Homestead Projects for Street Children Annual Report 2014 by Paul Vernon Hooper

›› Annual Report 2014

Vision

“It is The Homestead vision that no child should live, work or beg on the streets of Cape Town and that every child should live in a community with a family” The Programmes PROGRAMME

PURPOSE

LOCATION

The Homestead Street Outreach Programme

Outreach to identify, assist and unlock children living, working and begging on the street and to either return the child home, with ongoing support, or if necessary move the child onto specialised care at The Homestead.

CBD, Southern Suburbs, Khayelitsha

The Homestead Drop-In Centre – Cape Town

Daily centre-based programme for children living, working and begging on the streets to assist such children to settle into a routine, build a stable relationship and transition off the street.

District Six

The Homestead Drop-In Centre – Khayelitsha

Daily centre-based programme in community of origin providing poverty alleviation, family preservation, school support and social work services for high-risk and vulnerable children, as well as for children living on the street.

Site C – Khayelitsha

The Homestead Drop-In Centre – Manenberg

Manenberg

The Homestead Drop-In Centre – Valhalla Park

Valhalla Park

The Homestead Intake Shelter – Cape Town

Residentially-based intake, assessment, stabilisation and family reunification programme for children transitioning off the street.

District Six

The Homestead Child and Youth Care Centre – Khayelitsha

Residentially-based long-term care and development programme for children requiring ongoing assistance or for children unable to return home.

D Section Khayelitsha

The Homestead Prevention and Early Intervention Project

Family preservation and school support, as well as after-school care and development programme for vulnerable, traumatised and neglected children.

Site C and D Section Khayelitsha, Manenberg

The Homestead Job Creation Centre

Provides sustainable livelihoods via the empowerment of mothers and older boys in our care with job skills, work experience and a basic income.

Cape Town CBD

The late Nelson Mandela said “There can be no keener

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revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” It is appropriate, therefore, that on the passing of this great statesman we reflect on how we in South Africa treat our children and what this means to the work of The Homestead. The South African Child Gauge Report 2013 (www.ci.org. za) reports that there has been some improvement in the way South Africa treats its children, for instance that the number of children living in poverty in South Africa has declined from 74% in 2003 to 55.5% in 2012. This improvement, largely due to the massive rollout of the social grant system, is still not enough. The majority of children in South Africa continue to live in poverty; in the Western Cape we have 40 000 orphans and 15.6% of households report child hunger. Nationally, 24% of South African children do not live with a biological parent and 35% live in a household where no adult is employed. As a country our treatment of children is wanting, which is why malnourished, chronically neglected and physically and sexually abused children, as well as those with serious psychosocial problems, continue to need The Homestead. How The Homestead treats the children in its care, as briefly outlined in this report, does I believe reflect the immense caring, commitment and generosity of our donors, sponsors, volunteers, staff and management committee, without whom none of what we do would be possible. This has been a year of highs and lows. New leadership, unfortunate retrenchments and team changes are never easy because they have a deep and personal impact. However, we end the year much stronger, with only a slight cash flow deficit but having been able to extend our services and have more staff working directly with the children. We are especially proud that the Homestead Prevention and Early Intervention Department opened a new project in Valhalla Park to address the high numbers of children coming onto the street from this area. Our Street Outreach Programme was adjusted to better respond to spikes in children coming onto the street, the Homestead Intake Shelter launched its own morning education programme to fill the gap left by the changes to the external Learn to Live Programme and we continued to develop the new

Child and Youth Care Centre in Khayelitsha into a warm, safe space within which children can grow towards a bright future. The success of The Homestead is probably best reflected in the achievements of the boys themselves – both those in our care and our old boys. It is their guts and determination, their courage that must be celebrated, however it is manifested, be it in Arafat’s swim from Robben Island, Andrew’s new position as executive pastry chef in the Maldives or in the fundamental small steps the boys take each day to turn their lives around. I remain touched by the pride one of our young men has in his little garden, the joy expressed over an improved school report, the pleasure the boys get from sport and being creative and the pure joy of the staff when one of our most challenging children finally and excitedly returns to school. All are a celebration of your support, for which we are most grateful. Finally one must look ahead, as there is still much to do if we say we truly care. We need over the next year to extend our job creation programme with more training and skills development opportunities, the possibility of a Homestead charity shop, a training kitchen, and the launch of more ‘The Homestead’ branded products in our shop. Our Prevention and Early Intervention Project needs to continue its now stable path and focus on better facilities, tighter individual child development plans as well as more parenting skills development. The residential programme faces a future with a stronger staff team raring to go as three interlinked but separate residential units, each with their own social worker and a specific focus. The Intake Shelter will continue as before, while the Child and Youth Care Centre is to be divided into two units. The first will focus on the more challenging children with substance abuse and other such issues requiring intense therapeutic intervention and the second will take on the huge task of reconstructing a future for the more settled children. The past year has been quite a challenge but reflects a healthy and growing organisation that, we are sure, will continue to grow and to change children’s lives.

