We are looking for your support with the following:
Play@Home programme: this is aimed at encouraging fun, playful and light interaction of the family at home. We create Play@home sheets with a range of simple and enjoyable activities that create a little laughter, that stimulate some creativity and that nurture family connections.
Volunteering opportunity:
Provide ideas for the Play@Home sheets
Use your graphic design skills to create the sheets
Translate the Play sheets into Xhosa and Afrikaans.
Or contribute a cup of coffee a week to help us reach those who need some joy at home. http://www.sisanda.org.za/donate
Sisanda Storytime: this programme creates a shared, warm and connected space for anyone, young or old. It is a wonderful way to engage from your living room and to reach into other peoples’ hearts with your presence whether just to listen or to share a story yourself.
Volunteering opportunity:
Share your voice and energy through telling stories, or share this information with others who need a virtual hug right now.
Or contribute a cup of coffee a week to help us reach those who need some joy at home. http://www.sisanda.org.za/donate
Please help us on this journey 😊
Don’t forget to like and follow us on Facebook & Instagram…we need to inspire more little smiles out there and every click of yours helps!
Connect with us through info@sisanda.org.za or 0845715030 and let us know how you would like to get involved.
Our last formal SF programme, Children’s Olympics with 39 young primary school children, was run on 14 March (http://www.sisanda.org.za/event/olympics-at-wynberg-girls-high-school). Our subsequent activities were then put on hold and will continue in this way for the foreseeable future. We have not however been sitting back waiting, instead we have started to divert our energies! Hungry tummies are a major concern, as are the needs of hungry little minds.
During the crisis SF continues to help vulnerable children through our community partners. We have made monetary donations for food distributions to four of our existing partners who provide education and after schools support. We have also connected with two new partners, Red Cross Children’s Hospital Paedspal who are feeding sick children and Lock Down Ladels who have co-founded a COVID-19 feeding scheme, for whom we have also been making and delivering soup.
To feed hungry minds, in line with SFs mission, we have donated games and craft material to engage children at home. We are especially proud of our emerging Sisanda Fun@Home programme which provides ideas to help parents and children stay active and inspired while following the ‘stay at home’ mandate. We include a range of activities sparking use of creative, fine motor and imaginative abilities which are appropriate for low tech, low resource and modest environments. Keeping physically active and building strength is made fun alongside techniques, such as Yoga moves, to calm the mind and body. ‘FunSheets’ are handed out alongside food distributions and when needed accompanied by education on personal protection related to COVID-19.
Sisanda Storytime, initiated in week one of our lock down (30th March), has continued two to three times a week sharing stories with kids by dramatic and engaging stroytellers. This program will look to grow within our Sisanda Connect programme encouraging teens to tell stories across a Zoom platform to children within their own homes or children’s centers.
Going forward SF will be following government directives and working with partners to determine when and how to restart our usual activities. We will also continue innovating with alternative ways in this new normal, to journey with children in our townships and vulnerable spaces towards becoming healthy and happy adults.
We appreciate any ideas you may have to continue to a world in which all children can experience the joy of being children.
Nicky Seymour
On behalf of Sisanda FunDaytion
Info@sisanda.org.za
http://www.sisanda.org.za
We have phenomenal partners leading food distributions including Vusa Rugby and Learning academy; Lock Down Ladles and 1 for 1 We celebrate you!
In addition to contributing to fill tummies SF continues to stimulate little minds to build resilience needed for now and the future. On-line Sisanda Storytime keeps the creative juices flowing and Sisanda Fun@Home sheets provide stimulating ideas to laugh, learn and stay safe while at home. Thank-you to PowerEd for keeping us fit!
We welcome any ideas or support to keep feeding these little tummies and minds!
This is initially a 6-month contract with flexible time averaging 20 hours per week, including at least one Saturday per month.
The Role:
Assist with fundraising
Assist with programme delivery
Skills
· Good written and visual communication skills
· Strong interpersonal skills
· Excellent time-management and organizational skills
· Social media experience
· Some know-how on developing a brand
· 1 – 2 years’ marketing experience
· Creativity and ability to identify ways of presenting impact
· Ability to take initiative and develop and execute plans
· Computer literate
· Team player
· Comfortable with working with vulnerable population groups
Essential
· Willing to work at least one Saturday a month and be flexible with working hours
· Willing to work with flexible work location
· Own laptop and access to internet
· Valid driver’s licence and access to own transport
Deadline for applications: 12th April send COVER LETTER AND CV to info@sisanda.org.za
Join the FIKELELA Aids Project for a 3km fun walk which starts with lighting a candle, a short message of inspiration and prayers for all who live with HIV & AIDS, victims of Gender Based Violence and Children at Risk.
