T r a n s C a p e N o n - P r o f i t O r g a n i z a t i o n

Ru ral Co mmun ity Action

Funding Proposal for

TransCape
Early Childhood Development
Project
Nutritional Feeding Scheme

January 2009-December 2009

P.O. Box 220, Mthatha 5099, Eastern Cape, South Africa • Telephone: +27 (0)47 575 0437 • Email: [email protected] • www.transcape.org
 Submitted by:
TransCape Non-Profit
Organization
Registration No.: 035/619NPO
Kathryn Nurse
Mdumbi Education Centre Director
Telephone: +27 (0)47 575 0437
Cell: +27 (0)83 461 1834
Fax: +27 (0)68 665 0437
[email protected]
7 November 2008

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 Table of Contents

About Our Organization 4

Project Activity 11

Budget and Costs 14

Justification and Benefits 15

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 TransCape
Early Childhood Development Project

Early child development (ECD) is an “umbrella term” or a general classification

that refers to the processes by which children from birth to seven years of age
grow and flourish socially, physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually and
morally.

The TransCape Early Childhood Development Project Mission is to promote,

provide and support quality, sustainable and holistic early childhood
development (ECD) for children from 2- 7 years in the Mankosi Community, by
providing access to quality training in ECD for practitioners and care-givers; by
providing access to a range of resources for ECD and by ensuring children’s
nutritional needs are met.

This proposal seeks R 10 000.00 funding to ensure that the 70 children

attending Preschools in Mankosi Community access nutritional food daily, for
one year. This food comes in the form of ePap, a nutritional, vitamin-enriched
cereal that is prepared with water. This ePap is widely used in South Africa as a
solution for malnourishment associated with HIV/AIDS.

About Our Organization

Transcape NPO was registered with South Africa’s Department of Social

Development on 4 August 2004, the brainchild of Mdumbi Backpackers’
workforce and friends, and medical staff at Canzibe hospital.

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Canzibe is a rural Government hospital which provides a service to
people in a wide geographical area, covering a large part of the Nyandeni
municipal area. The staff at Canzibe were keen to improve access to
treatment and care within the hospital and in the surrounding
communities. Together with the managers and staff of Mdumbi
Backpackers, they established TransCape in direct response to the
perceived social, educational, economic and health needs in the area.

Mdumbi Backpackers works closely with the members of Mankosi community,

Nyandeni district, to develop the local area in an eco-friendly way that benefits
the community. They have been working on a range of tourism projects with
community members since they first started in 2002. Through this experience, the
managers of Mdumbi anticipated further job creation opportunities that could
arise through appropriate development of skills and allocation of resources.

TransCape was founded in order to:

• Support the hospital to improve its service delivery

• Assist people to become active in their communities by participating in
HIV/AIDS and health projects
• Help local residents take ownership of their resources and gain a
sustainable income through tourism and micro-finance projects

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In 2006 a qualified teacher from Cape Town formed a partnership with TransCape
and Mdumbi backpackers to establish an education centre in the Mankosi
community to:

• Support the local education system with preschool and after-school classes
which develop the knowledge and skills of young people to the appropriate
national level.

Our vision and mission

Our vision is the activation of empowered communities which address and

improve their own health, education, and economic development.

Our mission is to provide access to the support, knowledge, and resources

necessary for communities to initiate the process of change towards a better
quality of life.

Our approach

TransCape helps implement projects that respond directly to local needs in the
rural areas, ensuring that community stakeholders participate in their creation and
development.

“Promoting a self-sustainable development”

We believe in facilitation; allowing the communities to take ownership of the

projects themselves, empowering them to face the challenges affecting them, and
also ensuring that they are sustainable. TransCape’s projects include improving
pathways to HIV/AIDS awareness, treatment and care, health promotion,
education, job creation, and natural resource management.

Our activities

• HIV/AIDS: Awareness and Information (photo on left); Support, training

and empowerment of people living with HIV/AIDS; ARV distribution;
Home Based Caring.

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 • Malnutrition: Intake of under fed children to bring them back to health and
nutritional training for their parents.
• Maintenance and Upgrade of health facilities: Upgrade and maintenance of
Canzibe Hospital and surrounding clinics.
• Education: Canzibe pre-school, Mdumbi Education Centre (photo on right),
scholarships
• Interest Free Micro-financing
• Tourism Development: Village Based Accommodation; Port St. Johns to
Coffee Bay Hiking trail; Community owned Tourism businesses
• Care and support for orphans and children in need

The community we serve

Transcape is active with projects in wards 14 through to 26 of Nyandeni

Municipality, OR Tambo District. Our main focus areas are Wards 22 to 26. In
more cultural terms this is also known as the Konjyaoyo Tribal area.

