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News &
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Youth in conversation
In celebrating the 90th Birthday of our Founder, Mr Nelson Mandela, the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund, hereinafter referred to as the Fund, has chosen the theme "Celebrating the Children's Champion and deepening democracy" in line with the overall theme for the year: "Celebrating Ideas"
Statement on xenophobic attacks
NMCF CEO & ASW Convener Sibongile Mkhabela's statement on xenophobic attacks.Incidents where desperate families ordinarily get caught up in flames arising out of fire accidents in informal settlements had sadly become too frequent to shock us due to their tragic regular occurrence
21 May 2008
Nelson Mandela's
90th Birthday
Mr. Nelson Mandela is turning 90 on 18 July 2008 and Nelson Mandela Children's Fund (NMCF) is hosting a series of events in celebration of his birthday under the theme, Celebrating a Children's Champion. In honour of Mr. Mandela's legacy and his love for children, NMCF will be participating in provincial, national and regional discussion forums referred to as "Nelson Mandela Children's Fund Youth in Parliament."
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CEO Corner
As the year 2007
draws to a close and we all prepare for a
well-earned rest over the Festive Season, it calls
upon us to reflect and to envision what the Fund
hopes to achieve in the coming year... |
Children's Hospital
 Watch
this space as we will soon be bringing you
information on the new children's hospital that the
Nelson Mandela Children's Fund is involved with.
There will be a dedicated mini-site on the hospital.
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90th Celebration
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We the children and young people of Gauteng have in this first NELSON MANDELA CHILDREN`S PARLIAMENT on leadership have, through discussion and debate learned many things about the conditions .
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Annual Report
The Management Trustees are responsible for the
preparation, integrity and fair presentation of the
financial statements of the Nelson Mandela
Children's Fund. The financial statements presented
on pages 31 to 49 have been prepared in accordance
with South African Statements of Generally Accepted
Accounting Practice ("GAAP"), and include amounts
based on judgements and estimates made by
management.
The Management Trustees consider that in
preparing the financial statements...
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Our History
Driven by his love
for children and a desire to end their suffering,
former President Mandela established the Nelson
Mandela Children's Fund (NMCF) in 1995. From 1996 to
1998, NMCF successfully mobilized over R36 million
to fund over 780 projects, at an average of R40, 000
per project. Grounded in the legacy of its founder,
NMCF initially operated as a grant-making
organization promoting a humanitarian response to
the plight of South Africa's children and youth.
The
1995-1999 period was characterised by ad hoc funding
strategies that enabled children and families to
meet immediate needs, and one-time support for
overhead and salary costs for organisations
targeting children's issues, with no particular
programmatic basis for NMCF's engagement with these
organisations.
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Funds Distributed
In the ten years of the Fund's existence it has
grown steadily both in range and depth of work
with children. The way in which the Fund has
responded to children's needs has developed over
the last ten years.
Despite important and unprecedented levels of
improvement in terms of service delivery over the
last ten years, the problem of social deprivation
and exclusion remains huge. This is greater for
children than for the poor generally as children are
dependent on others. It must, however, be emphasized
that most of the problems being faced by children in
South Africa do not stem from absence of policy but
from policy implementation and inadequate access to
service. This context, and our project experience,
means that the Fund has an obligation and
responsibility to become a greater proactive
advocate...
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