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Goedgedacht's Path out of Poverty
POP's main aim is to make every effort to provide rural poor children an opportunity to break out of the cycles of generational poverty that has trapped them for so many years. This we do through Education, Health, Personal Development and Care for our Planet. The main focus of POP is to try do whatever it takes to keep rural children in school for as long as possible and help them to grow into happy, healthy, confident, bright-eyed, responsible and employed young adults. POP has been working on 32 farms for the past 12 years and has started to replicate this rural development model in other poor rural communities. A new dream emerged and that is to raise enough funding to include more children onto this Path out of Poverty. After having touched the lives of 1,300 children for the first decade POP has expanded its programme so that it now provides educational support and food to more than 300 children daily and 500 during school holidays. This number is increasing every day and we need your help to continue to provide safe spaces for children and youth in order for them to have the capacity and motivation to finally break the cycles of generational rural poverty in our rural communities. You can do this by supporting our wonderbag project. |
WonderBags
The Wonderbags are made from recycled polysterene flakes. When you donate one by making a donation of £13.50 or more, Ingrid Lestrade and her Team will distribute them to poor families in Rural South Africa. They put their pot with food on a stove for 5 - 10 minutes then put it in the wonderbag and leave it either overnight or for the day so that by the time they come home they have cooked and warm food.
Ten poor rural woman are currently employed to make the wonderbags. See the picture of one of the ladies in Riebeek Kasteel making wonderbags. By supporting the wonderbag project in other words donating a wonderbag for as little as £13.50 (R150) you would be securing their jobs, Path Out of Poverty would be in a position to continue to feed the children in the after school support programme and help a poor farm worker family to save up to 50% electricity or parrafin. How's that for being part of an effective poverty alleviation initiative?
For more information about the Path out of Poverty Programme please visit our website at www.pathoutofpoverty.org
