SOME OF THE VARIOUS PROJECTS WE ACCOMPLISHED:
CHRISTMAS PARTIES FOR 1 000 ORPHANS IN 2023
JMN SAFE HAVEN (R100 000)
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Replaced Geyser to have hot water
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Fixed up main sleeping quarters – walls, plaster, repaint
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Bathroom – removed broken tiles & install new, replace toilet top system, cornices, basin and paint all. Removed old leaking bath and inserted brand new showers
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Fixed public toilets, repaired all cracks in walls, ceiling, repainted all
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Kitchen repair leaking taps, repair cracks, repair roof, replaced damaged ceiling, pain entire kitchen
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Scraped passage walls, made a trap door cover and repainted all
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2nd bedroom ceiling panel, repaired and repainted
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Fixed window handles
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Kitchen cupboards
CFCI Welfare proudly sponsored the managers of JMN Safe Haven to one year of Bible College study to show themselves approved in 2024.
SAKHISIZWE 2023 (R252 000)
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Replaced their old container with a new built kitchen from scratch
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Kitted out the kitchen with new stove/pots/pans/dishes/gas canister
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Fire extinguishers
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Repaired fencing
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Built shade roof
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Built cement flooring
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New tables for the children
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Fixed jojo
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Removed old leaking bath and inserting brand new showers
PLASTIC CITY 2023 (R166 500)
KIDS HAVEN 2022
Our love for people has driven us
to help others. We are extremely
happy that we could complete this
project. The children now have a safe,
sturdy, enclosed space to meet and be
fed weekly, be encouraged and have fun.
Thank you to our sponsors….
Structure redone with brand new roofing, windows and doors as well as Fencing allround and Shadeport area for children to sit under and have shelter from the sun on hot days.
KIDS HAVEN CFCI WELFARE PROJECT FIX-UP
BETHESDA PROJECT 2022
MANGER CARE SHELTER 2021
CHANGED THE LIFE OF A HEADGIRL AT KWAGGASRAND 2021
In 2020 just before the National Lockdown, CFCI Welfare embarked on a Project to renovate, upgrade and equip the Con Amore School for mentally disabled children. We also received sponsorship through a Marathon in the Garden initiative from PSG.
With the country on lockdown, it was a great opportunity to take up some charitable work, albeit remotely so in a bid to keep fit and add value a few runners, ran marathons in their gardens for two Saturdays during the first two weeks of the lockdown in order to raise funds.
Thanks to the generosity of various sponsors, we were able to raise R450 000 to assist with the much needed upgrades at the school. The staff at Con Amor stated that they have never received support as great as this before and are extremely grateful to CFCI Welfare.
WE HELP TO CHANGE THE LIVES OF PROSTITUTES AND CHILD TRAFFICKING RESCUE
BRAVE TO LOVE – R50 000 DONATION TO AID WITH HELPING THE PLIGHT OF WOMEN
MENZI HOME PROJECT
In 2005 CFCI Welfare adopted Ikayalethu children’s home located in Tsakane,
consisting of two small rundown houses. Due to lack of support to upkeep the home, the children were removed and placed in other shelters. CFCI Welfare took it upon themselves to improve the conditions of the home and soon there was an amazing transformation. A new house was built, complete with new fittings, new beds and mattresses, kitchens units, office equipment, new roofing and tiling.
Through the intervention of CFCI Welfare, this home was added to Eskom’s community empowerment project from whom they began to receive regular donations. In 2008 Ikayalethu Children home was fully restored and re-registered as a legitimate and legal children’s home.
In 2003 we adopted Sakisizwe, a small house located in Vusi Musi on the border of Kempton Park. Three mothers from the nearby community started this home having witnessed how the local children had been living; eating leftover food from nearby rat infested dumps, with no basic facilities to even wash. They contacted various
organisations and CFCI Welfare immediately stepped in. This relationship blossomed over the years and in 2006 we together approached community leaders to grant them permission to use a large piece of vacant land close to their current house. Two large shipping containers were obtained and converted into liveable structures. The one was transformed into a kitchen and store room and the other a classroom where the children would be taught, fed, bathed and given basic medical attention. The needs kept growing and in 2008 we completed extensions to their facilities. Today Sakisizwe cares for 65 children and some elderly grandparents. Many have no income at all so fresh produce which is grown on the property is used to give them balanced meals, together with food that we donate and subsidies from Government.
In 2001 we adopted Shalom Children’s Ministry based in Heidelberg which started as a result of seeing the children in the CBD begging for money on the streets. Application was made to Transnet to use an abandoned Railway building and Shalom opened their doors to the children dropped off by the police and others - all were welcomed with open arms. One Child who was left for dead in a rubbish bin is still at Shalom today, years later, and is thriving. We have completed a number of large upgrades to this home such as bathroom renovations, new beds and bedding, tiling of passages, bedrooms, etc. and continue to support this home monthly.
In mid 2009 Shalom’s registration as a children’s home, as well as their grants, was
withdrawn because of the ruling made by government that “no child could be forced to stay in or be raised under a particular religious banner, e.g. “Christian”, but Founders, Ps Henk and Juanita would not comply with the ruling thus losing the grants and registration. But they have now been officially re-registered and today Shalom is home to over 75 children, some of whom have matriculated and are working. One young lady has become a social worker at the local community centre.
