Outreach projects
Primary School in Sir Lowry‘s Pass Village
The Project:
It isn’t the student’s incapability but the poverty and remote location of the village that enormously reduces the quality of education. Due to lack of money and political influence classes are too big, teachers unable to cope and therefore easily and often discouraged.
Yearly statistics about the standard of performance show that the school unfortunately belongs to the weakest within the Province.
The ones suffering the most from the intolerable situation are the children, who –without a qualified graduation – won’t be able to find a job as the unemployment rate in South Africa is very high. This of course is an ideal base to drift into criminality.
Out of this predicament the idea was born to provide efficient support for the children within the public schools instead of building a private or Catholic school next to the existing one.
A first class of selected kids that get additional support from year 2 and 3 got started by the “Initiative Rainbow Kids”. The students are delighted about their new circumstances and also the other ones in the former classes enjoy the advantage of a smaller class size.
Thrilled by these results, the intention is to also offer this great opportunity to year 5 and 6.
In order to achieve this, the German-speaking Catholic Community has started co-operating with “Rainbow-Kids and “Einfach-Helfen”.
With the start of the new school year 2012, a young teacher could be engaged. For the beginning the school has given a temporary classroom until the new is be built.
Re-orientation:
Unfortunately, we cannot continue this co-partnership, as our project in Manenberg demands our full financial commitment.
This does not change our opinion, that this project in Sir Lowry’s Pass village is a very good thing. We still stay behind it. Further donations for the benefit of these classes will be given to the “Initiative Rainbow Kids”
Banking Details: Accounts page
Web Pages:
a) Soup Kitchen and Sponsorships: "http://www.einfachhelfen.org/";
b) Initiative Rainbow Kids: "http://www.rainbowkisa.com/"
b) Secretary of the German Bishop's Conference: "http://www.auslandsseelsorge.de/";
Social Project HOPE
HOPE Cape Town is a non-profit organisation and was founded in October 2001. HOPE Cape Town supports its activities through fundraising with individuals, organisations and foreign governments both in South Africa and abroad. Strong, enduring partnerships are the mainstay of HOPE Cape Town.
The HOPE Community Health Worker (HCHW) is the core of HOPE Cape Town’s activities. The HCHW lives in the community where she or he works and is chosen for their people skills, maturity, energy and commitment. The HCHW also assists and with home visits, food parcels, sourcing welfare and support services, advice or on-going interest. In the chronically under-staffed clinics, the HCHW is a dependable and responsible member of the clinic team. HOPE Cape Town currently employs 23 Community Health Workers, each with a three-year sponsorship. The Health Care Workers are currently working in 19 clinics located around Cape Town, Paarl, Grabouw and Hermanus.
HOPE Cape Town is involved in many activities and some of these are the following:
- E-learning project:
This is aimed at constantly updating the knowledge of HCHW so they are better able to serve the clients they see in the clinics.
- Ithemba Paediatric Ward for Infectious Diseases at Tygerberg Children’s Hospital:
Provides treatment, care and education to children affected by HIV & AIDS in a friendly and family focussed environment.
- HOPE Cape Town for the communities
Provide a vital resource in the chronically understaffed clinic environment in the underprivileged areas in and around the Western Cape.
- The Nutrition Project
Provides information on healthy nutrition to people living with HIV and AIDS, especially focussing on mothers with their babies.
- HOPE Cape Town and Traditional Healers
HOPE Cape Town is trying to form a co-operation between traditional healing methods and the westernbiomedical approach to promote mutual respect and co-operation in the fight against HIV and AIDS.
For more information please visit us on our home-page www.hopecapetown.com
Social Project Manenberg
Our partner community in Manenberg (the Church of the Holy Family) has started a school-after-care-project since 2010 (in cooperation with the Amy-Biehl-Fondation).
Because of drugs, poverty and gansterism, Manenberg is a highly dangerous area, robbery and killings are daily occurrences. Children who are exposed to these circumstances are naturally drawn in to this kind of life.
Since the summer of 2010, children who previously have been on the streets during the day and were tempted to join violent gangs, are invited to afternoon courses in the community centre. The courses run from Monday to Thursday between 3pm and 6pm. There are different activities:
Sport, breakdance (picture), painting, music, cooking and so on.
The children and teenagers are instructed by professional teachers; they become creatively occupied and have a lot of fun. The limitations allow only for 150 children to participate, and this limit is already reached. Many young people of Manenberg still want to join the programme.
Every afternoon the children receive food, alternating between sandwiches and hot food.
We as the German-Speaking Catholic Community are committed to support and participate in this project. The priests are busy planning future projects and our community supports the Manenberg project by means of food donations and general financial support.