Happy to be back

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. 

Three new staff members have been signed. One of them is a former teacher. She had already been teaching sewing at KCC some years ago. KCC is looking forward to continue the sewing project under her supervision, soon. The first project work is sewing masks and sell them around the community. In addition, ten groups of children and youth have been created to work on the garden project with staff monitoring the process and the selected food that is going to be grown. 

About 110 kids are currently fed at KCC every day. They come in three groups at different times to avoid crowds. Some days ago Dr. Ntsiki from a clinic in Pretoria visited KCC to drop of some donations and pray for KCC. She donated small food parcels, clothes and sweets for 50 families which kids took home.

School to school visits have been done recently by KCC staff. They have been asking to partner with local schools for the educational program that is run at KCC. 5 school already agreed to work with KCC and improve the program. Moreover, two local clinics have been contact to work together in terms of community health projects concerning kids, youth and health issues.

Last but not least, KCC has been a busy place for many years now. So, some maintenance and other repairs had to be done. Recently, we started with the toilets, basins and doors that have been fixed now. 

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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.