African Angels seeks, receives and allocates sponsorship for the education of orphaned and vulnerable children living in rural areas of the Eastern Cape, South Africa taking a unique partnership approach with parents.
African Angels is a registered tax deductible organization in South African (PBO No 9300028481). We seek, receive and allocate sponsorship for the education of orphaned and vulnerable children (ORVC) from two informal settlements in Chintsa, a semi rural 25km just outside East London in the East Coast Resorts area.
African Angels was formed in 2007 by Lou Billett , an Australian now living in South Africa, and Tracy King, the owner of the King’s Playschool in Glen Eden in this project. A trust has been established in South Africa, with 3 trustees, Lou Billett, Tracy King and Peter Meier.
African Angels’ underpinning philosophy revolves around the belief that the most effective way to drive positive change in South Africa, is to ensure children receive a good quality and continuous education in Africa, from pre-school to matriculation. In most cases with families living in informal settlements or ‘townships’, this cannot be achieved without additional financial aid from sponsors.
A partnership approach has been designed between parents and the school, where parent(s) must contribute a nominal fee each month, and more importantly must ensure their child arrives for school each day, is picked up on time, and has a packed lunch. A hot meal is also provided at school. School fees are covered by the sponsor. Unlike other organizations, a minimum 95% of sponsor’s contributions are used to pay for school fees, with the African Angels organization fund raising to pay for running costs such as domain hosting and administration fees.
A mixture of South African and international families, businesses and individuals sponsor the Angels. We have a long list of children still awaiting sponsorship, and welcome new sponsors who can commit to supporting a child through their education for the long term.
To support our work you can Sponsor an Angel, or make regular or once off donations, or volunteer your time and skills.
Please contact us for more details.
To make regular donations please complete our debit order form and fax to us debit_order_authority.doc
Thank you!
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 In December 2003 an Australian traveller, Lou Billett, arrived at Buccaneers Backpackers in Chintsa, a small seaside village on the Eastern Cape of South Africa, and fell in love…with Chintsa, the family who run Buccaneers and their outreach projects, and the local Xhosa people. At Buccaneers Lou met Akha
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 A total of 22 disadvantaged children have been sponsored since African Angels' beginning in 2008. We are now a certified Non Profit Making Organisation. All contributions by sponsors are paid directly into schools to gurantee placement for the children. We always welcome new sponsors and donations. At the moment we have a few projects in the pipeline...Find out what you can do
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