Zaitoon Abed, our treasurer, reports: “The Homestead has had a very busy year restructuring the different centres and staff complements. Paul Hooper ensured that we have a leaner and much more efficient organisation, which resulted in money-saving. Going forward, we can now focus on fundraising, which will ensure that we have good programmes for the benefit of the children in our care”.

Total income

R 8 893 188

Running costs

R 8 195 904

Cost of new building

Treasurer’s Report ››

R 727 616

Leasehold improvements

R 51 190

New vehicle

R 108 772

Equipment

R 14 271

Furniture and fitings

R 146 647

Cash income deficit

-R 351 212

Income April 2013 to March 2014

Expenditure 2013/2014

5,000,000

4,000,000 3,500,000

Self-generated

Individual donors

Trusts

1,000,000

Government

Job creation

500,000

PEI

1,000,000

2,000,000 Intake shelter

1,500,000

CYCC Khayelitsha

2,000,000

Other

3,000,000

Interests from investments

2,500,000

Corporate and lotteries

4,000,000

3,000,000

Ubunye Beadworks

Our job creation heroes ›› The Homestead Job Creation project was started in

Manenberg in 1999 as The Homestead’s first prevention and early intervention project. Today, working out of our Strand Street office, this project sells manufactured beadwork around the world, including company logo branded conference bags and folders, jewellery, Christmas decorations, personalised beaded yarmulkes, wine bags and other popular goodies. Over the last year the job creation project helped 30 beneficiaries, including 13 single moms and six Homestead boys. These beneficiaries needed help because they were unemployed, needed to provide for sick siblings or family members, had suffered domestic violence and were getting divorced or were homeless with no permanent accommodation. Incredibly, the help provided to these 30 people, referred to us from our drop-in centres and residential programmes in Khayelitsha and Manenberg, had a direct impact on 63 vulnerable children and siblings. Nadia Ismail, for instance, one of the mothers referred to the project, is a 25-year-old single mom from Manenberg. Unemployed, totally unskilled and without a home of her own,

Nadia immediately started saving her income and was eventually able to build her own Wendy house in a back yard, giving her and her child their own safe place to live. Nadia received beadwork technique, shop assistant, parenting, business skills, family nutrition and budget training from The Homestead project and partners, and has proven herself to be efficient, punctual and a hard worker. She is a great salesperson and we hope she will soon be able to find employment as a shop assistant. This work would not be possible without the food we receive from Woolworths, bread from Blue Ribbon, fish from I&J and incredible support from all the many individuals and companies who continue to donate clothes, groceries, food parcels, substantial funds and volunteering effort. Together you have made it possible to create homes, keep children in school and empower beneficiaries as parents and income earners. It is also thanks to you that we were able to relieve tragedy by paying for one of the boys in our care and his mother in our job creation project to travel to the Eastern Cape for his brother’s funeral.

How you can help the job creation heroes: While the job creation project generates income for both the beneficiaries and for the project itself, it remains a developmental programme requiring ongoing subsidisation and support. You can help by visiting The Homestead shop or going online to buy amazing gifts for special occasions â&#x20AC;&#x201C; perhaps something nice as a treat for someone you love or personalised logo branded goods for your company. We need quality secondhand goods for our new charity shop that we plan to open in the New Year, as well as job opportunities for domestic workers, shop assistants, factory workers, kitchen staff and similar positions for those beneficiaries who have proven themselves to be honest, reliable and hardworking. We also require funds for school clothes, shoes, bags and stationery, the building of Wendy houses, training and resources. We are desperate for the equipment, funds and expertise that will allow us to finish our almost complete training kitchen that will teach beneficiaries how to cook for profit, catering, etc. Perhaps your company can provide employment-related skills and training opportunities for beneficiaries or outings and treats to build self-esteem. Monthly contributions via debit order, even at R50 or R100 a month, will help keep this project sustainable and enable us to continue to stabilise families, so we can place stable children back home into stable families.

This first-ever Homestead project continued to

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successfully transition and settle children away from the street and to move them on to alternative care or back home to their families when possible. Eight-two children came through the shelter this year, of which 26% were returned home and 63% moved on to alternative care. Unfortunately, we had to say goodbye to Debbie Bloom, the Shelter social worker, who is moving on to spend some time travelling, but we are pleased to welcome Joslyn Rickers onto the team, who comes with a lot of relevant experience and some great new energy. Being so small and dealing with so many boys, this project does take strain. However, thanks to our very kind donors and supporters we were able to put in brand new tables and chairs and a computer lab for the boys, and to repaint and freshen up the dining room and upstairs room. A huge blow was the loss of access to the alternative education programme for unsettled boys (the external service provider changed their focus) and this meant that the social worker, residential manager and child care workers had to dig deep and pull together a morning education programme for these boys. This was not an easy job but they did it and we are very proud of their results. For this and other operational reasons, we also had to change our approach to Yizani Centre (which now functions as the morning education programme, open to shelter and street children) and incorporate the outreach worker as part of the normal shelter child care staff. In practice this was a great success and created a direct link between the street and the Shelter, connecting the shelter to the children while they are still on the street and helping children to transition off the street and into the shelter. How this works was recently proven by 20 children moving off the streets of Camps Bay and into the shelter. At first, David reached out to them on the street, then the children started stopping by to say hello, then they came into the centre to get food and a shower and eventually they settled into the shelter and became part of the programme. In this way David was also able to reach out to the hardened street children and network with other service providers to ensure that each child remaining on the street is known to us and part of a multi-sectorial

