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.

Thank you!

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