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1Child Welfare Tshwane • Annual Report 2012-2013 • Unlocking the potential of children and families.

OurVision

Protecting all children and building better lives for them and their families.

OurObjectives

• We are building communities in which all children live with a loving

adult care giver in a safe family home with easy access to food, health-care, education, recreation, and emotional

support.• We provide developmental social work services that are sustainable

through effective and accurate financial management, fundraising and marketing and human resource

development. • We care and protect children by

preserving family life and preventing family disintegration through the social developmental approach.

OurMission

We are a leading non-profit social services organisation tasked with developing sustainable change and creating a safety net for children and

their families.

Our Purpose

We protect children and ensure that they have the opportunity to reach their

full potential.

2 Child Welfare Tshwane • Annual Report 2012-2013 • Unlocking the potential of children and families.

It is said that the first step to realising new results is to adopt a new strategic conversation. Child Welfare Tshwane

2013 was thus marked as our strategic year. We have spent time and energy in re-positioning (centralization) and re-organising (strategic management) our organisation.

Our mandate was to look at appropriate turnaround strategies to help Management revitalize and re-invent the organization in a changing environment and to react to drivers of a political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental landscape.

Turnaround strategies include inter alia financial and operational turnaround, re-organization and strategic re-positioning and cost reduction management.

Our strategic intent is threefold:

• To centralize and restructure management;• To become the preferred Child Welfare Service Provider in Tshwane; and• To build our organisation through our people.

The strategy has been formulated and approved by the Board and will be implemented by the Director, Linda Nell and her talented team. The Board will remain involved by monitoring and evaluating implementation.

We have also developed a new vision, mission and value statements:

Our Vision: Protecting all children and building better lives for them and their families.

Our Mission: We are a leading non-profit social service organization tasked with developing sustainable change and creating a safety net for children and families.

Our Values are:

CompassionProfessionalismIntegrity

It is again my pleasure to report that we render the highest level of social work services through our service network in the respective communities within our areas of expertise.

We remain under tremendous pressure to raise funds; the economic downturn has definitely left its mark and has

led to the use of more innovation and creativity not only in terms of marketing but also in managing our expenses. The entire team continues to work towards increasing sponsors, improving our networking efforts, and as our mission states to be the leader in our field.

I thank The Board and Area Committees for the contribution they have made over the past year. We are also blessed with volunteers working for CWT, who are committed and focused, be it at committee or community level. Without these volunteers forming an integral part of our organization, we will not survive as NGO. Our heartfelt thanks to all of them.

Our people form the cornerstone of Child Welfare Tshwane. They do not only provide the services to our communities and customers, but also do not hesitate to walk the extra mile. They are the true custodians of the rights of our children, in essence the protectors of those in vulnerable positions. We applaud them and the role that they play, we are proud to employ them as our employees. We are fortunate to have passionate leadership that provides effective and efficient guidance to our staff; our Director Linda Nell leads her team through her example.

The Department of Social Development continues to be our partner, and we are grateful for the positive relationship we have built over the years. We acknowledge the subsidies we receive from them and thank them for allowing us to work hand in hand with them.

We believe that together we have more strength and can thus achieve more. We have, therefore decided to remain a member of Child Welfare South Africa, working collectively for a better dispensation for all Welfare organizations.

Child Welfare Tshwane would also like to acknowledge that we have been fortunate to be a beneficiary of the National Lotteries Trust Fund again, we are extremely thankful for their contribution to our organization.

To each sponsor, volunteer, contributor and staff member who made a monumental difference to Child Welfare Tshwane, thank you! You are valued and the reason we are able to do life-changing work.

Chairperson’s ReportCelest van Niekerk


Director’s ReportLinda Nell

It is often said that civilization can be measured against the degree to which the community itself contributes towards

the well-being and social development of the community at large. A community’s needs are inevitably greater than the resources available. Child Welfare Tshwane acts on behalf of the community, caring protecting and empowering thousands of children and their families over the 95 years of our existence.

The ever- increasing demand for social services for children due to poverty, family disintegration, family violence, child abuse and neglect, abandonment and HIV/Aids, and viewed against the enormous financial challenges of NPO’s to survive, forced CWT’s management team to embark on a monitoring, and evaluating exercise to streamline and repositioning of CWT’s business activities.

