Project: Catch
MAMA: Sue
Started in: 1996
Partner since: 2013
Location: Township Mzamomhle, Eastern Cape
Number of children: 620 (Supported by MAMAS), 2.000 (total)
Special because: The soccer team of Catch joins the local competition.
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Catch
Project: Catch
MAMA: Sue
Started in: 1996
Partner since: 2013
Location: Township Mzamomhle, Eastern Cape
Number of children: 620 (Supported by MAMAS), 2.000 (total)
Special because: The soccer team of Catch joins the local competition.
14 years ago, MAMA Sue Davies came into contact with children living in Mzamomhle, in Eastern Cape. She was touched by the dire circumstances in which they lived, vulnerable in the face of poverty, violence, HIV/AIDS, unemployment, alcohol and drug abuse, child neglect and poor school attendance. Sue resigned from her career at Mercedes Benz to start a drop-in centre which is now literally a tower of hope and attraction to the children. Over 162 children flock to this centre every day. A variety of innovative programmes is run daily at the centre and in the community.
In the informal settlement of Mzamomhle in East London (Eastern Cape), the unemployment rate is high, poverty is extreme, HIV/AIDS, TB and crime are negatively impacting children and their families. The consequences, especially for the children, are immense. Catch offers over 500 children a chance to grow up healthy and to build towards a positive future in the face of all these circumstances.
Catch does this by offering diverse programmes focused on healthy food, education, after-school care with homework tutoring, recreational clubs for sports and creativity, a programme for teens with counselling and training courses and foster care for children who can no longer live at home.
Catch also focuses on the mothers and caregivers through parental guidance and other support services. In a Women’s Action Forum, 70 volunteers have received training on themes around HIV and AIDS, gender equality, self-protection, children’s rights and how to access help for themselves and others when violated. These unpaid volunteers train a further 350 women (five per volunteer) in their homes within the community. The women are able to refer children who are orphaned, abandoned or abused to Catch for help. The women also work in different structures in their community such as the clinic, school and police committees where they add value because of the training they have received at Catch.
Sue Davies
At the helm of Catch is MAMA Sue Davis:
"It is an amazing privilege to watch the faces of precious children, vulnerable and burdened by poverty, arrive at CATCH and begin to smile, relax and respond to the affirmation of their humanity and the acknowledgement of their needs as children".
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