“Teenagers' Convention”:
30 teens from Qwaqwa, 40 teens from Mpumaze and 27 teens from Ermelo making it a total of 97 teens headed to the Umgeni Valley Nature Reserve for our second teenagers' convention that took place from the 5th to the 7th of October. This convention is part of Module 2 of My Future, My Responsibility financed by Bouygues Construction's Foundation Terre Plurielle, Water Solutions Southern Africa, Michelin Tyres South Africa, as well as the Accor Foundation. It is aimed at developing our teens' presentation and public speaking skills as well as their ability to analyse and synthesise... Read more
“Extreme Sports Camp”:
40 of our Bushbuckridge beneficiaries spent the month preparing for our second extreme sports camp as part of Module 4 of My Future, My Responsibility (funded by the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund). The purpose of the extreme sports camp is to help our teens know that they can overcome their fears by participating in extreme sports. What they achieve is, knowing that that they can go tubing in a river or hiking for 3hours which can be gruelling... read more
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Children of the Dawn - Who We Are
Our Beginnings
Children of the Dawn was set up – by concerned individuals - to support and strengthen existing or budding community initiatives which focus on caring for HIV/AIDS orphans. Based on a sponsorship programme, Children of the Dawn’s goal is to give back a future to these affected children.
An association of persons was set up in May 2002 with as a main objective “to provide basic means of survival – such as food and schooling – and support for Orphans and Vulnerable Children”, and as a secondary objective “to engage with community-based organisations that will act as facilitators between Children of the Dawn and Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVCs)”. Children of the Dawn was officially registered as a Non-Profit Organisation by the South African Department of Social Development on the 19th of September 2002.
A pilot-project was started in September 2002 in the rural community of Mathabatha in the Limpopo Province. Ten children were sponsored by 10 individual South African sponsors via a partnership with a community-based organisation called Fanang Diatla Self Help Centre. The first six months of the pilot project proved very successful with all children going back to school and being fed and cared for on a regular basis.
In April 2003, after careful analysis of the pilot-project, Children of the Dawn started its expansion.