The Board of Management, who is responsible for good governance, exercising of authority, direction and control revisited the intrinsic nature, purpose, integrity and identity of the organization. The decision was made that CWT as a leading non-profit social service organization was tasked with developing sustainable change and creating a safety net for children and families. The overall strategy that was adopted is to streamline and reposition our business in such a manner, that CWT continues to be a household name in Tshwane. For the year under revision, critical strategies were implemented in order to achieve the following objectives:

Objective 1: To provide developmental social work services that are sustainable through effective and accurate financial management, fundraising and marketing and human resource development.Objective 2: To care and protect children by preserving family life and preventing family disintegration through the social developmental approach.

The core business, namely, Social Work Services were specialized and refined. The organisation structure was adapted accordingly. For this financial year, in order to save costs the seven service points were consolidated to five, to ensure that overhead costs are limited in order to have more funds available for direct services to our children.

The social work programmes were rationalized to four comprehensive programmes for the entire organization, being Help desk/Crises intervention; Family Perseverance; Statutory services and Residential care. The Social Work services were standardized throughout the organization. Specialized supervision services on each of the programmes were done by a skilled supervisor with expert knowledge in the specific service field.

The Management Board adopted six key financial strategies for financial sustainability for Child Welfare Tshwane:

• Diversify sources of income. Development of paid services/enterprise section;• Reduce “donor” dependency; actively explore alternative means of income;• Increase unrestricted income;• Build and protect financial reserves;• Develop productive stakeholder relationships; and• Maintain strong financial management.

A specific strategy was developed for marketing, fundraising and communication, to enhance marketing efforts, build adequate partnerships and networking.

For organization optimisation, a decision was taken to upgrade the skills of the staff, both professional and support staff. A new post was created for training, advocacy and for income generating purposes.

The Human Resource department was restructured, in order to be more effective and efficient. Job specifications and job descriptions were revised, as well as the development of proper performance standards and plans for each employee. Information and communication technology optimization was done as support to staff and the proper functioning of the organization.

At Child Welfare Tshwane, we honour the active participation of our stakeholders –our community members, our volunteers, our donors and our staff, who are the heart and soul of this organisation. We believe in self-help, namely the potential of people to develop their inner strengths to effect positive change. Therefore we are committed to developing people and communities at large.

I sincerely want to thank our Chairperson for her excellent leadership qualities and managerial skills. I also have appreciation of our Board of Management Members, for their time and sharing their specialized skills with us. They play a vital role in our different communities.

My appreciation to all employees, for your dedication and perseverance, making this world a better place for thousands of children.

“We are people of two worlds. We treat the corridors of power in our advocacy and walk the halls of wealth in our fundraising. We come back to visit with families and children in crises and take the casualties of society into our homes” (The editor: “The Child Care Worker” May 1994)


Intake Services

Crises and Assessment Centre

Services rendered

• Help Desk: Receive all intakes/reports from the community;• Crisis intervention: call out service to the community concerned about the welfare of children;• Complete a full risk assessment of the child and families’ circumstances;• Continue with intervention services;• Where relevant refer cases to additional service providers; • Safe-guarding children in events where child abuse, neglect or life threatening situations occur through Children’s Court interventions.

Areas of operation Pretoria and Centurion

Newly reported beneficiaries

Children 505Youth 116Adults 709Total 1330

A success story

An intake was received from a reporter that a father was verbally abusing his children. The Social worker did an investigation where after it came to light that the father experienced financial pressure. During the family intervention the family was helped with financial planning, communication skills and stress management. Every member of the family committed to support this plan. After regular follow ups, we can be sure that this family is functioning much better!

Social Work Services


Therapeutic and Forensic Services

Services rendered

• General socio-emotional assessments: A holistic evaluation of a child’s experience of his/her world, with a specific focus on the child’s attachment figures and screening for possible abuse or neglect;• Forensic assessment: When there is sufficient reason to suspect possible abuse (physical or sexual) or a child made a disclosure of alleged abuse, a forensic assessment is done to facilitate such a disclosure; • Interactional Analysis (IA): As part of an investigation an IA can be used to determine the nature of a relationship between a child and a caregiver. The IA will shed light on the possible attachment between the two and point out the strengths and weaknesses in the relationship in order to plan future intervention strategies;• Therapeutic intervention: Initiating therapeutic processes to support and empower clients to deal with and process traumatic experiences in order to function optimally;• Training: Training is offered to social workers, social auxiliary workers as well as other professionals on child abuse and neglect, as well as any other social work related topics where training is needed; and• Group work: Bereavement groups, life skills groups and parental guidance group work are presented in communities where CWT delivers services.