We have been involved with initiatives from Port st Johns to areas South of Coffee
Bay. Inland as far as the city of Mthatha. We coordinate our developmental efforts
with Madwaleni and Zithulele Hospitals and Coffee Shack and Bulungula
Backpackers.

We try as far as possible to identify existing community structures to work with.

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Examples of this are: Tribal Authorities, Community Trusts, Community
Developmental Organisations, existing HIV Support Groups and School
Governing Bodies.

We always coordinate our efforts with existing government structures or

personnel like Health Clinics and workers, Hospitals, Schools and local
Municipality.

The Eastern Cape is one of South Africa’s poorest provinces with, according to
statistics from the Department of Social Development, the highest percentage of
people living in poverty.

• Of all 55091 households, 41% live on less than R9600/year.

• 59% of the population are under the age of 20.
• 17% of the population earn less then R800/year, while only 8% of the total
population are employed.
• 53% of the municipality rely on rivers and streams as water sources.
• HIV prevalence in the Eastern Cape is among the highest levels in the
country, at 29% of the population.i

Needs of the community and achievements of our organization

· Major stigma and no information surrounding HIV and AIDS; 20 000 people from
different communities visited our HIV awareness days in 2007 and 2008.

— Poor health facilities; 550 people are currently receiving ARV treatment through our
ARV unit at Canzibe Hospital; 360 bed ridden and critically ill people are cared for
through our HIV support groups doing Home Based Caring.

— Secluded regions in lack of government services; 220 orphans being cared for;
Availability of water in Tshani Village; Transport to ARV patients and medical
emergencies.

— Over 20% of the local population is HIV positive; 10 support groups formed since 2006;
450 people trained through our Wellness program.

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 — More than 94% of people living in the surrounding communities are unemployed; 80
Micro-financed businesses formed since 2006; Mdumbi River Kayaking owned by
two community members; 4 Families owning VBA’s and 3 guides benefiting from
our Village Based Accommodation project; 5 Locals owning and earning through
our beading project; 11 local community members employed by TransCape.

· 61% had no schooling; 150 students trained at Mdumbi Education Centre in 2007
and 35 toddlers at Canzibe Pre-School. Currently our Education Program has
grown to include 2 rondawels,, 10 laptop computers, 75 adults for a Multi Media
Literacy Project, 32 children in our new Preschool, a Community Library
containing over 7 000 books as well as Training/Workshops

· 48% of households have no income and children are mal-nourished; 60 children

were nutritionally brought back to health and their mothers trained in our
Nokuphila Malnutrition program during 2007

Active TransCape members:

• 6 Active Board members

• 3 Advisory Board members
• 4 Volunteers
• 11 Employees

Board Names: Country Education Position

Arjan van der (Dutch) Mechanical Chairperson
Sar Engineer
Milja van der (Dutch) Doctor Fund development and
Scheer Health
Astrid Goehner (German) Physiotherapist Fund development and
Micro-Financing
Johann Stadler(South Dip Nature Social entrepreneurs and
African) Conservation Construction
Hyman van Zyl (South Hon Psychology Treasurer and Administrator
African)
Kathryn Nurse (South PGCE (UCT) Education
African)
Advisors:

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 Thobela Langa (South Old Mutual Sales Financial Advisor
African) Manager
Thathiswa (South Grade 11 Education and Community
Masiso African) Advisor
Dave Rogers (South PhD Physical Developmental Advisor
African) Chemistry
Volunteers’ Country Education Position
Name
Mike Boehme (German) Electrical General Implementation
Technician
Adski van (South Medical General Implementation
Tonder African)
Alice Clarfelt (English) Literacy HIV/AIDS
Simone van der (Dutch) Doctor HIV/AIDS
Sar

Other sources of finance: Banking details:

Transned – Holland Transcape NPO

Red Cross – Germany Standard Bank
Love is All We Need - England Mthatha West
Wilde Ganse – Holland Sort Code: 052621
Breadline Africa Account no: 241686067
Numerous personal donors Swift no: SBZAZAJJ
worldwide

i Estimated HIV prevalence out of antenatal clinic attendees. www.avert.org/safricastats

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 Project Activity
The need and context

Problems and Needs

• severe lack of Early Childhood centres in the rural Eastern Cape (239 ECD
centres for 14 426 learners)
• in the greater Mankosi area of a few thousand people, MEC offers the only
functioning Preschool (which is too far for many children to walk to)
• the urgent need for Preschools is listed as a Mankosi Community Needs Analysis
Priority (see Community Workshop below)
• the local Primary School (1 hour walk from Tshani Village) offers Grade R, but
with no teacher and no resources.
• children enter Grade 1 with little or no basic knowledge and skills.
• lack of nutritional health

