Projects

Vrolike Groepe – Pre Grade R class The class in run by Natasha Haynie on the premises of Edward school serving the community of Elsies river. The service is rendered to households that are single parents or lives with grand parents and especially focusses on low income households. For the latter part of this year…

We often see young children playing games on their parents phones or tablets/ computers – and at the beginning of the year – thanks to our sponsors, Weideman Family Donation and StreetsmartSA funding, we were able to purchase tablets for the children to use in class – These tablets have pre set educational activities and…

Cape Town Multi Service Centre’s  Prevention and Early Intervention team hosted its quarterly holiday programme from 26th until 30th of June 2022. The target age group were grade 4s, grade5, and grades 6 from Clarke Estate and Kalksteenfontein Primary schools. The Programme was hosted at Clarke primary school situated in  Elsies river, Cape Town.  The theme of the holiday programme…

The Vrolike Groepe Pre grade R class – kept busy with Teacher Natasha Haynie daily – Due to Covid and to be in line with school regulations , only 15 -20 children can attend the class – Ms Haynie has hence two groups of 15 children that come alternative days. Story Time is always fun…

The men’s group who has adopted our home are from Church in Westridge – the men visited on Youth Day, June 16th and spent some time and interacted with the boys. They had a motivational talk – to encourage the youth – and enjoyed the rest of the day playing games; exercise plank and had…

A community member Adam de Vos – have played an integral part in taking the boys on Hikes – they have been on quite a few hikes and Adam explains to them if ever stranded what they can and cannot eat. Some of the Staff, Abdullah, Riccardo and Monwabisi accompanied then. The boys enjoyed learning…

CHRYSALIS YOUTH CAMP 1-3 July 2022 Excitement builds as we neared the date of the camp with our boys. Some of the staff, praying that we would occupy the chalet instead of the tented camp site. On Friday,1st July 2022, we were ready for action and the younger boys were very eager to take on this…

The boys are Soccer fanatics and on Saturday they played at the Soccer turf field -Fives Futbol at Vangate Mall. They played against some of the boys from Soccer 4 all and was very excited. It was great to see them in action on the field. Our boys come from disadvantaged communities and we understand that…

We have started a new tradition – On the Saturday after the children completed their exams – we will have an outing to an Adventure Park for them to forget about the stresses of the year and the challenges they faced. The boys enjoyed themselves and loved playing ball!