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Annual Report the Homestead Projects for Street Children NPO Number: 003-217 2016 Annual Report 2016 ANNUAL REPORT The Homestead Projects for Street Children NPO Number: 003-217 2016 Annual Report 2016 OUR MISSION TO HELP STREET CHILDREN RECONSTRUCT THEIR SHATTERED LIVES, AND TO PROVIDE PREVENTION AND EARLY INTERVENTION SERVICES TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES IN DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES OUR VISION IT IS THE HOMESTEAd’s 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 Annual Report 2016 THE PROGRAMMES PROGRAMME PURPOSE LOCATION The Homestead Street Outreach Outreach onto the street to identify, assist and unlock the potential of children living, working and begging on the street CBD, Seapoint, Camps Bay, Programme and to either return them home or move them into specialised residential care at The Homestead. Greenpoint, Woodstock, Khayelitsha, Manenberg. The Homestead Drop-in Centre, Cape Provide daily centre-based programme for children living, working and begging on the street and assist such children District Six Town to settle into a routine and get the support they need to transition off the street and away from street life. This centre is currently working with up to 20 children. The Homestead Drop-in Centre, Daily centre-based programme in street child community of origin, providing family preservation, school attendance, crisis Site C, Khayelitsha Khayelitsha intervention and social work support for vulnerable children at risk of street life. This centre currently works with about 50 children at a time. The Homestead Drop-in Centre, Daily centre-based programme in street child community of origin, providing family preservation, school attendance, Manenberg Manenberg crisis intervention and social work support for vulnerable children at risk of street life. This centre currently works with 80 children. The Homestead Drop-in Centre, Valhalla Daily centre-based programme in street child community of origin, providing family preservation, school attendance, crisis Valhalla Park Park intervention and social work support for vulnerable children at risk of street life. This centre currently works with 140 children. The Homestead Prevention and Early School aftercare programme for vulnerable and traumatised children who are in danger of falling out of school and into Site C, Khayelitsha Intervention Programme street life. Includes family preservation and parental support programmes. The Homestead Child and Youth Care Residential-based intake and stabilisation programme for 75 boys aged 6 to 17. This centre is for street, traumatised, D Section, Khayelitsha Centre, Khayelitsha chronically neglected and abused children in need of therapeutic care and development. It has a bridging school for children not yet ready or able to return to formal schooling. The Homestead Transitional Centre, Residential-based step-down and Transitional Centre for 30 boys aged 15 years and older and who are stable, attending District Six Woodstock school and getting ready to transition out of care and to return home or move on to independent living. This centre also runs an aftercare programme for boys who have left our care but need a little ongoing support, as well as an overnight emergency placement dormitory for children in need of care and protection. The Homestead Job Creation Centre Provides sustainable livelihoods via the empowerment of mothers and older boys in our care with job skills, work Cape Town CBD experience and a basic income. 1 Annual Report 2016 DIRECTor’s messAGE Michelangelo taught that “each block of stone has a statue inside of it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover what that sculpture is”. In a similar way, The Homestead chips away at all the dirt, pain, anger, bad behaviour, illness and developmental delays that define the chronically neglected, deprived, abused, exploited and unwanted street children we work with, until eventually the sculpture within, the beautiful unique child, the healed child, is revealed. The Homestead is not about basic street-level services, or about holding difficult children. The Homestead works with a purpose to heal, develop and educate these children; to put the trauma of their past aside; and to ensure they have an empowered future and that they do not return to the street once they leave our care. This is an incredibly difficult task and to succeed we must face up to a number of realities: that the deep damage these children have suffered, even to the point of mental illness, requires that we provide a very long and specialised road of healing; that failure for these children is more than the tragedy of broken trust, unmet expectations and disappointment – it is the very real fact that if we fail we commit these children to a life on the street or worse. To succeed, our programmes must honestly value the beautiful child within and not be driven by the behaviour and anger that confronts us at the start of their healing process. This means that The Homestead must provide the best therapeutic and developmental opportunities possible, as well as the best programmes, staff, volunteers and professionals, as well as top notch facilities. You simply cannot heal a traumatised child in a broken centre, provide development without the right tools or give a child hope when all they experience is chaos. The Homestead is therefore very happy to report that once again, thanks to our donors and supporters, we have taken a number of major steps towards being able to meet the high standards required to properly reach and heal the children we work with. The required training and professionalism of our Child and Youth Care Centre workers towards formal qualifications by 2018 has finally got the traction it needs to meet that deadline. We are also very happy to report that we were able to add to our Khayelitsha Centre a wonderful new therapeutic and developmental centre, the Hans Katoen Pavilion. Thanks to a very successful fundraiser at the Table Bay Hotel, we were able to rebuild and repurpose our old Woodstock intake shelter, changing it into a modern Transitional Centre that will give our settled boys the attention, support and opportunities they need to successfully transition into the adult world and not return to street life. These developments also meant we were able to move our intake centre, for children coming off the street, away from the old Woodstock shelter and over to our Khayelitsha facility where the children are now far happier 2 Annual Report 2016 and away from their vulnerability to the street. This represents a fundamental change in the way we work, as the children are now housed in a far larger and more appropriate facility with computers, a library, a soccer field, and a therapeutic environment within a community that welcomes and supports them. The results have astounded us. Children coming off the street now settle much faster, abscond less and love the focused programme and the more appropriate sport, recreation and development opportunities. These changes have enabled us to better focus our morning programme for children not attending school and to increase the number of intake children in our care by 100 percent. In the year to come, this programme will be refined to ensure that we successfully help the growing number of children in Cape Town who need a specialised service for traumatised children, some of whom have behavioural and substance abuse challenges. The Homestead ideal has always been to reach vulnerable, traumatised children before they move out of their communities and onto the street. We are therefore happy to report that thanks to the hard work of Zanele Sokupa and the Prevention and Early Intervention team all our prevention and early intervention programmes in Valhalla Park, Manenberg and Site C Khayelitsha now offer a far more considered and purposeful approach to targeting the most neglected and abused children in street-children communities of origin. The numbers of children in these programmes has increased dramatically and we were able to secure better or extended facilities for our Site C after school programme, and our Valhalla Park and Manenberg programmes. Our Manenberg programme, for instance, after suffering for years in a terrible and dangerous facility, is now safely housed in a very nice church hall away from the shooting. Sadly, Zanele has left our employ to move with her husband to the USA. We wish the Sokupa family all the best. We celebrate and send our sincerest thanks for over three decades of dedicated work to Jakes Jacobs, the most senior child and youth care worker of this department, who retired in July this year. I am sure you will agree that all this news is progress indeed – progress made possible by your care and support. We are incredibly grateful for each and every contribution you make to The Homestead, which all add up to a programme that directly impacts on the neediest children of Cape Town. Without your support none of what we do would be possible. We remain motivated by the empathy you show for the children in our care, and how so many of you push and nurture us to go the extra mile and who yourselves sacrifice so much to bring joy to a child. Thank you also for patiently continuing to walk with us as we grow the quality of our services, the standard of our care and the number of children we continue to reach. We hope one day soon to be the best in the world – our children deserve it, you deserve it. We are proud to be artists with you, saving children from the street together. Thank you for making The Homestead possible, for helping us to achieve so much, for giving so many children a chance, a future. Paul Hooper Director 3 Annual Report 2016 TREAsurer’s REPORT The Homestead continues to operate prudently under Financial information for the period ending 31 March 2016 the directorship of Paul Hooper.
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