Elizayo: Transform the Future

Funding Request: Promoting Community development

through the advancement and promotion of Youth Resilience

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. 1. Administrative Details....................................................................................................................... 3

2. Problem Statement............................................................................................................................... 3

3. Background and Strategy of the Organisation ..................................................................................... 5

4. Our Programmes................................................................................................................................... 6

5. Monitoring and Evaluation ................................................................................................................... 7

6. Sustainability......................................................................................................................................... 7

7. Networking and Partnerships ............................................................................................................... 7

8. Highlights/ Success stories.................................................................................................................... 8

9. Funding Request and Budget for Education Program .......................................................................... 8

10. Implementation Plan ............................................................................................................................ 9

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 1. 1. Administrative Details

Name:
Physical address:
Postal Address:
Telephone:
Fax:
Website

Contact Person:
Designation:
Email:
Mobile
Fax:

NPO Registration:
PBO Number:

Auditors:

Banking Details:
Name of Account:
Name of Bank:
Type of Account:
Account Number:
Branch:
Branch Code:
Branch address

2. Problem Statement

In 2012/2013 the Western Cape had the highest Incidence of serious crime in South Africa .The Province also had
the second highest incidence of violent crimes and drug related crimes. The citizens of the Western Cape has the
highest probability of becoming victims of crime – overall crime figures on national level indicated that 384.9 per
100 000 of citizens were victims of crime – compared to the Western Cape where 1298.2 persons per 100 000
were victims of crime . The Western Cape figure represents a 116% increase on the base line figures of 2003.

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Social fabric crimes have reached overwhelming proportions and the province has also illustrated the fragility of
the male identity: young males experience an irresistible need to bond in gangs, where their power is defined by
the wielding of guns and horrific violence against women. Crimes against women in all communities remain
consistently high and domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment and sexual, physical, emotional and verbal abuse
are the social phenomena women and children in the province to contend with as a matter of course

Unemployment is arguably the single most significant obstacle to poverty reduction in South Africa The incidence
of unemployment falls most harshly on young South Africans, who are generally low-skilled and have little to no
experience of formal employment It is exceedingly difficult for one of these unemployed young people to exit
unemployment. The South African labour force makes up just 0.5% of the global labour force, but accounts for
2% of the world’s unemployment.

South Africa’s HIV/AIDS epidemic, which is among the most severe in the world, is concentrated in its townships,
where many black South Africans live due to the lingering effects of the Group Areas Act. Much has been made
of the decrease in the incidence of HIV/AIDS in both South Africa and globally and this is reflected in the decrease
in funding for HIV/AIDS intervention. In 2007 the Department of Health set itself the Goal of halving HIV incidence
by 2015 – for a variety of reasons this goal is not going to be met. (in fact the decrease in 2013 is only estimated
at 20%)This implies that, regardless of progress and improvements –in 2015 South Africa will be home to
approximately 16% of all people living with HIV/AIDS

Youth from disadvantage communities face enormous challenges, plagued by high crime rates, high level of drug
related crimes and the use of drugs, inadequate recreational facilities, single parent families and child headed
houses, high unemployment, gangsterism and pandemic disease such as HIV/Aids and tuberculosis, In addition
additional barriers to learning that the average black high school learner has to deal with include overcrowded
classrooms, poorly maintained and equipped buildings, poor literacy and numeracy skills, and a shortage of
appropriate learning support materials as well as limited or no opportunities for social and cultural enrichment.
Poverty and social exclusion are seen to have significant outcomes on children’s lives both in the short and long
term, across a variety of physical, cognitive, behavioural, emotional and economic outcomes.

Disadvantaged Children and youth are more likely to live in poverty, drop out of school, become premature
parents and raise their own children in poverty, become victims or perpetrators of crime, suffer chronic
unemployment, be victims of inadequate education and mental and physical health care and be prone to high risk
behaviour due to limited resilience factors. One of the most important public policy issues facing South Africa is
how to improve the life prospects of disadvantaged children and youth who, in their formative years, face a series
of debilitating factors.
Our Community development approach is one where community members come together to take collective
action and generate solutions to common problems – including youth (target group); parents, stakeholders and
all other relevant role players and resources.
Our Youth community development program includes a focus on
• Academic outcomes: higher school attendance, lower dropout indicators, better performance in schools,
less disciplinary action, increase in literacy levels etc.
• Social/emotional outcomes: decreased behavioural problems, improved social and communication skills,
improved relationships with other etc.

