We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

- Winston Churchill -

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Registered Public Benefit Organization (PBO) no: 930031412

Registered Non Profit Organization with department of Social Development (NPO) no: 075-214

Bed for a Child - a project launched by the Orphan Care Foundation in Cape Town

        

This is about families or guardians we identify who take care of orphaned, vulnerable or abandoned children in the small space of a shack (bungalow). We found that up to four can sleep on one bed and have limited to no space for anything else, nor a table for the kids to study on.

We have just delivered our first sponsored bed where we designed 4 beds to fit into this space. In this way we have optimized the space for these women to have a bed for each child as well as a little table to study on. She can now wash the children in a container inside the bungalow where she had to do it outside previously.

We thank our sponsors Ron and Terri Martin from Salt Ministries for the first four beds and Graham Malan from Gravt Interiors for the design and production of the beds.

Current need:

·         Sponsorship for more beds.

By supporting a child or making a donation, you are actively making a difference.

CLICK HERE to make a donation for a bed for a child.

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Orphan Care Foundation

Registered Public Benefit Organization (PBO) no: 930031412

Registered Non Profit Organization with department of Social Development (NPO) no: 075-21

 "We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give."

- Winston Churchill -

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Christmas party for 450 kids on 03 December 2010

 

TotalGaz Sponsor Kids Club with R 60,000

Thank you TotalGaz!

See YouTube Video Clip here

 

 

T-shirts and Birthday Party by Maria from Germany for Lebo at Linawo House

75 Beautiful pairs of pyjamas donated by Hillsong Church Sisterhood conference

Hip-Hip day with 2 x world best Duan and his brother - AN AMAZING experience for 300+ kids!

Icecream treats and hot dogs to take home - Thank you Peter and Joe for this!

Life skills camp hosted by our partner organization Badisa and supported by OCF

 

 

Ivy moved with 16 children from Kayalitha to a beautiful house in Pinelands.

School shoes and sport shoes for the children on the house warming day.

 

 

 

Graham sponsor a stove to house in Kayalitha

 

 

 

Orphan Care Foundation Sponsored Winter Pajamas to 15 orphaned children in Kayalitha

Amazing work done by the foster care mother Ivy at Linawo House!

 

 

Outing to Muizenberg beach organised and sponsored by Sisanda Fundation.

 

 

Kids Club Christmas Party.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Team of volunteers who helped to make this a success.

 

 

 

 

Bussiness Women's Association lunch on 18 November 2009.

 

 

Preparing Christmas cards for the BWA lunch to say thank you for 100 Christmas boxes and R8,401 rand donated to the OCF.

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas gifts to 180 mentally and physically challenged children.

 

 

Below is a preschool of Westlake United Church Trust -  a shining example of how children from the community are lifted out of their situation into an environment of proper learning and care.

 

 

Distribution of Winter clothes to children in the Westlake community with Pastor Lucinda Dooley of Hillsong Church Cape Town.

 

 

The child support group was successfully launched in July.

 

 

Our DVD completed By Elwin and Lorien in July

 

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Letter from one of the children:

My name is Bafana Nkatazo.

 

I used to struggle to get something but now I am not. I went to school with no money in my pocket or a snack to chew, I went to a school where your child can never go! I had to pay R50 for my school fee but I could'nt afford it, why cause I was swimming in the middle of poorness.

 

I lost my mother when I was 11 years old, I don't wanna talk of my father cause I never saw him, neither to see in photos or pictures. When I lost my mother, from then I lost my potential, but for a second I thought that I got my three sisters and three brothers so nothing to worry about. But I never saw any changes; all I did was to swim in poverty and poorness.

 

If it was'nt for Martin, the man who took me from hell and took me somewhere with tenderness. Even now I would have been swimming in the crazy none potential swimming pool.

 

Now I feel like a person again, but im not rushing things im taking them slowly. And when I succeed you will see the changes. I will never let my children suffer the same I did in life!

 

Bafana Nkatazo

 

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