Leliebloem House was founded in 1868 by the Anglican Church in Cape Town. The services changed over the years as per the need in communities. Today it is a registered NGO that operates as a residential child and youth care centre for 84 children from troubled families and backgrounds. The centre offers the least restrictive environment for children who are placed via the children’s courts.
Even though residential care is the core business of Leliebloem, we work intensively within these children’s communities and families to improve the circumstances from which they were removed. Leliebloem has numerous programs that are well implemented and are looked to as “best practice models”. We strive to share our experiences from the piloting and running of these programs with colleagues in the child and youth care field. This is done by not only being available to them for knowledge sharing through site visits and telephonic support, but also by offering training and information sessions.
MISSION: To “improve the quality of life” of formerly deprived children and to provide appropriate services for both children and their families. More importantly is the need to provide them with developmental opportunities best suited to their needs.
VISION: To ensure that every child and family has access to developmentally appropriate and wholesome care, and to ensure that wherever possible children are reunited with family and community in the shortest possible time.
OUR PHILOSOPHY: Leliebloem House upholds a Christian ethos, because the organisation was founded under the auspices of the Anglican Church. However, we do not discriminate against any person’s culture, religion or creed. We accommodate and work with staff & children from all communities, cultures and religions.
We appeal to you for your support. Join us in our efforts to provide the very best second chance for our children, who are being provided with the opportunity of reworking and re-negotiating their developmental stage of their lives.
www.leliebloem.org.za

Barefoot Teacher is a communications development company that assists non-governmental organisations, government departments, public entities, small businesses and individuals to clearly and effectively communicate with their markets, clients and stakeholders.
Barefoot Teacher was founded by Nazeem and Kariema Lowe in 2006. They see Barefoot Teacher as the logical outcome of a lifetime of social activism. As its name implies, Barefoot Teacher is a simple concept: “We help people succeed, sometimes on a grand scale, but more often one organisation, one project, one person, one word at a time”.
Services Barefoot Teacher provides a range of cost-effective publishing, research and fundraising services to government entities, public entities, non-governmental organisations, small businesses and individuals.
Publishing services
– copywriting (media copy, learning materials, websites)
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– project management
 
Research & consultation
– feasibility studies, project development
– monitoring & evaluation
– academic writing coaching (postgraduate only)
 
Fundraising services
– strategy development and capacity-building
– training courses
– prospect research and funding assessments
– copywriting (proposals, funding letters, concept papers)
– monitoring & evaluation, funding reports
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Connect Network is a collaborative network of NPOs and Churches working together with women and children at risk, to see communities transformed in South Africa.
Currently we have more than 115 members, who provide services to more than 310,000 children and women.
Connect Network was founded in 2004 to provide a platform for collaborative action and network support for Christians serving women and children at risk. Connect Network facilitates the networking of NGOs, churches and individuals, to enhance and maximize the response to women and children at risk. NGOs support each other through structured networking, and by harnessing resources for maximum impact. People working with vulnerable children often find themselves isolated, under-resourced and under-trained.
Connect Network has identified a critical need for systematic training and to increase the capacity and quality of service delivery to children at risk. The Connect Network members strengthen and equip themselves, using the Quality Improvement System (QIS), which places children at the centre of attention for building sound structures and systems.
Vision Our vision to see families thriving and communities transformed.
Mission We are a network of Non-Profit Organisations and churches working together with women and children at risk.
Strategy Our strategy defines how we achieve the direction and scope of the network, through the configuration of our resources within a challenging environment, to meet the needs of people working with women and children at risk and to fulfil the collaborative goals of the network. We do this through networking, sharing resources, equipping collaborating and advocating.
Goals
1. To develop nurturing and protective environments for children.
2. To develop opportunities for improved education.
3. To develop resourceful and resilient women.
For more information, go to www.connectnetwork.org.za.