intervention, yet remain part of the shelter programme as children settle off the street. Next year we are most excited about the possibility of redoing the Intake Shelter dormitories and bathrooms which are rather faded and in need of a complete redo. We also hope to draw up plans to redo the kitchen area and to introduce more light into the shelter. The shelter also needs to refine its recreational and education spaces and resources, maybe even a reading area, but otherwise it’s successful business as usual.

How you can help this project: • Reading books, basic numeracy and literacy activities, sport and recreation resources such as soccer balls, board games, carrom boards, dominoes, cards, boxing bags, etc. • Funding support to help redo the dormitories, bathroom, and kitchen and to introduce more light into the shelter, as well as refine recreation and education resources and spaces. • Monthly debit order donations to continue stability and sustainability. • Boys’ clothes aged seven to 17, either secondhand or from PEP/Ackermans. • Education funds, school uniforms and shoes. • Volunteers to read to the children and help with schoolwork. • A computer software wiz to help keep the computers healthy. • Opportunities for outings and recreation.

The outreach worker says...

Working with children on the street ›› “First get to the child’s level and respect his area. If

he sits on the floor, then you must also sit on the floor and spend some time with him. Be friendly and non-judgmental and let him feel that there is nothing wrong with him, even if he is dirty and taking drugs. See the situation around him. Maybe he can’t talk then because someone else is watching him. Over time you develop the relationship by being consistent, being there when you say you are going to be there; even if he is not there, maybe he is hiding and watching you to see if you kept your word. Build the relationship by being around where he is. Show an interest in him. Know things about his world. Ask questions, but not with a book and a pen, otherwise you are going to make him scared. Tell him something about yourself. Share. See what is happening for the child – maybe in the morning he doesn’t want to speak to you because he is coming off drugs. You must respect his environment and his time. Be there. Maybe he will talk later in the day. Maybe he is just comforted by your presence even if he doesn’t show it. The result of the street work is to give the child a feeling that

there is someone he can trust, someone he can talk to, and someone who is looking out for him. He will respect himself more after time and he will also respect you more. When the time comes that he wants to get out of the situation, he knows who to turn to and where to go for help. Then he will come into The Homestead Intake Shelter, where the whole team of social workers and child care workers will welcome him and bring him into the developmental and therapeutic programme. They will assess him, stabilise him, provide medical care, drug counselling, schooling, investigate his home circumstances and do family reunification work, after which he will be transferred to a suitable long-term placement where he will receive nurturing and opportunities to reach his potential.” David Geduld – Homestead outreach worker

The Homestead Prevention and Early Intervention ProjectÂ â&#x20AC;şâ&#x20AC;ş The Homestead Prevention and Early Intervention

Project provides poverty relief, risk and trauma reduction, family and school preservation and parental support and development programmes through The Homestead Drop-in Centre and After-School Care Programmes in communities of origin. This year our new social worker, Zanele Sokupa, introduced a mature, warm and professional approach. This got this department into its groove with a happy team working together to reach deep into the communities and families of Manenberg, Site C Khayelitsha and now also Valhalla Park. It is wonderful news that with funds from the Department of Social Development we were able to open a programme in Valhalla Park that now works with 140 chronically deprived and neglected children from a community that generated most of the street children of Cape Town. Reports find that the number of street children in the city centre have declined noticeably since we opened our Valhalla Park programme. Interestingly, we were warned not to open a programme in Valhalla Park because of the gang violence. It is true that recent gang shootings, right outside our programme, are of great concern and a danger to the children who live there, but it is also true that the community of Valhalla Park has welcomed us

Left top: Dancing lessons at the Manenburg Drop-In Centre Left below: Creating safe space in violent Valhalla Park Facing page: A picture of love from a girl who witnesses daily gang violence 8

with open arms and we are deeply grateful to them and to the PK Harvest Time Ministry Church for allowing us to work out of their premises. Without all these kind and wonderful people our work would not be possible. They prove that even in the most challenging of communities there are so many who care and who want to things to improve for their children. Our other programmes in Manenberg and Site C experienced a recent explosion of gang violence, which is of huge concern and which made our work extremely difficult. Yet incredibly, our team working in these areas gets up every morning and opens our centres to ensure vulnerable children are protected and supported to remain at home and at school. Our priority and focus must remain with and grow towards this vital work that catches children before they move onto the street and are further damaged by street life. We need to continue to heal families, alleviate poverty, develop parenting skills and help each child look forward to a bright future through our individual development plan programme. Many thanks to all who make this work possible.

