About LIV Cape Town
At LIV Cape Town we are passionate about Early Childhood Education.
The Bible says: Dedicate your children to God and point them in the way that they should go, and the values they’ve learned from you will be with them for life. (Prov22:6 TPT)
Many South African children are born-at-risk because of the country’s long history of crime and poverty. Early childhood experiences have lifelong impacts. We want to give children from disadvantaged families a fighting chance to succeed.
2002
Desire is born
Just before Christmas of 2002, whilst living in London, we got our church friends to fill shoeboxes with gifts and practical items which was then sent to an orphanage in Eastern Europe.
Since then we have had a desire to care for orphaned and vulnerable children and whether we lived in England, Singapore or the UAE we always found a children’s organisation to support.
2016
2016
In 2016, after meeting Tich Smith at our church in Dubai, we decided it was time to leave the expat life behind to pursue what we believe is our calling. We relocated our family to Cape Town to join the LIV family.
2021
Next steps
Over the next 4 years we did a variety of community projects which has been a fantastic learning ground for us. But it was whilst doing food relief work in 2020 during South Africa’s COVID lockdown that a door opened for us to purchase a plot of land in Fisantekraal, near Durbanville.
Whilst working in this community it became apparent that there is a shortage in quality Educare facilities. We felt God prompting us to respond to this need, and so we are building an Early Childhood Development Centre which will open in January 2023.
Social enterprises (to create jobs), a training centre and a second school are planned for phase 2 of our development.
ECD Centre Development
Current Activities
LIV Cape Town is excited to announce that we are nearing completion of the construction of our Early Childhood Development centre.
After many months of hard work, we are excited to announce that the construction of our LIV Cape Town preschool is nearing completion and will open its doors for teaching in March 2023.
Our school will provide all-day care for 120 children from the under-resourced and fast-growing community of Fisantekraal and we have the option to expand our school at a later stage which will double our reach
Sixteen jobs and skills training will be provided to previously unemployed people in this community.
Training, Employment & Revenue
Sustainability
With so many mouths to feed, we decided to turn a large part of our site into an organic fruit and vegetable garden to grow nutritious food. This will be a seventh classroom, a sensory wonderland, and we will incorporate gardening into our curriculum.
Our carefully selected curricula presented in modern learning environments will give these children the best possible start in life.
We will provide employment and skills development through our social enterprises, which will also create additional income streams for our ECD.
Partner with us🙂
It takes a Village to Raise a Child – African Proverb
As we wrap up the construction phase of the school, we are anticipating our needs before welcoming our children to school in March 2023
LIV Cape Town is a registered Public Benefit Organisation (PBO). This status allows us to issue Section 18A Tax Certificates to South African corporates and individuals to obtain tax relief on their donations.
We are also a Level 1 B-BBEE contributor. Corporates can receive points in the Socio-Economic Development and Enterprise Development categories of the scorecard by partnering with us.
Contact
We’d love for you to get in touch for more info or to see how you can partner with us.
Niki Mason
T: (+27) 64 224 7730
E: niki@liv-capetown.com
Bank Details
Acc. Name: LIV Cape Town NPC
Bank: First National Bank
Branch Code: 250655
Acc Number: 62871842384
Please use your name as the reference on each deposit made and email proof of payment to niki@liv-capetown.com so that we can personally thank you for your generosity.
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