We agreed that in the future, we would primarily focus on the people living in LOOKING BACK … the villages within the Swartland Municipality and more specifically, the villages SUPPORT US around the five POP Centres (Chatsworth, Riebeek Kasteel, Riebeek West, AND LOOKING FORWARD Riverlands, and Koringberg). GivenGain General Donations | Payfast General Donations visit our website at www.goedgedacht.org for details on how you can support Looking back over the past year, Goedgedacht, alongside many Non-Profit Our COVID-19 intervention work reminds us of the value of working Organisations, was financially hit extremely hard by COVID-19. The lockdown in partnership. We shall continue working in partnership with regulations forced our Conference Centre and ‘Help the Rural Child’ shops to close Banking Details: others, especially our COVID-19 partners, namely, the Swartland Bank: Standard Bank If you’ve visited Goedgedacht, you’ll probably agree – it is a beautiful place. and our UK schools visitors could no longer come to Goedgedacht. Despite all the Municipality, the Swartland Hospital, the 167 volunteers who Account Name: Goedgedacht Trust The Goedgedacht homestead, and thriving olive groves nestle cosily against the devastation, the pandemic created an opportunity for Goedgedacht to connect prepared the thousands of meals in the POP Centre kitchens, the 28 Kasteelberg slopes. Wonderful winter vistas of soft green wheat fields splashed deeply with the Swartland community. other organisations who prepared meals in the POP Centre villages Branch: Mowbray with yellow canola-covered hills surround us. If you haven’t visited or it’s been and all the Social Workers within the municipal district. Branch Code: 051001 a while since you were last here, please think about booking a coffee or lunch We developed a seven-step COVID-19 intervention plan: We are stronger when we work together! Account Number: 282577629 gathering in our open-air Tea House in a Tree or stay for a few days! I’m sure that Swift Code: SBZA ZA JJ it’s this beauty that inspired Peter, Annie and the Goedgedacht team to dream 1 We transformed our six Path Onto Prosperity (POP) Youth Centres Goedgedacht ascribes to an Asset-Based Community Reference: Please use your name as the reference of thriving rural communities where children come first, through realising (Riebeek West, Riebeek Kasteel, Koringberg, Chatsworth, Riverlands, Development (ABCD) approach. This means that each the importance of developmental investment within the first 8000 days of a Porterville) into vibrant hubs that link our staff and volunteers with community should be in charge of its destiny. This approach Registration Numbers: person’s life. community kitchens that provide meals for hungry families 7 days a week. respects communities aspirations and the assets they have Goedgedacht Trust: T965/93 as the vehicles to fulfil these aspirations. Non Profit Organisation / NPO Number: 006/582 Within my first 6 weeks at Goedgedacht, the Kasteelberg caught fire and the 2 On all the surrounding farms where we work we Public Benefit Organisation / PBO Number: 930 001 106 farm was threatened. What a baptism of fire! But, like you, I could never have made meals available to families at risk. Following the ABCD approach, Goedgedacht will ask the imagined that the COVID-19 pandemic would follow in March, requiring dramatic right questions in each community: What are your aspirations? What assets do you changes in programmes, and preventing our regular UK schools from visiting. It 3 We made our POP Centres available as stations for have? How can you use your assets to achieve your aspirations? seems likely that the months ahead may be even harder for all in the Swartland, health education, as well as for testing and MySchool Card greater South Africa, and globally. How are we to know what is to come, and how tracking of COVID-19 infections Goedgedacht will encourage the different communities to consider can we be part of ‘building back better’ to ensure that rural communities are not POP Centre buildings as part of their community assets. We will support community 4 We deployed our Social Worker and Community Beneficiaries: Riebeeksrivier Pre-School; left out as the world goes online? ownership of the POP Centres and encourage and support community-led designs Goedgedacht Trust Worker as support where cases of Gender-Based of POP Centre programmes which will allow for maximum benefit from this asset. As the world changed, it felt like Goedgedacht’s dreams were under threat. Violence and Child Protection were reported Find out more at www.myschool.co.za The needs of our partner communities changed, as did our resources. The Goedgedacht will not decide for a community what is in their best interests. determined Goedgedacht staff decided to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic head- 5 We established an isolation unit on Goedgedacht The answers need to come from the community, by the community