Annual Report 2009 - AKL

Amandla Ku Lutsha Annual Report 2009 www.amandlakulutsha.org

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Dear Friends and Supporters of Amandla Ku Lutsha...

The following report summarizes Amandla Ku Lutsha’s work in 2009 and highlights the great achievements of all youth who were part of our programmes. I hope this report also gives all supporters of Amandla a good overview of what has happened in 2009.

Once again Amandla reached out to more youth in residential childcare facilities through our sport for development programmes. We further strengthened the good partnerships with our implementing partners in working together towards one goal: To give strength to youth and educate them through the medium of sport.

I thank all supporters and partners very much for making 2009 such a successful year.

Amandla certainly showed its biggest strength this year: the implementation of programmes that reach out consistently to over 1000 youth on a weekly basis. But also on an organisational level we managed to grow in 2009. The membership in the streetfootballworld network made it possible for Amandla to get access to a number of great opportunities, such as being part of the Sony Twilight event.

Furthermore Amandla was fortunate to welcome various visitors among them, Willi Lemke (Special Advisor to the General Secretary of the U.N. on Sport for Development and Peace) and David Beckham through our strategic partner Coaching for Hope to name only two. I thank all visitors for their interest in our programmes and the support they gave us.

The success our sport for development programmes have had over the past three years and the positive impact they have on the youth’s lives is only possible because of over 30 volunteers dedicating their services to this project in training teams and refereeing games. Amandla thanks them and all Amandla staff members for their contributions.

In 2010 Amandla will further strengthen its programmes with a strong focus on rigorous monitoring and evaluation to guarantee that our programmes are having the best possible impact on youth. The youth’s participation in the continuous development of all programmes is very crucial for Amandla and their input will further be encouraged, especially through our Senior Youth Leadership Programme.

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Dear Friends and Supporters of Amandla Ku Lutsha...

But the year 2010 will also bring change. After three years of dedicating her life to cofounding and building this organisation Leonora Reid has stepped down from her role in the management of Amandla. She will, however, continue her involvement as a volunteer and board member in South Africa. Amandla is incredibly thankful for everything Leonora has done in making Amandla what it is today and we are looking forward to continue working with Leonora in her new role.

To generate a stronger support base in Europe, Amandla is also in the process of registering as a charity in Germany under the name Amandla EduFootball. Jakob Schlichtig will also be joining me at the head of the organisation this year. His main focus will be to strengthen the organisation’s internal structure and generate funding to enable Amandla to expand its services into other regions.

We are all very excited by these prospects and very much look forward to yet another eventful and successful year in 2010!

Yours sincerely,

Florian Zech Executive Director

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CONTENT

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Executive Director‘s Report

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Soccer Leagues Report

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Youth Leadership Programme

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Life Skill Programme

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Community Empowerment Programme

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Monitoring & Evaluation

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Organisational Facts

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Objectives 2010

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Ackowledgement

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Soccer Leagues Report

As stated in Amandla’s objectives for 2009 the boys soccer league was divided into two leagues, a junior boys league (10-15 year old boys) and a senior boys league (15-19 year old boys). This decision proved to be very successful on many accounts as the quality of soccer and educational programmes vastly improved.

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a. Senior Boys League The Adidas-Senior Boys Soccer League (SBSL) is being implemented under the objective to holistically develop youth from residential childcare facilities by teaching ‘life-skills’, building self-esteem and giving hope through sport.

Highlights 2009:

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Excellent and always improving ‘Fair Play’ scoring of all teams. The ‘Fair Play’ point ranking become equally important to the youth to the ‘normal’ points ranking.

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Positive role the Amandla Senior Youth Leaders played in their team as mentors and role models

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Great commitment of Childcare Facilities and coaches in making the 2009 season a success

Implementation of community service programmes of most teams and the submission of high quality presentations

The SBSL kicked off its season in the end of March 2009 with 14 teams from Childcare Facilities all over Cape Town participating. Like the years before there were two differing point systems in the SBSL. Teams could gain points by winning matches; but parallel to this they could also earn ‘Fair Play Points’ by behaving well on and off the field as well as by conducting community service projects. Until September 2009 all teams played each other once with matches being played every Wednesday except on school holidays.

