Empowering Children’s Lives

Annual Report 2017

CONTENTS02 VISION AND MISSION

03 DIRECTOR’S REPORT 2017

06 TREASURER’S REPORT

07 A LOOK BACK TO THE 90S

08 EARLY INTERVENTION PROJECT

11 SHELTER PROJECT

13 YIZANI STREET OUTREACH PROJECT

15 LAUNCHPAD PROJECT

18 ACKNOWLEDGING AMORI BORMAN

19 ORGANOGRAM

20 TILING OUR DINING HALL

21 NEEDS LIST

22 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

26 CAN YOU HELP?

The Homestead Projects for Street Children

02 Vision and mission

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Our missionTo help street children reconstruct their shattered lives, and to provide prevention and early intervention services to children and families in disadvantaged communities.

Our visionIt is The Homestead’s vision that no child should live, work or beg on the streets of Cape Town and that every child should live in a community with a family.

This little blue building on the corner of Strand and Hudson Streets, The Homestead Head Office, was donated to The Homestead many years ago by the late Tony Mestriner. Decades later it continues as a beacon of hope to the most vulnerable children of Cape Town. Please feel free to drop in for a cup of coffee and to find out all about our work.

VISION AND MISSION

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DIRECTOR’S REPORT 2017The Homestead is happy to report that the modernisation and redevelopment process that was started several years ago to update all Homestead facilities, improve the impact of our projects and ensure we truly empower children’s lives is now largely complete. It was strategically necessary to bring all our facilities up to modern health and safety standards, meet new legislative norms and standards, update all our old paper-based administration systems, undertake the training and professionalisation of our child care staff, and most importantly, take our projects to a new standard of formal therapeutic development. This was an important step in our drive to heal, educate and develop street children towards an empowered future.

The Homestead Shelter: The Homestead Shelter moved at the end of 2015 to our new, modern, better-equipped and more appropriate facility in Khayelitsha. The shelter can now accommodate 65 children, compared to 30 at the old shelter, and places children away from their vulnerability to the street, as well as in a more welcoming community environment. Last year, The Shelter, according to government monitoring statistics, helped 160 street children. That is a 60 percent increase over the previous year, and, at the new facility, children settle much faster, abscond less, and the number of children bouncing back and forth to and from the streets declined to less than 10 percent. Formal school attendance climbed dramatically compared to the old shelter, and is now at 55 percent, with school attendance climbing rather than declining as the school year progresses. The new shelter facility allowed us to introduce a more controlled, settled, therapeutic and engaging environment compared to the busy and cramped environment of the old shelter, and to introduce a formal structured daily programme and a full sport and recreation programme. We were also able to work more intensively with the school-going boys, extend our morning programme for those children not yet ready for school and encourage children to contribute to the running of the centre through chores, gardening and even community outreach. The new shelter is truly a lovely environment.

The Launchpad Project: The Launchpad opened on 29 February 2016 with 13 youths and continues to exceed expectations, providing a dynamic, more mature and less institutional space for the final push to prepare children to leave care. Eighteen youths have joined the programme since it opened. Eight have moved on, out of The Homestead, and there are now 23 youths at the centre, all of whom are well settled and working hard to restructure their lives. Of the eight youths who moved out, three are working full-time, one is working two days a week at a factory in a protective workshop and one is assisting as a youth leader in his community as he continues his studies. Tertiary education and establishing a career path for the boys after The Homestead remains a challenge proving that we must continue to invest in special education opportunities, tutoring, and continue aftercare support to help the boys better deal with their education and development delays. Low functioning youth, as

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well as youth with an extensive history of substance abuse and trauma are our greatest challenge. Sadly, too often children come to us when they are 16 or 17 giving us very little time to help them to overcome years of abuse, neglect, substance abuse and trauma.

The Early Intervention Project: Over the last year, The Homestead introduced a highly structured and formal early intervention programme, one that formally assesses the needs of each child. This ensures we admit only children in need of our service, it allows us to better focus on the children’s needs, refer children to statutory and other services when necessary, and reduce the need to remove children from their families by providing a daily case management and support service. Part of this process was to ensure each centre was safe and appropriate for purpose. The Manenberg Drop-in centre was moved out of its small inappropriate space to a lovely church hall away from the gang shootings, and the old Site C Drop-in Centre, a terrible and dangerous venue, was moved to a much better facility in Town Two. Thus, over 400 children benefitted from The Homestead Early intervention project last year with a noticeable improvement in their health, family stability and school performance. Parents are now more willing to participate in training opportunities and generally engage constructively in the care of their children. Fully subscribed, The Homestead Early intervention projects effectively build resilience to domestic problems, abuse, community violence, substance abuse, neglect, negative behaviour and gangsterism.

Yizani Street Outreach Project: This project developed nicely after we appointed a child and youth care worker with a drivers licence to this project, we introduced a development plan for each child on the street and a structured daily programme. Working out of The Launchpad facility benefited the street outreach project with access to The Launchpad staff and social worker who have capacity in the morning as The Launchpad youth are at school. Currently 47 children who either live or beg on the street attend this project, and these children come into the centre for help, food, showers, social work assessment and counselling. Family intervention is a key component. This project gets children off the street, back home, or back into The Shelter system. It is our link to the street, even helping mothers and babies off the street by referring them to appropriate services.

The last year has not been without its challenges. We were devastated when an electrical fire destroyed one of our dormitory cottages at The Shelter in Khayelitsha. Fortunately, no children or staff were hurt in the fire but it did entail moving the children into the library. Thankfully, our insurance largely covered the expense of rebuilding this dormitory and it should reopen in September. Disturbingly the lack of proper palliative care for children with terminal illness, such as from HIV/Aids, came to the fore when a child found on the street, and who had been rejected by his family due to his illness, spent the last few weeks of his life in the care of The Homestead. Other challenges was the death of a community child in an altercation with one of our children (case dismissed by the courts), confusing government compliance expectations, and the ongoing

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challenge of substance abuse, mental disability and behavioural challenges amongst the children coming into our programmes. The drive to forcibly remove and detain street children by the authorities raised its head once again and required The Homestead intervene.

