Important Announcement
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT It is with regret that I announce that a limited number of staff members and beneficiaries have tested positive for Covid -19 at Abraham Kriel Bambanani. We are therefore in effect locking down the Langlaagte Campus and returning to level five measures for our community services for a period of two weeks. There […]
Online learning support
The Covid-19 pandemic has stripped many families bare and has left them vulnerable and uncertain of their next meal. Many of our school-going beneficiaries, who find themselves in such homes, despaired. Residential care beneficiaries have different levels of uncertainty and knowledge of technology. Babies and toddlers received occupational therapy on-line and thought it best to […]
Abraham Kriel Bambanani pleads for support as the need increases even further
Abraham Kriel Bambanani pleads for support as the need increases further Since the start of the Covid-19 lockdown in South Africa, the number of beneficiaries who rely on Abraham Kriel Bambanani (AKB) for survival has quadrupled, placing the organisation’s resources under enormous pressure. At the start of the lockdown, AKB provided 605 children and youth […]
Caring for Children during the SA Lockdown is not business as usual
Abraham Kriel Bambanani continues to care for vulnerable Children and Youth, as we have always done, despite Covid-19 and the current lockdown. But it is most certainly not business as usual. Until recently we had 600 children and youth in our care programmes in the communities of Soweto and Westbury. Overnight that number has increased […]
Please make sure children and families can eat and learn despite the Corona virus
We are in desperate times and children and their extended families are hungry. The children in our care in Soweto and Westbury are poor and live with their gogos and aunties who are also poor. The family members that could’ve earned a few Rands are now stuck at home and cannot sustain themselves. The 600 […]
Make a wish come true
Syria* has never been to the cinema and her greatest wish is to go to the movies with her mother and siblings. Asked what she imagined the cinema to look like, she smiled shyly and replied, “I think it is a big place where people sit and watch movies”. Her face lit up with excitement […]
Using his energy for good
Abner was a beneficiary in our home-based care programme in Westbury for 9 years and has many fond memories of when he was in the programme. The 2010 FIFA World Cup was an incredible time for many South Africans, but as an orphan from a poor township, Abner could not imagine that he would ever […]
Dance Helps Me Cope
Happy place… the place where one feels a sense of belonging and joy. It is a place that makes you come alive and where love is in abundance. That place for 17 year old Simiso Mbelu (pseudonym) is the Drop-in Centre in Zola, Soweto. Simiso is always willing to participate in the programme. He influences […]
A Family’s Hope
Zola is a section of Soweto notorious for being a hub of criminal activity. It is home to many families who are faced with many social ills such as the HIV/AIDS pandemic, poverty, unemployment and worst of all…no one expects much from the youth of this community. The Extended Family Programme is working towards changing […]
Home is Where the Heart is
Marlene’s life changed in 2009, when she became part of a donor sponsored programme in Soweto. Since then we’ve known her as a happy, loving girl whose smile brings joy to those who know and cherish her. *Marlene Mashego (pseudonym) (17) and her younger brother *Lesego Mashego (pseudonym) (12) were born HIV positive. Her status […]