KCC dance troupe on tour

The last few months boys and girls of KCC have been touring Gauteng province. They were invited to perform their dance routines to the delight of many spectators at a great number of occasions. 

In August, KCC was part of the main festival of the Feast of the Clowns in the city of Pretoria. Just few weeks later they took part in the Gauteng carnival celebration in Johannesburg. One of the hosts had seen them dance at the Feast of the Clowns and invited them to the Joburg carnival. In between those two events the KCC dance troupe had another thrilling performance at the opening ceremony of the new Botshilu Private Hospital in Soshanguve.

The next month KCC was invited to dance at two parties, one in Soshanguve Block PP and another one in Wonderboom Park where they danced for a sponsor of the children centre.

In October, they took part in a dance competition in the neighbouring township of Winterveld. With 23 groups from Tshwane and Mabopane competing that day the KCC dancers came in third place. The girls and boys were very happy that their hours of practicing had paid off and led to such great success.

The last performance so far was at a children's concert at Danville Clinic Hall, Pretoria, hosted by Sediba community church. It was an arts day where different groups performed their items. KCC once more caused a stir and people were impressed by their performances. So, it seems likely that more dance performances are going to follow, soon.

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In March, KCC managed to buy a land with the help of German support organization Tshwane Township Kids e.V.. The land has been paid for and the cleaning processes has started. The second phase of fencing the yard will start soon as KCC is now in a process of finding suitable fence. 

Since early this year, kids have been enjoying a fun playground. All of that has exercised their creativity and motoric skills and they socialized with others. Besides the social skills that they develop personal skills also become a core advantage that can be achieved.

KCC has come up with a community soccer team for all age groups especially to those that are out of school. We have teams from under 11 to masters’ which are boys over 21 years of age. So far, we have 40 boys from around the township.

We are still collecting clothes from communities and individuals. Children who need clothes are given a chance to pick anything they like. This program will be part of the new KCC activities. Those who want to give clothes, shoes or blankets can contact the centre or drop off at the centre.

We are looking forward to working with your children and youth this year.

Best wishes to our community as we work together to achieve more things this year.

Kgomotso Mphela is one of the 2021 winners of the Mail & Guardian 200 Young South Africans. She was honoured in the category "rural development projects" together with 9 other fellow South Africans. 

On Youth Day 2021 Kgomotso Children Centre opened a new branch in Winterveld. Almost 10 years after moving from the original place under a tree in Winterveld to establish the youth centre at Block NN in Soshanguve KCC is happy to be back in Winterveld, again.

After another closure due to the lockdown situation KCC has finally opened again in February. While some activities are still restricted due to level 3 lockdown everyone at KCC was eager to start again with their work. 

Looking back at 2020, a year that has been very difficult to all of us, we want to thank those who supported us throughtout the year. After we had started with the We Can't Eat Air Campaign in April more organisations and people approached KCC to offer their help.

On the third day of the "We Can't Eat Air - Campaign" the remaining families received their long-awaited food parcels. The first phase of the campaign has now come to an end. We thank everyone who helped to make it a great success.