This project needs your help: • Education materials, stationery and books for basic, literacy and numeracy development. • Funding for school shoes and uniforms to keep children in school. • Dry groceries – sugar, flour, tins, beans, peanut butter, etc. – to supplement the food we give to the children. • Recreation and sport equipment such as soccer balls, hula-hoops, board games, etc. • Funds to help cover running costs (electricity and rent), as well as education and recreation activities. For instance, we pay community members to cook food and run basic educational and recreational activities for 140 children in Valhalla Park. • Monthly debit order donations to ensure the stability and sustainability of this project. • We are raising funds to enable us to build our own facilities in these communities. • We need a new car for this department to transport staff and children. The current Tazz is on its last legs.

The Homestead Child and Youth Care Centre in

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Khayelitsha, home to up to 75 boys, has just completed its first full year in its lovely new premises and thanks to our generous donors is completely paid off. We were even able to put in lovely floors and a computer laboratory and we are now turning a sea of sand into a grassed soccer field surrounded by a running track, an indigenous plant propagation area and outside gym. The community of D Section has continued their support and helped us deal with some very serious challenges, such as the service delivery protests that damaged our walls on several occasions and the need for security over the holidays, as well as with supporting our events, welcoming dignitaries and keeping our children safe out there. It is so wonderful to be part of this community and we and the boys feel loved and supported by them and by the fantastic care and support we have received this year. To properly acknowledge this support I would need to detail the contribution of hundreds of individuals and companies that together made what we do possible. Collectively, this equates to substantial time, money and expertise, for which we are most grateful. The boys have been spoilt with Christmas parties (even a Christmas day lunch), have had Easter events, outings, horse riding, surfing, equine therapy and Mandela Day love. They have also started sailing, have gone round racetracks and climbed mountains. A highlight was the visit by Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Easter Monday, which was very well organised, had tons of activities and fun and was inspiring for the boys. It wasn’t an easy year, though. We had a number of staff changes and some incredibly challenging boys to contend with. It was, however, a year of great learning for us all and

Clockwise from top left: Archbishop Desmond Tutu brings a day full of Easter fun to the Homestead boys; One of our young men writes a message for Madiba; The Homestead is the many who make our work possible. Here, Charles and Rene hand over a cheque towards the building of a soccer field; The new grass is laid for the soccer field at the Child and Youth Care Centre.

we are as a result wiser and stronger. We have a solid team in place (an extra social worker, Mr Babalo Mtirara, joined the team, as did more male child care workers) and the boys are more mobile and active, thanks to a change in vehicle use that enables children to get out over the weekends and participate in more sport and recreation activities. There are many achievements of the boys we need to celebrate, and this we will do at our annual general meeting. One achievement we must highlight, and only because it took incredible bravery and the effort of many to do, was the well-documented swim by Arafat from Robben Island to Blouberg. That is a distance of 7.5 km in freezing water with strong currents, waves and sharks, and he did it in a time of three hours 33 minutes, an incredible achievement that we are most proud of. We are so grateful to all who made it possible, especially Marion who believed in our boys and introduced them to swimming.

How you can help this project: • Assistance to help put in a library, study room, gym, playroom and recreation space in the middle cottage. • Clothes for boys, either secondhand or from Pep/Ackermans, including takkies, fleece tops, etc. • Sport and recreation equipment, especially soccer, boxing and skateboard equipment. • Assistance with funds for home visits, schooling, family and parent support, extra lessons, training, transport, stationery, etc. • Monthly debit orders for continued stability and sustainability. • Indigenous plants and expertise for the garden. • 100 chairs and 15 tables for our hall. • Data projector screen. • Seventy bedside desks and chairs. • Funding for security staff. • Music instruments (guitars, drums and keyboards) for music lessons for the boys.

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Boys to Men ››

Right: Sarel Pretorous and the Mankind team run a weekly group at the intake shelter where mentorship builds positive life choices for the Honestead boys.

At The Homestead we strive to walk with our boys

towards adulthood. For the last three years the Boys to Men group, part of the Mankind Project South Africa, has facilitated regular meetings with boys at The Homestead Intake Shelter. Starting off as a monthly group for all the boys, it is now run as a small, committed and focused Wednesday evening group which offers a safe but challenging environment within which the boys learn integrity, accountability, character, compassion and respect for each other. The guiding principles of the Boys to Men facilitators are to be supportive, to advise, listen and encourage. A typical evening starts with a check-in, then the logistics of choosing one boy to lead the next meeting, apologies, etc. This is followed by a ‘what’s happening’ discussion on topics that currently concern the boys, e.g. bullying, drugs or telling their story. The boys then set themselves a SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-bound) goal for the next session and the evening ends with a check-out. Driving the success of this programme has been the involvement and participation of the child care workers, who provide daily assistance and support to the boys. The boys, child care workers and facilitators all gain from the experience of connecting deeply with one another. The healing provided by this wonderful group is found in the tears, the joy, the fun, the sadness and the fearfulness the group has dealt with together. The value of the group is in witnessing the boys discover their own voice in front of others, a highly rewarding process for all concerned. We are most grateful to Sarel Pretorius and the whole Mankind Project for their ongoing commitment and for the incredible healing and empowerment these groups offer our boys.