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 • Preventative Outcomes: Decrease in delinquency and violent behaviour, increased knowledge of safe sex
and aspects such as HIV/AIDS, Avoidance of drug and alcohol use etc.
• Positive Citizenship Outcomes: Greening and environment and community development etc.
• Cultural and Arts Outcomes: Various Arts and Music Programs providing for holistic development
• Sport Outcomes: Sport disciplines teaching aspects such as discipline, team work, goal setting, social skills

3. Background and Strategy of the Organisation

The NPO X believes that if we could effectively address youth unemployment, not only would we lift millions of
South Africans out of poverty, but we would also place our economy on a trajectory of sustainable, inclusive
growth. We believe that we should be investing in teaching youth the mind-set, coupled with the skills, to be
innovators and entrepreneurs. Developing the ability to recognize opportunity and giving young people the tools
to capitalize on those opportunities empowers them to take ownership of their future in ways which directly link
education to real-world success. In other words, putting a young person to work does not only mean finding them
a job. In some cases, with the right investment in entrepreneurship and the encouragement to succeed, young
people will create their own jobs and, in many cases, hire others. They can and will invent the next big things that
change lives, lift up communities and grow economies.

NPO X promotes the positive development and resilience of youth by enhancing their competence and sense of
autonomy. The Foundation strongly buys into a resilience based approach to youth development.Resilience is a
strengths-based construct, meaning its focus is on providing the developmental supports and opportunities
(protective factors) that promote success, rather than on eliminating the factors that promote failure.

We believe we can shift the mindset of the youth from believing that the government will provide for them; to
taking responsibility and understanding how they have to make it work for themselves.Research evidence
suggesting that entrepreneurship education plays an important role in the promotion of entrepreneurial
intentions of learners and many researchers support the inclusion of exposure to entrepreneurship education as
a variable in entrepreneurship intention models.

Our entrepreneurial-directed teaching approach is one where the instructor becomes a learning facilitator. Other
competencies to be developed in successful entrepreneurship education include social and civic skills; digital
competencies; creative and artistic skills; and cultural awareness – all aspects which are covered by the full scope
of NPO X services. South African youth are enabled to reach their full potential, regardless of current or projected
future economic standing.

The Foundation currently works with 14 schools and runs 5 after school centres that reaches over 1 800 township
learners daily. We focus our efforts on disadvantaged youth and children who have to overcome a number of
barriers to learning in order to make a positive contribution to the South African economy. These barriers include
(but are not limited to): inadequate recreational facilities, single parent families, hunger, gangsterism, crime,
violence, drug and sexual abuse, adolescent pregnancies and pandemic diseases such as HIV/Aids and
tuberculosis.

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Our Vision: To provide the best children and youth programs that allows children and youth to realise their full
potential
Our Mission: To provide a safe environment in challenged and vulnerable communities where we develop
emotionally well rounded children and youth, who make positive life choices and become contributing members
of society

Our Objectives

• To maintain a constant agenda to advance violence prevention initiatives in the country, with emphasis on
education as a liberator of the abused on oppressed.
• Implement, expand, coordinate, and evaluate the integrated educational, health, safety, cultural, and
recreational services to the youth of the relevant communities
• Contribute to poverty alleviation by developing socio – economic initiatives which will ensure youth are more
employable
• Decrease of social exclusion amongst youth by developing the confidence and social skills of participating
youth.
• Encourage youth to aspire to developing to their full potential to create positive role models within
communities and future leaders and entrepreneurs in South Africa

4. Our Programmes

Sports Programme Educational Program Extra Mural Program

Objectives • Provide a safe and supportive • Contribute to poverty • Build the capacity of individuals to
environment for children to alleviation by assisting youth participate in community life through
experience the physical and to improve academically the provision of recreation;
mental challenges associated • To implement, expand, • Enable individuals to develop and
with sport coordinate, and evaluate the sustain social and community
• Assist youth in internalizing integrated educational, relationships;
teamwork principles as health, safety, cultural, and • Increase the ability of individuals to
additional relationship recreational services to the self-manage their social interactions
building skills youth and community participation;
• Development of youth • Provide life skills training that • Facilitate and promote opportunities
discipline and goal setting specifically target community and pathways to ensure ongoing
skills associated with active problems identified learning, training and development;
sports • Facilitate enrichment • Enhance the choice of recreational and
opportunities and healthy leisure activities available to Youth
activities for participating • To partnership with the community to
youth provide a safe and supervised
• Promote better health recreational program
awareness and practices
Projects Hockey, Soccer, Swimming, After School Care, HIV/AIDS Music, Creative Arts, Dancing, Greening
Table Tennis Diving, Cricket, Prevention & Peer Education, and Environment
Volley Ball, Golf ,Muay Thais Literacy, Computer Literacy.
Math’s, Entrepreneurial

