The project to educate these six KiDS scholars will span their 5 years in high school starting in January 2007 and ending in December 2011. So far they have benefited from their Grade 8 year in 2007 and three terms of their Grade 9 year in 2008.

There will always be pregnant cats and cats with kittens needing our help. We are so aware of the immense suffering endured by unwanted animals, that one of our core aims is the sterilisation of cats and dogs.

This project to equip the Fingo Village Library will make it a well-stocked and welcoming space for the people of Fingo Village, Vukani and Tantyi – around 10 000 Xhosa-speakers who have few learning facilities nearby.

This project will enable six learners from around the country, who have shown the will and potential to succeed, to complete five years each of schooling at a good quality high school.

Providing impoverished families with the know-how and means to establish and maintain their own household food gardens helps to improve household food security.

Regular visits by Khumbulani Craft field trainers to the members of the Hlulani glass bead-making project will upgrade their business skills and assist with product development and marketing, consolidating the project into a viable and sustainable business to ensure an ongoing source of income for local women.

This project to provide impoverished families in the eastern Free State with the know-how and means to establish and maintain their own household food gardens is well underway with the first vegetable crop already improving household food security for 200 people.

This project to train mothers, caregivers and rehabilitation staff at the remote Malamulele Hospital and its satellite clinics in Limpopo has been successfully completed and has ensured that disabled children from disadvantaged communities receive the rehabilitative therapies that they urgently need.

This project is assisting Food and Trees for Africa in working with the A Re Direng Care Givers, a volunteer group that supports the Moretele Clinic in Makapanstad in North West province, by implementing a permaculture food gardening project to improve food security and improved nutrition and health for members and for themselves, and for others in the community who are infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.

This project is providing training and equipment so that an organised group of six disadvantaged blind people from the Grahamstown area can become income-generating beekeepers. Gadra has established a public-private partnership with local business, Makana Meadery, who provide the beekeeping training as well as a market for the honey.

This project is enabling the Centre for Early Childhood Development to provide ten two-day on-site training sessions for teachers at registered, under-resourced Early Childhood Development centres in Delft, Philippi East, Brown’s Farm, Crossroads and Weltevreden Valley, with ongoing support for three months. The training focuses on learning activities, the daily educational plan, creating educational resources and using those resources with children.

This project in the Netreg area of the Cape Flats involves 37 working cart horses and their owners and drivers in an upgrading, licensing and capacity building programme – as a pilot project for the process of regulating the carting industry.

This project aims to boost the skills of the women crafters of the Hlulani Glass Bead-Making project near the Kruger National Park who are using waste glass to create saleable products, by assisting them in diversifying their product ranges and producing higher quality crafts, thereby enabling them to benefit from more vibrant eco-tourism businesses.

Cadiz have donated R 250,000 to the KiDS Foundation since June 2004. The first donation of R150,000 was made in June 2004 and was spent as follows…

CHPA is the only welfare organisation dealing specifically with working cart horses. It is sensitive to the socio-economic problems endemic in cart horse-owning communities. Through its projects, programmes and services, CHPA will continue to play a vital role in caring for cart horses and those dependent on them.

Ten schools will be assisted in the course of the training programme. Between 50 and 100 teachers will attend 10 intensive two-day training sessions, which will equip them with the skills required to create inspired education and learning environments in their respective early childhood development centres.

This project, even without honey as yet, has made such a difference to many lives and it will continue to do so. Over the next few weeks we will have the hives in place and the six blind men and women who trained with Makana Meadery will receive their follow-up training.

We are very grateful for the funding we received, as it has helped to achieve our aims and assist the most disadvantaged members of our communities.

On behalf of the Board of Food and Trees for Africa (FTFA), we thank you for your donation R52,500 for the A Re Direng Permaculture food garden project. The funds were received by FTFA mid February 2007.

Educator training conducted on 1 February 2007 for Grade 7 educators and on 6 February for Grade 5 educators at Sonwabile Primary School in the Stutterheim District.

With funding support from the Industrial Development Corporation, a group of women living in Lillydale village on the boundary of the Sabi Sand Game Reserve, are being trained in recycling the available glass into beads. Mintek’s Small Scale Mining Division has developed the necessary equipment and delivered training in early 2006.