Welcome to Afrika Tikkun

2012

Long term impact through infrastructure Development

VISION STATEMENT

A sustainable future for children in South African townships

How do we do this

The organisation aims to:

• Provide education, health and social services to children, youth and their families through centres of excellence in South African Townships.

• Empower communities to develop new generations of productive citizens

• Follow the Holistic Development Model which includes child and youth care, primary health care, and support services

• Build and run centres of excellence in the six townships/informal settlements in which we work

• Build partnerships with government, the communities, other non-governmental organisations and donors to ensure the beneficiaries/clients’ needs are met appropriately

How we do this cont…

• Development centres are structured as Centres of Excellence providing early childhood and youth development as well as administrative resources for all the community outreach work.

• Related to these focus areas are support services that facilitate the operation of the centres, including nutrition/feeding programmes, vegetable gardens, transport for project managers, for patients to clinics and for meals distribution.

• Each Centre is managed by a Project Manager supported by a team consisting of a Social Worker, Professional Nurse Co-ordinator, The Caregiver Team, Youth Leaders, ECD Practitioners and Child and Youth Care Professionals.

• 4 communities in Gauteng (Alexandra, Hillbrow, Diepsloot and Orange Farm) and 2 in the Western Cape (Delft and Mfuleni) by assisting each community to set up Community Boards and Community Management Forums that take responsibility for the day-to-day activities and outreach programmes implemented in the community.

Our Partnerships Orange Farm - AreKopaneng Community Centre • Afrika Tikkun started delivering services in Orange Farm from 2002 through the Tjhebele Pele

partnership which comprised seven community based organisations.

• In 2007 we formed a partnership with Arekopaneng, a NGO that offered the community a crèche and a skills development centre, with the intention of developing a Centre of Excellence for Orange Farm on the site which belongs to the City of Johannesburg.

• An ECD centre, funded by RAM Hand-to-Hand Couriers, Belron and the Gauteng Department of Social Development, was built and opened in 2008. It has four classrooms, a large outdoor play area, hall and a toy library, offering services to children with learning disabilities.

• In 2010 a two-storey, purpose-designed Child and Youth Development Centre was built at a cost of over

R8-million. This centre offers a library/learning centre, computer room, arts and crafts room, dining room/mixed use hall, administrative offices, offices for the home based care and community care workers and youth interns, a special needs area, counselling/meeting rooms, kitchen and store rooms, and a covered sports hall. A running track surrounds the Centre and adds to the hive of activities that endear the Centre to the local community.

• There are over 250 children in the ECD Centre and almost 500 older children participate in the Youth programmes daily.

• Services offered – ECD, Child and Youth Development, Family support services, Nutrition, Food Security and Support Services, Primary Health Care.

• 2011/2012 – game plan – formalise Child and Youth Development Programme

Comparative analysis of beneficiaries

Beneficiary

Orange Farm – Arekopaneng

Alexandra – Phutaditjaba

Community Centre