Areas of operation

Our main objective is to render assessment and therapeutic support services in all the community areas serviced by CWT as an internal resource to CWT social workers. As part of our commitment to be an accessible child protection organization, our services are also available and utilised by the greater Tshwane area on a private referral basis. These fees paid for services are affordable and allows individuals and other welfare organizations to utilize this specialized resource.

Beneficiaries

Children and families, as referred by other CWT programmes and social service providers, benefit from our services. Through our Forensic Assessment services the justice system benefits from our investigations and reports about alleged abuse.

Socio-emotional assessments 144Forensic assessments 15Therapy sessions 150Group work sessions 53Total 362


Family Preservation

Services must be aimed at keeping families together and providing services and programmes intended to support and strengthen families. The purpose of family preservation is to empower families in order to reduce the incidences of the removal of children from their families.

Drop-In CentresDrop-In centres is a type of partial care that provides an after school service for children attending a primary or secondary school. The drop-in service provides a one stop holistic service to vulnerable children. We provide a nutritional meal, homework support and psycho social programmes for the children attending the drop-in services in 5 underprivileged communities in Tshwane.

The children’s progress is monitored by using the child status index as our criteria for measurement. We are building a database of evaluations of each child in order to develop individual care plans for each child. The child status index measure and monitor overall wellness of the children in the 6 areas as indicated below:

Services rendered

• Volunteers are recruited from the specific community, orientated and trained as caregivers; • 15 volunteers completed training as care workers; and • Skills development and job creation for the care workers.

• Nutritional Support • One nutritional meal per day.

• Educational Support • School applications and registration; • School uniforms and stationery; • Application for subsidy of school fees; • Monitoring of school attendance and progress; • Homework assistance classes; and • Media centre.

• Economic Support • Emergency food parcels and clothing; • Assistance with birth registrations/application for identity documents; • Assistance to access social grants; and • Monitoring of health and immunizations.

• Psycho-Social Support • Life-skill groups: peer pressure, decision making, roles and responsibilities, anger management, emotional intelligence, social skills and planning for their futures; • Bereavement counselling groups for children dealing with loss of parents or significant caregivers and loved ones; • Parenting skills groups; and • Referral of traumatized children to therapy worker for individual assessment and therapy.

• Social Integration • Outings to zoo and museums; • Information on various career options; • Discussion of relevant themes: substance abuse and child abuse; and • Holiday programmes.

Areas of operation

Atteridgeville, Elandspoort, Eersterust, Mamelodi and Sunnyside

Who are our beneficiaries?

60 children Atteridgeville114 children Elandspoort84 children Eersterust85 children Mamelodi83 children Sunnyside

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Life-skill groups

Time to relax

Food parcels

Outings to zoo


Mamma Zamma: Moms & Kids Development Group

Services rendered

The Mamma Zamma Moms & Kids Development group is an 11 week home-based Early Childhood Development (ECD) programme for poor and vulnerable communities that do not have access to ECD centres. The programme’s innovation lies in the fact that it incorporates attachment building activities (bonding) into a programme that addresses intellectual stimulation for children and parental guidance. The programme was developed by Child Welfare Tshwane as an early intervention and prevention programme that straddles the educational and social development of children while involving the primary carer in a structured process.

The Mamma Zamma programme enables parents to teach their children basic colours, shapes, concepts and numeracy that will enable them to enter the Grade R year with these skills already in place. By focusing on building the attachment between the primary carer and child through touch, verbal encouragement and building trust between them, resilience factors are built into the relationship that make them less likely to maltreat their children and for the children to display out of control behaviour.

The parental guidance is presented in a support group where basic information is given and the carers are encouraged to share practices that work and become a support network for each other. The wonder of the Mamma Zamma programme is that the hearts of the primary carers and children are unlocked and deeply connected in an enjoyable programme that helps to build the foundation of improved social and educational outcomes lasting well into the future of the child.

Areas of operation

Pretoria and Centurion


Mothers/caretakers with young children between eighteen months and five years.

Children 64Primary Caretakers 18Pre-Schools 13

Early Childhood Development

A success story

The Mamma Zamma Kiss.