After the regular season the top eight teams entered the ‘Knock Out’ stages, which was played in Quarterfinals, Semi-finals and two finals, one for place 1 and one for place 3. The season ended in the middle of October 2009 with Emasithandane Children’s Home winning the point ranking in a spectacular final against Holy Cross Children’s Home. The ‘Fair Play’ could only be won if the team had submitted a presentation about their community service project to Amandla. Several teams submitted impressive presentations, but the combination of points won through excellent sportsmanship, behaviour and the community service presentation made Holy Cross Children’s Home the winner of this year’s ‘Fair Play’ ranking.

The biggest challenge of the SBSL 2009 was the first half of the season when the SBSL matches were played at Swartklip Sports Grounds near Mitchell’s Plain. The surroundings and poor quality of the facility proved to be a constant challenge. Once the SBSL moved its match days to Turf Hall Sports Grounds in Athlone the league ran without any major complications.

Summarizing the SBSL 2009 season a great thank you needs to go to Adidas UK North for sponsoring a fun, friendly, fair, educational and high quality in soccer SBSL 2009.

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b. Junior Boys League

H I G HL I G HT S

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Looking back on 2009 it becomes clear how much the JBSL is benefiting from the experiences made in the two years before.

This enabled the programme to be very well structured and successful in its impact on youth participating.

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Successful implementation of the innovative and in its way unique ‘Fair Play’ system

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The role of the SBSL players as positive role models for the JBSL players

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The overall positive impact the SBSL had on the development of the JBSL players, especially with regard to the importance of the ‘Fair Play’ system

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Community service projects under the guidance of Amandla Senior Youth Leaders

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To see the full potential of peer education with regard to the role the SBSL played for the JBSL

The Junior Boys Soccer League (JBSL) kicked off in late March 2009 and finished in late September 2009. The JBSL was implemented the same way as the SBSL with two parallel running point systems, one for wins through goals and one for earning ‘Fair Play’ points on and off the field. The JBSL had 12 teams from Childcare Facilities all over Cape Town participating in this year’s season. The match days were played every Tuesday at Turf Hall Sports Fields in Athlone.

In an exciting final against the league newcomer Ark Shelter, the Emasithandane Children’s Home’s junior team won the JBSL 2009.

Durbanville Children’s Home deservedly won the ‘Fair Play’ prize 2009.

Through good management and a well suited venue the JBSL 2009 could run without any major complications.

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c. Girls League

HI GH LIG HTS

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The Girls Soccer League (GSL) started in early April 2009. It included 8 teams from Childcare Facilities all over Cape Town. The GSL played its match days every other Thursday on Chris Campbell Memorial Field, an artificial turf field in the township Khayelitsha that Amandla and the CTC Ten Foundation initiated. The girls played in an 8-a-side league modus. The winners of league (Durbanville) and ‘Fair Play’ (Leliebloem) ranking were established through a big one day tournament in late September 2009.

The biggest challenge was the fluctuating number of players on the teams.

Nevertheless this vastly improved towards the end of the season as the girls became more and more confident on the soccer pitch. This improvement was thanks to the Amandla Senior Youth Leaders and Coaches, who volunteered week in week out in coaching the teams. In this once more the value and quality of the Senior Youth Leaders – groomed and developed by Amandla –became obvious.

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The Khayelitsha venue as it always drew a large crowd watching and supporting the teams, which created a unique atmosphere

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The passion and increased commitment of all girls participating. The fun and emotions they expressed playing soccer made this programme one of everybody favourite and an event always to look forward to.

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The friendships built during match days amongst players of all teams and the very special sense of ‘Fair Play’ in all matches.

