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Zwelihle Summer School
The Zwelihle Summer School was our first project. Tamsanqa Salukazana, a young South African, came up with this brilliant idea of involving youngsters as volunteers. In 1998 he put a team of 15 young volunteers together. They organised the very first holiday school in 1998, in Zwelihle township, Hermanus. During the next four years we developed the holiday schools model. Sadly enough Tamsanqa did not live to see the model come into being. He died of Aids related diseases, six months after that first holiday school. In our brochure about the holiday schools model you will find more information. To download the brochure, please use this link >> to SPZA holiday schools model >> to top of page
Which townships?
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SPZA and the environment
The SPZA promotes recycling. At many holiday schools children pay their entrance fee with recyclables or recyclables are being used for art & craft workshops. At the Recycle Swop Shop children can earn their own school uniform or school equipment by collecting recyclables. More information can be found on the Sponsor-a-child pages on our website >> to Sponsor-a-child programme
Quite often educational outings to a nature reserve or to the beach are part of the programme as well as cleaning up the area or attending a workshop about the environment.
Our Fair Wine Inventory is also part of our commitment to sustainability. The inventory can be downloaded from our website >> to Fair Wine Inventory
In order to save costs as well as the environment all our documents are made available in digital format. >> to Publications & Downloads >> to top of page
SPZA and the Millennium Development Goals
If you sponsor a child place the school will be more flexible in directing funds to where they are needed most at a specific moment: when parent(s) loose their job, fall ill or pass away. >> to top of page
The schools select the children who need sponsoring, taking family circumstances, living conditions and family income into account. In many townships unemployment is rife. In some over 50% of the adults are jobless. Because there is a lot of casual labour and seasonal work the financial situation of a family can change from one day to the next. That is why a bursary fund has been established. The bursary fund makes it possible for children to stay at school even when parents are (temporarily) not able to pay the fees. By donating to the school's bursary fund you can assist a number of children. >> to top of page
Please send us an e-mail:
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. Let us know whether you would like to sponsor an individual child or a school bursary fund. More information about costs can be found on our web page Cost per child >> to Cost per child >> to top of page
Scholarship programme
Youngsters who apply for a scholarship must meet the following requirements:
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Prove that she/he has worked as a volunteer..
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Prove that her/his family does not have the means to support her/him in full.
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Live in a township in South Africa.
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Have a high school diploma (or first year's results) that reconciles with the study choice.
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For the duration of the scholarship the student is obliged Work as a volunteer for at least two weeks per year.
We encourage students to apply for a scholarship elsewhere. A student who succeeds is entitled to a bonus of maximum R 1.000 or 10% of the amount that we save, whatever comes first. >> to top of page
We rarely transfer money to the students themselves. Instead we transfer money to the school or to one of our partners. Together with the student they sort out what needs to be paid for : books, accommodation, transport, subsistence, etc. Students are obliged to get in touch monthly.
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Partnerships
We choose our partners based on the following criterions:
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Empowerment: discovering and developing people's talents and power. We only fund local knowledge and expertise, no money is made available for foreign 'experts' or 'consultants'.
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Ownership: we only fund projects initiated by locals. 'Local people own local projects'. We expect input from the project owners: manpower (volunteers), venues, materials, discount from suppliers, funding from others, preferably in South Africa.
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There must be a real need for the project. No other organisation in the area is doing the same thing.
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Registered ngo, npo or similar.
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Transparency (annual narrative and financial reports, constitution etc. available).
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The project must fit into one of our programmes: out of school care, child sponsorships, scholarships.
For every partnership all parties enter into a written agreement. If you are new to us we would like to receive a copy of your constitution, latest annual narrative and financial report, auditor’s report and any other documents that may assist us in learning more about your organisation.
Please note that e-mails larger than 250 Kb will be blocked. Rather send documents on CD/DVD or upload your documents to http://www.sendspace.com and send us the links. >> to top of page
All our partners are mentioned in our Annual report >> to Annual report {/slide}
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We like to work together with other organisations. Would you like to become a financial partner or an operational partner? Please check our criterions first, see above. Then send us a proposal (max. 200 Kb).
Would you like to become one of our out-of-school programme partners? Then please apply for a copy of our application form 'Extra-curricular activities'. Would you like to learn more or do you think you have an interesting proposition? Please get in touch, we would like to discuss the possibilities and mutual benefits of a partnership.
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My donation
We garantee that 100% of your donation will be spent on our target group. You may even want to decide on which project.
BDO Accounting and Assurance in Rotterdam, check our books. CBF, the national accreditation body for Dutch charities, checks whether funds have been spent into agreement with our goals and plans. In our annual narrative and financial report - available on our website - we aim at accountability and transparency. We report back on our successes and on our failures as well as on our impact on the target group and the community at large.
However, for donors who are not happy with our work, we have a money-back-guarantee.
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Tax facilities
We have tax facilities for donors who
1. reside in The Netherlands
2. reside in Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland, the United Kingdom or in the United States of America.
1. Donations from residents in The Netherlands are tax deductable if:
- Donations amount to a minimum of 1% and a maximum of 10% of one's taxable income. E.g: your taxable income is € 40.000 and you donate € 650 to charity. € 650 - € 400 (1% of your taxable income) = € 250 which amount is tax deductable.
- Donations during at least five years that have been laid down in a notary document are fully tax deductable. E.g: your taxable income is € 40.000 and your annual donation to charity amounts to € 650. The whole amount of € 650 is tax deductable.
For more information please read our flyer Notarieel schenken (will be translated into English soon) >> to Notarieel schenken
2. Donations from residents in Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland, the United Kingdom or in the United States of America are tax deductable if the donation has been transferred through a member of the Trans Giving Europe (TGE) network.For more information, please read our flyer Tax effective cross border donations >> to Tax effective cros border donations >> to top of page
Complaints
Please assist us to improve our work and share your comments and complaints with us.
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