Staff developments: The staff of The Homestead remains largely stable with turnover at less than 16 percent and the current staff complement remaining at around 50 staff. This is a remarkable achievement in a time of raised expectations (for instance that all child and youth care workers now have to be qualified), stricter controls and more children benefiting from our projects. We are very proud that three staff members passed their drivers licences thanks to encouragement and financial support from The Homestead and that 95 percent of our care workers are now training to become qualified auxiliary child and youth care workers, paid for by The Homestead. We also welcome Andre Pieters (with 16 senior experience at the Red Cross Children’s Hospital) as Shelter Manager in Khayelitsha, Nozuko Nothwanya as Early Intervention Manager and Zainab Siebritz as Assistant to the Director.

Finances and funding: This was a very difficult funding year for The Homestead as income declined by 25,1 percent while operating expenses rose by 7 percent, with a marked increase in food and transport costs. Capital costs, especially on buildings, were dramatically lower as we completed the refurbishment of our Woodstock facility and the extension and improvements to our Khayelitsha facility in the previous financial year. The financial year ahead is a worry with The Homestead starting the year on a noticeable deficit as government subsidies are in decline, some traditional donors have changed their focus away from South Africa, and other donors have reduced their funding due to the economic climate.

Thank you for entrusting your support to The Homestead, for making it possible over the last year to help more children, more than ever before.

Paul Hooper (Director)

THANK YOU FOR

ENTRUSTING YOUR SUPPORT

TO THE HOMESTEAD,

FOR MAKING IT POSSIBLE

OVER THE LAST YEAR TO HELP

MORE CHILDREN, MORE THAN

EVER BEFORE.

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TREASURER’S REPORT The 2016/17 financial year has been a difficult period for The Homestead in terms of securing funding from both local and international donors. The loss of R1,321,357.00 reflected in our audited financial statements bear testimony to that and without depreciation, etc. reflect an operating deficit of R768,759.

The Director, Paul Hooper, has streamlined the operations of the different projects and these are running much more efficiently, which resulted in cost savings for the organisation. In the current financial year he has extended his fundraising efforts to overcome the current economic climate. Unfortunately, government subsidies for 2017/18 year continue to show that government subsidies to the NPO sector are in decline.

The Director has consistently improved the children’s wellbeing, living spaces and education; and staff working conditions and remuneration, despite being constrained with the challenges of raising funds for the operational costs of The Homestead. The Board is deeply appreciative of his efforts and we wish him well in the current financial year.

Zaitoon Abed (Treasurer)

Financial informationRevenue structure Rands

Government 5,126,515

Grants and corporate social investment 2,262,045

Community support 2,722,234

Job creation income 225,002

Other 80,222

10,416,018

Cost structure

Buildings and improvements 1,484,357

Professional and staff costs 5,258,999

Administration costs 558,162

Transport 254,798

Facilities 566,030

Program costs 1,947,483

Education sponsorship 346,187

10,416,018

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THIS YEAR THE HOMESTEAD CELEBRATES

OUR 35 YEARS IN OPERATION.

Pictures taken by Chae Kihn

A LOOK BACK TO THE 90SA snapshot of our pastThis year The Homestead celebrates 35 years in operation. These photos were taken during the 1990s when there were nearly a thousand children living on the streets of Cape Town and the current Homestead director was working with children on the street and running The Homestead’s Yizani Drop-in Centre.

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EARLY INTERVENTION PROJECT

Project The Homestead Early Intervention ProjectCommunity based drop-in, school aftercare and family support programmes that help 200 chronically neglected, abused and vulnerable children a week

Reason for Project

• Traumatised children from dysfunctional families drop out of school and fall into substance abuse and high-risk behaviour. Eventually they move permanently onto the street.

• Children living, working and begging on the street need consistent family- and community-level support if they are to successfully transition back home and to school. Children with disadvantaged family status, in violent dysfunctional communities, and who suffer from chronic neglect, physical and mental abuse, and exploitation will end up on the street if they do not get harm-reduction support.

• Vulnerable community children continue to fall through the cracks and need to be identified, assessed and referred when necessary to statutory services and support.

• Community children who need care and protection often do not need to be removed from their families if they can get the right support and development.

Purpose of Project

• To create an effective link between statutory services and the most vulnerable community children by completing formal assessment, therapeutic, IDP and referral services to ensure children either get the care and protection they need or the support they need to stay with their families.

• To provide daily case management of vulnerable children that reduce the number of children failing out of family and school life, that develops resilience to domestic problems, abuse, community violence, substance abuse, negative behaviour issues and gangsterism.

• To provide vulnerable children with access to a safe consistent space and family preservation, school attendance, school aftercare, crisis intervention, nutritional, life-skills, development and therapeutic support services, including holiday programmes.

• To empower children and their families with the knowledge and skills they need to cope with their own issues by offering community awareness programmes, family support and parental development and training programmes, as well as brokering links between the family and the services they need.

TRAUMATISED CHILDREN FROM DYSFUNCTIONAL

FAMILIES DROP OUT OF SCHOOL AND FALL INTO

SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND HIGH-RISK

BEHAVIOUR.

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Impact • This project and all its branches are fully subscribed with children who have been formally assessed as needing these support services.

• Children who attended this programme are in obvious better health, more stable, remain at home, attend and are more successful at school, and do not end up on the street.

• Parents are more willing to participate in training opportunities, are referred to and supported in rehabilitation and other services and engage constructively in the care of their children.

• The local community and schools are able to refer children in need of care and protection to The Homestead so these children are no longer ignored but get the help they need.