The signature greeting between each mother and child in the Mamma Zamma moms and kids development group is the Mamma Zamma kiss. The mother kiss her finger and then presses it on the lips of the child, the child in turns does the same. At first Thando and Zinthle are a bit apprehensive about this activity. They are not used to be so close to each other. Thando is a single mom and her only income is the child support grant. She is sometimes so stressed about their circumstances that she has no time for the softer things in life. Zinthle many times receives harsh words and gets sent away quickly if she bothers her mom.

But since they have completed the Mamma Zamma programme Thando greets Zinthle with the Mamma Zamma kiss every morning. Life is still hard but Thando and Zinthle feels much closer. They spend a lot more time together and she is teaching her daughter how to count and recognize the colours in the world around them. The Mamma Zamma kiss is still their favourite and they share closeness that this programme has taught them.


The Schools Project

Services rendered

• Create awareness of Child Welfare Tshwane in the communities throughout the year;• Run awareness campaigns regarding child abuse and neglect at schools;• Assist schools with dealing with children who may be abused;• Train teachers about child abuse;• Raise funds through the Kids for Kids envelope collections that supports the functions of Child Welfare Tshwane; and• Collect second hand clothes and old school equipment for distribution to needy schools.

Areas of operation

Pretoria and Centurion


Schools visited 46School learners reached 13 800Child Welfare Tshwane raised R 130 456.56Schools collected old clothes and toys 22Abused children referred for family support services

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A success story

Child Welfare Tshwane introduced Tomorrow’s People Nursery School in Faerie Glen to the Kagisano Pre-school in Mamelodi West. During the year the children of Tomorrow’s People collected canned food and stationary for the Kagisano Pre-school. They also helped building capacity at the Mamelodi School through a teacher exchange project where two teachers came to work at Tomorrow’s People for two weeks where they were taught about lesson preparation, WASH (water hygiene and sanitation) habits for children and classroom management. The year’s highlight was when the children of Tomorrows People gave Christmas presents to all of the children in the Kagisano Pre-school. Through this exchange of knowledge and material aid, the Tomorrow’s People Nursery school helped to encourage the teachers and improved the educational experience of the children attending Kagisano.

Child Protection Week CWT participates in the annual National Child Protection week by awareness and prevention programmes at schools in our area of operation.

Services rendered

• Awareness campaigns were launched at various schools in Tshwane;• Drama and puppet shows informed children about the dangers of child abuse;• HIV & AIDS awareness was highlighted at secondary schools;• Bullying was addressed through awareness talks;• Drug abuse pamphlets were distributed;• Children’s rights and responsibilities were highlighted; and• Emergency contact numbers were given out to schools.

Areas of operation

Atteridgeville, Centurion, Elandspoort, Mid City, Eersterust, and Mamelodi


Children 5 300


Prevention Programme

The Girl Child/Boy Child Project

Services rendered

Group work sessions focussed on the following topics:• Assertiveness training for girls;• Gender-based violence information and discussions;• Prevention of teenage pregnancy;• Awareness of human trafficking; and• Substance abuse and peer pressure were discussed.

Areas of operation

Atteridgeville, Centurion, Elandspoort, Mid City, Eersterust, and Mamelodi.


Girls 50Boys 20

Early Childhood Development

Services rendered

• Cognitive stimulation and developing intellectual abilities to prevent social issues in future;• Presenting seminars and training to caretakers at informal pre-schools;• Basic ECD – how to develop and stimulate pre-school children; and• Advance ECD – Children Kinetics.

Area of operation

Olievenhoutbosch.


Caretakers 58Children 600


Foster CareThe focus of this programme is to offer foster care service to foster children within their families (related or un-related). The aim of foster care services are the development of children within families to reach their full potential.

Services rendered

• Develop IDP’s (Independent Development Plan) which enables children to set goals and work towards them with the assistance and encouragement of the foster parent;• A child is placed in foster care if his/her biological parents are deceased, or the child is abandoned, abused, or neglected. The child is then placed with a suitable family to give them an opportunity to grow and develop in a family home;• Foster care supervision services ensures that children in foster care are protected, nurtured and provided with a safe and healthy environment; and• Foster parents support groups receives guidance and training to deal with stress, parental responsibilities and development stages of children.

