What We Do:
ACT - Head Office in
The organization
accordingly runs a whole range of programme facilities in support of socially
disadvantaged and impoverished families so as to help them lead a decent life
in the long term:
Invest in training
of young people
High tech: Well-equipped computer center, where Orphans and vulnerable and abandoned children (OVC) receive free computer training in various computer levels.
1
Natural and
agricultural resource management training: (Environmental education training)
2
Vocational
training
3
Community
development Training: foster parents, care givers and community leaders in the
provision of support to OVC’s.
Work closely with
local schools
1
Identifying of
OVC’s and their needs.
2
Psycho-social
support.
3
Christian
counseling and character development support.
Offer work
experience
1
After completing
our training all the OVC’s are ready to take any challenge within the
community.
Provide work placement
2 We link our OVC’s with good standing trustworthy Vocational training companies for full time jobsa.
Support
opportunities for young people
3
Advocating for
bursaries to further their education.
Supplemental
nutrition and food support in family units
4
Nourishment:
Daily Feeding scheme for OVC’s.
Nooitgedacht
Environmental / Agricultural Centre:
The name Nooitgedach
is a German word that means; I NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT IT’ which are
self-explanatory in our case. We never thought that we would own a piece of
land in our motherland
Programmes/Services
that we are offering for productivity and sustainability of our Trust on farm
Nooitgedach:
ACT exists to improve the lives of OVC’s in
Animal
husbandry :(cattle, goats and
sheep) manure (fertilizer), wool, meat, milk and pelts.
Crop production: Growing of vegetables, fruit trees and medicinal
plants as many HIV/AIDS affected households rely more heavily on supplemental
food or nutritional supplements.
Chicken farming: We will
sustain family units and farm activities of Nooitgedacht, orphans and natural
care programme with eggs, chicken meat, feathers will be used to make pillow
for the project.
Bee keeping: Honey
will be used to sustain the project and children will be taught how the honey-combs is used in
making wood polishes and candles.
Rabbit farming & Aquaculture: Meat from this project will be used to educate OVC's on the choice of healthier nutrition.
Wildlife
farming: OVC's will be introduced to the fundamentals of running a wildlife farm, and be made aware of keeping the balance to sustain the wild animals.
Natural resource management:
Protect, Promote
and Utilization (NRM)
Orphans, vulnerable
Children and adolescents will be taught the use of medicinal plants to treat
AIDS and other illnesses, and delivering HIV-AIDS awareness and care services
through Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM).
Socio - Entertainment activities:
1
How to
congregate, learn old stories and African folklore around a campfire.
2
God’s plan for
you on earth: Life skills - Choose to wait.
3
Ama khoe - khoe
Culture, Our Heritage:
4
Self- expression
skill; Debate on variety between Live in City or on the farm.
Environmental
education Field trips/sport;
1
Horse riding
2
Donkey cart game
drives.
3
Game, birds and plant
watch.
Orphans, vulnerable
Children and adolescents are enjoying the love and support of Acacia
educational, health, social facilities and emergency relief programmes. Many
children living apart from their biological families for a variety of reasons
including: parental separation, family violence and neglects, social and
economic need or because they have lost their parents or primary caregiver or
is in need of care and protection due to war, natural catastrophes or disease especially AIDS.