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Youth Leadership Programme

The Amandla Youth Leadership Programme is divided into two groups: senior and junior youth leaders. Every two years a new group of 15-20 girls and boys from residential childcare are identified upon their leadership potential to go through this four year programme. The Amandla Youth Leadership Programme is implemented under the objective: To develop innovative and aware peer leaders and role models, who can uphold and set high standards with regards to their self-esteem, ethics, responsibility and desire to lead and reach their full potential

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a. Junior Youth Leaders After successful recruitment and intake of 15 new Junior Youth Leaders aged 15 at the start of 2009, the programme had a very positive beginning. The newly installed selection procedure guaranteed that this new group was formed out of 15 highly motivated and ambitious youth. Another advantage this programme had was the experiences Amandla and its partners made in our pilot programme.

Over the course of the year the youth leaders met monthly to participate in various soccer and ‘lifeskill’ sessions focusing on leadership and teambuilding. They further participated in a weekend camp 2 hours outside of Cape Town in Wolwekloof. For the Amandla staff involved in the programme, the meetings as well as the camp emphasized the enormous potential of this new group.

The highlights of this year’s programme by far outshine any challenges we have to overcome and prove the potential and positive impact this programme has:

Highlights 2009:

Challanges 2009:

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Great progress of participants in their first year compared to the pilot group of youth leaders in 2007

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Lack of funding and staff to enable Amandla to facilitate more youth leadership sessions as well as organising another weekend camp

Commitment and self-responsibility of youth leader to show up independently to any activities of the programme

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The eight-day trip to the U.K. has not happened yet due to visa and funding issues.

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All participants proofed their readiness to enter the second step of the Amandla Youth Leadership Programme in 2010

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The benefit everybody involved in the programme had from the experience of the Amandla Senior Youth Leaders

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b. Senior Youth Leaders Highlights 2009:

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Amandla Senior Youth Leaders proved how effective peer leadership and role modelling are and what huge impact it made on other youth in the programme.

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The extremely positive role they played within their teams they and the teams they are coaching asthey motivated their players and teammates to always strive to be better in the ‘Fair Play’ ranking of the leagues.

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They also where in charge of the different teams’ community outreach services as part of the project management experience they had to gain in stage 3. All completed this task very successfully.

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They proved their coaching and ‘life-skill’ facilitation skills in following big events: a. Sony Twilight Event South Africa

b. David Beckham visit in Khayelitsha

c. UN Special Advisor to the Secretary General of

the UN Willi Lemke visiting Amandla Ku Lutsha

d. Amandla Junior Youth Leader camp

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They active role they played in improving the Amandla Youth Leadership Programme and Life-Skill Programme with their input and advice.

The Amandla Senior Youth Leaders successfully completed their third year in the programme.

The 15 remaining boys and girls are now all around 18 years old.

Many of them entered a stage of preparation for life after school and children’s home. This is where the Youth Leadership Programme’s stage 3 and 4 set in. The objectives are to prepare the youth for this phase and increase their career opportunities by offering internships, job shadowing, computer training, CV writing, job interview preparation as well as assistance with academics and scholarship applications. In stage 3 the youth were presented with a number of opportunities to meet this objective.

The Amandla Senior Youth Leaders successfully completed a computer course by Woolworths. They also participated and successfully completed another junior coaching course by our partner organisation and

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FA charity partner Coaching for Hope. The skills learnt in this course are used to the great benefit of teams playing in the Amandla Junior Boys and Girls Leagues as the Senior Youth Leaders took it upon themselves to coach and mentor these teams.

Some of our Youth Leaders even started their own teams in their respective communities, which is an enormous achievement for them and this programme.

Amandla Senior Youth Leader Akeen from the Durbanville Children’s Home was officially rewarded for his work with other youth as he came second in the prestigious Amy Biehl Youth Sprite Award 2009. With this award he won a university bursary.

Aside a lack of staff to work even more individually with the Senior Youth Leaders, there were no major challenges in implementing this year’s stage 3 of the programme.

Life Skill Programme

The objective of the 2009 Life-Skill Programme was: To holistically develop young people by providing a platform of dialog for young people and teaching “life skills” and “life lessons” through sport. It reached out to over 1000 youth participating in our sport for development programme in Cape Town, South Africa.

