About Us
Save the Children South Africa is made up of two indigenous branches of Save the Children – SCF Gauteng and SCF KwaZulu-Natal.
Save the Children Gauteng, which hosts this site, was set up in 1944 and was among South Africa’s first child welfare organisations. It is a voluntary, non-aligned, non-sectarian charity committed to working for children and their parents in some of South Africa’s most deprived communities.
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Sixty years ago, SCF Gauteng’s main objective was to distribute clothing and food to relieve children in distress. Today, it has broadened its work from a welfare approach and developed sound experience in community development. Its areas of expertise include early childhood development and employment and life skills training.
Today's Children
Each day countless children around the world are exposed to dangers that hamper their growth and development. They suffer cruelty as casualties of war and violence; as refugees forced to abandon their homes and their roots; as victims of neglect and exploitation.
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Each day millions of children suffer from the scourges of poverty; from hunger and homelessness; from epidemics and illiteracy; from the degradation of the environment. Each day millions of children are forced to become adults before they have had the chance to be children, seeing their parents claimed by HIV/AIDS; becoming orphans and heads of their families exposed to dangers and abuse in order to provide; forced into prostitution or slave labour to survive. This is the life of children today*
*Taken from the declaration adopted by the World Summit for Children.
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Our KwaZulu Natal Branch www.savethechildrenkzn.co.za