Growing great girls

The Teenage Girls Programme has grown beautifully since it was piloted in 2019 with 50 girls. It’s become a major attraction among young girls and has received some great publicity. The programme will now be expanding from two ACFS centres to all our centres, thanks...

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...