SALT is a Non Profit Organization established in 1998. The Registration Number is 027-478-NPO, given by the Department of Social Development.
SALT assists with the vast needs of the local community with Educare/ Day Care Centre, Nutrition, Clothing, Counseling and Emotional Support, especially with those suffering from HIV/AIDS and TB, and those suffering from other illnesses.
With fires in April 2010 in the informal settlements like DuNoon and Joe Slovo, SALT is there to supply the people with food parcels, blankets and clothing and network with projects at grass root level.
Light Bag Project (Food Parcels) are distributed to all the projects. These are: Keep a Child in School, Child Welfare, TLC, local government clinics and community based projects like home base care givers and homes for disabled and/or abandoned children. The areas that SALT operates in are: Table View, Milnerton, DuNoon and Joe Slovo informal settlements. These are all in the Western Cape.
The Project Director is Mrs. Pauline de Klerk.
The projects are predominantly in the very low income or no income poorer areas/settlements of Table View, Milnerton, DuNoon and Joe Slovo (Milnerton) in the Western Cape.
Within these areas/settlements, a number of shack fires occur throughout the year, and during the winter months with heavy rains and storms these would be the people that would be mainly affected.
Our main aim is to provide for the most vulnerable in the community with nutrition (Light Bag Project), Education (Educare/ Day Care Centre Project), Clothes and give the people support, especially for those suffering from HIV/AIDS and TB, and many suffering from Malnutrition, High Blood Pressure, Asthma, ear and other infections and to alleviate malnutrition in all, especially the children of these communities (Isidima project).
To continue to provide for all those in the community in need of basic nutrition and to provide a service for HIV/AIDS and TB patients and children (Light Bag Project). One food parcel feeds a family of 4 for a week and costs only R75.00.
To be able to continue to assist those people in an Emergency situation during large fires and floods that occurs in the informal settlements in the areas. To be able to supply all those affected with blankets, food parcels, also to provide babies & children with food, nappies, clothes and toiletries.
To be able to employ a qualified full time Pre School teacher on a continuous basis for the Educare/Day Care Centre for the children from ages 3 months – 6 years.
To train 4 community-based women annually in basic training and child care, so that they become self-sufficient.
To have a skills development centre close to the community to train women in basic skills such as first aid for children, basic domestic workers certificate, sewing, knitting and small business skills.
Lillian Dikana and her staff take care of approximately 100 children per month. These children are from the local community and most come from poor homes. The children are left in her care while parents are at work. We have partnered with Lillian since 2002 to see where and how we can assist her.
Lillian had previously run the educare/daycare from two old shipping containers, with no toilet facilities and very limited space. There were two babies per cot and two helpers to take care of thirty babies ranging from three months to three years old. Today the Day Care Centre has six helpers with 100 children ages ranging from babies to six years old.
1st Phase of the educare centre has now been completed: In 2009 we completed the new facility and the children are all now in a safe environment. The building is now a Chromadek building with toilet facilities and sufficient space. The children are taught good values, and we inspire them to dream to become teachers, lawyers, doctors, etc.
2nd Phase now completed: This has provided the aftercare facility/playground with protective perimeter fencing for many children attending the educare/daycare/aftercare facility in this community. Supervised homework, computer time and life skills would be introduced to these children in the near future as space/development allows.
As Lillian Dikana is a locally trained community grassroots level nursery teacher, the need for a qualified full time teacher at Pre-School Level with a diploma is of utmost importance for the project to continue efficiently & effectively. SALT has been instrumental in Lillian’s training.
NEEDS FOR ENOZIPHO EDUCARE CENTRE:
Food parcels aimed at assisting TB/HIV/AIDS patients who are on ARVs and needing nutrition to aid their recovery. Many patients on medication also suffer from malnutrition, many have families to feed, and are not able to find employment or are too ill to work. Those patients suffering from HIV/AIDS or TB are also given a bag of EPAP this contains vitamins & minerals and is easy to digest. The food parcels contain 8 basic food items each parcel is given to the patient.
Food items are:
1) 2.5kg White Mealie Meal
2) 500gm Brown Speckled Beans
3) 2 x 1kg Samp
4) 200gm Savoury Soya Mince
5) 1kg Sugar
6) 410gm Peanut Butter
7) 500gm White Rice
8 500gm Salt
A food parcel feeds a family of 4 for 1 week.
