Gender Equality South Africa Project #38463

Empowering Girls and Women as Mothers

by Keep The Dream196

Project Report | Dec 7, 2024
We are entering our bonus period, the end of 2024!

By Louise | Managing Director

What a busy time the end of this year is proving to be. We still haven’t actually unpacked properly into our new office space; we just haven’t had the time to create a gap to do extra things such as unpack…… Although we are 85% finished, I must say my office, which I share with Elizabeth, the Program Manager, remains unpacked.

However, we have finished all our Star Assessments and quarterly performance reviews and had our final board meeting for the year. We have also employed 2 new staff members and will be interviewing 3 new staff in 2025.

All of this would not be possible without your continued support. Many people donated anonymously through GlobalGiving so I am not sure who to thank. Be that as it may, thank you for your support whether during the #GivingTuesday event or just for donating and supporting us in other ways. You are valued and your opinion and inputs are highly prized.

One very kind lady whom I do know, but not well, I met her in person once a few years ago in Australia left a message for me with her donation. I want to share that message of encouragement.

“I love the amazing impact that Louise and her team has made in so many people’s lives with her gift of developing effective programs.”

I would love to hear from you as well, I do send back personal thank you’s to those who leave messages and to those who donate on a monthly basis because it is really special to me that you trust KTD196 enough to invest in the future or our beneficiaries and to make our life easier by being able to provide more services.

If you have any special request regarding information you would like to know more about please just let me know and that way you get what you want, I get a satisfied supporter who is informed.

Thank you once again for your support, together we are changing this corner of the world for the better!

Blessings

Louise

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Dec 2, 2024
2025 is in Sight!

By Louise | Managing Director

Nov 30, 2024
Achievements so far!

By Louise | Managing Director

Avuxeni, Minjane? Umfekile Minjane!

Thank you for all that you have done for the children of Limpopo!

Through you we have been able to hold children's camps, adult introduction to scouting camps, warrant camps, tutor camps and a myriad of other smaller activities that we do not have a sponsor for. Through you we have supplemented the Children’s Project and the SHG Project when there has been a shortfall.

Through you we have been able to move into a new office space and it literally feels like we are growing up as an organization from our meagre beginnings of work out of my kitchen in 2007 till 2018.

Throughout the course of these last 2 years we have:

A new look Board
A new Constitution
A new marketing tools including new logo
A new vehicle (the other died of old age)
A new office space
A new database system for collating information
4 new staff with 4 more coming in 2025. (The salaries are funded by an institutional donor just not the associated costs)
New Policies and Procedures
Our audits have returned clean each year as per usual
Our staff all attended Cape Town for POW WOW (an annual get together for all the pack scouters, those who work with children aged 7-11yrs) for 4days which was a huge adventure as only one had been on a plane before, some of the staff had never been Johannesburg before.
We are now integrating our SHG project with Scouts so our volunteers are increasing as is our footprint with the number of children we serve.

You have made this possible. So much of this work is not covered by our formal donors but comes from people like you who want to make a BIG difference, and you do!

Thank you so much

Blessings

Louise

Ps if you would like a copy of our annual report email me on director@keepthedream196.com

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