Location • Isikhokelo Primary School, Khayelitsha

• Manenberg

• Valhalla Park

• Town Two, Khayelitsha

THE LOCAL COMMUNITY

AND SCHOOLS ARE ABLE TO

REFER CHILDREN IN NEED OF CARE AND

PROTECTION TO THE HOMESTEAD

SO THESE CHILDREN ARE

NO LONGER IGNORED BUT GET THE HELP

THEY NEED.

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CAPE TOWN CONTINUES TO

HAVE LARGE NUMBERS OF

CHILDREN WHO COME ONTO THE STREET.

SHELTER PROJECT

Project The Homestead Shelter, KhayelitshaResidential care for 65 boys aged 7 to 17

Reason for Project

• Cape Town continues to have large numbers of children who come onto the street.

• Street children cannot be developed on the street; the street environment is too harsh, abusive, exploitative and detrimental to their physical and mental health.

• Usually, street children cannot be moved directly back home due to family dysfunction and extreme poverty.

• Street children are traumatised due to chronic neglect, physical and mental abuse and exploitation.

• Street children have substance abuse and behavioural challenges as well as developmental and education delays.

• Street children require consistent and ongoing support and often abscond back to street life as soon as things get challenging.

• Children who live, work and beg on the street need a residential-based programme to successfully transition away from street life and back to their families.

Purpose of Project

• To provide appropriate, therapeutic and developmental residential care so street children can successfully transition away from street life and back to their families.

• To provide a structured and formal stabilisation process, one that enables the child to reconstruct their shattered lives, sort out substance abuse and behavioural issues, reconnect with their families, reignite their school careers and access extramural activities.

• To offer a gentle, non-judgemental but firm and consistent daily structure that offers street children the patience, space and ongoing support they need through the ups and downs of their transitional process, one that complements family life and processes underlying trauma.

• To provide an appropriate residential facility for street children that is well away from the dangers, attractions and their vulnerability to street life, and those wanting to exploit street children.

• To provide a well-resourced facility situated within a stable, welcoming community environment so children reconnect with community life and develop sound peer relationships.

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Impact • Last year 160 children were helped by The Homestead residential project.

• Ex-Homestead boys, or Homestead graduates, can be found happily living normal lives. Some are very successful indeed.

• This project consistently runs at over 90 percent capacity with an absconding rate of less than 10 percent.

• The Homestead has been instrumental in reducing the number of children living and begging on the street by 90 percent.

• Formal school attendance is at 55 percent and climbing.

Location • D-Section, Khayelitsha

After the fire: repairs

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YIZANI STREET OUTREACH PROJECT

Project The Homestead Yizani Street Outreach ProjectStreet level outreach and drop-in centre for children living, working and begging on the street

Reason for Project

• Cape Town continues to experience a flood of children moving onto the street.

• Children living, working and begging on the street are aggressively abused and exploited.

• Street children need to be formally identified and assessed, their families identified and engaged with, and a plan of action drawn up to get them off the street as quickly as possible.

• Street children live in a state of ‘fight or flight’ and often bounce back and forth between the street and residential care until they stabilise.

• Statutory social workers need street level assistance to identify and successful remove street children in crises, who do not respond to interventions, or who require removal into secure care for rehabilitation treatment.

• Those who exploit, abuse, support and traffic children onto the street need to be identified and addressed.

Purpose of Project

• To have a street outreach worker who can develop a trust relationship with street children, support them and help them to attend the drop-in programme, return to care, return to their families or be referred to statutory services.

• To understand and link to the street environment so children can be identified, those in crises helped and those who exploit the children addressed and the public educated.

• To provide a drop-in centre where street children, even those who just come onto the street periodically to beg, can get assistance, showers, food and formal assessment by a social worker, as well as the support they need, including a plan of action for each child, to successfully transition off the street.

• To link children who live at home and come onto the street to beg to family and community level support services.

• To provide after-care support to children who leave the street as a protective factor, and to ensure that placements do not break down, or when they do that the outreach worker can return the children back to care.

STREET CHILDREN LIVE

IN A STATE OF ‘FIGHT OR FLIGHT’ AND

OFTEN BOUNCE BACK AND

FORTH BETWEEN THE STREET AND

RESIDENTIAL CARE UNTIL

THEY STABILISE.

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Impact • This project is currently working with 47 street children on the street.

• The number of children living on the streets of Cape Town has declined by 90 percent.

• Street children continue to make the choice to leave street life and willingly get placed at The Shelter.

• Children who abscond from care, even secure care, or who are missing have been found on the street and returned to care.

• Local communities have been helped to deal properly with street children and the exploitation and abuse of street children has declined.

• The image of street children has changed to one of children who are in need of care and protection.

• The success of The Homestead Shelter in stabilising and transitioning hundreds of children away from street life has, as its foundation, The Homestead Yizani street outreach project.

Location • Cape Town City Bowl

• Seapoint

• Camps Bay

• Greenpoint

• Woodstock

• Khayelitsha

• Manenberg

• Valhalla Park

LOCAL COMMUNITIES

HAVE BEEN HELPED TO

DEAL PROPERLY WITH STREET

CHILDREN AND THE

EXPLOITATION AND ABUSE OF STREET

CHILDREN HAS DECLINED.

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LAUNCHPAD PROJECT

Project The Homestead Launchpad ProjectTransitional residential care for youth aged 15 to 21

Reason for Project

• Youths who grew up as children on the street often relapse back to substance abuse, problematic behaviour or street life once they leave residential care.

• Youths in care need independent living skills, personal interests, social networks and maturity if they are to succeed.

• Youths in care need a less institutional environment within which they can take more personal responsibility, help manage their daily lives, complete their schooling and developing work, tertiary study, extramural and community-work experience.

• Youths in care need an intense youth-focused therapeutic programme to deal with deep underlying trauma.

• Youths who leave care need formal and ongoing networks and aftercare support.

Purpose of Project

• To ensure that youths who leave The Homestead are well set for a future path into successful adulthood.

• To help the youths prepare for the practical considerations of accommodation, day-to-day living skills, necessary documentation (identity documents, bank accounts, etc.).