The Homestead projects for street children – business canvas overview The problem • Vulnerable, chronically neglected, abused and traumatised children continue to drift towards/ are trafficked onto the street. • Children living, working and begging on the street suffer from exploitation, sexual, physical and substance abuse and are vulnerable to HIV/Aids, TB, chronic drug abuse related health issues and tertiary trauma. They also lock onto the street as a psychological shelter. • Direct support and exploitation, such as the money children get from begging, affirms street life and keeps children on the street and out of the services set up to help them. • To successfully transition children away from the street requires a specialised stabilisation programme to deal with their immediate substance abuse, psychosocial, educational, therapeutic, developmental and statutory needs. • Children who successfully stabilise away from the street often require ongoing and sometimes fairly lengthy alternative therapeutic care and development if they are to live full and productive lives away from the street. • Family poverty and dysfunction make reunification difficult without children’s parents receiving poverty relief, parenting and life skills development, as well as assistance to become financially self-sustainable.

The Homestead as solution The Homestead Prevention and Early Intervention Project works in the communities of Khayelitsha, Manenberg and Valhalla Park, providing poverty relief, risk and trauma reduction, family and school preservation and parental support and development programmes through Drop-in Centres and After-School Care Programmes. The Homestead Street Outreach Programme works on the street via outreach workers, drop-in centres and community partnerships to identify, engage, and move, or unlock children from the street. It also targets those who support and exploit children on the street. The Homestead Intake and Stabilisation Shelter successfully transitions and stabilises children away from the street, restarts their schooling and education, initiates substance abuse interventions, reconnects children with their family if possible and sets in place a plan for each child so they can either be reunified with their families or moved on to alternative care. The Homestead Child and Youth Care Centre in Khayelitsha offers alternative residential care for boys between the ages of seven and 17 so they can put the hurt of the past behind them, build a future away from the street, be part of the local community and get the development, education and therapy they need to live full and productive lives away from the street. The Homestead Job Creation Programme offers income generation and employment skills development and experience to the mothers and to the youth in our care so that family poverty is alleviated, economic independence built and family reunification made possible.

Key metrics Every day: The Homestead accommodates over 70 children in residential care, 90% of whom attend an education programme or are back at school. Every week: The Homestead Prevention and Early Intervention Project helps 140 children in Valhalla Park, 42 children in Site C, 35 children at our After-School Programme and 24 children in Manenberg. These children attend holiday programmes twice a year. Every year: The Homestead transitions over 100 children away from the street and into The Homestead Intake Shelter. 80% are successfully kept off the street, 40% are successfully returned home to their families and the rest are moved, within six months, on to alternative care, including our Child and Youth Care Centre.

Target beneficiaries

Relationship with beneficiaries

• Children living, working and begging on the street.

The best interests of the child come first, all children are of equal value and no child is treated as a ‘street child’ but as one deserving of the very best care and development possible.

• Children who require therapeutic intervention, as well as psychosocial and educational development and the skills necessary for a healthy life and to remain off the street.

Children give input into, contribute to and have a say in how The Homestead programmes operate and they are proud of and benefit from their association with The Homestead.

• Poverty-stricken and dysfunctional communities, families and parents of the above children.

Children belong with their biological families and we strive to make that possible even if it is only at a very basic level.

• Vulnerable, neglected, physically and sexually abused, exploited and traumatised children.

The Homestead’s unique value proposition • Proven organisation sustainability with a 32-year track record and an 80% success rate of being able to get and keep children off the street. • Acknowledged by national Government as a best practice model with formal government registration and funding. • A community-controlled organisation with extensive local and international support and a sound fiscal, management and delivery record. • Established infrastructure that covers both the areas where children are found on the street as well as the communities from which they originate. This includes a proven ability to successfully work with the most vulnerable and within the most dangerous of communities • A set of projects that collectively equate to a comprehensive response to the challenge of children living, working or begging on the street.

Channels to beneficiaries • Drop-in Centres in Manenberg, Site C and Valhalla Park. • School After Care Programmes in Site C. • Street outreach workers. • An Intake Shelter in Woodstock. • A Child and Youth Care Centre in Khayelitsha. • A job creation programme for mothers. • Partnerships with CID’s, business, government DSD, public, forums, etc.

