complement the skills presented by the management team. The volunteers

consist of dedicated individuals from the following professions: community development, social work and

dancing. Each volunteer brings enthusiasm, a unique skill perspective and a broad network of contacts to

the organization.

Bernadette Morrisson, Youth Mentor & NEAD Cook

Bernadette Morrisson is a community worker by heart; she loves children and is very passionate about

community work. She is like a mother to the youth at NEAD and has their confidence in matters, big or small.

She is an excellent cook and cooks for the kids whenever we manage to find food donations.

Soraya Petersen, After School Home Work

Soraya Petersen is a qualified Grade R teacher with 4 years solid working experience. Apart from that she

has also assisted in various community organization teaching assisting programmes. She has a great

passion for developing a learning culture amongst the youth of the Tafelsig community and is leading the

NEAD after school home work assistance programme with the assistance of mentors who provide assistance

to students struggling with school subjects, especially mathematics and the English language.

Shane Phillips, Youth Mentor

Shane Phillips was the head prefect at Westridge High School in 2014. While at school, he started a

programme that partnered with community organizations. He was instrumental in helping needy

organizations raise much needed funds for their work. Shane brought his passion for community work into

NEAD and is a wonderful mentor for the youth

Jezelle Fillies, Youth Mentor

Jezelle Abigail Fillies is currently a grade 12 student at Princeton High School. She is a grade A learner who

uses her academic abilities to encourage the youth to study and she assists and mentor struggling students.

Her dream is to become a social worker. She has a great passion for community and assists anybody in

need.

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OUR DANCE PROGRAMME

ICD (INCREDIBLE DANCERS) CREW

The dance programme includes girls and boys with ages ranging from 6 – 15 years old. The dance style

being taught is hip hop and freestyle and the classes take place every day after school during the week. The

classes on Saturday mornings are from 09h00 am –13h00 pm for all the divisions.

The 3 divisions are junior: ages 7 – 10 (seven to ten years), varsity: ages 11 – 15 (eleven to fifteen years)

and seniors: ages 16 + (sixteen) and older.

IN CONCLUSION

The NEAD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT NPC organisation takes it work in the Tafelsig community very, very

seriously. We call on any interested parties to assist us in any way possible to help us grow into the

formidable organisation we envision that will be able to empower the youth to achieve their dreams! We are

challenging the „entitlement‟ attitude that people have in the communities and we aspire to assist people to

regain their pride and self – respect. We work closely with individuals, corporate and government with a

vested interest in supporting community development efforts.

Dance Coach Laithin Daniels

NEAD DANCE CREW – ICD (Incredible Dancers)

MANAGEMENT TEAM

Left to right: Bathembu Kokose, Mogamad Titus standing at the back,

Eleanor Polansky middle and Joanie Fredericks far right.

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