Areas of operation

Atteridgeville, Mamelodi, Eersterust, Centurion, Olievenhoutbosch, Mid City and Elandspoort


Foster Children and their families

Children committed to a foster home 35Children in foster care excluding family placements

82

Children in family foster care 864

Success Stories

• Tebogo Matjil, a foster child in Atteridgeville, has won a gold and silver medal for playing soccer;• Tumelo Setsiba received a R250 donation for his18th birthday from a sponsor;• Surprise Makhubela who was not performing well at school and regarded as a slow learner, was placed through the assistance of an educational psychologist, at an FET college on a course for Jewellery Design and will be sent to China to further his trade;• A father was reunified with his son after he was abducted by family to Windhoek;• 10 foster children matriculated and are at different Universities and Colleges; and• Neo Tisana, a foster child in Mamelodi, was send to Germany as part of an exchange programme.

Legal protection

Children’s Court Investigations

Services rendered

Social Work Services are rendered in an effort to keep the family together. When these services fail, the children involved must be protected from any form of harm, neglect, abuse or maltreatment. This is when these children need to be protected by means of Statutory (Court) Intervention. This means that the Social Worker will investigate the specific case and write a statutory report to the Children’s Court, in which recommendations are made as to the best interest of these children, to provide adequate care and protection for them.

Areas of operation

Eersterust, Mamelodi, Atteridgeville, Elandspoort, Mid City, Centurion, Olievenhoutbosch.


Children under the age of 18 years found to be in need of care and protection by a Children’s Court. A total of 90 children were place in alternative care (either in foster care or a Child and Youth Care Centre).

Success Stories

One of our children who were discharged from the regulations last year is now doing a degree in HR and Admin at the University of Pretoria.


AdoptionsAdoptions are the placement of a child in the permanent care of a person who is not their biological parent or guardian. Adoption provides a permanent or stable family life for children who would otherwise be deprived of one.

Services rendered

• Support and counselling to biological parents;• Care for babies and young children;• Screening of prospective adoptive parents;• Family adoptions/open adoptions; and• Search of origin- reunification services for adult adopted children and parents.

Area of operation

Services are provided across South Africa.


We reached a total of 1202 beneficiaries who consisted of biological parents, babies, prospective adoptive parents, temporary safe care parents, family members, adopters and adoptees.

Foster care placements 4Babies reunified with biological parents 5Family Adoptions 13Successful search of origin 15Adoptions 63

A success story

Our strong-willed warrior… LIAM SMIT

After a wonderful marriage of 14 years, just one thing was missing... our own child. Both of us being teachers, we have a passion for children, and have always dreamed of our own little bundle of love.

In July 2012 we started the process of adoption, but also knew that this could take up to three years! After an unsuccessful in-vitro treatment we even felt more strongly about adoption. We started to prepare our families for the possibility of becoming adoptive parents.

In August 2012 my sister’s 7 year-old son came out of church and told his mom that Jesus said to him that He is busy with baby - Smit. We forgot about this day in August.

On the 5th of August Liam was born….

In March 2013 we got the call from the social worker at Child Welfare Tshwane that there is a baby boy without parents. We called him Liam. This means: “Strong-willed warrior...“ A name which fits our son’s nature perfectly…

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Child and Youth Care Centre

Bramley Children’s Home At Bramley we provide full time residential care for children who are orphaned or are unable to live with their biological families. We provide holistic care for 54 children. Our motto is “Here we teach our children how to live”.

Services rendered

• Physical care • Prepare 3 balanced meals per day; • Wash, maintain and purchasing of clothes and school clothes; • Daily cleaning of houses; • Personal hygiene and care; and • Medical and dental care.

• Spiritual care • Kids in action camps every school holiday.

• Emotional care • Therapy to all children as needed; • Specialised therapy where needed; • Liaise with psychiatrists, other social workers, psychologists and school teachers regarding the emotional care and therapy children received. • Educational • Transport to several different schools mornings and afternoons; • Transport to extra murals and sport afternoons where applicable; • Extra lessons; and • Daily assistance in each house, with homework through a homework helper.

• Programmes • Orientation; > Orientation of new children through group work sessions; > Principals where needed [special needs children]; and > Orientation of new children through individual sessions. • Life skills programme; • Children’s rights and responsibilities programme; • Exit-strategy programme for school leavers and 18 year olds; • Anger management programme; • Focus groups at camps and holiday programmes; • Weekend/holiday parent programme; and • Foster care programme.

Area of operation

Services are rendered across the province of Gauteng.


