Ukama Community Foundation provides food to over 400 children per day in Township Educare Centres, ensuring that the children receive 2 hot meals per day while at school. They also provide educational materials, clothing, blankets and Easter and Christmas Gifts. The schools they support are in the Vrygrond/ Capricorn and Overcome Heights Area, Western Cape.
Ukama Community School founded in January 2020 in Masiphumelele Township is a school for refugee children whose parents are unable to afford school fees. We take 20 children per year aged 2 to 6 years for our Early Childhood Development program. This program includes Montessori education, outings, hot meals and counselling support for the whole family. We run a full Grade R curriculum for children aged 6.
Ukama Teen Mom Project works in conjunction with The Hebron project to provide 10 Teen Moms with counselling, support and training programmes. The children of the Teen Moms are accommodated in the Education Programme at Ukama Community School.
At the outset of the Covid-19 Outbreak Ukama Community Foundation embarked on our SOUP-er Heroes Project. We supply all the equipment, gas and ingredients for Volunteers in townships to cook hot meals for people in their areas who have been left destitute as a result of Covid-19. We have 10 Soup Kitchens and serve over 4500 meals per week.
Soup Kitchens are situated in the following areas: Ocean View, Masiphumelele, Vrygrond Township and Overcome Heights, all in the Western Cape.
*Sharon in action at some of the Creches in Vrygrond Community, in Muizenberg, where Superhero, Janine Roberts, feeds hundreds of children daily.
