What are the projects supported by the Edge of Life Fund?

We work together with social workers and faith groups building individuals and focusing on family structures in community. Most of the projects are in the Robertson Valley, its villages, Bonnievale, Robertson, Ashton and McGregor and the surrounding farming communities. However the Edge of Life Fund is not geographically limited and reaches out to needs in Cape Town and even cross border to other African countries.

Edge of Life currently supports the following projects:

1. Dance for all (Danza la Vida) – Children are identified in the townships, on farms and streets to spend their free time in inspiring way developing dancing skills. These children build up self esteem and discover they are gifted and special.

http://www.danceforall.co.za/admin/Upload/PDFs/Dance_For_All_08_09.pdf

http://www.danceforall.co.za/framework/Team.asp

2. Bonnie People – This is a well established community project caring for a community living in an informal settlement outside Bonnievale. Key programs are day care, food production, youth activities and adult education.

http://www.bonniepeople.co.za/

3. McGregor Family Center – Neglected and abandoned children are taught marimba music who then reach out to other children inspiring them with energetic enthusiasm. http://www.famcent.co.za/

4. Kapteintjies Day Care – Hundreds of small children from the farming community and informal settlements are being cared for, fed and taught during working hours. Schools report back that children who went to Kapteintjies have a head start once they go to primary school.

4. Word on Wheels – Word on Wheels travels from farm to farm, to jails and poor townships encouraging some of the poorest individuals. There is a focus on spiritual, emotional and physical restoration and much focus is put on motivation, personal growth, restoration of the family structure and leadership development.

5. BADISA – Badisa does charity work in the community by looking after the old, sick and stepping in where children are exposed in abusive homes. BADISA also runs entertaining and educational holiday programs for children.

http://www.children-of-the-earth.org/chapters/ChBonVale.htm

6. Lammeroes Projek –  More than 100 pre-school children from town are being cared for, fed and taught during working hours.

7. King’s Church Kid’z Church Robertson– Up to 500 children are being brought together on Sundays for food, entertainment, singing, drama and spiritual development. http://www.kcionline.co.za/kidz-church

8. Straatwerk Cape Town – A ministry reaching out to those who have lost hope and dignity, who are entrapped in street living, gangsterism, drugging and prostitution. http://www.straatwerk.org.za

9. Foundation for Cross Cultural Education – A network of training centers equipping people of Africa for educational, community and hospitality roles. http://www.fce.org.za