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News articles published on our recent Ikhwezi Newsletter

 
Chairperson's Report E-mail
Written by Larry Took   
Tuesday, 24 August 2010 00:00

larrytookeThis last year has been a challenging one for Thandanani as it has for many other organisations in the NGO sector that rely on external sources of funding. In many ways the year has been a continual balancing act – on the one hand there has been the pressing concern to responsibly manage financial risk, on the other has been the needs of our communities and our service delivery to them.

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Director's Report E-mail
Written by Duncan Andrew   
Tuesday, 24 August 2010 00:00

Duncan AndrewThis, our 20th anniversary year, has been strangely contradictory, and because of that, a challenging year. On the one hand, we celebrated 20 years of facilitating community based care and support to orphan's and other vulnerable children; saw our beneficiary numbers increase, achieved almost all of our service delivery targets for the year and secured funding for the expansion of some of our existing services and the introduction of new health related services.

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2009/10 Achievements & Challeges E-mail
Achievements:
  • New development assessment tool for volunteers
  • Secured land for a communal food garden in Richmond
  • Developed and supported 140 household food gardens
  • School "make-over" in partnership with Epworth Girls High
  • Hosted 2 learners who now holds NQF5 in Community Development
  • Secured 216 foster care grants, 73 birth certificates & secured other grants
  • Caregiver's support groups reached 113 caregivers and 149 OVCs
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Harvest Time in Silwanetshe E-mail
Written by Thabani Ndlovu   

Fresh ProduceIn many cases when one has to introduce an agricultural project in an area, that initiative is likely to be characterized with lack of ownership and employment mentality.

Willowfontein is no different to all other areas, but with the effort put into it and perseverance, Silwanetshe communal garden has managed to get through those challenges until several harvest has been achieved. Although this is the first of its kind in this year, but from now on it will manage to make few harvest up to the end of the year. This is because of a collective effort and dedication of homecare and food garden volunteers in the area.

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