Celebrating Our Facilitators: A Mad Hatter’s Brunch to Remember!

As we reflect on a wonderful year, we couldn’t be more grateful for the dedication and hard work of our facilitators across the Elgin, Boland and Langeberg regions. To show our appreciation, we came together for a fun and whimsical Mad Hatter’s Brunch—a perfect way to celebrate the creativity and commitment of those who make a difference in the lives of our learners every day. A Fun-Filled Year-End Celebration The Mad Hatter’s Brunch was an opportunity for our facilitators to let their...

Holiday Highlights: Fun and Learning with Anna Foundation

The June/July school holidays were packed with excitement and memorable experiences for our learners! We believe that learning happens best when it’s engaging and enjoyable, so we filled the holidays with creative outings, workshops and activities that enriched their time outside of school. Outings that Sparked Joy The holidays gave us the chance to take our learners on some wonderful outings, allowing them to explore new environments and take part in unique learning opportunities: Pasta-Making Workshop: Our learners at the Buffet Olives project...

Annual Report 2023

MESSAGE FROM ANNAIt’s a wrap! What a busy year we have had at the Anna Foundation in 2023.We welcomed 4 new projects this year, offering 160 new children access to all the benefits of our after school programmes. We provided 12 rural women with career opportunities and trained and upskilled them to perform the task of facilitator at the new after schools. It has been so rewarding to observe the growth in both the children and these women over this...

Half Year Report 2023

MESSAGE FROM ANNAIt is safe to say the Cape winter has arrived. Many of our projects and families in the Langeberg region were impacted by the floods recently experienced. We are grateful for the support we could offer these children during this time, and for the many helping hands that donated blankets, warm clothing and food.We have had an incredibly full 6 months. We welcomed 2 new projects on board, offering 60 new children access to our programmes and support....

A visit to the theatre to see Shrek!

As an end of year treat 100 of the Boland children from the Anna Foundation had a fun picnic in Radloff park, enjoyed KFC kindly sponsored, and thereafter went to the Playhouse Theatre in Somerset West to watch an entertaining performance of Shrek! Well done Playhouse Theatre Somerset West, what a brilliant performance of Shrek. Thank you for sponsoring the Anna Foundation children’s tickets and treats! After the show there was much excitement as the characters...

3 R’s: Reading, Running Righting February News

Reading (Education): Good auditory skills have amongst others, significant benefits for learning reading. This month our facilitators focus on auditory perception and how to apply it in shared reading. These listening skills are practiced by playing auditory games with the children on a regular basis and then reading a story with questions that follow on from what they have just read.  The Grade R – 3’s focus on sounds at the start and ends of words, while the Grade 4...

My Body

3 R’s: Reading, Running, Righting January News

Reading (Education): The current worksheet theme is “My Body”. Facilitators are trained how to incorporate creative and exciting introductions to make lessons more effective and bring the theme to life. Hangman, spelling competitions and even drawing with feet or blindfolded is a huge hit but also very effective!  Fun games incorporated into the topic help children practice spelling which will ultimately enhance their writing skills and help them remember what they learn. Running (Sport): Sit-ups, planking, sprints and endurance running...

Mayor

Drakenstein Mayor Visits

Children at Buffet Olives farm welcomed the Drakenstein Mayor, Councillor Conrad Poole, to their after-school on 9 November. He was very interested in finding out more about our 3 R’s Programme and so enjoyed watching the drama games that he jumped up and joined in! The Mayor noticed how much the children enjoy the programme and was particularly impressed with the way in which facilitator, Catharine discussed with the children how lessons from the game can be applied in their everyday...