• To help the youths complete their schooling and develop education and/or employment opportunities for when they leave care.

• To address past trauma and to ensure the youths focus on their future so they do not constantly get drawn back to their past and relapse into unhealthy behaviours or street life.

• To create a system of interdependent living and ongoing reciprocal care systems so youths are not abandoned into adulthood.

Impact • Since opening in February 2016 this project has shown a 75 percent success rate of stabilising youth out of care and into independent living and employment.

• The number of shelter children now motivated to stabilise and enter this project has risen dramatically. When opened, only 11 shelter youth were stable enough, now 23 youth are in this project from The Shelter.

• The sharp spike in the number of volunteer and community groups wanting to work in this programme proves a stable development environment.

• Participation by the youth in a wide variety of community work and social commitments has changed youth from passive recipients to active contributors.

Location • District Six, Cape Town

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Thank you by Liezl Conradie (Launchpad Manager)The old African proverb ‘it takes a village to raise a child’ has never been as real to me as when we started The Launchpad. To do the impossible we need all the help, expertise, love, patience and support a village can offer! We also need to teach our youth to get some really good and nice people in their lives and stick with them – learn from them and when you struggle let them help you ... and what a village we have!:• Temba brings bags full of groceries every month, spending a few hours

showing that young men can give back, pay it forward, care.• Margaux takes the youth to climbing gym at Block 11, teaches them to

persevere, to keep going even though every muscle in their bodies may be aching.

• Heike and Tami: weekly drama classes, giving the youth the opportunity and confidence to stand in the spotlight and show we all have something to share with the world.

• Andre, just started teaching dance classes, brings hope by showing that a ‘Homestead boy’ can go far in life.

• Gary, Adam, Jasche and Niel from Mankind help youth to understand themselves as men, to better understand anger, pain and emotion, to ‘do the work’ to become better men.

• Arafat teaches swimming week after week even though only one might youth attend, because he gets it, he knows first-hand what it is to be a teenage boy in The Homestead.

• Stephanie and Gill have taught our boys about horses and horse riding for years and continue to love and be there for our boys, no matter what.

• Merle teaches weekly art in a completely non-judgemental, positive, encouraging class.

• The Royal Cape Yacht Club offers sailing lessons on Sundays and creates amazing opportunities for our youth.

• The ladies and the community of the Gospel Ramah Church do weekly bible study groups, giving the opportunity to honestly ask ... how can there be a god if small children have to grow up on the street?

• The amazing therapeutic teams at the Red Cross Division Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Unit, the staff of the Montrose Foundation and the counsellors at the Trauma Centre, who all get that sometimes life has been just too rough and the pain to deep

• The schools – Learn to Live, BEST College, School of Hope, City Mission, Zonnebloem Nest High, Bloubergrant High, Masiyile Senior Secondary School, Dr Nelson Mandela High and Sithembele Matiso Secondary School, which all so willingly and tirelessly help to educate our youth.

• Travis, who is so committed to help Dennis pass his maths.• Simcha gives us pro bono rates for career guidance assessments, helping

youth make good career decisions and our staff to better guide youth about their abilities and limitations.

• Mamelani is always there when we need help – from working with youth, supporting staff, to having laughs about the ridiculous things our youth get up to.

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• The amazing Launchpad child and youth care workers – Aldrid, Colleen, David, Flora, Mongezi, Nolitha, Thandi, Veronica, Yume and Zolile for whom this is not just a job but a passion and a calling.

OTHER AMAZING HOMESTEAD VOLUNTEERS WE NEED TO NOTE, AND WHO HELP OUT AT OUR OTHER PROJECTS ARE:• Wendy Green: Fundraising Events Committee member, and tirelessly doing

the most wonderful weekly art and craft programme for our Shelter children and for our early intervention project in Valhalla Park.

• Sandra Morreira, the previous director of The Homestead, Events Committee member, and helps to supervise social workers.

• Dalia Katz, Events Committee member, and generously continues to guide and help the Director with HR.

• Tshepo Modise Harvey, Events Committee member, on The Homestead board, and helps with marketing and PR.

• Vicky Hide has volunteered at The Homestead for the past 25 years and continues to work with our Shelter children, do arts and crafts with the Valhalla Park and Manenberg children and raise money for Christmas parties and treats each year.

• Chiperesa Lionel Tendai: Comes in each week to teach The Shelter boys how to do the most amazing wirework, helping them create lavender flowers, beautiful bowls and more.

• Hazel Gocini: Started volunteering as an administration assistant for Early Intervention and now helps the children in Town 2 with family support services.

• Lubabalo Solomons: Volunteered to do his practical work as a youth care intern.

• Ntombizodwa Mangali: Volunteered to cook for and sew the boys clothes at The Shelter.

• Charlene Visagie: Volunteered for several months as a cook, now part of the staff.

• Siphokazi Dorris Dumapi: Social work student, conducted life skills groups.• Thumeka Mzangwe: Social work student, did drug awareness and support

groups.• Dorris Lulekwa Mlamleli: Social work student, did therapeutic groups.• Nontobeko Tana: Administration volunteer.• Cliff Hall: Takes Shelter boys up Table Mountain.• Siyanda: A young soccer coach from Khayelitsha, does excellent work with

the boys.• Ntomboxolo Ralo: Helps Early Intervention with administration and

casework.• Patric Mckeown and Mathew Potgieter: Regularly volunteer to help out.• Celena Pieters: Helps The Shelter boys with maths and history tutoring.• Wandile Benjamin Nduna: Comes at any time of the day or night to help,

transport a sick child to hospital and support staff. • and many more, to whom we are truly grateful.

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ACKNOWLEDGING AMORI BORMAN Amori Borman became involved with The Homestead in 2005 as a volunteer. Her immense passion for children and for making a positive change in their lives very soon led to her becoming a serious donor, beginning with providing lockers for the boys in The Shelter.

