One of our trustees recently visited an initiative called Hands and Hearts Skills Development Centre, which focusses on teenage boys who are out of school and unemployed. The boys are taught practical skills such as metalwork, plumbing and carpentry. They also have maths lessons and advice on managing finances. At […]
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One of our trustees recently visited the Little Hearts Edu-Care. This is one of the many schools which benefit from both the provision of e’Pap and the personal contact with a nominated volunteer who delivers the e’Pap. This crèche is housed in a very simple two room structure with a small kitchen. […]
The GRCT works with the Missionvale Care Centre (https://www.missionvale.co.za/) which was founded 30 years ago by Sister Ethel Normoyle. Originally, she just used a tree for shelter, but today the centre works to serve the whole population in the adjacent township whose population face major hardship. At Normoyle Primary school, […]
The e’Pap Feeding project http://www.epapfeeding.co.za/ delivers e’Pap through it’s network of volunteers to about 90% of the informal schools in the Knysna township and is expanding. We have recently added 3 more locations to our network. Hands and Hearts is a skills development centre, run by Youth for Christ. They […]
The winners of the third annual Knysna Sanlam Awards were announced last night, at a gala event in South Africa. The e’Pap Children’s Feeding Project, whom we are proud to support, won the Local Charity and NPO Award. This is well deserved recognition of their work; the project now feeds […]
This year, the GRCT began funding the feeding of e’Pap to extremely needy children in the sprawling settlements of Hout Bay outside Cape Town. Since June, the GRCT has been providing e’Pap for The Little Angels crèche in the fishing village of Hangberg, where some 14,000 people live. Keith Bull, […]
For nearly 10 years we have been supporting Shelley and Peter Godsell and their team on the Garden Route, as they feed more than 4,000 children a bowl of e’Pap on each school day. Shelley reports that: “It is always heartwarming to see the health of the children improve after […]
Catherine Boobbyer reports from Vryberg this month, bringing us up to date with the feeding programme which is run by Tiger Kloof School: e’Pap feeding has now started in earnest. The children are given a cup of it to drink as, after a few experiments, this seems to be the […]
Students from the Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth recently volunteered to paint playground games, at a local school for children with autism. The paint and materials were funded by the GRCT. The pictures below show children enjoying another painted playground in Port Elizabeth, this time at a school for […]