Kidz Care Trust Annual Report 2018
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Annual Report 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019 Kidz Care Trust Kidz Care Trust Annual Report of Kidz Care Trust (088-315-NPO) for the period 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019 Date published: 15 October 2019 Enquiries: The Program Manager Kidz Care Trust P.O. Box 32860 Fichardt Park 9317 113 Kort Street Roodewal Bloemfontein Tel: 082 775 2770 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.kidzcaretrust.org.za About Kidz Care Trust Kidz Care Trust is a non-governmental organisation serving the community of Bloemfontein. Our mission is to render life- changing services to children under the age of 18 years living and working on the street with the purpose to reunite them with their families and communities. We provide an integrated programme through a dedicated team of social workers, social auxiliary workers, auxiliary child and youth care workers, administrative staff, partner organisations & volunteers. We focus onpreventing children from living and working on the streets through community based interventions that build resilience and reduce risks. Our interventions with children living and working on the streets of Bloemfontein involves outreach through our street work; a bridging programme between the street and integration back into their communities through our drop-in centre (in partnership with Park Road Police Station) and a structured residential care programme at our registered child and youth care centre in Roodewal. 2 Kidz Care Trust Annual Report: 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019 Table of content Report from the Chairperson of the Governing Board................................................8 Governance and organisational management.............................................................10 Programme overview......................................................................................................14 Resource management and fundraising.......................................................................20 Audited financial statements for 2018.2019..................................................................22 Want to HELP the children? We request all prospective or interested donors and volunteers to consider working through the organisation rather than directly with the children. This will ensure that they get specialised support and is more sustainable. 2 3 Kidz Care TrustKidz Care Trust Children are children – but sometimes with a difference Working at Kidz Care Trust provides the staff with the guarantee of a new adventure every day. It is innate to all children to require copious amounts of attention, energy, patience, tolerance and understanding from the adults that are part of their growth and development. The children that participate in our programmes are no different, but with a difference – they have been deprived from the normal joys and turbulences that coincide with growing up. When they choose to stay with us at the child and youth care centre, they will often test whether the centre truly offers them safety and security, and whether they can trust the adults that now form part of their lives on this journey from the streets back onto their feet. They beguile, charm, humour and sometimes horrify the staff. They are impulsive, beautiful, confused and never silent! The staff know that every child enters this part of the programme with a hurt and pain that are still unresolved, with skills that were developed to survive (and often not to live with and consider others), with distrust in others (particularly adults due to many experiences of adults disappointing them through their behaviour, not protecting them or not keeping their promises). Too often we are the last bastion of hope and it is important that they experience care, nurturing and acceptance from a handful of dedicated staff. For the first time they are treated with respect, they have responsibilities towards themselves and others and they receive second (third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh…) changes to be what they are – children. They learn through trial and error what is acceptable behaviour and what not. They have an opportunity to play and learn in a child-friendly and child-centred environment. 4 Kidz Care TrustKidz Care Trust Annual Report: Annual1 April 2018Report: to 311 April March 2018 2019 to 31 March 2019 Street children are those under 18 years who left their families and communities to make a living and live in the streets without the care of adults. They are not day-time visitors making a “buck” and going back to their families, neither are they homeless people older than 18 years. 4 5 Kidz Care Trust The children who sleep in the streets, reduced to begging to make a living, are a testimony to an unfinished job. Nelson Mandela, 28 July 1996 6 Kidz Care Trust Annual Report: 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019 GOVERNANCE& management 6 Kidz Care Trust Report from the Chairperson of the Governing Board in accordance with article 8.2 of the Constitution of Kidz Care Trust Introduction reactive in nature. Currently we mainly intervene We are living in turbulent times characterised by once there are children living and working on the slow economic growth, the surge of violence against streets. Usually, at this stage it is difficult to make women and children, xenophobic attacks against life changing and impactful contributions in the lives foreign nationals and unstable political climate. of these children. This is because, once they learn All these and other factors set the tone for our to live independently and enjoy the freedom that interpersonal relations and determines the capacity goes with it, it becomes a challenge to convince of any organisation to survive and/or execute its set them to make use of our services. goals. Therefor as an organisation we commenced with For organisations who rely on generous donations early intervention work in selected schools in 2019. of philanthropic citizens, slow economic growth To be able to continue with this very important work means instability and possible closure as the we need additional funds and human resources. good Samaritans may not continue to afford giving The benefit of a proactive approach is that the generously to just causes. Gender-based violence surge in the number of street children will reduce as contributes to the break down in the family fibre intervention will be employed at the infancy of the which in turn result in some of these children (if problem. they are lucky to survive the violent attacks) leaving their homes to stay in the streets. Xenophobic The closure of our Drop-in Centre at Park Road attacks and the unstable political climate are a Police Station due to their renovations presents manifestation of a breakdown in the community us with practical challenges. The Drop-in Centre’s fibre. Families and society are collapsing around us. proximity to the city centre was very convenient to us and the children. This helped us to increase our All these factors mentioned above impact on the reach and provide various necessary services to the longevity and the ability to deliver on the objectives children. There is an urgent need for an alternative of organisations like Kidz Care Trust. With every centre, preferably situated in the city centre for ease extra child living and working on the streets the work of access to all interested parties. of our organisation increases. This impacts on the ability of the organisation to deliver on its mandate. Future goals The capacity constraints we experience create the The organisation recently acquired funding to possibility of us not being able to reach every child buy the Roodewal property where our child and who may need our services. youth care centre is currently situated. We would like to thank the National Lottery Commission for There is, thus, an urgent need to think and act this generous and life changing grant. A word of innovatively. We need to come up with alternative gratitude must be extended to our hardworking and effective methods to increase our revenue to employees, our stakeholders for their continued meet the demands of the future. support and our current and previous board of The objectives of Kidz Care Trust governors for running the organisation efficiently. Kidz Care Trust, an organisation born of an Without them, the National Lottery Commission idea to help remove children from the street would not have had confidence to support us. and reintegrating them with their families and Once the property is bought and transferred to our communities, has experienced steady growth since name, we contemplate to develop the property to its inception in the early 1990’s. As an organisation increase the impact on the lives of our children Kidz Care Trust identify children in the streets and and the community. We anticipate implementing engage with them with the goal of removing them farming operations, establishing a foundational permanently from the streets. This involves a high school and building sport facilities on the premises. level of skill and patience as we may not coerce The commencement of the farming operation can these children to participate in our programmes. create job opportunities while the sport facility will Once these children agree to participate in our hopefully create future Percy Taus. We foresee that programs, we move them from the streets to our the school will provide in the basic education needs residential care facility in Roodewal. At this child which will address the high level of illiteracy among and youth care centre a variety of services, from the street children. education to job placement, are provided. The children are then reintegrated into the community. This is a mammoth task that we cannot tackle alone. We will continue relying on the generosity of From this narration one identifies that our work is all those who view our activities as a worthy cause 8 Kidz Care Trust Annual Report: 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019 and continue accepting their donations, both in cash respect and how well he knew each one of them and in kind, for which we are eternally grateful.