By 2007 she was deeply concerned about the organisation’s lack of resources for appropriate educational opportunities for the boys and she set up the Sponsorship Fund to assist our children in longer term residential care. Amori raised the funds for this by herself, with the assistance of her wonderful husband, Johans. She went much further than this though, and was very actively involved in helping staff to decide on educational assessments and plans for each child.

She later expanded the programme to include many extracurricular activities to stimulate the boys over weekends and afternoons. Rarely has one person dedicated so much time and energy to The Homestead in such a quiet and unassuming way. Amori joined the Management Committee in 2012, playing an important role on the board and helping us with the extensive strategic restructuring we recently completed. Amori resigned from The Homestead board in April 2017 as she, Johans and their family immigrated to Portugal.

We remain deeply grateful to and appreciative of Amori and everything she did for The Homestead children.

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ORGANOGRAM

COOK/OPSYume Boukers

OUTREACH AND YIZANI:

Aldrid Van Vuuren

AUXILIARY CHILDCARE WORKERS:Mongezi Nuweni

Zolile MdalaMapukate Mphanga

David GeduldNomthandazo JonasVeronica Solondwana

Nolitha DyalivaniCollen Bussack

ACCOUNTS ASSIST:

Nurunnisa Patel

DOMESTIC:Eunice

Mkangisa,Zodwa Hlasela,

Irene Madikane,Irene Duko

COOK:Nonkukuleko

Mlethelwa

DRIVER:Jerome

Willoughby

OPS SUPERVISOR:Miemie Snoek

SOCIAL WORKER:Babalo Mtrara

SOCIAL AUXILIARYWORKER:

Vuyiseka Mkangeli

AUXILIARY CHILDCARE WORKERSEunice Ganyazas

Armstrong StemeleDanile Majamani

Nicolas MbizaGoodman Wauchophe

Nomazizi GilmanCynthia SikwezaEdward Mcimbi

Patricia MhlontloKate WilliamsBukiwe Fosi

Nomana PhamaNobasindisi MadlengeTandikhaya Mpamba

Siphokazi Fusa

SOCIAL AUXILIARYWORKER:

Khanyisa Kote

AUXILIARY CHILD CARE WORKERS:

Babalwa Mshudulu;Ingrid Losper

OUTREACH :Giveart

Mcotshana

ASSISTANTS AND COOKS

Vuyokazi BudazaCharlene VisagieBonita de Boer

FINANCIAL MGR:Lindani Mzamo

OPERATIONS MGR: Annie Van Wyk

ASSISTANT TODIRECTOR:

Zainab Siebritz

EARLY INTERVENTION MANAGER:

Nozuko Nothwanya

SHELTER MANAGER:

Andre’ Pieters

LAUNCH PADMANAGER:

Liezl Conradie

MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE: Mr Stuart Hendry (Chair); Mrs Tshepo Modise-Harvey (Vice chair); Mrs Zaitoon Abed (Treasurer);

Mr Phouzaan Siebritz, Mr Samuel Lloyd Williams, Dr Vash Mungal-Singh

DIRECTOR: Paul Hooper

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TILING OUR DINING HALLThank you to Kate Dales, the international model, who took on the huge job of tiling The Shelter dining hall floor. This huge space cost over R70,000 to tile and Kate did all the work, raising the funds and project-managing the tiling of the floor. The children love the new floor; it looks fantastic and it will last for many years, even with 65 hyperactive boys on it all day. Thank you to Kate Dales and to Global Prime Partners, The Bed Store, Pete and Nicole Wiese, Ross McKernan, Holly Rudman, Robin Durant, Kirsten Dales, Tamsin Groom, Ice Genetics, Sheryl Groom, Amber Scott-Wilson and Nick Brown, Kate Lambie, Lizelle Wessels, Catherine and Roger Warr and everyone who made this project possible.

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NEEDS LISTThe Homestead shelter still needs to fund an R1,131,2746 budget deficit this financial year. Budget items that need support include: Programme costs• School costs:

X School fees and stationery: R137 800 X School transport fares: R120 000 X Extramural activities and tutor: R13 500

• Medical costs: First aid, assessments, worm treatments, etc. – R27,000• Family reunification: Family visits, food parcels and parental support –

R43,000.• Food budget: 65 boys with three meals a day – R320,000.• Clothing: Two sets of clothes a year for each child – R58,500.• Holiday programme: Outings, camps, etc. – R25,000.• Sport and recreation: Equipment, fees, etc. – R59,500.• Life skills activities: Materials, group work, specialist input: R40,000.• Morning programme: For children not attending school: R 25,000.• Hygiene: Toiletries, etc. R35,000.• Transport costs: Family visits, clinic, court, shopping, etc: R200,000.• Utilities: Electricity and water, rates are rebated: R 470,500.

HR costs• Second social worker: Not covered by government subsidy – R234 00.• Auxiliary child care worker training: All 18 child and youth care workers need

to qualify to a new professional standard – R114 855.50. • Drivers licence training: 10 staff at R3500 each – R35 0000. • HR consultants: Labour legislation is notoriously difficult – R15 000.

Improvement to children’s dormitories• Bedding: We need to replace bedding regularly – R22,000.• Cottage tables and benches: Recycled plastic tables and benches are the

only things that last and are comfortable and user-friendly. Five sets at R6,000 each – R30,000.

• Upgrade to Cottage A (not part of budget): R320,000 includes new staff toilet, storage and conversion to include a room for staff on night duty.

Security costsKeeping children and staff safe is very important, for instance we have families who want to steal their children and put them back on to the street to beg. • 24-hour security guard: R270,000 • Upgrade CCTV camera system: R50,000• Lights, gates, etc: Includes changing over to LED spotlights: R40,000

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Monitoring and EvaluationThe Homestead needs to continue introducing more computer-based systems to provide consistent impact monitoring and evaluation and to allow for the proper care and development of our children.• Computer upgrades: R30,000.• Sales force: We want to add M&E and volunteer management: R75 000.

