Amapondo Children’s Project (ACP)
The Amapondo Children’s Project (ACP for short) offers community support through its involvement in a number of activities. Our primary focus is with the Mthumbane Pre-Primary School and the Port St. Johns Junior Secondary School, where we promote strength of education, administration excellence, and most importantly healthy and happy children.
We also support the Port St. Johns Youth Centre, the Amapondo Gift Shop and Designers and other local initiatives.
The ACP started in 2001 and was registered as a non-profit organisation (048-276-NPO) in 2006.
Volunteer Program • Fundraising • Educational assistance • Project management • Collaboration
Our vision is to recognize the needs of our local community in Port St. Johns, which guides our ability to facilitate and support the space for change in order to create community led enterprises, jobs, education, self-empowerment and valuable exchange. To achieve this we depend on the skills and experience of both national and international volunteers.
Services of the ACP:
- Fundraising – we raise funds to support and develop the following existing ACP initiatives: Mthumbane Pre-Primary School, Port St. Johns Junior Secondary School, The Khulani Sewing Project, and Amapondo Gift Shop and Designers.
- Volunteer Program – we recruit, train and develop national and international volunteers to help manage the ACP, support and develop community initiatives, and bring skills and expertise into the local community helping local people to develop their own businesses.
- Project Management – we support and continually develop all ACP initiatives, drawing on local community support.
- Educational Assistance – we offer teaching assistance, curriculum development and school support, and we offer after-school support to children in need.
- Collaboration – we partner with the Rotary Club of Port St. Johns amongst other NGO’s and together we run community based activities to unite, empower and strengthen our local community.
We are committed to working in partnership with the community, relevant stakeholders, NGO’s, government departments, educators and learners to build on the well-being of the children of this area, the future leaders of our country. We do this by offering:
- A co-developed constructive plan of action
- On-going training and support
- Encouraging communities to set up new initiatives
- Mentorship to help overcome challenges, to identify needs, and to foster personal growth
- Sustainable support to our existing projects
- The provision of volunteer workers and resources