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Stara Peace Women Organization
Transforming communities through empowerment, education, and healthcare
Located in Makina, Kibera, the largest slum in Kenya and sub-Saharan Africa, Stara Peace Women Organisation has supported nearly 10,000 children since 2000 through education, early childhood development, girls and women’s empowerment programs, as well as psychosocial and nutritional support, and income-generating projects. -
Thanda After-School
A safe environment for children to have fun, learn, and grow
Thanda provides innovative solutions for sustainable development in their community of Hibberdene, KwaZulu-Natal. They create safer, stronger communities by providing educational and skills-building opportunities to individuals and their households through early and creative learning and organic farming training. -
The Action Foundation
Building equitable, inclusive, and resilient communities for children, women, and girls with disabilities
The Action Foundation empowers caregivers, teachers, and institutions to nurture and support children, women, and girls with disabilities by providing them with psychosocial support, skills, and resources needed to effectively care for children with disabilities. Their interventions improve access to health care, education, and economic empowerment through direct service provision and strengthening the capacity of existing education, health systems, and networks. -
The Promiseland Trust
Caring for vulnerable children
The Promiseland Trust offers a child-friendly and safe environment that provides early education and day care services, nutrition, and psychosocial support to children in Walvis Bay. In addition to education, Promiseland provides daily home-cooked meals to school children, and advises seven area schools on improving their food programmes. Their Foster Care Project employs a foster mother from the community to care for two children, ensuring they are raised in a stable and caring environment. -
The Rachel Swart Fund
Empowering people living with disabilites in South Africa
Throughout South Africa, Rachel Swart Fund (RSF) provides assistive devices to children living with disabilities who are placed on the state waiting list. They partner with therapists at state health facilities who first assess the patients, and if the state facility does not have a budget for a device, apply on behalf of the child to RSF for the device. -
The Sunshine Association
Giving children living with disabilites the best possible start in life
The Sunshine Association aims to provide an environment that is developmentally stimulating and increases opportunities for early learning for vulnerable children and those living with disabilities. Their programming includes, providing education, early intervention, and therapeutic services to children and caregivers as well as accredited training to early childhood development practitioners in Johannesburg on inclusion of children with disabilities. -
Thuso-E-Tla-Tsoa-Kae Handicapped Centre Primary School
Creating happy, healthy, and productive lives for children
Thuso Centre is a tuition-free boarding school and care center for children living with physical and intellectual disabilities. Located in Butha-Bothe, they provide developmental support through academic, vocational, and life skills classes so that their students will become more independent and have meaningful roles within their families and communities.
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Tiny Tim and Friends
Envisioning a world where no child has HIV
Tiny Tim and Friends is one of the few providers of specialist pediatric HIV services in Zambia. Their clinic, which sees 850+ patients each year, offers medical, nutritional, and psychosocial support to HIV+ children and pregnant women. Tiny Tim and Friends works in communities across Lusaka providing HIV testing and prevention services, with an emphasis on the prevention of mother-to-child transmission as well as counselling and support groups.
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Touching Tiny Lives Trust
Touching Tiny Lives Trust (TTL) is the only organisation caring for orphaned and vulnerable children in the rural, mountainous district of Mokhotlong, Lesotho, that supports children affected by severe malnutrition and HIV/AIDS.
Since 2004, TTL has directly supported thousands of children under the age of five with services that include nutritional rehabilitation, health assessments, immunisation support, and vitamin supplementation. With an increased emphasis on prevention, TTL has expanded their scope to improve the nutritional status of families.
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Tumaini International Trust
Tumaini provides education and healthcare services to orphaned and vulnerable children, and those impacted by HIV/AIDS, as well as income generating activities to their caregivers and the communities where Tumaini operates. Currently, they serve children and families in 11 counties in Kenya.
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Ububele Educational and Psychotherapy Trust
Improving the emotional wellbeing of South Africa
Founded by clinical psychologists in 2000, Ububele’s models of community-based mental health care address the emotional trauma of South Africa’s past, the ongoing mental and physical effects of the cycle of poverty, and the daily challenges faced by individuals, families, and communities. Through the development and dissemination of training programmes, psychosocial support, and home-based care—all with an early childhood development focus—Ububele is supporting children to grow up to be emotionally healthy adults, competent parents, and concerned citizens. Ububele serves families of Alexandra Townships. -
Uhambo Foundation
Enabling children living with disabilities to lead full and happy lives
Uhambo Foundation provides the design and production of posture support, mobility devices, and therapy products to children living with disabilities in Cape Town. They are committed to the inclusion of children living with disabilities by partnering with government, NGOs, community members, and families within a holistic, ecosystem approach.