Vehicles (not included in budget)• New Shelter 7-seater: To take children to school, court, home visits, clinic,

etc. Our current vehicle is well used and has done over 200,000 km. Estimated cost: R239,500.

• New Shelter delivery van, to pick up donations, maintenance jobs, deliveries. Our current pick-up is very heavy on petrol and has high mileage. Estimated cost: R249,900.

Donations in kind The Homestead relies on donations-in-kind of goods and services: • Garden: Developing our beautiful garden, soccer field and planned

skateboard park.• Painting: Our dormitories and activity rooms need to be repainted once a

year.• Green savings: Helping The Homestead go green to save both electricity

and water. • School attendance support: School uniforms, shoes, school bags, lunch

boxes, school stationery and books. • Clothing and toiletries: Casual boys clothes, running shoes, jackets, jerseys

and caps, as well as soap, deodorant, toothpaste, toothbrushes, face cloths and toilet paper.

• Dry groceries: Amasi (2lt), baked beans, beans (dry), beef stock, Bisto, black pepper, masala, BBQ spice, chicken spice, cinnamon sticks, cocoa powder, coffee (Ricoffy), cool drink (Oros), custard powder, sunflower oil, imana, jam, jelly, lentils, macaroni, mayonnaise, mealie meal, long life milk, oats, peanut butter (not with sunflower oil in), rice, salt, samp, spaghetti, sugar, tea, tomato paste, vinegar, white bread flour, tinned tomato and onion, tomato sauce, chutney and yeast.

• Sport and recreation: Soccer balls, skateboards, bicycles, soccer boots, and hiking equipment. We also need board games, cards, chess, dominoes, drawing equipment, as well as musical instruments such as guitars for internal recreation activities.

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GRANT DONORS

Chiappini Charitable Trust

Cohen Charitable Trust

Dame Hillary Cropper Foundation

DG Murray Trust

Department of Social Development, Western Cape

DSF Children’s Fund

ER Tonnesen Will Trust

Eric & Ethel Fuller Charitable Trust

Goldman Sachs Gives UK

Gray Trust

Jesse Graham Memorial Foundation

Jet Lee Will Trust

Karen E Meader Living Trust

Kasuma Trust awards

LLC Community Development

Mathers Trust

Osrin Charitable Trust

Otto & Mina Battenhausen Trust

Red het Talent

St Olas Trust

Stichting Dioraphte

The Allan & Gill Gray Charitable Trust

The Carl & Emily Fuchs Foundation

The Cecil Jowell Family Charitable Trust

The Kurt & Joey Strauss Foundation

The Leon & Sybil Wilder Charitable Trust

The Stella and Paul Loewenstein Charitable Trust

MAJOR INDIVIDUAL DONORS

Neuvians, Aenne

Anonymous

Dales, Kate

Eijkelboom, Charles and Rene’

Frammelsberger, Richard

Green, David and Wendy

Hardy, BA

Hirschsohn, Lindy

Kilbourne, Frank

Langley, Bill & Sue

Leemans, Frederic J

McNally, Spence

Penkin, Jonathan

Roadnight, John

Rudin, Urs

MAJOR BUSINESS DONORS

Alexander Forbes

Cape Town Candidate Attorney Association

CBA Group

Edge Capital

Glenkey Construction

Global Prime Partners

I & J

Irebica Electrical

Japanese Ships Suppliers (Pty) Ltd

Moonlighting Films

Multiprint Litho

NoVAC Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc

Oceana Brands

Old Mutual Life Assurance (SA) Limited

Q star Consultancy

Reddam House

Seaboard International

Shoprite Checkers

Southern Wind Shipyard

Sygnia Group

The Nutman

The Table Bay Hotel

Woolworths (Pty) Ltd

Woolworths De Luz

Woolworths Kloof Street

Blue Ribbon

Winch Motors

MONTHLY DONORS

Allderman, S

Allibon, F

Autobax

Ayling, D

Boyes, C & J

Bradshaw-Kuys, N

Cape Town Sewing Centre

Coetsee, E

Coombe, D

Cordery, P

Craven, ET

Cronwright, R

De Wet, MJ

Desmond-Smith, A

Dogon Group

Eppel, Dr S

Krige, FP

Fryer, J

Hallerdey, H

Hitchings

Hofmeyr Korp

Keen, J

Korte, FP

Krige Tree Services

Maben, G

Mama Dance Music Solutions

Mason, M

McPhun, GJ

McCormic, KM

Melzer, I

Miller, C

Monkey Films

Moolman, Dr J

Morreira, S

Mort, J

Muller, J

Nader, GN

Naisby, M

Naude, C

Nott, J

O’Regan, R

Peresoft Software & Support (Pty) Ltd

Van Blerk, Phillip

Pretorius, CW

Pretorius, RE

Rabkin, RJ

Richter, P

Rodewalt, U

RW Design

Schimanel, SC

Sisco Architects

Southern Spirit Properties

Stender, MC

Strydom, C

Thompson, E

Van Der Westhuizen, D

Van Heerden, BJ

Van Zyl, NJ

Waters, CM

Weatherhead, M

West, Belinda

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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BUSINESS DONORS

