Our aims and objectives focus on providing 160 really poor children between the age of 1 – 5 with safety and shelter from Monday – Friday and on week-ends if necessary. Some of our children have been abandoned and live in foster care, some have been orphaned and live in foster care and some are HIV positive – but they all come from very poor families.

Our objectives therefore are as follows:

• 24 Hour Day Care Centre
• Child nutrition
• Child clothing
• Child education
• Poverty Alleviation – Vegetable Gardening
• Bakery
• HIV/Aids Orphans

Our needs – Short Term

• The children are not properly nourished
• The children have nowhere to take a nap in the afternoons
• The children do not have warm clothing for the winter
• The children do not have any educational equipment in the form of desks, chairs, blackboards and jungle gyms
• The kitchen has no stove, fridge, deep freeze or washing up facility

Our needs – Long Term

The erection of a properly resourced crèche on the land already allocated within the grounds of the Doornkop Development Centre. Worth noting:

1. that the Doornkop Development has been named as a “Minister’s Preferential Project”.
2. Training for DNCC staff in the following key areas:
   - Management
   - Security
   - Administration
   - Organising
   - Baking
   - Counseling
   - First Aid
   - Childcare