Many of the children helped by the organisations we work with in South Africa come from poverty-stricken communities, living in townships and other poor areas, like the ones shown below

You could make an even greater difference to the lives of the very kids you taught, played with and love. If you choose to donate to one of our projects in South Africa, you will provide continuing help to these children.

We work with two organisations in South Africa: The Future Factory and Seawind Educare Centre.

The Future Factory runs structured sports programmes in over fifty schools in Western Cape. It also runs feeding schemes, and supports other feeding programmes run by other local organisations.

The Future Factory was started by Anne Siroky, who was South Africa's number one volleyball player in 2000. After retiring, she decided to share her volleyball skills with schoolchildren, but realised that there was no sports programme operating in the local schools, and started the Future Factory.

CHW hopes to fundraise for various programmes run by the Future Factory. We recently held a coin collection to raise money to buy soccer balls for the sports programmes, so that more children can take part. We raised four hundred and twenty-eight pounds. Thank you to everyone who took part.

Many of the children attending this creche live in townships and other poor areas. The creche was started by Rita Benjamin, who had a desire to help children. As well as being taught and cared for, the creche provides a meal for the children each day. CHW would like to help Rita give these children the best start possible in life. We particularly want to give donations to help the creche provide food for the children.

We are happy that CHW managed to link The Future Factory and Seawind Educare, during our director, Catherine's, last trip to Cape Town. The Future Factory will support programmes that Seawind Educare wants to run for its children.