Project Report
| Jun 11, 2025
Mid-Year Report
By Tanya Harvey | Chairperson
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Rosie with some Happy Beneficiaries
Summary of Activities Within HABandBF (1/1/25 to 11/6/25)
- Tertiary Fund
- Considered 27 new applicants, Interviewed 23, accepted 5 new students onto the Tertiary Fund
- The Jes Foord Foundation held a 3.5 hour Respect (against GBV) workshop for Tertiary Fund students
- Held a 4 hour budgeting and communications workshop
- Held 14 drop in sessions
- Visited 8 students in their residences or private rentals
- Kept in touch with all students via whatsapp on at least a weekly basis.
- Kept in touch with students who are struggling for whatever reason via phonecalls, sometimes on a daily basis
- Celebrated the graduation events of 12 students from 2024
- Assisted two 2024 graduates with loans to cover their first month’s rent and transport for their new employment. Loans have now been fully repaid.
- CAO Project
- Completed first term workshops for matrics in 9 different Quintile 1-3 schools within the Valley of 1000 Hills. Workshops help learners to identify their personality types and strengths and to start choosing a dream career to which they are suited in terms of personality, strengths and academics.
- Completed a combined first and second term workshop for matric children in iKhethelo children’s home. Also a subject choice workshop for the younger children.
- Completed 7 second term workshops for matrics in the same Quintile 1-3 schools, financially supported each high flier with the R250 Central Application Office application fee which enables these learners to apply for NSFAS funded tertiary education places within KZN institutions for 2026.
- Held one G9 subject choice workshop
- Held two all day gap year workshops for youth who have their matric but were unsuccessful in their application for tertiary study in 2025
- Schools Fund, incorporating Pass the Panties
- Provided dignity in the form of uniforms and underwear for the most needy 25 children in each of 27 schools.
- Advice Bureau
- Seen between 30 and 85 clients per month, many of whom attended more than once in the month
- Advocated for over 150 clients in person at Home Affairs to obtain ID’s and birth certificates
- Advocated for over 50 clients in person at SASSA to obtain grants
- Obtained wheelchairs and disability aids from Robin Hood Foundation for clients injured in road traffic accidents
![Nokuthula with Happy Clients who now have IDs]()
Nokuthula with Happy Clients who now have IDs
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Tholulwazi High School 'High Fliers'
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Feb 15, 2025
January /February 2025 Update
By Tanya Harvey | Chairperson
As you will see from the report document below, all of our funds have been very busy so far this year!
The new recruits started on the 6th January and are well into on the job training. Nonto is working with the CAO Project who have already delivered 10 workshops to 651 matriculants since the school year started 3.5 weeks ago.
Nomalungelo (Nomah) is working within the Advice Bureau and they are focussing on collating the myriad documents required to obtain late birth certificates (for children at the local primary school) . This is especially challenging where the mother is absent or has died and the child is living with the paternal grandmother. Also where the mother herself never had a birth certificate.
All Tertiary Fund students due to complete their studies in 2024 have successfully completed, maintaining our record of over 95% of students supported by HABandBF completing their qualification. New students have been interviewed and accepted. There are major issues with the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) this year where it has not paid for the 2024 fees due and institutions required 15% of the arrears plus the 2025 registration fees to be paid before allowing the students to register. Students supported by HABandBF are lucky to have these unplanned costs paid for. We hope that the fees will be reimbursed once NSFAS catches up with payments due. Other students will simply have to miss a year of study because of these issues. A terrible situation.
The Schools Fund has visited 5 schools and distributed uniforms and underwear. Please check out the reels to share in the joy of children receiving their first ever new clothing!
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