Children (6 - 18years) 54

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Legal protection

Family reunificationFamily reunification services are goal-directed services that are planned and rendered to the child, parent, guardian or caregiver. It aims to empower them to allow and facilitate the restoration of the relationship between the child and their parent(s), guardian(s) or caregiver(s). Family reunification servicers aim to reunite the child when the issues that led or contributed to the removal of the child into alternative care have been addressed.

Services rendered

Services focus on teaching parents parenting skills and assisting in implementing a reunification plan.

Areas of operation

Eersterust, Mamelodi, Atteridgeville, Elandspoort, Mid City, Centurion, Olievenhoutbosch


Children reunified with their parents /caregivers 14

Students

Fourth Year Student Unit Services rendered

• Community work projects with the focus on empowerment, peer victimization, bullying, general child protection and developing their potential;• Teaching group work skills to each student through facilitating 10 group work sessions on Girl Child Empowerment Programme;• The students also run 2 support groups for teenage mothers;• Developing practical in the field experience in Statutory and Intake work; and• Assisting in office work, projects and administration of the offices of CWT.

Areas of operation

Eersterust, Atteridgeville, Mamelodi, Mid City


Students 11Girls (12-18) 97Teenage mothers 20

A success story

The students’ year ended on a high note when one of our students that were placed at Eersterust office was nominated by the University of Pretoria for the SACSSP national award as most outstanding Social Work Student 2012. 10 of the 11 students passed their practice training at Child Welfare Tshwane and are now equipped to render social work services.

Third Year Student Unit

Services rendered

• Community project on safety; and• Mamma Zamma Groups.

Area of operation

Olievenhoutbosch


Students 21Children 250


Beneficiaries

TARGET GROUPS Total Number Total No.African Coloured Asian White

M F M F M F M F1. Children 7604 11312 934 1100 71 78 1190 1324 236132. Youth 1119 1626 149 155 21 22 370 409 38713. Women 2340 3772 409 1053 26 70 836 1621 101274. Older Persons 11 1090 3 9 1 2 22 66 12045. Persons with disabilities 23 30 4 4 0 0 11 12 846. Persons with HIV/AIDS 28 98 0 0 0 0 2 6 1347. Other (specify) 4 5 0 0 1 0 0 0 10Grand Total 11129 17933 1499 2321 120 172 2431 3438 39043


The Marketing and Fundraising Department focused on five critical components:

Marketing to ensure that the public image and “brand” of Child Welfare Tshwane is continually promoted amongst all stakeholder groups and the larger public in order to create much-needed awareness and understanding of the vision, objectives and operations of the organisation.

External Communication to donors and stakeholders through regular contact such as Newsletters and the Annual General Meeting.

Fundraising through Proposals: A number of corporate donations by companies were received.

Events: Several Events have been planned and executed:

• Six Golf Days: The Bramley Golf Day, Round Fore Hope Golf Day, Titans Golf Day, SOS Golf Day, Gildenhuys Malatji Golf Day and the Hospitality for Charity Golf Day;• Lifegain Wally Hayward Marathon;• Mandela Day;• Women’s Day Breakfast;• Fire Fly Charity Ball with Titans;• Nataniël Concert at Fort Klapperkop;• 68 Air School Charity Breakfast Run;• The Schools Project that raised funds among most schools in Tshwane; and• Several companies and donors provided substantial contributions of goods and services to the organization which contributed to the effective rendering of services to the community.

Media Relationships: The last component is to convert the public awareness into action in the form of broad community involvement and funds donated to the organisation to ensure its financial survival and sustainability.

The Marketing and Fundraising Department wishes to thank all the benefactors, volunteers and supporters of Child Welfare Tshwane for their donations, contributions and involvement without which we will never be able to survive.

Marketing and FundraisingKaren Badenhorst

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Women’s Day Breakfast

Nataniël visits Eersterust

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CHILD WELFARE TSHWANE(REGISTRATION NUMBER NPO 001-612)FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2013

The Board’s ReportThe board submit their report for the year ended 31 March 2013.

1. Review of activities

Main business and operations

The organisation is engaged in providing welfare services to children and operates principally in South Africa.

2. Financial Results

Highlights

The net deficit of the organisation for the year reduced by 63% to R 299 627 (2012: deficit R 808 444) after receiving revenue of R14 924 064 and incurring total expenditure of R15 220 433.