Cost structure Buildings and improvements

R 863 000

Professional and staff costs

R 5 289 242

Admin costs

R 507 600

Transport

R 252 595

Facilities

R 453 659

Family development costs

R 16 664

Programme costs

R 602 181

Education sponsorship

R 536 286

Total

R 8 721 227

Revenue streams Government Grants and CSI Community support

R 4 937 000 R 633 684 R1 890 636

Reserves

R 871 886

Job creation income

R 225 000

Other

R 163 000

Total

R 8 721 227

Homestead old boys ›› What happens to the boys when they have to leave The Homestead? For the past ten years The Homestead has had a strong

partnership with Mamelani Projects who have provided youths leaving The Homestead with the necessary guidance and support to transition into adulthood. The Mamelani transitional support programme runs over a three-year period, providing support in the last 18 months, as the boys prepare to leave the children’s home, and it provides on-going support for up to 18 months after they leave. Through the programme, the boys have access to a supportive adult who walks alongside them through their transition while providing them with ongoing mentoring. Regular group sessions with other care leavers allow the boys to process the emotional and practical challenges they experience and provide them with the opportunity to be a support to each other. A rites of passage camp marks the end of one chapter in their lives and introduces them to the start of another, and internships and job placements ensure the boys get work experience. Homestead old boys can be found in all walks of life. Petrus Julies is a successful private detective and married with a child. Andrew De Bruin has just returned from the Maldives as an executive pastry chef. Happily married with two children, he has just taken up residence as a senior pastry chef at the Hilton Hotel in Durban.

Tsotang: (left The Homestead in 2011) “This group of guys has become like family to me, we all have a special bond and help each other with our challenges. I have learnt how to look after myself, how to cook, how to drive a car and all the other things that young people need to know.” Patrick: (left The Homestead in 2011) “Thanks for walking alongside me in my journey. Today I am a proud photographer at Killowatt AV!” Mzukeseni: (leaving The Homestead in 2014) “I was quite worried about what I would do after I left The Homestead, but I was inspired to see the progress of the boys who had already left. Since joining the programme I’ve had new experiences that have allowed me to be more hopeful about my future.” Nelson: “I've been away from The Homestead for more than five years and it’s great to still be in contact with everyone. I’ve just recently become a barista and am proud of myself.”

Top: Tsotang and Gerald Jacobs from Mamelani Left: Andrew De Bruin Centre right: Patrick Bottom right: Nelson 16

Organogram ›› Management Committee:

Stuart Hendry (Chair), Zaitoon Abed (Treasurer), Tshepo Modise-Harvey (Vice-chair) Phouzaan Siebritz, Samuel Lloyd Williams, Amori Borman, Vash Mungal-Singh

Director: Paul Hooper

Financial Mgr:

Accounts Assist: Nurannisa Patel

Residential Manager:

Ops & Job Creation Mgr:

Driver:

Godfrey Adams

Marketing Assist: Nurannisa Patel

Job Creation Assist: Yume Boukers

Prevention and Early Intervention Mgr:

Charmaine Germishuys

Annie Van Wyk

Lindani Mzamo

Ops Supervisor: Miemie Snoek

Admin Assistant: TBA

Cooks:

Thowayba Tobias, Nonkukuleko Mlethelwa

CYCC Social Workers:

Liezl Conradie, Babalo Mtirara

Intake Social Worker: Joslyn Rickers

CCW Supervisors:

Eunice Ganyaza, Sivuyile Khohlela, Zolile Mdala

Social Auxillary Worker: TBA

Drop-In Coords: Site C - Jakes Jacobs Manenberg - Ingrid Losper

Child Care Workers:

Collen Bussack, Nolitha Dyalivani, Nomzamo Dubula, Danile Majamani, Nicolas Mbiza, Patience Mkosi, Maputuke Mphanga, Nonkululeko Mlethelwa, Zameka Mazaleni, Nelson Zwide

Domestic Assist: Eunice Mkangisa, Zodwa Hlasela, Irene Madikane, Irene Duko

Ntombizanele Sokupa

CCW Assistants:

Nomazizi Gilman, Ntombomzi Madolo

Child Care Workers:

David Geduld, Nomthandazo Jonas, Patricia Mhlontlo, Mongezi Nuweni, Galant Ruiters, Armstrong Stemele, Elvis Thanzi, Aldrid Van Vuuren

Outreach: Giveart Mcotshana

After Care Coord: Khanyisa Kote

Acknowledgements ›› The work of The Homestead is only possible thanks to the generous support of the following wonderful people, companies, trusts, foundations and government departments.