and for the on. Partnering with the Swartland Municipality, the Swartland Hospital, and farm, the Goedgedacht Recovery Centre, to community. We believe respectful engagement with communities provides wonderful volunteers from each community, we transformed our 6 POP-centres accommodate persons infected with COVID-19, opportunities for dialogue and the influencing of each other’s opinions. We are Grow Peace UK into feeding stations and the Leadership Academy and Barn into Recovery as well as additional accommodation for health looking forward to sharing with communities our learnings of the past 27 years of workers who fall ill to the virus. Centres for COVID-19 patients. As you’ll see from the Annual Review statistics, work, both our successes and our failures. 27 Lower Brook Street, Ipswich, IP4 1AQ Great Britain we as Goedgedacht staff, friends, donors and partners, have much to be proud UK Reg No.: 1091687 of and much to celebrate. Alongside other statistics, we have provided more 6 The Goedgedacht Trading Company produced an immune support drink In our engagement with communities, we will motivate why we think education Bank Details: Grow Peace than 567 280 meals to date, provided recovery space for more than 119 infected for the farming and POP Centre communities. remains one of the most important keys out of poverty, why we think that Savings Barclays people with COVID-19, and supported 1 670 food gardens. and Loans Co-operatives could be a way of gaining access to financing for poor Bank: 7 The Care for the Planet team distributed vegetable seeds to several communities , of challenging the many gardeners in the Swartland as to whether Sort Code: 20-44-51 The accompanying messages from Mr Joggie Scholtz, the Municipal Manager hundred village gardeners linked to the programme. it is not time to move from food security to food sovereignty and to dare the Bank Account No.: 90934763 of the Swartland Municipality and Dr Tony Hawkridge, Manager of Medical young generation of future leaders to accept the challenge that good leadership You are invited to consider the impact of this plan as presented on the Swartland map. Services at the Swartland Hospital share in our celebration! While painful, it has requires efficiency, effectiveness, and transparency. E: [email protected] been a fruitful winter. Through our COVID-19 interventions, the surrounding communities have developed deeper partnership and trust in Goedgedacht’s The purpose of our engagement will not be to dictate but rather to influence. work. With the new season, we seek to strengthen these relationships by GOEDGEDACHT TRUST, Communities know what they want and what is in their best interest. Some of you Help the Rural Child continuing our Asset-Based Community Development approach. As the pandemic A VALUABLE PARTNER have been introduced to the example of Being a Midwife from John Heider’s book, recedes, we look forward to listening to the aspirations of community members, The Tao Leaders, remains a powerful guideline for our future work: Four clothing and general merchandise shops to dream with them and together pave the way towards creating thriving rural The lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic had a communities where children come first. Careful not to impose our plans or significant impact on many vulnerable families across the “Remember that you are facilitating another person’s process. It is not your process. (Cape Town, Sea Point, Mowbray and ideas, we look forward to discover with them, the assets that they can leverage Swartland municipal area. On 6 April 2020, the Swartland Do not intrude. Do not control. Do not force your own needs and insights into Retreat), a dedicated furniture shop (Retreat), to realise their visions. municipality identified Goedgedacht Trust as one of the foreground. If you do not trust a person’s process, that person will not trust you. two bookshops (Kirstenhof and Mowbray), a Mobile three leading organisations ensuring food security to Bookshop and an online children’s bookshop. Our skilled Development Team with specific vulnerable households through their active POP centres. Imagine that you are a midwife; you are assisting at someone else’s birth. Do good expertise in Community work, Social Work, The Swartland municipality initiated a partnership with without show or fuss. Facilitate what is happening rather than what you think ought 6 Victoria Road, Mowbray, Cape Town First Thousand Days, After School care, to be happening. If you must take the lead, lead so that the mother is helped, yet still Goedgedacht Trust to implement a strategy for food T: +27 (0)21 689 8392 | F: +27 (0)21 689 5557 Youth work, Agricultural and Leadership security through 77 community feeding schemes in the free and in charge. Development of young adults will support Swartland municipal area. the different communities as they determine When the baby is born, the mother will rightly say: “We did it ourselves!” their destiny.