3 Sixty Property

Ad Makers International

AFS

Alpen Food Company – Nutrific

Atlantic Point

Auto Atlantic BMW

Beit Midrash Morasha

Boxer

Build It, Woodstock

Cabrinha

Cape Royal Luxury Hotel

Cape Town & Suburban Clothing Guild

Cape Town Backpackers

Cape Town Film Studios

Cape Town Tandem Paragliding

Cape Town Toiletry Company

Cape Wheel

Cause We Can

Choo Choo Park Playschool

Coega Dev. Corporation

Consulate of Italy

Creative Brands

CTSA

DAFF

Dare to Share

Efficient Select

Explosive Functional Fitness Bootcamp (Pty) Ltd

Face of Africa

Fikelela Aids Project

Foschini Ltd

Growthpoint Properties

Harare Seventh Day Adventists

Hero Strategic Marketing

HHO Africa

Hose Manufacturers

Houseluvr70

Icarus Paragliding Cape Town

Ilse Stephen Welding

Imvusa Timberworks

Incubeta Holdings

Independent Media

Interactive Africa

International House ClassA2.1

JJ Fencing

Juicefilm (Pty) Ltd

K.I.D.S

Kantar TNS

Kiff Kombi Tours

Knead Bakery

Lacuna Innovations

Law Enforcement City of Cape Town

Le Roux Attorneys Inc

Lifebrand

Lindt & Sprungli

Lions Club of Cape Town

Liquid Thought

Littlegig

LSW School & Leisure

McCarthy Toyota TableView

Mdzananda Animal Clinic

Medscheme

Moore Stephens Cape Town Inc

Navigator Films

Paltrack

Pincus Martz Attorneys

Pinelands Round Table Ladies

Pinewood SA

PWC Cape Town

Q Star Consultancy

R.K. Wendy Supply’s

Raya Kitchen

Red het Talent

Reddam House

Rotary Club Am Kap

Rubi’s Rainbow of Hope

Santova

Signatura

Smith Tabata Buchanan Boyes Attorneys

Soccer Laduma

Source Food

Southern Wind Shipyard

S-RM Intelligence and Risk Consulting

St Andrew’s Church

St Anne’s AWF Maitland

St George’s Cathedral

Staffords Quality Foods

Swift Momentum

The Bed Shop

The Fruit Cube

The Tandem Flight Co

TownHouse Hotel

Tradelink T-Shirt Wholesalers CT

Trencor Ltd

University of Applied Sciences

Vega School of Brand Leadership

Vesquin Trading (pty) Ltd

Wink Films

Work & Co

Zetweka

Zonefitness Women Cape Town

Zoom Advertising

INDIVIDUAL DONORS

4c

Abed, Zaitoon

Adams, Lee-Anne

Alexander, Duane

Allen

Alston, Simon

Alter

Amansure Family

Amos, Carmen

Andries, Rene

Arbi, Riaz

Aronson

Bachmann, Talya

Barratt, Adrian

Bauman, D

Behr, Adam

Benjamin, Tasneem

Benjamin, Joi

Bernd, Ushi

Bhana, H

Bilyk, Iryna

Bonanno, Natalie

Borgeaud, Anne

Boshoff, Diana

Brown C&Y

Bryan, Bianca

Bumnd

Butler, Paula

Cabrinha

Cassidy, Siobhan

Chegwidden, Will

Countess Labia, S

Cowley, Delysia

Crockett, Peter

Cupido, Grant

Dahya, J

Dales, Kate

Dales, Kirsten

Davids, Ismails

De Roubaix

De Volliers, Ruan

Demers, Anne-Marie

Dente

Diamond, Lindy

Donald, Mc

Dozetos, M

Dr Chevda, B

Dr Wolff, M

Dunbar, Huni

Dyk, Van

Dyssell, Storm

Ebrahim

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Evanson, Ford

Farhat, D

Farre

Fehrsen, Matthew

Feinstein, Sandra

Feldman, Britt

Feldman, Debbie

Fish

Foord, David

Friedmann

Furlan, A

Gapare

Geer, Helen

Gie, J

Golding, Lauren

Graham, Amanda

Green, David and Wendy

Grobler, Kelly

Hackner

Harpur, Gavin & Penny

Hart, Yyonne and Jason

Heal, Angela

Heerden, Van

Hide, Lexi

Hide, Vicky

Holt, Tracey

Hooper, Paul

Hope It Helps

Horn, Chantelle

Hudson, Taryn

Hyder

Ireland, M

Jacobs, Robyn

Jappie, Nur

Jele, Andisiwe

Jens, Olaf Lien

Jermyn, Richard

Jooste, Lana

Julies

Kadalie, Brent-David

Katz, Dalia and Arthur

Keen, Jane

Kennedy, Muoka

Kennedy, Nixi

Kerrigan, PN

Kruger, Louis

Kunbro, Yannick

Kuttle

Lamb, Cornelia

Larney, Latiefa

Latimer, NA

Lerner, Jacquie

Levin, Safra

Levitas, Esta

Louw, Ninch

Louw, Natalie

Love, Jason & Catherine

Lunn, Julie

Mabasa, Themba

Mackeown, Ashleigh

Madhoo, Vimesh

Magielse, Mark

Malm, Samantha

Mangiza, Esther

Marks, Gail

Marsden, C

Marx, Tracy

Matai, S

Mazvita Lucy Chapfika

McCormack, Heidi

McDonald, Catherine

Meyer

Michel van Ruijven

Millan, MC

Miller, Kerry

Milne, Keith

Modise-Harvey, T

Mohamed, Nousheena

Monaberg,

Moore, Gary & Angela

Morgan, L

Morris

Morrison, J

Mudie, Richard

Murcia, Jodi

Murrells, John

Naran, K

Nel

Neo, Nicky

Newman, Judi

Niekerk, Van

Norcross, Eric

Nuessle, Marco

Nyati

Paul, Nic

Pesudo, Vicente

Peter, Rene

Peters, Kelly-Jay

Philippou, johnny

Pike, Craig

Poffinberger, AB

Porter, Lucy

Pye, Claire

Rabie, J

Ranchhod, T

Reister, Dagmar

Reuters, Thomson

Rich, Jeremy

Richardson

Roberts, Matthew

Roopen, Naadhirah

Ross

Rudman, H

Rundle, Allister

Rundle, Margaret

Ryan, Debbie

Schaub, Anne

Scherer-Scheltema, Claudia

Scheltema, Charles & Claudia

Schul, Angie

Serra, Derek

Shaikjee, Zahida

Shepherd, Andrew

Smari, Haifa

Smith, Rebecca

Snape

Staunton

Stellmaszek, Irmgard

Stellmazak, Rosemary

Stender, SC

Storm, CT

Swaed

Swart, Brian

Tam & Dan

Tammy

Taylor, D

Thomas, Steven

Thomson, Michael

Tremeer, Kristen

Trout, Liesel

Tuomi, KL

Van Dijkhuizen Eijkelboom, Marion

Van de Laar, Ruud Edmar

Van der Spuy, Karen

van der Wath, Amber

van Eyssen, Clive

van Wyk, Jeanette

Van Zyl, C

Veermeer, Luc

Visagie, Amanda

Volk, Andrew

Wilfried

Wingreen

Winkler, Susanne

Wiper, Stephen

Wishnia, Daniel

Woolley, Lauren

Wright, Kathleen

Wylie, Megan

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Wyngaard

Zinsser, Debora

Zinsserm, Deborah

CHRISTMAS DRIVE

Aenne Neuvians