SALT currently supplies the total amount of 950 bags per month to all the projects and clinics.
These projects are:
Keep a child in School: Children who have left school due to poverty to find work or beg on the streets. Keep a child in school pays for their schooling and SALT provides a weekly food parcel.
Child Welfare: Many children are removed from their homes due to poverty, where parents are unable to put food on the table and children are going to bed hungry. Social welfare is forced to remove the children and place them in foster care or safe houses. In these cases social welfare approaches SALT for food parcels so that the children are not removed from their homes.
TLC: Project aimed at street children: keeping the children off the street and from begging for food (many of these children are also involved in child prostitution and drugs). Children are placed with foster mothers in the informal settlements and SALT provides the mother with food parcels to assist feeding the children.
Community based projects: Within your informal settlements, you find the “Mother Teresas”, who have taken it upon themselves to take care of the hungry children, abandoned babies and the elderly. These organizations struggle to find funding for food parcels or assistance. SALT will partner with them if they prove to be doing great work in their communities.
A food parcel costs R75 per bag. We believe that food is a basic human right.
NEED FOR LIGHT BAGS (FOOD PARCELS)
Isidima means ‘dignity’ in Xhosa. This project functions around SALT assisting women in our surrounding communities. We assist with certain legalities such as Identity Card or grant applications as well as birth certificates for them and their children. Local social services have disappointed many of these people due to complicated applications or lack of enough staff. Many of the women have lost hope in ever receiving an Identity Document or child grant. While the ladies wait for certain processes to come through we supply them with a food parcel and clothes, check and advise them regarding their health and nutrition status and also that of their children, assist and advise those ladies and children suffering from HIV/AIDS and TB. We encourage many of the ladies to write Curriculum Vitae in order to apply for jobs.
NEEDS FOR ISIDIMA:
Being so involved in the community, we are, at times, involved in any fire/flood or disaster that may affect our area or community. SALT was a key role player in the 2008 Xenophobia attacks and supplied food, toiletries, baby food and formula, blankets and care during the time that refugees were housed in various community halls.
We have also supplied blankets, clothing and food when the fires and floods occur in our informal settlement areas such as Joe Slovo in Milnerton and DuNoon. The Table View police forum has since appointed SALT as the main distribution centre as part of their disaster management plan for our community.
NEEDS FOR DISASTER MANAGEMENT
SALT has partnered with Feeding Children in Africa, a non-profit organization that aims to relieve the financial burdens of families in rural areas by providing for the needs of their schoolchildren. A gardening project called Precious Patches has been implemented at the rural schools where Feeding Children in Africa assist. These gardens provide additional vegetables for the children’s lunches and any surplus is sold in the community to assist the school with their fundraising.
NEEDS FOR PRECIOUS PATCHES
Over the years, SALT has worked tirelessly to help families in the poorer areas/settlements of the Western Cape with food parcels, clothing, blankets, toiletries, baby food and nappies, and help with the Educare/Daycare Centre. SALT will endeavor to continue to serve the community in whichever way it is able to do so. With the contribution and assistance from the donors this will surely make it possible.
SALT will send the donors a quarterly report regarding the progress of the projects and a financial report thereof. This report will show that SALT is committed to the accountability and transparency of the projects it is involved with.
SALT will also send a progress report of the appointed trained fulltime teacher for the Educare/Daycare Centre.
We wish to thank you in advance for any donation bestowed.
Please look on our website of SALT’s projects and how to become involved. Please note that SALT is a registered NPO and PBO therefore giving companies a tax benefit should they donate funds or a service to SALT.
Please contact us should you require any further information or a meeting to discuss these projects in detail.
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FIRST NATIONAL BANK (Table View: Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA)
Branch code: 203809
Account no: 62048287363
Zip code: FIRNZAJJ
Director – Pauline de Klerk
Visit our website: saltprojects.org.za. Or visit us on Facebook – search for SALT. Alternatively, contact us at the Church office for more information or email us at pauline.deklerk@viewchurch.co.za.
Telephone
+27 (0) 21 557 3948
info@viewchurch.co.za
Fax
+27 (0) 21 557 3778
Address
Cnr Blaauwberg Road and Wood Drive
Table View
Cape Town
7441