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Life Skill Programme The 2009 Life-Skill Programme ran as a pilot to develop, evaluate and gain experience of the most effective approach to teaching “life-skills” through the medium of sport. The success of this first phase of the pilot programme was achieved through invaluable input of our partners, mostly Childcare Facilities, and the Amandla Senior Youth Leaders. Especially the feedback of the Senior Youth Leaders, who met with Amandla staff frequently, was of great help in evaluating what approaches reach the children best and have a lasting positive impact on them.

In achieving this overall objective Amandla send a number of coaches and Senior Youth Leaders on courses where they learnt how to incorporate “life-skill” messages in their soccer training sessions. Additionally, Amandla staff members visited all teams and supported the coaches in successfully implementing the Life-Skill Programme within the training sessions and at the same time monitor and evaluate the programme’s impact.

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A strong focus was on the rigorous evaluation of every session rolled out. To further develop the programme in 2010 Amandla intends to train more Senior Youth Leaders in how to deliver “Life-Skills” messages through sport.

The Senior Youth Leaders will become increasingly in charge of the teams they once played for and as they are part of Amandla Programmes since over three years they are the ideal candidates to pass on Amandla’s vision to their peers. They understand best what this projects potential has for youth growing up in it and they were an active part in developing the concept of the Life-Skill Programme.

The greatest challenge of this year’s programme was to give sufficient support to coaches in rolling out the programme as there were two Amandla staff members having to cover 34 teams.

In 2010 the programme will enter its final pilot phase and will result in a “Life-Skill through Soccer” manual for children, who grow up in Childcare Facilities.

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Community Empowerment Programme

The Crime Prevention and Community Empowerment Programme were rolled out on the Chris Campbell Memorial Field in Khayelitsha. The field was created in an effort to engage the surrounding township in educational and developmental activities with a focus on generating a positive community spirit and improving the quality of everyday life. It was initiated and built by the CTC Ten Foundation in partnership with Amandla.

Amandla plays a key role in the management of the field ensuring that it is fully benefiting the community.

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Community Empowerment Programme As part of making the field sustainable in the sense that the community takes ownership of it, Amandla was facilitating the development of a local group of young men, called the Ambitious Youth of Khayelitsha (AYK).

The process included assisting them to register as an organisation, setting up their organisational structure and developing programmes in partnership with them. Aside from running various programmes in partnership on the field, Amandla also supported the AYK in creating their own tourism business, which combines soccer activities with township tours for tourists.

This proved to be quite successful and soon provided the 12 members of the AYK with a reliable source of income.

The activities reached over 1000 youth on a weekly basis.

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ACTIVITIES

All programmes run on the field were very exciting and successful. Especially the night league showed what a big role sport can play in uplifting the community.

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The crime prevention night league: It is aimed at young men that spend their Friday and Saturday nights drinking and getting involved in undesirable behaviour. The league runs from 18h00 to 00h00 every weekend and reaches more than 400 men.

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Numerous events and activities that engaged the youth in workshops and community outreach: • To raise awareness of the night league Amandla Ku Lutsha in partnership with the AYK, AJAX Cape Town, CTC Ten ran a 24 Hour Tournament on May 1st. Over 1500 participants from all over Cape Town came together at Chris Campbell field in Khayelitsha.

• Women’s league and tournament to encourage female participation in sport • Workshops on drug awareness and crime prevention where, the youth had to participate in a workshop to enable them to play in the tournament.

• Sonke Gender Justice/Amandla Ku Lutsha One Man Can Tournament (Educational tournament with gender-based violence/xenophobia workshops for men) • Amandla Ku Lutsha/Coaching For Hope Amajitas Against Violence Tournament (Co-ed educational tournament with violence prevention workshops) • Amandla Ku Lutsha/GrassrootSoccer Women’s Day Event • World Aids Day Tournament (Youth and Adult Tournament using crossover workshops specifically addressing stigmas around HIV and AIDS) • David Beckham visit to the field (Amandla Senior Youth Leaders conducting coaching session for local youth)

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Programme Monitoring & Evaluation In 2009 Amandla put great emphasis on further developing its monitoring and evaluation (M&E) tools. The rigorous evaluation of its programmes and work is a key objective for Amandla as we strongly believe that only this will guarantee the effectiveness and long-term sustainability of programmes.

