By Ellie Hunja | Fundraising Coordinator, USA
Greetings from the CHOSA team! We are proud and grateful to share these updates from Cape Town with you, our valued supporters.
Your steadfast commitment to our cause has made a tangible difference in the lives of hundreds of children, this year alone! Here's a bit of what we've achieved together in the past few months:
Our partner project, Molo Mhlaba School, celebrated Freedom Day by breaking ground on its second campus! The STEAM-focused Montessori school for girls is the first of its kind in the township of Khayelitsha, and we are overjoyed to support the team as they expand their vision to reach more future world-changers.
Also, thanks to your financial support, Thembisa Ratanga after-school program was able to complete construction on a new space to house their programming. It’s a much more secure and weather-proof space, as they were previously challenged by soil erosion. They have also been able to purchase tables and chairs for the new space, as well as djembe drums for their music classes, yoga mats for wellness and mindfulness programs, and pens, pencils, and paper for academic enrichment.
Finally, CHOSA has continued hosting quarterly networking events for each of our partner projects to come together to discuss a topic of interest, hear from experts, and share advice with one another. This year, CHOSA hosted events focused on mental health in the social development community. CHOSA partnered with SACAP, the South African College of Applied Psychology, to place volunteers at the projects for individual counselling sessions, group counselling sessions, community-building exercises and general operational help. This was a crucial gap to fill as majority of our partners have not heard about counselling before.
Earlier in the year, we had a training on autism that helped educate our partners on the characteristics that are often associated with autism, how to go about diagnosing autism through the right channels, and best practices for caring for an autistic child.
Your partnership with CHOSA makes a huge ripple effect of change, as you can see by these updates! Thank you for joining our efforts to provide local communities in Cape Town with the tools and opportunities they need to break free from the cycle of poverty and build a brighter tomorrow for every child.
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