TABLE VIEW LIONS CLUB

Report on Project Ekhaya Kidz Educare Center, 5 Grandiflora Street, Dunoon

Funds received: R135,000.00

Donation-in-kind value: R120,000.00

Total Project Cost: R255,000.00

Alphabetical donor list: see page 3

Nuxola Vivian Dlabantu of Masikhululeke, a kindergarten we upgraded in Joe Slovo, introduced me in 2010 to Zukiswa Siyongwana, a retired high school teacher, who was starting a crèche for 50 children in Dunoon, an extremely impoverished and crime-ridden informal settlement north of Cape Town.

After months of canvassing, the project kicked off in November 2011 with five donations totaling

R59,700:

R19,000.00 in lieu of wedding gifts by Mr and Mrs Cacciato, Canada

R15,000.00 from N Tubb of the Hendrickse Foundation, Canada

£500 from the Lions Club of Worcester, UK

EU500 from the Lennestadt Lions Club, Germany

R11,500 – a 2nd donation from N Tubb, Hendrickse Foundation.

To provide a basic habitable environment, electricity was installed, 2 junior toilets, a hand wash basin, a sink and running water in what was to become the kitchen. As the children had been sitting on the cold cement floor, we bought 12 junior tables, 50 chairs, also sleeping mats and fleece material to make blankets.

A 2nd donation of £500 donation from the Worcester Lions Club enabled us to fix, we thought, the badly leaking roof (in retrospect a waste of money), fit interior and exterior doors and windows, and engage a Dunoon builder to pull down half built walls, remove rubble, to plaster, fit ceiling boards and insulation, and level the rough concrete floors.

The purchase of building material was made possible by a generous donation from Schenck Process Control Germany (EU2,500) and South Africa (R10,000), of 1,5 metric tons cement by PPC, of R2000 worth of ceiling insulation by Isotherm, and huge discounts (2 tipper loads of building sand, rafters, hardware etc) by Cashbuild.

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Exterior and interior building work completed, PPC management and staff painted the crèche on Mandela Day in 2012. I had mixed together 75 x 1 liter tins of different PVA pastel colours, donation value R4,500 by Plascon, to uniform creams, light blues, light greens and pinks. PPC and Build it each donated 25 lt white paint. But as we were admiring the finished work, the paint literally ran off the walls: extreme damp. Damp experts established the water content in walls and cement floors to be as high as 80%.

A new zinc roof was inevitable, plus waterproof plaster to seal the porous, single hollow brick outside walls. Foundations being practically non-existent, a reinforcing cement slab around the entire perimeter was necessary. The crèche was also flooded when it rained as the gutterless flat roof of the neighbor’s house sloped down into the narrow passage. Drainage and a roof between the buildings had to be erected. PPC stepped in again with R25,000 plus ½ ton free cement, the Frankenthal Lions with EU300, Active Roofing with discounts, and so far, 8 months later despite a wet Cape Town winter, the crèche is leak free.

We could now buy and fit kitchen furniture, storage cupboards, shelves and a refrigerator.

Kalley Flooring sponsored matching off cuts of h.d. hospital floor covering at 20% of the normal price, laid and welded it at cost. PPC donated and fitted fluorescent light fittings, curtain and towel rails.

With donations of A$1000 from the Mt Eliza Lions/Australia, EU500 from the Kelkheim Lions/Germany and EU225 from Mr and Mrs Vogt/Germany, we were able to buy educational toys, also thanks to discounts from Plasticland, skirting boards, a security door, more shelves, and all bits and pieces still needed.

In-kind-help also came from many other sources. To name but a few, East Rand Fire

Extinguishers donated fire extinguishers and fire blankets through Centa Atlas, BMW and Southern Productions paint, a door, food and hands-on labor, and the response by Table View residents to adverts was overwhelming with donations of playground equipment, a sick bed and other items too numerous to mention.

The Ekhaya Educare Center was nominated already a model of the “Early Childhood

Development Program”, a program supported by the Dept. of Social Development with whom Ekhaya is registered.

A record of funds received and disbursed is attached. R1,200.00 has to be allocated still and the balance of R4,000 is retained for an excursion at Christmas.

We attempted to capture the process from start to finish in a video (see http://youtu.be/A42NlG6-mgk), which we trust will show how well the funds have been invested.

Gisela Weitz

Project Coordinator Table View Lions Club

30 June 2013

PRESIDENT: SECRETARY: TREASURER:

Rocky Wright Liz Houston MJ Moran

C: 084 533 8258 C: 082 924 4084 C: 079 541 8036

E: president@tableviewlions.za.org E: secretary@tableviewlions.za.org E: treasurer@tableviewlions.za.org

Table View Lions, Suite 500, Private Bag X3, Bloubergrant, 7443

Website: www.tableviewlions.za.org

Alphabetical donor list:

Active Roofing

Buildit

Cacciato Mr & Mrs., Canada

Cashbuild

Centa Fire

East Rand Fire Extinguishers

Frankenthal Lions Club

Hendrickse Foundation, Canada

Kalley Flooring

Kelkheim Lions Club, Germany

Lennestadt Lions Club, Germany

Mount Eliza Lions Club, Australia

PPC

Schenk Process, Germany and South Africa

Isotherm

Plasticland

Plascon

Vogt Mr & Mrs, Germany

Worcester Lions Club, UK