Donations in kind • A Ebrahim • A Matthews • Abdool • Advers • African Scholars’ Fund • Alexander Forbes • Alexis, Darren, Jess and Mikaela • Amisha Vallab • Anelika and Hans-Peter Muller and Friends • Arushka Bugwanaeen • Asher Valentini • Atlantic Point Backpackers • Atvantage Procurement • Barry Langenhoven • Bennett and Love Ofokans • Blackanesse Youth Empowerment • Blouberg Rotary • Blue Downs Swimming Pool • Boston City Campus and Business • Bradley Jason • Brent Alardia • Brigitte Franck • Camps Bay School • Cape Town and Suburban

Clothing Guild • Cape Town Backpackers • Cape Town Central Library • Cape Town City Improvement District • Capita • Carly Tanus • Caulfield Joel • Chapel Street Primary School • Charly’s Bakery • Chase Evert Atlantic Seaboard • Chazia Desai • Choo Choo Park Playschool • Christl and Bernhard Wöhl • City of Cape Town • Claudia Scheltema • Clee • Clive Van Eyssen • Clothing Guild • Cup-O-Coffee • Curo Fund • Curo Fund Services • D Levy • Dame Hilary Cropper Foundation • Daniel • Danielle Abrahamson • Dave Williams Ashman

• David-Phillip Dirks • Debonairs V&A • Department of Health Management Accounting • Derek Sewa • Dish Food of Socials • Dreamcatcher Productions • Dynamic Cleaning • Eberhard Brack • Egg Films • Evering Hams Attorneys • Face Africa • Fairlady Magazine • Faizel • Faried Gamieldien • Ferdi Brannekamper • Fiona Kantor • Fire/Ice Hotel • FNB – Pearl Nel • Friends of SA Midseem • Gift of the Givers • Headman Sirala-Rala • Heidi Mccormauc • Herchel Halford • Herzlia Junior • Herzlia Primary School • Hirschsohn, Tammy • HP Muller And Colleagues • I&J – weekly • InterActive Africa

• Irfaan Moolla • Ismael Dos Ramos • Ismail Davids • Jane Brown • Jaren Phillips • Javier Pert Rabasa • Jekeraam Abrahams • Jewish Day School • John Olisadum • Kajee • KPMG Inc • Larry-Gaby Frosting (Pty) Ltd • Law Enforcement • Leon Wasserman • Linsey Kieser • Lions Club Cape Town • Lisa Dawson • Lisa Scriff • Luc Veermeer • M PDNA • M Sissoko • M van Wyk • Maeve Hooper • Marius Strachan • Mark Johnson • MARPRO • Masoodah Abrahams • Matt Roux and Daniel • Matthew and Sergio • Medscheme

• Mercia De Villiers • Metal Windows • Michael Ripp • Michelle Cowley • Mishka Singh • Mogamat Tape Arend • Moira Henderson House • Monja Bassing Thwaight • Moonlighting Stu Production (Pty) Ltd • Mr and Mrs L Biehly • Mr Steven Thomas • Mr Thami Magi • Mrs Halima Abrahams • Natasha Jacobs • Nelly • New Kids on The Block • Nicole Seumangal • Nieyaas Warner • Nikki Valkin • Nolita Bareny • Noreen Alexandre • Nutman • O’Brien Recruitment • Olivia Krok • Ooba • Origin • Paarl School • Parmalat • Paul Roberts • Pegasys – Tanweer Hogat • Permoseal (Pty) Ltd • Peter Mmaduofor • Proto Trading • PSP Icon • Public Protectors Office • PWC • Reddam House Atlantic Seaboard

• Richard and Jo Goldstein • S and A Friedman • S Adams • S Blazic • SACTWU • Sandy Power • Sara Ploudfoot • Sea Rescue (Cape Sun) • Senagog • Sesihle Jack • Sevaunite • Shaun O’Connor • Shuking Films • Simone Lilianfield • St Andrews Church • Students for a Better Future • Sudhir Matai • Table Bay Hotel • The 4C Womens Group • The Oculus • Thebe Tourism Group Retail • Therele • Thompsons Travel • Tim Ellis • Van Der Ford • Vicky Hide • Victoire Cheves Tsedi • Wishbones Productions • Witney Tucker • Woolworth – Sea Point • Woolworths Finance CSI • Woolworths Kloof Street • Yael Fire • Zaahir Soeker

Donations and grants • A and M Mason • A Emmanuel • A van Zyl • Accommodation Shop • Alexander Forbes Life • Alice T Lyan • Alida la Grange • Alta van der Merwe • Andrea Stephan • Anon Food Parcels • Aurobind Satpathy • Avatara Guest House • B Sender • Barenblatt Henry • Belinda West • Bettina Siegler • Brad Gupta • Bradley Braithwaite • C Van Zyl • Cape Town Back Packers • Cape Town Sewing Centre • Capegate • Carla Boyes • Catherine L Jagasia • CBRC • CCMA • CFW Industries • Chrissie Dykes • Claudia Grössl • Cohen Charitable Trust • Cornelia Ebert • CP and YI Brown • CS Schimanek • CTAA Donation • CW Pretorius • DAB Desmond Smith • De Wet Du Plessis • Dianne Edelstein

