At risk

After school, many children and youngsters in townships have nothing to do but hang around the streets. Most families are headed by women - mothers and grandmothers - who are often the only breadwinner. So, during the day, many kids have to take care of themselves, which is not easy especially in a township. More often than not they witness drug and alcohol abuse, crime and violence. By offering children a place where they are safe we ease the burden on their mothers and grandmothers.

Activity-based learning and fun

Most township schools do not have the resources for sport and games, arts & crafts, drama, dancing or making music. We therefore support local projects for out-of-school care that offer children and youngsters activity-based learning and fun. This also involves assistance with homework and reading, life skills, maths, English and computer classes.

Empowerment and ownership

Applications for funding for out-of-school care projects are selected based on:

• Information in writing about the project and about the school or organisation.
• Empowerment (capacity-building) and ownership. This is crucial. Unearthing and developing talents is very important. We only support projects initiated and run by locals.
• The existence and amount of local support: money, discounts, equipment, venues, volunteers. We only co-sponsor.
  

Young volunteers

We prefer projects where youngsters (17-25 years) assist as volunteers. By volunteering they can earn credits for a scholarship.For more information on scholarships  >> to Scholarship programme

Partners Out-of-school child care programme

Would you like to learn more about our Out-of-school child care programme partners? >> to Annual report

Facts and figures

For Facts and figures please go to our Annual report >> to Annual report

Two kinds of out-of-school child care

We support two kinds of out-of-schoolchild care:

• during school terms: after school care >> to After school care
• during school holidays: holiday schools >> to Holiday schools

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Other pages

Other pages under the heading What we do : After school care >> to After school care, Holiday schools >> to Holiday schools, Child sponsorship programme >> to Child sponsorship programme, Scholarship programme >> to Scholarshop programme

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