who are we?
Mizpah is a non-profit organization registered with the department of social development in 1999. the aim of the organization is to render socio/economic service support to the less fortunate within the communities of kraaifontein, delft & kuilsriver.
Projects
Creative training
Our creative training project focuses on developing youth creativity through arts and crafts. We do this through after-school creative art program where we use art as a tool to learn, play, reflect and create.
feeding scheme
Our feeding scheme focuses on providing warm meals to the less fortunate and hungry kids in our community. A hungry child struggles to learn so for the past 10+ years we have been providing atleast 1 meal a week to +-60 children through soup kitchens. We also provide food parcel to some elders who don't have the necessary support.
elderly support
Our elderly support program focuses on providing support to elderly folks in our local old age homes, we do so through doing regular visits to elderly folks who have no families and also doing a lunch with entertainment for them.
about
Creative training project
Our methodology is driven by the belief that we are all creative beings and that the solution to most of our problems lie within us. The project is inspired by and uses the butterfly art project (BAP) method where we use art therapeutic interventions to help kids coming from traumatized communities to develop their emotional well being and creativity by expressing themselves through art.
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Feeding schemes
Our feeding scheme is our 1st project, started by the founders of the Mizpah organization mr & Mrs Benjamin and dora freeman where they would do weekly soup kitchens in the communities of kraaifontein, bonteheuwel and bishop lavis area. there main focus was to make sure that no child goes to school on an empty stomach as a hungry child struggles to learn, so every morning they would be up with pots of soup and kids as well as hungry adults could collect a warm meal before heading to school. This was a tradition that we continued with as we saw the positive impact it had on many kids from the community as they would line up to receive that 1st meal for the day with nothing but a look of gratitude on their face as they give thanks for what could potentially be their last meal for the day.
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elderly support
Nelson Mandela once said "A society that does not value its older people denies its roots and endangers its future. let us strive to enhance their capacity to support themselves for as long as possible and when they cannot do so anymore, to care for them". This statement resonates with our organization considering South-african history and the impact that oppressive systems like apartheid had on the older generations, we have many elders living in extremely impoverished conditions, and for those who don't have family or children to support them, its important for us to provide them with the necessary support to survive. we do so by providing regular visitation to elders who don't have family members and giving them food parcels once a month and also having quarterly lunches with entertainment to those elders in our local old age homes.
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