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African Angels is an educational sponsorship programme based in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. We give disadvantaged Xhosa children whom are often maternal, paternal or full orphans, living in township situations, the opportunity to get a solid, continuous and good quality education from pre-primary to matriculation.
Started by ex-backpacker Lou Billett, who teamed up with Tracy King of the King's Playschool in Glen Eden, just outside East London, African Angels now has 29 children sponsored and attending good schools in the area. Now living in South Africa, Lou believes it is through children receiving a decent and good quality education that poverty and starvation become a part of South Africa’s history, not its future.
African Angels partners with parents or carers, and each party has responsibilities for their Angel’s education. There are no free rides. Each child is carefully selected through parent/carer interviews, payroll checks and home visits.
And it is the parents and carers who are also gaining an understanding of their role in supporting their child's education.
We have lots of Angels still needing sponsorship like Siya, Matilda, Immi, Amahle and Ahlume below.
African Angels is a registered tax-deductible organization in South Africa, and a registered non-profit organization.
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Innovative initiatives such as the Angel Shop have been established so Angels is self funding and that a minimum of 95% of all sponsor fees go directly to pay for the school fees of the Angels, and not to administration of African Angels or organisational running costs.
If you would like to SPONSOR and angel, please click on the SPONSOR button.
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Donations towards our Angel Bus can be made by clicking on the DONATE tab.
Thank you!
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