By Tanya Harvey | Chairperson
Chairperson’s Summary Report For 2025
55 Birth Certificates obtained for school going children
29 (down 13%) Academic & Vocational Tertiary Students assisted, achieving a 100% pass rate
360 School Children in 22 schools & 2 orphanages assisted with uniform
40 Food Parcels issued to 9 Advice Bureau Families
709 (up 258%) Clients helped by Advice Bureau
97 (up 14%) ‘High Flyer’ Matriculants helped by the CAO Project toaccess NSFAS funded tertiary education places
900 (up 30%) Matriculants benefitted from CAO Personality Type & Course Choice workshops
1235 Grade 9’s from 9 schools benefitted from the CAO Subject Choice workshop
Admin Costs now 7% of expenditure
When preparing this report it always makes me sit back and wonder, from the depths of my being, how, with so little money, we are able to touch so many lives with positive effect…..
Helping individuals to build dignity into their lives by obtaining birth certificates, ID’s, underwear, uniforms, self knowledge to enable relevant subject and career choices, completion of tertiary qualifications and entry into meaningful and sustainable careers…
The Advice Bureau workload has soared due to the introduction of smart ID’s and identification of the huge problem of school children without birth certificates and the implications on school resources and funding as well as for each individual child not being recognized as a legal person.
Caitlyn and Rosie’s School Fund brings joy to the heart especially with the little ones when they put on their new uniforms and do Caitlyn’s ‘I am special’ song and dance.
The CAO Project continues to deliver superb value for money – helping over 2000 high school learners to think about what skills, abilities, personality type and learning preferences they have – what their future career dream is and how to make it happen. Not all of the children will act on what they learn through these workshops but for the ones who do…the world, literally, can be their oyster! Look at Sandile Mkhize from KwaNyuswa who is now with the South African Space Agency… all it took from HABandBF was helping him to make the right choices, a R250 application fee and a second hand laptop.
Finally, the Tertiary Fund, the final step to enabling bright, motivated young people to break out of the poverty cycle and enter into well paid employment, continues to deliver. 100% of students supported by us completed their qualifications in 2024 and 2025. 95% of those go on to enter into meaningful careers as teachers, lawyers, pharmacists, care assistants, plumbers, electricians and construction workers, to name but a few.
Thank You to all of our supporters, individuals, Trusts, Foundations, Corporate Donors and grant providers for without you none of this would happen.
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