The part of the work that doesn’t fit in a spreadsheet.
One story, told properly, will raise more than a page of statistics. This section is where that happens.
The Saturday Star spent a day in Kagiso.
Kevin Ritchie visited the drop-in centre in November 2020 and published the result on page 9.
The piece describes the work as it stood then: 75 adolescent girls receiving sanitary products and a place to do homework after school and at weekends, and 56 young mothers and grandmothers helped with nappies and food parcels. It sets out plainly why an organisation like this exists in Kagiso at all.
It also names what we were short of: a second laptop, a printer, a projector and sound system, and a bakkie to reach people further afield. Several of those things are still on the wishlist.
The family home in Kagiso, photographed for the article, remains the base of operations.
Saturday Star, 28 November 2020, page 9, by Kevin Ritchie. The clipping is available to funders and journalists on request. It is reproduced here only in summary, as the publisher retains copyright. Request the clipping
Footage
Three clips from the drop-in centre.
Filmed on a phone by our own staff and left unedited. Just the room as it actually looks and sounds on a weekday afternoon.
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