NVFH 2020 Integrated Annual Report

Loaves & Fishes Network
Deep poverty has a detrimental effect on children’s future
outcomes, with early childhood deprivation negatively
impacting children’s health, cognitive development, social,
emotional and behavioural development all of which are
linked to educational outcomes. In order to overcome
these multi-faceted challenges children need the care and
support of adults including their parents and caregivers,
Early Childhood Development (ECD) practitioners and the
broader community who can, on behalf of the child, access
essential services such as primary health care, adequate
nutrition, safe water, basic sanitation, protection from abuse
and violence, psycho-social support and early childhood
care and education.
The LAFN team delivers impact-driven programmes
supporting children within socio-economically disadvantaged
communities. They capacitate and support ECD centres,
ECD practitioners and parents in a holistic yet practical and
accessible manner that ensures the well-being of children.
Our role is to provide LAFN with financial assistance to
ensure their learning centre care givers and parents are well
educated in the above areas.
African Angels
We have chosen African Angels as the beneficiary of
our primary education phase support efforts. African
Angels is an English medium primary located in Chintsa
East, a seaside village, just outside East London, in the
Eastern Cape.
Its scholars are all from socially and economically
disadvantaged backgrounds, and classes are limited in
size to no more than 20 children in each class, ensuring
each child can get individual attention and assistance.
Their aim is to provide high-quality primary school
education that provide a good foundation upon which
students become productive, employed and sound
citizens.
Our support of this school will comprise both financial
assistance and mentoring. NVest is going to sponsor the
grade 4 class for 2020 and beyond. This special group
of children will be linked with NVest team members as
mentors/partners over the course of the year. A number
of children in this grade have absent fathers, are insecure
and lack resilience and confidence, and all live in
compromised living situations.
There will be a number of opportunities over the year
to support the Grade 4 cohort; whether its helping
repainting their classroom, helping cover books at the
beginning of term, cheering them on at sports day,
donating second hand clothes, or one on one help with
school work. Relationships can be formed through visits
to the school, and possibly visits (post the coronavirus
crisis) to the NVest offices.
We will also be providing financial support which can be
used as the school sees fit; it may be allocated to the grade
4 teacher’s salary but it can also be used for other needs.
Over the long-term, our goal is to donate towards the
development of a boys’ hostel. Currently the school has
very limited resources for accommodation and only a
girls’ hostel.
NVest is going to Sponsor the
grade 4 class for 2020 and beyond.
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