Africa Foundation has been collecting children from the streets and guiding them into a home and education since 1971, since then over 6000 children have benefited from this program alone. For several years Africa Foundation was the only organisation in the country dealing with street children.

We have a school called Rookmaaker School where there are 420 former street children, orphaned children or marginalised children.

We work on self-sustaining projects that bring in the funds to ensure the children, in both Africa Foundation and other indigenous children’s charities, have access to their basic necessities. The projects include farming projects, an Aloe Vera Farm, Pig Farm and Poultry farm and Craft making projects.

Our work increases the capacity of Africa Foundations work and the amount of children that indigenous charities are able to care for. It transforms the culture of dependency within indigenous charities into an empowering state where they are self-sustaining and no longer perpetual beggars.

The self-sustaining projects also provide the children with vocational training so they gain skills that will assist them in life outside the home. The skills include farming, craft making, and carpentry, skills that most children would learn from their family.