ABOUT SAVE THE CHILDREN SOUTH AFRICA
Save the Children South Africa is part of the world’s largest independent development and rights based organisation for children, represented in over 120 countries worldwide. We fight for their rights. We help them fulfil their potential.
Vision OUR VISION A world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. OUR MISSION To inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.
Mission statement-OUR MISSION To inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. OUR VALUES We will stay true to our values of accountability, ambition, collaboration, creativity and integrity.
Mission statement-OUR MISSION To inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. OUR VALUES We will stay true to our values of accountability, ambition, collaboration, creativity and integrity.
Contacts details
Contact person:Thano Modisane
Telephone number:+27(0)124307775*Email address:supporters@savethechildren.org.za
Physical address:353 Festival Road,Festival office Park3rd floor Hatfield,Petoria
Fax number:+27(0)124307776
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SUCCESSFUL STORIES
ADDRESSING MALNUTRITIONWe have successfully rolled-out better healthcare services for children in 150 Early Childhood Care and Development centres in 2021
When we interviewed Dineo Mopeli, the head of nutrition in QwaQwa, Free State, she wasn’t convinced that severe malnutrition in her district had improved even though the elopstatistics showed otherwise.
“The kids brought to clinics are mostly healthy and so the situation in clinics suggested an improvement in malnutrition. But there are many children whose parents don’t bring them. They are the starving ones.”
The first five years of a child’s life is the most critical and usually determines the quality of their adulthood. Good nutrition is a key pillar and strong predictor of future success and wellbeing. Through our partnership with GlaxoSmithKline, we have begun working with Dineo and others in the Free State’s Early Childhood Care and Development centres to root out malnutrition.
The project, Sireletsa Bana (translated as ‘protecting children’), builds the capacity of healthcare workers and Early Childhood Care and Development practitioners in Limpopo and the Free State. By 2019, we aim to have made significant gains in eradicating the scourge of malnutrition.
We have successfully rolled-out better healthcare services for children in 150 Early Childhood Care and Development centres because we believe all children in South Africa are entitled to grow up healthy, enjoying long-term good health
PARTNERSHIP WITH CHILDREN
To raise children’s voices in public matters and to deliver on our mandate of placing children first.
We believe every child deserves a future and their lives, voices and future potential should be fiercely protected at all costs.
From the beginning we’ve understood the power of words, of finding new ways to communicate and the importance of using our voice and expertise to bring real and positive change for those whose voices might otherwise go unheard.
To raise children’s voices in public matters in South Africa and to deliver on our mandate of placing children first, in 2016 we decided to present our strategy, achievements, highlights and challenges to the children involved in our programmes so we could get their insight and ideas.
Our CEO conversed with the children and we coined the event, The CEO’s Annual Accountability Corner.
Together, they agreed on key priority areas and desired interventions going forward. The event was held in each of our four priority provinces.
Children cannot vote and they do not give money to political candidates. That’s why we need your help to raise the voice for children’s issues. Get involved today!
A programme pioneered to improve young children’s reading and encourage a life-long love of reading.
Literacy Boost is a programme pioneered by Save the Children to improve young children’s reading and encourage a life-long love of reading. Studies in South Africa have shown that we have unacceptably low levels of literacy and numeracy.
Thanks to your generous donations we are making sure that children are supported to read, write and understand language and to work sufficiently well with numbers to progress with their education and develop the necessary skills to become successful adults.
Save the Children South Africa’s education programme has reached almost 25,000 children through our Foundation Literacy intervention in Qwa Qwa, Free State – a former homeland and still one of the poorest most underserviced areas in our country.
Taking the Lead in Literacy – Matladi’s Story
It is not easy growing up in South Africa today. Matladi is in Grade 6 at her rural primary school in Qwa Qwa. She walks a far distance to and from school every day, but has not let the challenges she has faced stop her from becoming a leader within her school and community. Save the Children introduced Literacy Boost at her school in 2012. Since then, Matladi has become a Reading Camp Leader and she loves the impact she can have in the community:
“We do reading camps once a week and a Read-a-thon twice a week. Our parents are also invited to come and see what we are doing. We also invite people in the community to borrow books. Being a camp leader has helped me as I am now confident in standing in front of other learners during assembly, doing public speaking, or raising awareness.”
Matladi is just one of thousands of children across South Africa who are being given a better start in life. None of these would be possible without your continued support. On behalf of all the children, thank you. Every child in South Africa should receive quality basic education.
Every day, giving a girls what every last child deserves.
“In my house, there are eight girls who are now menstruating and then there is my mother as well. It is very expensive for my family. When we cannot afford pads, I stay home and miss school.This upset me very much because, even though my friends bring my homework to me, I still struggle to catch up. My mother has a big heart taking care of all of us. In rural KwaZulu-Natal. My dad works part-time when he finds work but my mother has not been able to find work for some time now.We live off social grants mostly, but this is not enough to cover food, school and toiletries.” – Nokubonga’s (16) –
In 2016, we undertook a pilot project that distributed reusable sanitary towels to underprivileged girls in Umzinto, a rural area in KwaZulu-Natal.The project was aimed at reducing school girl absenteeism.
“The pads made a big difference, it meant that I could stay in school and not miss lessons. I want to do well in school so that I could become a paramedic one day.”
Since piloting the project, we have advocated for the free distribution of sanitary towels in no-fee public schools. Together with our advocacy efforts and recommendations by other stakeholders, government’s provincial department of education announced that they will scale up the programme to make sanitary towels available to young girls in 2,992 schools across the province.
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