Empower South African Women Fighting Child Poverty

CHOSA was recently able to add another project to our list of partner organisations who we support with unrestricted monthly grants. We are proud to be able to begin funding Blessings Educare Centre located in Delft, Cape Town. We know this will allow Blessings to continue to grow and expand in order to provide preschool education to the children of the local community. Your continuous support of CHOSA's work has allowed this dream to become a reality.

After building a relationship with Blessings in 2016, CHOSA began working with the preschool to find a safe spacious location for the school to grow, after quickly outgrowing the small apartment that initially housed the program. After transitioning out of the apartment and across the street to an open plot, Blessings has grown into the main preschool in the local community. They now have over 100 children receiving care and love on a daily basis from the kind staff at Blessings.

With ambitions of expanding Blessings program from a preschool into also including an after school program to keep children safe after school before their parents arrive home from work, the founder and principal of Blessings, Nomsa, is continuously working hard to create a positive space in her community for the children who also call it home. We believe that the addition of CHOSA's unrestricted grant to Blessings operations will allow her to further expand the current programming she is able to offer, as well as increase staffing to allow the vision of an after school program become a reality. We cannot wait to see where Blessings will go from here!