The fun walk takes place on Saturday 30 November 2019 starting at 09:00am.
The starting point is at the St Thomas’ Church, Rondebosch, then the walk takes you through the grounds of Bishops College. The Fikelela Fun Walk this year will be in the form of a fundraiser for much needed funding.
Registration costs are only R50-00 - which includes a goodie bag, for the first 500 entries.
All proceeds will be for the benefit of Fikelela Aids Project i.e. Children at the Fikelela Child and Youth Care Centre, Staff development and Training, Life skills training for young adults and Parenting workshops.
You are encouraged to bring along a picnic basket!
The Fikelela Aids Project team look forward to spending time with you.
Sisanda Days are not only about creating memories and encouraging connections; they are also about making a difference in the lives of the children we meet. Sometimes, that also means assisting in practical ways and sharing the love long after you have said goodbye. Each time you sign up as a volunteer, your feel-good entry in to the day, will be to bring something along that the beneficiary we are hosting may need. Be it, soap, a toothbrush or a book, we'll let you know.
https://www.givengain.com/c/sisanda/
We
are writing this letter in extension of our gratitude to the Sisanda
fundaytion. As the school buddies of Ukhanyo Primary School we are very
grateful to the organisation which took
an initiative of doing something which we see as extra-ordinary. For most of us
it was a once in a lifetime experience and we loved every minute of it.
We
would like to thank the volunteers who were with us all the way and showed us
love like we were their own children. If we were to be given an opportunity to
write as essay about “The day one will never forget” surely our outing will
make op of the list. Going up the mountain was no child’s play .We had several
challenges but we regard that as a learning curve. We say this because we learnt how to overcome
our personal fears as well working together as a team with a goal of reaching
the top.
The
experience we had on top of the mountain was out of this world. We saw things
that we never thought we will ever see in reality. The on top of the mountain
view of the city was amazingly beautiful.
Once
again, we thank you for granting us an opportunity of going out of our
community to explore new things in life.
Media Release
8 April 2014
Varsity College Cowboy /Cowgirl party
14 boys and girls from the Desmond Tutu Centre situated in Gugulethu, recently attended a ‘Cowboy/Cowgirl party’ at Sundowne Recreational farm in Melkbos. The event was hosted by Varsity College’s student volunteer body VC Cares .
The day started with the VC Cares committee members each pairing up with a child ,whom they dressed up in cowboy hats and bandannas to suit the theme. Upon arrival at the farm, the children were given the opportunity to groom- , pet and feed the farm pets ‘Donkey ‘ and ‘Goblin’ , - a donkey and pony duo.
The highlight of the day was each child testing their bravery-, as they were given the opportunity to ride a horse on a short ‘outride’. All 14 children conquered their fears and showed their courage by choosing to ride. Thus proving their true cowboy colors! Said Alice Greyvensten, VC Cares member ‘The day was a special one for all those involved. It is such a fulfilling experience to help the children face their fears and then to realize just how brave they actually are.’
Goodie bags, including a framed photo of each child on a horse and certificates of bravery were awarded to the children at the end of the event. This gift commemorated the day, as well as commended them on their bravery in becoming an ‘official cowboy or cowgirl.’
Note to the editor: Varsity College is an educational brand of The Independent Institute of Education (IIE) (Pty) Ltd, which is registered with the Department of Education and Training as a private further and higher education and training institution under the Further Education and Training Colleges Act, 2006 (reg. no. 2009/FE07/003, prov. to 31/12/2014) and the Higher Education Act, 1997 (reg. no. 2007/HE07/002A). The IIE is a wholly owned subsidiary of ADvTECH (PTY) limited.
ENDS
Issued by PR Intern :Lindsay Balfour Contact Principal: Alan Bird
Tel: (021) 6855921 Campus: Cape Town
Cell: 0825737900 Tel: 0216855021
In
June we got our funky looking brochures and leaflets which were
designed for us by 2 amazing graphic designers, Lindsay Campbell and Monique
Cleghorn. We’re looking to distribute these to Friends of Sisanda FunDaytion who’ve
got corporate connections that would be interested in using our services for
their CSI and/or team-building initiatives.
We have phenomenal partners leading food distributions including Vusa Rugby and Learning academy; Lock Down Ladles and 1 for 1 We celebrate you!
In addition to contributing to fill tummies SF continues to stimulate little minds to build resilience needed for now and the future. On-line Sisanda Storytime keeps the creative juices flowing and Sisanda Fun@Home sheets provide stimulating ideas to laugh, learn and stay safe while at home. Thank-you to PowerEd for keeping us fit!
We welcome any ideas or support to keep feeding these little tummies and minds!