Alexander Forbes

Andrea Stephan

Aussie Raad – CFW Industries (Pty) Ltd

Axel Walz

Bradley Braithwaite

Charles & Claudia Scheltema

Christel Weigold

Dagmar Reister

Denis Stupan

Edith & Axel Götz

Elisabeth Schäfer

Eva Ehlich-Eckert

Hielke van Leeuwen – Freudenberg Nonwovens (Pty) Ltd

Grit Brettschneider

Harry Bovensmann – Prime Solutions

Hella Hälbich-Schorfield

Hilton Kretschmann

Jaco Nel – Penninsula Beverage Co (Ltd)

John King

Judi Newman

Lauren Honeyman

Liz Knight

Lorraine Hobbs

Marita & Reiner Reiss

Mark Magielse

Monika Rauneker

Petra Aicham

Quentin Scott

Renate Ahrens

Renée Scalabrino

Rita Michna

Rüdiger Finke

Sandra Schmitt & FV Colleagues

Sidney Peimer

Tilman v. Zukowski

Tory Elshove

Ulrike Scherer-Maier

Uschi Bernd

PHOTOGRAPH ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:Safra Levin, safra@funkipics.co.za (events)Tanya Wright (Momenta)Steve Moakley (Momenta)Volunteers, visitors and staff of The Homestead.

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CAN YOU HELP?The Homestead helps over 160 street children a year, has 90 street children in residential care and helps another 400 chronically neglected and abused children each year through our Early Intervention projects. The Homestead has been instrumental in reducing the number of children living on the streets of Cape Town by 90% and has been running for over 35 years. Statistics SA has just released data that shows poverty in South Africa is increasing, now at 55.5%, of which 2.8 million people live in extreme poverty. The work of The Homestead is made possible through the numerous contributions that we receive from foundations, government, business, community groups and individuals. Every grant, donation, donation-in-kind and volunteer contributes to make our work possible. Please entrust your contribution to The Homestead and help us to empower children’s lives and break these cycles of poverty, abuse and neglect.

CONTACT DETAILSThe Homestead Projects for Street Children150 Strand Street, Cape Town, 8001PO Box 21538, Kloof Street, Cape Town, South Africa, 8008Tel: 021 4199763/4 Email: info@homestead.org.zaWebsite: www.homestead.org.zaPlease join us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/TheHomesteadProjectStreetChildren

DIRECT EFT DONATIONSYou can donate directly into our bank account from anywhere in the world and in any currency:

Account name: The HomesteadBank: Absa Bank address: Branch code: 632005Account number: 4052958568Swift number for international donations: ABSAZAJJ

MONTHLY DEBIT ORDERSA R500 a month debit order feeds a child for a month, a R300 a month debit order means you buy 10 school uniforms a year. It costs The Homestead R1,900 a year to keep a child in school. Help us to keep children off the street by providing consistent high-quality therapeutic care to vulnerable children by emailing the following information to us at accounts@homestead.org.za

Full name:

Postal address:

Email address: Telephone:

Yes, I want to help The Homestead care for children every month to the amount of R

(The accounts department will then send you a debit order form to complete and sign).

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DONATE BY CREDIT CARDYou can now use your credit or debit card to safely donate directly to The Homestead projects for Street children though Payfast: www.payfast.co.za/donate/go/thehomestead.

MYSCHOOLThe Homestead is now officially registered as a Myschool beneficiary so you can support The Homestead at no cost every time you shop at Woolworths, Engen, Loot, Waltons or Flightcentre. You also get amazing discounts. Please add ‘The Homestead’ as a beneficiary to your Myschool card (You can have up to three beneficiaries) or get a Myschool card if you do not have one. Go to www.myschool.co.za to add ‘The Homestead’ or sign up and get your family and friends to join in.

TAX RELIEFYou are entitled to the following tax relief when you donate to The Homestead.• South Africa (Section 18a): The Homestead is a registered public benefit organisation and as such

a taxpayer (individual, trust or company) making a bona fide donation in cash or of property in kind to a Section 18A approved organisation, such as The Homestead, is entitled to a deduction from their taxable income if the donation is supported by the necessary Section 18A receipt issued by The Homestead. The Homestead also issues BEEE-SED letters.

• Donate shares directly to The Homestead. Do you know that by donating shares directly to The Homestead you save on capital gains tax and on income tax at the same time? Email the director, Paul Hooper (director@homestead.org.za), for more information.

• British and USA donors: The Dame Hilary Cropper Charitable Foundation is a registered UK and USA charity which has kindly agreed to assist us and they have a Paypal ‘DONATE’ button on their website at www.dhccf.org or www.dhccf.net. If you are eligible for UK Gift Aid you can also complete a Gift Aid declaration online. Donors must pay enough UK income tax and/or capital gains tax themselves to cover the amount of tax the charity will reclaim on their donations at the end of the tax year (currently 28p for every £1 that they give). You can also benefit from 501,3 C status in the USA by donating through the Dame Hilary Cropper Foundation.