In October 2017, FOUNDATION57 introduced the iPapa57 Feeding and Fundraising Programme in Mossel Bay, South Africa.
This initiative supplies specialised maize products to support the daily nutritional needs of children at Early Childhood Development play schools in the region. iPapa57 partners with registered NGOs and ECD institutions to implement this feeding program. Their maize products are scientifically developed, organic micronutrient formulations designed to address micronutrient deficiencies and promote physical and mental growth in children.
In addition to the daily feeding programme at ECD play schools, iPapa57 is also financing food parcels distributed monthly to child headed families, a soup kitchen in Albertinia in the Southern Cape as well as a food project at a local Mossel Bay High School , providing food parcels to the families of needy children during holidays.
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PROGRAMME RATIONALE
“If children are given strong learning foundations in the early years, they are far more likely to enjoy a path of lifelong learning. Early childhood development sets the foundation for later learning. It is therefore really important to support and encourage a child’s development in the first 5 years of life. Research shows that communities who give children access to quality early childhood development are usually more stable and successful.”
– SmartStart Programme
The basic needs (building blocks) of ECD programmes are:
• Love and Care
• Nutrition (iPapa57 focus area) and Good Health
• Safety: Physical and Emotional
• Stimulation: Learning Opportunities
FEEDING PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES & ACTIVITIES
• Work in association with NGO’s, such as Societas and SmartStart.
• Support SmartStart ECD in the establishment of ECD Centres on a regional and national level.
• Financially support the nutritional needs programmes of children at ECD play schools.
• Ensure that balanced nutritional meals / snacks are provided to children attending the learning play groups.
SUSTAINABILITY
FOUNDATION57 (iPapa57) Feeding Programme is structured to reduce long-term dependence and create self-sustainability and empowerment.
• Community participation, co-operation and partnerships with SmartStart and relevant NGO’s who can contribute and ensure the successful implementation and evaluation of the feeding programme.
• Sourcing and expanding our donor base: donors who are keen and passionate to invest in the nutritional needs of poor and needy children at ECD centres in order to increase the positive impact and expansion of the iPapa57 Programme.
“A huge thank you to FOUNDATION57 for financing the provision of the maize products for the past two years at our creche. The nutritional food has cured many skin conditions such as eczema, the kids are energised and we can clearly see that there is progress with brain and educational development, as well as the fight against malnutrition”.
Lewona Prins
Mossel Bay Smart Starter
Louis Oosthuizen and Princess Charlene of Monaco, decided during 2022, to collaborate through their Foundations, FOUNDATION57 and the PCMFSA, regarding a feeding, fundraising an awareness project, called
The collaboration was formalised in July 2022, at the 150th Open Championship in St Andrews, Scotland. The goal is to raise funds to expand the iPapa57 feeding programme to a national level. Princess Charlene, she herself, has started a school vegetable Project in Davyton, Gauteng. Children are more likely to struggle in school if they don’t have strong early learning foundations and or a balanced nutrition.
FOUNDATION57 has also recently joined hands with other local NGO’s, to fight malnutrition and hunger among vulnerable and orphaned children, as well as supporting child-headed homes, by providing fresh vegetable food parcels and a continuous basis.
The #Feed2gether collaboration aims to address the hunger statistics in SA, among children and to benefit more children as well as the community and society at large.
VISION
The vision is to use the influence of HSH Princess Charlene of Monaco and Louis Oosthuizen, as an international sport star to create awareness of the hunger need of children and to inspire other to also make a difference in fighting poverty in their communities. The feeding programme also aims to assist in local as well as national efforts in the field of early childhood development (ECD) to ensure that the Programme is sustainable and the basic needs of children are being met in their early years of development.
OBJECTIVES & ACTIVITIES
(1) Financially support the nutritional needs programme of children at ECD play schools, specifically in the Southern Cape, but also on a national level.
(2) Ensure that balanced nutritional meals / snacks are provided to children attending the ECD play schools. Each formulated maize meal provides in 75% of each child’s daily nutritional need.
(3) Monitoring the feeding programme’s sustainability.
(4) Money raised through the #Feed2gether initiative supports primarily the feeding programme at ECD play schools but secondary also supports educational and sport development programmes in communities.
TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