In 2009 Amandla conducted several questionnaires among the youth about their views on the impact of the Fair Play system and Life-Skill activities. Furthermore Amandla conducted a survey amongst its partners about Amandla’s services. Results of these will soon be made available on our website: www.amandlakulutsha.org.

Other M&E tools we installed are our Quarterly Reports, Coaches Feedback Reports and obligatory presentations of the teams performing community service projects.

The frequency of questionnaires for the youth and partners will further be increased in 2010, with the objective to be as close as possible to the needs of our beneficiaries and so being able to constantly improve Amandla’s services.

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Organisational Facts 2009 Founding Year Legal Status Mission Statement

2007 Charitable Company The advancement of education by the provision of sports structures, training and facilities for children and young people in disadvantaged communities in Africa, targeting specifically youth who are no longer in the care of their family.

Staff

3 full-time and 4 part-time employees

Volunteers

30 volunteer coaches and 8 volunteer referees (stipends) 1100 youth weekly Mainly girls and boys in residential childcare facilities, such as Children’s Homes, Orphanages, Youth Prisons, Shelters for Street Children, Drug Rehabilitation Centres

Number of Beneficiaries Beneficiaries

Implementing Partners Strategic Partners Networks Leadership Activities 2009 Life Skill Sessions 2009 Soccer Matches 2009

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30 residential childcare facilities in Cape Town, AYK Coaching For Hope, CTC Ten Foundation, Soccer Shots Streetfootballworld Network, Platform on Sport and Development 35 200

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Amandla Objectives 2010 1.

To further implement the soccer league programme and increase the number of participating teams to 42.

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To run the third and final year of the pilot Life-Skill Programme including all childcare facilities and formalise its content.

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To further develop a core group of junior and senior youth leaders and integrate them in the implementation of programmes.

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To create greater visibility of the organisation, so generating technical and financial support and be a well structured and accountable organisation.

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To improve the organisation’s monitoring and evaluation tools to guarantee the effectiveness and sustainability of its programmes.

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To take preparation steps to expand the Amandla programmes into another Southern African city in 2011.

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To register an organisation under the name Amandla EduFootball International in Germany to operate as umbrella organisation to all Amandla projects worldwide.

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Ackowledgement Amandla would like to thank all its supporters who make this possible very much for their ongoing commitment and incredible contributions to our cause.

Thank you to our premium financial sponsors: Adidas, Soccer Shots, Joel Joffe Foundation, Adam Fleming, CTC Ten Foundation.

Thank you to our strategic partners: Streetfootballworld network, Coaching For Hope, Platform of Sport and Development, The Homestead Projects for Street Children.

Thank you to our programme implementing partners: Baphumelele Children’s Home, Beth Uriel, Bridge at Elukhuselweni, Girls and Boys Town Kenilworth, Girls and Boys Town Macassar, Durbanville Kinderhuis Children’s Project, Renaissance Programme, Heatherdale Children’s Home, The Homestead Intake Shelter, Marsh Memorial Home, Leliebloem House, Holy Cross Children’s Home, Emasithandane Children’s Project, Percy Bartley House, SA Children’s Home, Elkana Children’s Project, B.E.S.T Centre, St. Michaels Children’s Home, St. Francis Children’s Home, St. Georges Children’s Home, Bright Lights Shelter, Bonny Toun, SOS Children’s Village, The Ark, City Mission Education Service, Ons Plek Shelter, Siyakhula Programme, School of Hope.

Amandla Ku Lutsha is grateful for any support, if you like to make a donation to support our work, contact us or transfer your contribution into the following account: Account Name Account Number Type of Account Full Name of Bank Branch Name Branch Code / Sort Code SWIFT Code IBAN

Thank you to Ajax Cape Town and the FIFA 2010 Ambassadors for their great and ongoing support, as well as Kit Aid an MTN for their in kind donations.

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