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The Foundation currently operates in five centers which provide the following services in challenged and
vulnerable communities within the Western Cape, including Nyanga, Gugulethu, Khayelitsha, Phillipi and
Crossroads, and each hosting over 300 students per day. Programmes run Monday to Thursday and a nutritious
meal is offered daily to each child.

5. Monitoring and Evaluation

The following interrelated factors form the cornerstone of NPO X evaluation and monitoring processes.
• access to and sustained participation in the program;
• quality programming and staffing; and
• promoting strong partnerships among the program and the other places where students are learning,
such as their schools, their families,
The main indicators used to measure the success of the programme are reflected in implementation plan
Additional evaluation tools:
• Feedback from stakeholders including partner Organisations, principals and parents. .
• Analysis of cost effectiveness.
• Report analysis and statistical data
• Contracting the services of an external independent evaluator.

6. Sustainability

The Foundation has put various measures in place to ensure the sustainability of our programmes and services.
These include
• Individual Giving and Pledges Programme
• Hotel Partnerships: (Twelve Apostles & Newmark Hotels – Ambassador, V&A, Queen Victoria, La Splendida)
• Events: Annual Fundraising Gala Dinner, Annual Cape Argus Cycle Ride; McDonald’s Golf Day
• Income Generation : Cultural performances at prominent events such as the Tourism Indaba, Western Cape
Cultural Commission, Table of Peace & Unity, Wheat event for 1000 Women at CT Convention Centre & many
more; X Cultural Township Tours supported and promoted by Cape Town Tourism
• Donations in Kind: Through the development and nurturing of partnerships with various corporates and other
business entities the NPO X has been able to significantly decrease their operational costs

7. Networking and Partnerships

The purpose of the NPO x focus on networking with a wide range of sources and building partnerships with various
parties is to develop a flexible, creative response to the needs identified by the community using the strengths of
partners. Partnerships focus on improved services and working efficiencies and the promotion of a shared

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responsibility and sustainability. Contracts and MOU’s ensure that there is shared responsibility in achieving the
desired objectives.

The Trust and respect between the Foundation and the various partners is evident in the sustained period in
which partnerships have been maintained. The NPO X has formed a number of partnerships with local and
international Organisations that have enabled the Foundation to offer opportunities to participating youth that
would not ordinarily be available to them. The NPO X works closely with the Department of Social Development
and the Department of Basic Education with regards to the After School Care Centers. Other Partnerships include
Bishops Diocesan College and Hugo Lambrecht Music Exchanges; Cape Town Ballet and Zama Dance School ;
Dolphin Swimming Club; Dragon Power; Leadership Institute for Teens; Irish Soccer Programme.

8. Highlights/ Success stories

• A learner attended the 2011 Muay Thai World Championship in Kazakhstan

• 12 Northern Ireland delegates run annual hockey and soccer coaching weeks. (Also train students in first aid,
raise funds and donate sports equipment.)
• Muay thai learners took part in the International UMF Muay thai & DL MMA Year of the Dragon Fight Night,
one of whom won the ‘Muay thai Against Drugs’ title belt
• Media 24 best Reader Award Completion
• Three of the girls who participated in the HIV/AIDS peer education programme were invited to the Leadership
Institute for Teens Conference in California, USA
• Students from the Codarts University in Rotterdam collaborated with NPO X learners to present a music
festival in Gugulethu
• NPO X was a finalist in the National Arts & Culture Trust Awards
• During an Academic Awards Ceremony at one of the primary schools in which we operate held recently, all of
those that won awards were part of the NPO X after school care programmes. Children in our programmes
are standing out academically against their peers that are unable to attend

9. Funding Request and Budget for Education Program

We are requesting your organisation’s support for After School Education Project and would appreciate a financial
contribution of . We are however thankful for any financial support that your organisation is able to
contribute towards our project of Promoting Community development through the advancement and promotion
of Youth Resilience