Currently 90 cent of every Rand received are used in providing essential child welfare services within the community with 25% utilised to provide direct child support (accommodation, food, education, etc.) and a further 65% utilised to provide community services.

Obtaining sufficient donations and other monetary support remains a challenge in order to allow the organisation to provide crucial child and community support services.

Revenue

The organisation derives the majority of its revenue from Government subsidies, varying National Lottery allocations, donations and funds raised through fundraising campaigns.

Total revenue for the 2013 year amounted to R14.9million (2012: R12.9million) of which only 54% (2012: 68%) are government subsidies. During the year government subsidies reduced by 6%, however, this was offset by an allocation of R2.9m by the National Lotteries.

The remainder of the revenue are derived from Donations (10%) and fundraising income (13%).

Total Income2012Subsidy

National Lotteries Board

Donations Income

Fundraising

Rent Received

Cost Recoveries

Interest Received

Fair Value Adjustments

Total Income2013Subsidy

National Lotteries Board

Donations Income

Fundraising

Rent Received

Cost Recoveries

Interest Received

Fair Value Adjustments


R7.1million were utilised to provide essential community services, such as foster care supervision services, reunification services, parenting programmes, orientation programme for prospective foster parents, food parcels, child protection/drug awareness programmes at schools, etc.

This represents 65% of the total expenditure incurred for the year.

Management of Child Welfare Tshwane were very successful in containing head office and overhead expenditure to a minimum during the year with only 10% of all expenditure attributable to these support services.

Total expenditure for the 2013 year amounted to R15.2million (2012: R13.4million), which can be allocated to staff expenses (73%), facility expenses (13%) and office expenses (6%). The remainder of the expenses are for communication and travel expenses (8%). R4.2million were utilised for Lotto approved projects as well as fundraising & marketing expenses.

Utilisation of Resources

As it is Child Welfare Tshwane’s vision and purpose to provide a safe home environment to every child in Tshwane, protect children and ensure that they have the opportunity to reach their full potential, the majority of expenditure are focused towards providing these services.

In the 2013 financial year, expenditure of R2.8million were incurred to provide children, under the care of Child Welfare Tshwane, with a loving adult care giver in a family home, access to food, health-care, education, recreation, transport and emotional support.

This represents 25% of the total expenditure incurred for the year.

This equates to an average cost of R2 700 per month per child under the care of Bramley Children’s Home.

ExpenseSegmentation 2013Community Service Expense

Direct Child Expense

Head Office Expenses

Marketing Expenses

Total Expenditure2013Staff Expenses

Facility Expenses

Professional Fees

Office Expenses

Data and Communication

Travel and Accommodation

Direct child Expenses

Other Expenses

Total Expenditure2012Staff Expenses

Facility Expenses

Professional Fees

Office Expenses

Data and Communication

Travel and Accommodation

Direct child Expenses

Other Expenses

Expenditure

Registered office Business address Postal address77 Nicolson Street 77 Nicolson Street PO Box 503Brooklyn Brooklyn Groenkloof0001 0001 0001

3. Going concern

The financial statements have been prepared on the basis of accounting policies applicable to a going concern. This basis presumes that funds will be available to finance future operations and that the realisation of assets and settlement of liabilities, contingent obligations and commitments will occur in the ordinary course of business.

4. Events after the reporting period

The management is not aware of any matter or circumstance arising since the end of the financial year.


To the members of Child Welfare Tshwane

We have audited the financial statements of Child Welfare Tshwane, as set out on pages 7 to 20, which comprise the statement of financial position as at 31 March 2013, and the statement of comprehensive income, statement of changes in equity and statement of cash flows for the year then ended, and the notes, comprising a summary of significant accounting policies and other explanatory information.

Board’s Responsibility for the Financial Statements

The organisation’s management is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of these financial statements in accordance with the International Financial Reporting Standard for Small and Medium-sized Entities, and requirements of the Organisations Financial Charter, and for such internal control as the directors determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatements, whether due to fraud or error.

Auditors’ Responsibility

Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit. We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing. Those standards require that we comply with ethical requirements and plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance whether the financial statements are free from material misstatement.

An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. The procedures selected depend on the auditors’ judgement, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, the auditor considers internal control relevant to the entity’s preparation and fair presentation of the financial statements in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the entity’s internal control. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements.

We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our qualified audit opinion.

