Empowering Lives · Transforming Communities
A meal. A lesson. Someone who stays.
Education of Hope Africa stands beside children, adolescent girls, youth and women in Kagiso and the wider West Rand, so that hunger, poverty and inequality do not get the final word.
One girl, one month of school
Sanitary products, delivered at school. She stops missing a week every month.
A month of hot meals
Meals of Hope. For many of our children this is the meal of the day.
One child, fully supported
After-school homework support, aftercare, meals and a safe place until a guardian gets home.
One AGYW workshop
Facilitator, venue, materials and catering for a full session with 30 young women.
These are practical giving guides, not restricted line items. We direct support where it is needed most and will gladly explain the current programme budget.
Why we exist
1 481 households in the West Rand are headed by a child.
That figure comes from the 2016 Community Survey for the West Rand District. 38.5% of those children live in informal dwellings, running a household while they are still supposed to be in school.
Child-headed households carry everything at once: hunger, gender-based violence, exposure to HIV, and an education that quietly slips away because there is no adult left to insist on it. Those problems are not separate, so we do not treat them separately.
Source: Community Survey 2016, West Rand District
A documented programme
Proof, not promises.
beneficiaries reached with nutrition, education and health support.
EOHA programme records
learners reached across our education programmes.
EOHA programme records
learners attend homework support after school, Monday to Friday.
EOHA attendance registers
meals served every week, on three feeding days: Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
EOHA feeding programme registers
These figures come from our own registers, kept for each programme we run.
What we do
Thirteen programmes. One thread: keep a young person in the room.
Education and academic support, health and protection, economic strengthening, and care. Every programme exists because someone in Kagiso told us it was needed.
After-school homework support & aftercare
Somewhere safe and quiet between the last bell and a guardian getting home, with someone who checks the work, plus a reading club for Grades 4–7.
How it works NutritionMeals of Hope feeding project
A drop-in centre serving cooked meals to learners after school, plus food hampers and vegetable-garden start-ups at home.
How it works FlagshipAdolescent girls’ health & dignity
HIV, STI and GBV education, sanitary pads and menstrual hygiene products, and the practical skills to hold on to control of your own body and future.
How it works PreventionHIV/AIDS, STIs, TB, GBV & child abuse education
Prevention education in schools, churches, workplaces and community halls, delivered by young people, to young people.
How it works PreventionDrug & substance abuse prevention
Frank, age-appropriate sessions on substance use and social crime prevention, run where young people already gather.
How it works LivelihoodsEntrepreneurship skills training
Most education systems create job seekers, not job creators. This one equips youth and women to start and run a small sustainable enterprise, with mentorship built in.
How it works EducationTertiary access: SYATE
Subject choices, applications to universities and TVETs, and how to actually access funding. Delivered through the Ngena 1 and 2 curriculum.
How it works LivelihoodsEmployability & financial capability
Twelve sessions on CVs, motivational letters and mock interviews, then financial literacy and a savings habit that outlasts the training.
How it worksAnd five more
Orphaned and vulnerable children, life skills training, financial capability, sport and recreation, and mass outreaches, literature distribution and relief work.
See all thirteenFrom the drop-in centre
This is what the money buys.
Two ordinary days in Kagiso: a shoe distribution, and an afternoon of homework and chess. Photographed by our own staff.
Every child photographed here is in our programmes and every image is used with guardian consent. Our safeguarding commitments.
Our mandate
Aligned to the Sustainable Development Goals.
Education of Hope Africa derives its mandate from implementing programmes aimed at achieving sustainable development, focusing on UN SDGs 1, 2, 4, 5 and 17. Our existence sits inside the broader global, regional and national policy work on sustainable development, not alongside it.
We monitor outcomes and generate evidence so that our approaches can be improved, adapted and brought to scale, rather than simply repeated.
The next three to five years
This is currently a table in a yard. It needs to be a building.
Our three-to-five-year plan has one centrepiece: a well-resourced, child-friendly Hope Learning Centre: a safe place to learn, a nutritious meal, and room to develop a talent.
Around it sit five other conditions: a feeding programme that survives a grant ending, staff who are qualified and paid, governance that survives an audit, impact we can measure rather than describe, and partnerships that last longer than one financial year.
None of it exists yet. We publish it anyway, so that you can check in three years whether we did it.
Radical transparency
Trust is part of the work.
You should never have to rely on a moving story alone. We publish what we can verify, name the period it covers, and invite funders to ask for the underlying programme budget and compliance documents.
Current priority
Keep the after-school table open
Your support helps protect the simple things that make learning possible: a nutritious meal, a safe place, reading practice and an adult who returns tomorrow.
Ask us for the current target and programme budget. We would rather give you a verified number than an impressive one.
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One question
Will you keep one child fed this month?
R150 keeps a child in Kagiso eating every school day for a month.
- Section 18A tax certificate within 7 working days
- Every rand receipted
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Not everyone gives money
Four other things that genuinely help.
Volunteer an afternoon
Homework support after school. Police clearance required, because we work with children.
ApplyDonate what’s on the list
Right now: laptops and smartphones for our digital programme, sanitary products, non-perishable food.
See the listGive your skill
Bookkeeping, M&E, legal, design, grant writing. Pro bono professional time is worth more to us than its rand value.
Offer itBring your company
SED spend, 18A certificate, B-BBEE points, and a team day your staff will actually talk about.
Partner with usOne email a month. No guilt, no gala photos.
What we did, what it cost, what went wrong, and what we need next.