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Expenses Youth Community Development
Operational 1 260 124
Advertising / Promotions/Fundraising 11 000
Bank Charges 3 125
Communications/IT Support 50 356
Consultancy Fees 20 000
Insurance 28 000
Postage & Courier 507
Printing & Stationery 20 000
Rent 42 000
Repairs & Maintenance 29 807
Salaries & Wages 949 657
Staff Development 31 900
Teas & Refreshments 4 057
Transportation - Travel, Land, Air 69 716
Direct Project Costs 849 854
Monitoring and Evaluation 30 000
Printed and Other Project materials, Including workbooks; educational books 38 000
Marketing and Networking 19 030
Workshops and Education/Capacity building 593 235
Food Supplies/Catering 148 500
Project Travel 15 369
Educational Events 5 720
Project Equipment 45 000
Total Expenditure 2 109 978
Income Youth community Development
NDTLF 200 000
Department of Social Development 13 879
Donations, Grants Confirmed 504 838
Income Generation/Fundraising Events 0
Income to be fundraised 1 300 000
Total Income 2 018 717
Surplus/Deficit -91 261

10. Implementation Plan

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Objective: Strengthening the Capacity of youth resilience in order for them to play a leading role in the development of their communities on education,
environmental and social level
Activities Geographic Area Indicators Outcomes
• Facilitator assist students with • Crossroads • Nr of community • Students will learn community responsibility through several
assignments and homework • Nyanga East members participating cooperative programs between NPO X and the community.
• Provide youth with a nutritional • Gugulethu • Level of Stakeholder and • Participants form a positive nurturing peer group that
• Manenberg community support counterbalances prevailing negative or destructive groups
meal
• Philippi • Nr of youth attending and behaviors.
• Providing and creating as safe space • Students will develop socially while participating with other
• Nr of youth regular
and supporting environment for • Imbasa attending students in various sport and recreational activities
learning Primary; John • Nr of HIV Peer educators • Develop leadership opportunities for youth
• Facilitators motivates positive Pama Primary; • Nr of parents • The ability of individual to self –manage their social
learning Siyazingisa participating interaction and community participation is increased
• Conduct life skills to change Primary; • Nr of Youth reached • Youth will grow academically through educational
Nomlinganiselo through HIV Peer component /focus of care centre
negative behavior and knowledge
Primary; Education • Enriched and empowered youth developed by building the
attitudes and skills Easterpeak • Nr of youth participating strengths of relevant communities
• Facilitators provide a variety of Primary; in arts and culture • The community schools is beautified and sense of pride,
educational tutorial support Bongolethu program wellbeing and hope is created
programmes on daily basis such as Primary school • Nr of youth participating • Enriched and empowered youth developed by building the
HIV Peer Education in greening project strengths of relevant communities
Computer Literacy • Nr of youth participating • Youngsters are kept off the streets and away from all of the
in sports project negative influences that are so easily accessible, better
Literacy Program
• Coordination skills of equipping them to ward off the temptation of crime, drugs,
• Provide cultural and arts program in youth gangs and unsafe sex.
order to promote social harmony • Nr of community • A healthy society of emotionally equipped and well-rounded
and sustainable social and economic gardens and community individuals for the future is created
development for future generations events • A healthy society of emotionally equipped and well-rounded
• Involving youth in greening project • Feedback from the individuals for the future is created
to encourage environmental community • Enable South African children and youth to reach their full
potential, regardless of their current economic standing.
stewardship under youth
• Students will develop academically through a variety of
• Management and implementation tutorial programs
of sport program in order to • Facilitate and promote opportunities and pathways to ensure
promote resilience in disadvantaged ongoing learning, training and development.
and high risk youth. • Participants form a positive nurturing peer group that
counterbalances prevailing negative or destructive groups
and behaviors.

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Objective: Strengthening the Capacity of youth resilience in order for them to play a leading role in the development of their communities on education,
environmental and social level
• Participants develop their own skills, and learn to value the
artistic endeavor of others
• Environmental stewardship – encouraging young people to
serve their communities as protectors of the environment.
Youth learn to understand and appreciate a broad range of
perspectives and to take responsible action – not only on
their own behalf, but on behalf of future generation
• Students will develop socially while participating with other
students in various sport and recreational activities

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