NEWS

It’s quite a mouthful: the Youth Entrepreneurship and Socio Economic Empowerment Project – which is why we often refer to it by its acronym, YESEEP.

It seems that we say it every year: time flies! It’s hard to believe that it’s already April, signalling that the first quarter of 2019 is already coming to a close. But what’s far from over are the aims we have yet to accomplish for children.
 

It’s amazing how, when your children are no longer in school or at university, you realise just how much our lives revolved around terms and holidays. It’s just one simple example of how our children form the basis of our decisions; and of course, that’s how it should be.

Join us on September 5th at Parkview Golf Club in Johannesburg for a spectacular day of golf and fun — while raising funds for Save the Children!
 

Not everyone has a MySchool My Villlage MyPlanet card . . . and if you haven’t, please will you join up: it’s free! This fundraising programme benefits many non-profit organisations – including Save the Children South Africa.

If you’re one of the amazing people who responded generously to our recent appeal for support for the Sizolopakathi Early Childhood Centre, thank you so much!
 

It’s concerning and tragic that just over three million South Africans remain illiterate, according to Statistics South Africa. As Walt Disney once very wisely said: ‘There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.’ 

In KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), Save the Children implements projects in education, early childhood development, health, child protection and child rights – and reached more than 120 000 girls and boys in 2018.
 

My name is Ndingedwa and I am in prison serving a 19 year sentence for stock theft, housebreaking, assault and murder. How exactly I became violent, I am not sure. One thing I do remember is that my father used to be very violent towards my mother. My father drank so much and he was argumentative and aggressive when he was drunk. He fought with my mother and with other people. If other people wanted to stop him fighting with my mother, then he would fight with them too.