Basis for Qualified Opinion

In common with similar organisations, it is not feasible for the organisation to institute accounting controls over cash receipts and non cash donations prior to the initial entry of the collections in the accounting records.Accordingly, it was impracticable for us to extend our examination beyond the receipts and non cash donations actually recorded.

Qualified Opinion

In our opinion, except for the possible effects of the matter described in the Basis for Qualified Opinion paragraph, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Child Welfare Tshwane as at 31 March 2013, and its financial performance and cash flows for the year then ended in accordance with theInternational Financial Reporting Standard for Small and Medium-sized Entities, and the requirements of theOrganisations Financial Charter.

Supplementary information

Without qualifying our opinion, we draw attention to the fact that supplementary information set out on page 20 does not form part of the financial statements and is presented as additional information. We have not audited this information and accordingly do not express an opinion thereon.

Snijder & Associates Inc.Chartered Accountants (S.A.)Registered Auditors

Per: GJ Coetzee CA (S.A.)26 June 2013Pretoria

Independent Auditor’s Report


Board Members

Ms C Van Niekerk ChairpersonRev P Ohlson Vice ChairpersonMr E Grobbelaar TreasurerMs M Lekganyane ElectedMs W Cloete Bramley Committee Chairperson (Co-opted)Ms C Theron Area Committee Chairperson (Co-opted)Ms M Pillay ElectedPastor T Phala Area Committee Chairperson (Co-opted)Mr M Kiewitz Area Committee Chairperson (Co-opted)Mr A Germishuizen Area Committee Chairperson (Co-opted)Dr H Mazanderani Area Committee Chairperson (Co-opted)Mr E Nkoana Area Committee Chairperson (Co-opted)Ms M van Zyl Secretary


Financial Statements

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2013STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION

2013 2012Notes R R

Assets

Non-Current AssetsProperty, plant and equipment 2 3,403,262 3,881,253Other financial assets 3 3,149,586 2,129,523

6,552,848 6,010,776

Current AssetsTrade and other receivables 4 230,340 179,179Cash and cash equivalents 5 485,579 643,827

715,919 823,006Total Assets 7,268,767 6,833,782

Equity and Liabilities

EquityAccumulated funds 5,819,534 6,119,163

Liabilities

Current LiabilitiesFunds for specific purposes 6 825,546 89,340Trade and other payables 7 623,687 625,279

1,449,233 714,619Total Equity and Liabilities 7,268,767 6,833,782


Financial Statements

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2013STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME 2013 2012 Notes R RFundingSubsidies received 8,119,142 8,992,988National Lotteries Board 81,940 319,949 Donation income 834,203 1,160,259Fundraising income 589,007 2,037,739 8 9,624,292 12,510,935Other incomeRental income - 110.672Discount received - 485Recoveries - 150,775Project income 12,963 -Paid services 152,797 -Additional income 706,794 -Other income 29,302 -Finance income 9 170,021 137,769 1,071,877 399,701Expenses (10,995,798) (13,718,970)Operating deficit (299,629) (808,334)Finance costs - (111)Deficit for the year (299,629) (808,445)Other comprehensive income - -Total comprehensive deficit for the year (299,629) (808,445)Operating expenses Accounting fees - (44,678)Advertising - (24,780)Auditors’ remuneration - (60,000)Bank charges - (46,697)Cleaning - (32,955)Community Services Expenses (7,113,768) -Computer expenses - (61,424)Consulting and professional fees - (190,596)Depreciation, amortisation and impairments - (433,430)Direct Children’s Support Expenses (2,782,763) -Direct children’s expenses - (401,391)Donations - (261,148)Employee costs - (9,079,632)Function and hospitality - (26,289)Head Office Expenses (1,099,267) -Insurance - (198,088)Lease rentals on operating lease - (111,951)Leasing charges - (295,327)Marketing and fundraising - (580,613)Motor vehicle expenses - (268,859)Printing and stationery - (100,888)Project expenses - (336,657)Repairs and maintenance - (144,823)Security - (110,136)Staff welfare - (10,074)Subscriptions - (1,369)Telephone and fax - (473,231)Travel - local - (40,339)Utilities - (383,595) (10,995,798) (13,718,970)


Thank youTo all our board members,

area community committee members,volunteers, partners, donors, sponsors

and friends…

We want to express our sincere appreciation and gratitude

for your support throughout the year.

With your continued support,we can build happy and functional

families and communities.

Thank you

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