Headstart信托基金

10多年来，启智基金会一直在开普敦的贫困和边缘化社区开展工作。在过去的5年里，活动集中在杰克家族农场所在的奥弗伯格的纳皮尔。在Napier的Protea小学工作时，我们首先开发了一个有机菜园，在冬天为年轻的学习者提供温暖的豆子，捐赠额外的家具、年度文具和艺术设备。我们还安排了开普敦特权学校的外展项目，在纳皮尔做社区服务。2018年，HeadStart Trust推出了一项音乐教育计划。结果反映了国际经验和研究，令人震惊。学音乐的学生……阅读更多10多年来，启智基金会一直在开普敦的贫困和边缘化社区开展工作。在过去的5年里，活动集中在杰克家族农场所在的奥弗伯格的纳皮尔。在Napier的Protea小学工作时，我们首先开发了一个有机菜园，在冬天为年轻的学习者提供温暖的豆子，捐赠额外的家具、年度文具和艺术设备。我们还安排了开普敦特权学校的外展项目，在纳皮尔做社区服务。2018年，HeadStart Trust推出了一项音乐教育计划。结果反映了国际经验和研究，令人震惊。音乐系学生的年平均出勤率由75%上升至98%。他们的一般行为和其他科目的学习成绩也有明显改善。2020年，我们雇佣了更多的员工，购买了更多的乐器，并将接受音乐教学的学生从36人增加到130人。由于2019冠状病毒病大流行，启发信托基金的受托人已同意将信托基金的短期重点转向粮食救济。 There is a history of rural villages in the Cape Agulhas region being ostracised and disregarded, and when financial support isn't sucked completely away, these communities are often last in line. This underlines the massive challenge we face here: for a start, children don't have access to the usual daily school meals (only twice a week) and, in the past, local government bureaucracy has hampered efficient feeding schemes. The community is consequently wary of empty promises. A majority of the community is not earning any income during the lockdown period and finding it very difficult to access the government relief grants promised by Pretoria due to consistently changing criteria and resulting confusion. Foreign nationals, who out of desperation sought refuge in these rural towns and send large portions of their piecemeal income to family members in other African states, are either unable or too terrified to register for any type of relief. The need for assistance is thus overwhelming. We have begun our efforts by vastly expanding the Napier Primary organic vegetable garden and donating the required seed and tools for the village to contribute directly in their own medium-term food security. But we require short-term, encompassing solutions as well. With the full support of Executive Mayor of the Cape Agulhas Municipality, Mr Paul Swart, and Napier's Ward Councillor, Mrs Evelyn Sauls, The HeadStart Trust will play a crucial coordinating role in helping to alleviate the growing social disaster catalysed by this pandemic and the lockdown. We have begun lobbying civil society organisations, government funds and individuals to donate financially to a structured and inclusive Rural Food Relief Platform for Napier and surrounding areas. Furthermore, we will use our personnel and farm vehicles to collect and distribute donated food (under strict lockdown safety measures) to those most in crisis. We will utilise the food storage and refrigeration facilities that have been established at the Thusong Centre and Packtown Food in Bredasdorp. Mr Swart has acknowledged that food collection and distribution is a new challenge for his administration and the municipality desperately needs cooperative partners to overcome the challenge we collectively face as a community. The HeadStart Trust is also liaising directly with various community representatives and farmers. Communication is also continuous with religious leaders and on community social media platforms. As agreed with elected representatives, we will channel food donation through the Napier Community Police Forum (CPF) and local farmer organisations. Local food donations can already be made at the Napier OK Minimark, but our intention is to expand this systematically and emphatically. We need your help to support these communities that are a foundation for our own food security, but find themselves abandoned in this lockdown period.