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The Act for Children Programme
Supporting children through grants to local, small scale project.
The funding is in the form of a matching grant – organizations raise 50% of the project costs.
The Act for Children Programme wants to connect other people – companies and individuals – to the dreams, lives and hard of these children.
Latest Projects
Nuthuko Buddyz - Jungle Gym project
Nuthuko Buddyz, based at the Kwazulu-Natal primary school of the same name, is a strong club with solid experience in undertaking small projects. For AFC, the learners decided to help younger learners in the school who lacked a decent place to play during break times. They resolved to build a jungle gym, arguing that it would provide good recreation and physical development for learners, once the application was submitted and approved by the Act for Children; the Ntuthuko Buddyz got busy fundraising.
Silverdale Buddyz - Infrastructure Upgrading Project
The learners at Silverdale Primary School, in Kwazulu-Natal, have a strong belief in education and in improving the environment for education. For their AFC project, they focused on their school classrooms that were dilapidated. If more funds were raised, they also planned to improve facilities in the computer and technology room.
Sesalong Project - Leonard Project
The Sesalong Primary School, in Limpopo, currently has a wood-burning stove; the learners have to take pieces of wood to school or gather pieces of wood after school. With their fundraising activities, they are planning to buy a gas stove. Their planned fundraising activities included selling personalized calendars with learner photos. They will also sell some vegetables from the school’s garden and ask for donations.
Matjeketlane Primary School - Tiling project
This club, based at the Matjeketlane Primary School, in Limpopo, has won many awards from its Soul Buddyz projects. It has now taken on a bigger project: they want to repair several classrooms at their school. The main repair work will be to the floors – this will fix the rough uneven floors of the classroom.
Maluti Hoogland - Fun Playground for Kids
As with any other kids, the children with special needs also have to play and have fun. However, the children from Maluti Hoogland School, in Free State, had nothing and nowhere to play during play times. So the Angels 1 and Angels 2 Buddy clubs decided to address this need. They decided they would work together to make a fun playground for kids.