• Dogon Group • Dorsetshire Trust • Dr Thomas • Dr W Florence • Dranat Pathak • E Nott • E-Bucks Donation • Efficient Select • Elaine Koby Moss Trust • Eva Eckert • F and E Bradlow Trust • Foschini Group • Fowzia Ryklif • FP Korte • G Maben • GF Stelzner • GPNW • Greenbacks • Grit Brettschneider • Harry and Denis • Harvey World Travel • Herschel • Hilton Kretzmann • HS De Koch CYCC • HSS • I Melzer • Ian and Liz Graham • Irina Miccoli • Ismail Davids • J Van Wyk • Jamie Boyes • Jet Lee Will Trust • Jihyun N Kim • Jill M Cahr • Johan and Sarie • Joseph F Romano • Josie Fisher • Julia Stark • K Tuomi

• Katharina Und Achim Reinalter • Kathryn Burrer Hyer • Kennys Kids • Khanyi Tshepo • Kl Tuomi • Kristen Nuelle • Kurt and Joey Strauss Foundation • L Honeyman • L Morgan • L Roodt • Lazard Blue • Leon Wilder Foundation • Lisa C Schenkman • Lotta Leer • Louise Corbett • M Moretti • M Naidoo • M Naisby • M Scher • Manitou Foundation • Marcel Ford • Marcia and Gavin • Marcy R Carlin • Mark Magielse • Maureen A Seaman • McStender • Mellisa Thodos Johnson • Milenka Borghans • Mr and Mrs Chevda • Mr and Mrs Friedman • Mr and Mrs L Biehly • Mr Frederick Allibon • Mt Lipschitz • Myra Nieuwoudt • NA Latimer • O’Regan Ruth • Osrin Charitable Trust

• PJ Vos • Quest • R De Wet • Raylene Reynolds • Rev Price • Rita Michna • Ruth Blagho • RW Design • S Eppel • S McNally • SA Cap • Sandra Schmitt + FV Colleagues • SASDI • Sean Stegmann • Southern Spirit – Andy Beddow • Spencer Mc Nally • St Peters Church Camps Bay • Steve and Bobby Carrington • Steven Aguina • Sunset Pharmacy • T Dee • T Harvey • T Naran • Taryn Scher • Town House Hotel • Tp Walker • Uitsig Wanderers Cricket • Ulrike Scherer-Maier • Valeria Schultz • Venecia • Vicky Hyde • Wendy Green • Yang Dai • Yoga Life • Zaitoon Abed

Donations from R5,000 • Black Lawyers Association Legal Educ • CCID • Compliance • Coronation Asset Management Via Peiser • ET Craven • Ford Asset Management • Freudenberg Nonwovens • Fuchs Foundation • GFC • Pep Stores Gift Voucher • Peresoft • Preben Gudbergsen • Riaz Malawi • RJW Graham • S Allderman • Seaboard International • Sisco Architects • Sisi • St Andrews Church • Uschi Bernd • William E Wolf

Donations and grants from R10,000 • Autobax • Colin Campbell Trust • Dr Tuft and Partners – desks • Grand Parade Investments • Greater Good • HRG Conference • A and Y Galombik Charity • Japan Marine Services • Jet Lee Will Trust • Kant en Klaar • Lou Orr Trust • Low & Co – Gray

• Low & Co – Mathers • Moving Tactics • Mr Carl and Lindy Coetzee • Pearson Marang • Renate Nydegger • Streetinvest • The Laurie and Rita Chiappini Trust • Umhlanga Resources

Donations and grants from R20,000 • Children’s Community Ida and Catharina • Eddie Villiers – soccer field • G Maben • Iberica Electrical • Itcba Dona • JH Richards Will Trust • Mario Brunner • N Compass Knowledge • OM Battenhausen • PDNA • St Olas Trust • Wedner Family Foundation • William Lewis • Wings of Support

Donations and grants from R50,000 • Bloewenstein • Charles Eijkleboom and René Parent • DHCCF • DSF – Rosie and Manfred Wennemer • ER Tonnesen Trust • Givengain • Hennig Foundation • Jenkins

• Johnny Sandel • Mr Daniel • Peter Clark Memorial Fund • Stella and Paul Loewenstrein Charitable and Education Trust • Telodano Flooring

Donations and grants from R100,000 • Action for Street Children • Frederic Jose • Glencore • Goldman Sachs Gives UK • John Roadnight • National Lotteries • Nedbank Private Wealth Charitable Foundation • HWPL • Stichting Red Het Talent • The Department of Social Development – Western Cape Government

Our sincerest thanks to the photographers who provide The Homestead with such wonderful insight into our work, in particular Oryx Media for their photographs of Archbishop Tutu’s visit, and Steve Moakley. Also, thanks to Multiprint Litho, Fast ‘n Furious and Handmade Communications for donating print, delivery and design of this report.

The work of Homestead is made possible by your donations, that collectively make it possible for us to continue to get and keep children off the street. Please donate and help us to give children a future away from street life. Donate with SNAPSCAN: Use your smartphone, Snapscan by Standard Bank, and your credit card to donate directly into The Homestead bank account. It is easy, safe, fun and direct to

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