Masizakhe Community Pre-School currently looks after approximately 140 children aged 1 to 6, and receives no department of education or department of social services funding. A group of independent fundraisers try to arrange a year-end gift for each child, and also try to support the school as much as possible each year. Information on the school and its history can be found at www.masizakhe.org.za. The school requires the following food items on a daily basis:
* whitestar miellie meal
* samp and beans
* Speko rice
* fish oil
* split peas
* spaghetti/macaroni
* oats
* tomato paste
* Morvite cereal. In order to give each child a year-end gift, the only gift ever received for some of the children, we are in need of the following (new) items:
• Books for age 1 to 6
• Soft toys for all of the children, small cars for the boys, small dolls for the girls
• Small size baby lotion, baby powder or pocket size Vaseline
• Facecloth or bath sponge, toothbrush and toothpaste
• A5 exercise books, ballpoint pens, colouring books, activity books, crayons, pencil crayons, pencils, sharpeners, erasers, small 15cm rulers
• Sweets (nothing that could melt and preferably in a sealed packet)
• Clothing (dress, t-shirt and shorts, underwear) for ages 1 to 6
You can help by:
• Providing some of the listed items above if in Cape Town, or
• Sponsoring a year-end gift box (or more than one) at R300 per gift box, or
• Making any donation you can spare into our fundraising bank account or our PayPal account, or
• spreading the word amongst your colleagues and friends, to give us as much exposure as we can get. We look forward to receiving your offer of help, and will make sure receipts are issued for any donations of items or funds. If you would like to visit the school at any time, please contact us, and you are also welcome to join us annually on the day we hand out the year-end gifts to the children.
