One of the biggest problems in particularly poor communities is children who are not able to attend school because their parents cannot afford school fees, school uniforms, transport, stationary or food for lunch. The drop out of children from school at a young age has a huge impact on the community, because these children usually become involved in gangs, prostitution and drugs and can eventually become street children.

In 2007 we started out with a programme called "Keep a child in school", providing school uniforms, school fees, stationery and even emergency food parcels to children referred to us by social workers in the community where families cannot afford the aforementioned and the children missed out on a chance to go to school.

We want to be pro-active in identifying these children and their families and create a support system before they get into trouble. The idea is not to sustain the family in poverty, but to provide these families with a fighting chance, empowering them through early intervention, support networking and relationship-building.

One of the main focus areas is child-headed households where both parents have passed away due to AIDS. However, where there is a danger of a child not attending school due to other socio-economic factors that child will not be excluded from the programme.

The sponsorship is implemented through a controlled and well managed system of home visits and relationship building with the family as a whole.