Funding needed to save a home for girls
PRESIDENT PARK – The New Life Center For Girls has pleaded again for businesses and community members to answer their call for funding as they face being evicted from their property.
New Life Centre For Girls has pleaded for businesses and community members to answer their call for funding as they face being evicted from their property.
The founder of the centre, Khopotso Nakin, told the Midrand Reporter that they were receiving more food donations which they were grateful for.
However, she added that they still did not have the funds to purchase the property. “We were given two options to either buy the house or make payment arrangements, or else move out,” Nakin explained.
Nakin said if they got the opportunity to become owners of the house it would open a lot of doors for the centre – many projects in the pipeline have been halted because they did not own the house.
“We already had donors who were willing to assist us to build income-generating programmes so we can sustain ourselves and not be too dependent on donations as we currently are.
“We were looking at building an early childhood development centre on our premises, [starting] a vegetable garden to feed our children with fresh vegetables and sell them to the community as well as on a large scale. Also building a chicken farm which would assist us to have meat and eggs to feed the children as well as sell to the community, and that way we would be able to sustain ourselves.”
She added that such projects would be vital in upskilling the children in teaching them how to farm and run their own cooperatives and businesses if they were not able to go to university after matric.
“All that being said, our biggest aim is to assist the community. When we take ownership of the house we will be able to house more children and extend the house and give young women computer skills as well.”
Naiken concluded that all their funders would be awarded South African Revenue Service (Sars) certificates so that they can get rebates for their donations.
Details: Contact New Life Centre For Girls director and founder Khopotso Nakin on 079 843 4154 for more information.
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