Look at you South Africa!!!

Last week as we all were frantic adjusting to the COVID19 lock down, we at ACFS were frantic as to how we were going to keep supporting our vulnerable children and their families given that our normal programmes had to stop. We reached out to you South Africa and...

Celebrating our donors

You’re the gooey goodness We couldn’t survive without our donors. They’re the peanut butter between our slices of bread! So in September 2019, we were honoured to offer longstanding donors a tour of ACFS facilities. They visited the Zola Malnutrition Centre with its’...

Message from our Chairman

Since its beginning 75 years ago, the ACFS has found relevance working with children in Soweto, Alexandra, Thembisa and Tsakane. It’s always understood that it plays a critical role in providing children from under resourced townships with a more equitable start in...

A song and a smile

One of the biggest challenges we face is with child- and granny-headed households. These families are poor, hungry, and desperate. That’s why we say a special “thank you” to donors who sent gifts to gogos like 71-year-old Lucy Makati. Lucy is the main provider of her...