Overall project objectives

• to improve the quality of ECD in Tshani Village (MEC and Community

Preschool)

• to improve the quality and access of ECD in Mankosi Area (Primary School)

• to improve nutritional health of 70 Preschool Children

Sub Objectives

1) MEC site

• to increase capacity to 35 local children (MEC)

• to train 2 local teachers and 1 assistant in Early

Childhood Development (ECD)

• to train 1 Head Teacher in an Advanced ECD

Course

• for 3 local teachers to observe best practice at

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 other schools

• to improve educational practices offered at MEC

• to recruit 2 skilled volunteers to assist with programme

• to start a food garden to grow vegetables and fruit for feeding scheme

• to initiate twice daily feeding scheme for 35 children (porridge, vegetable soup
and rice)

2) Community Preschool site

• to upgrade the Community Preschool building

• to support Community Preschool initiative with applications, funding and

resources

• to train 2 teachers, and 2 care-givers in early childhood care

• for 2 local teachers to observe best practice at other schools

• to start a food garden to grow vegetables and fruit for feeding scheme

• to initiate twice daily feeding scheme for 40 children (porridge, vegetable soup
and rice)

3) Primary School site

• to train 2 Grade R teachers in ECD

• to improve educational practices offered at Primary School

• to share MEC resources and material with local Primary School Grade R

• for Grade R teachers to observe best practice at other schools

• to train Grade R teachers on the use of materials and resources

• to start a food garden to grow vegetables and fruit for feeding scheme

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 • to initiate twice daily feeding scheme for 35 children (porridge, vegetable soup
and rice)

4) Community

• host Family Community Motivator (FCM) workshops and Parenting

Programmes to educate parents and guardians on topics such as using the home
as a primary site of learning, nutritional health, HIV/AIDS, children’s rights, the
importance of play as well as support in strengthening households headed by
older children or elderly care-givers.

Specific funding objectives

• to provide nutritional ePap, once a day to 70 Preschool students for one

year (R 10 000.00)

Beneficiaries

• the beneficiaries of this specific funding are 35 Preschool children from Mdumbi
Education Centre site, as well as a further 35 Children from the Community
Preschool site

• the children are all between the ages of 3 and 6 years old

• they are about 60% female

• all children beneficiaries are from Mankosi AA in the Ngqeleni District, rural
Eastern Cape

Role of our organization and the community (for the specific funded nutritional
project)
• TransCape will ensure the ePap is ordered regularly and stored appropriately

• Community members will prepare and distribute the ePap to 70 children, during
morning meal

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Longevity of funding

We are currently waiting for the Department of Social Development to

accept our application for funding assistance from them for our
nutritional feeding scheme. This might take more than one year to be
approved. In the meantime, we have 70 children who are arriving at
school, hungry for knowledge and nutritious food. We need to use the
R 10 000 available now in order to assist these children develop
emotionally, socially and physically.

Budget and Costs

Amount No of Meals Total (SAR)

500g (one packet) 20 meals R 11.50

1 bale (40 packets) 800 meals R 460.00

2 bales/month 1600 meals/month R 920.00

10 months/year 16 000 meals/year R 9,200.00

Delivery Monthly R 80.00 (R 800.00/year)

+ 5% operational cost R 500.00

Total R 10,000.00

Breakdown
Meals R 9,200.00
Transport R 800.00
Operational Costs R 500.00
Total requested amount R 10, 000.00

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 Expected Benefits
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“The school feeding scheme is South Africa's most critical aid in lifting people out of poverty.
Not only does it provide sustenance to children in their critical growing years, but it also
provides them with a major incentive to go to school, and allows them to focus better on their
lessons.”ii

Lack of nutritional health

48% of households in the area have no income or money for food. This affects children
in the following ways:

• they can afford to eat only foods with a low nutritional value
• this makes them more susceptible to infection and disease
• micronutrient deficiencies are prevalent in rural areas. One out of two children
aged 1-9 years have an intake of approximately less than half the recommended
level for vitamin A, vitamin C, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin B6, folate, calcium, iron
and zinc. Iron deficiency and anemia are common problems among children in
rural communities and dietary deficiency in iron is a major concern. iii

ii
Mail and Guardian “Great concern over school feeding cut” 28/09/2005
iii
The Integrated Nutrition Programme http://www.doh.gov.za/programmes/inp/status.htm

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 Closing

Hereby, we as TransCape kindly request R 10, 000.00 financial assistance to

ensure the nutritional well being of 70 children in the greater Mankosi area.
We are committed to assisting these 70 children with their emotional, social,
intellectual and physical development.

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