“Empowering Children for a Brighter Future”
pre-school care for orphans and vulnerable children
Who We Are
We are small catholic based organisation that aim to raise funds for the pre-school education of orphans and vulnerable children in Metsimothlabe Township and surrounding areas, near Gaberone in Botswana. The actual pre-school building itself...
Botswana
Situated in the heart of Southern Africa, in many ways Botswana is one of Africa’s post colonial success stories. Tragically, it is also one of the most severely affected by HIV/Aids.
Focus
The organisation focuses on helping Sister Angela who is attempting to start a pre-school center in rural Botswana. Currently children only attend once a week, we hope to make this full time.
Facts
- Over 2 million people, a small hot, dry dusty country landlocked between South Africa, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe
- One of the highest HIV/Aid rate in the world with over 300,000 people living with the disease.
- Life expectancy fell from 65 in the early 90s to less than 40 by the early 2000s
- Now over a 130,000 orphans, and countless vulnerable children with a single parent unfortunately often stricken with AIDs, TB or alcoholism.
Heart of Southern Africa
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Objectives
- To provide funding necessary to ensure the current group of 20 orphaned and vulnerable children are able to attend pre-primary school on a 5 day a week basis.
- To provide two meals a day for these children.
- To build up the numbers of orphaned and vulnerable children in the pre-school to 50, and progressively as funds permit up to 100.
- To ensure the pre-school is properly equipped with books, writing material , learning aids and in due course computers, tablets and/or kindles.