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About Melkbos Care Centre

Empowering Vulnerable Children Through Education and Life Skills

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Melkbos Care Centre was founded in 2006 by Keilah Papacostandinho, after she saw the need for underprivileged children to be in a safe space after school. The Care Centre became a space for the children where they could eat, do homework and spend their holidays.

Founder

Keilah Papacostandinho

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17 Years of Happiness

  • 2006
  • 2009
  • 2012
  • 2016
  • 2019
  • 2023

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Our Vision

To equip vulnerable children from an early age with structured education and life skills training

Our Mission

Pre-primary:

  • To equip Pre-Primary School children to be at the same level as their peers when they enter formal education institutions.
  • To equip them with basic life skills (emotional, spiritual, social) enabling them to build confidence and perseverance.
  • To support the educators to educate.
  • To provide children with food and supplements so that they have an optimum chance of learning.
  • Transport to and from school in our own bus.

Primary:

  • To build self-confidence and good self-image.
  • To continue life skills training concentrating on building compassion and thankfulness and defeating the attitudes of entitlement and victimization.
  • To provide a safe place for children to learn and do homework.
  • To provide children with decent meals to enable then to participate in school and on the sport field.
  • Transport to and from school with our own bus.

Services Provided:

  • Provision of breakfast, snacks and lunch to children attending the local schools – ± 120 children per day
  • Providing transport to and from schools – ± 120 children per day.
  • Providing subsidised school clothes to children registered at the centre.
  • Providing early education to 60 children between the ages of 2 years to 6 years on a daily basis in an established pre-school.
  • Providing homework support to children attending our aftercare. Providing support to high school learners at the local high school.
  • Supporting tertiary students through sponsorship procurement and pocket money for life essentials and food
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Changing lives, one child at a time, through compassion and commitment.

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