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10 March 2008

Saluting Women

International Women’s Day tomorrow, like national Women’s Day on August 9, is a reminder that we are not the first on the stage of history to have waged the struggle for women’s emancipation, equality and justice. Read More

12 February 2008

McCann Aids the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund with Creative Flair

McCann Worldgroup has been awarded the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund (NMCF)  account in the areas of traditional advertising, activation and both media strategy and deployment... Read More

01 February 2008

Programmes Review Report

For the programmes review to February 2008... Click Here

07 November 2007

Arms Deal Saga

Subsequent to the statement released in Parliament yesterday by Ms De Lille, Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund would be convening its Board of Trustees to establish the factuality of the contents of the statement... Read More

 

 

CEO Corner

As the year 2007 draws to a close and we all prepare for a well-earned rest over the Festive Season, it calls upon us to reflect and to envision what the Fund hopes to achieve in the coming year...

Children's Hospital

Watch this space as we will soon be bringing you information on the new children's hospital that the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund is involved with. There will be a dedicated mini-site on the hospital.

International

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The Nelson mandea Children's Fund has various affiliate offices overseas. These offices help raise funding and partnerships for our projects in South Africa. International Offices are are affiliates of the NMCF in South Africa.

Annual Report

The Management Trustees are responsible for the preparation, integrity and fair presentation of the financial statements of the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund. The financial statements presented on pages 31 to 49 have been prepared in accordance with South African Statements of Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (“GAAP”), and include amounts based on judgements and estimates made by management.

The Management Trustees consider that in preparing the financial statements...

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Our History

Driven by his love for children and a desire to end their suffering, former President Mandela established the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund (NMCF) in 1995. From 1996 to 1998, NMCF successfully mobilized over R36 million to fund over 780 projects, at an average of R40, 000 per project. Grounded in the legacy of its founder, NMCF initially operated as a grant-making organization promoting a humanitarian response to the plight of South Africa's children and youth.

The 1995-1999 period was characterised by ad hoc funding strategies that enabled children and families to meet immediate needs, and one-time support for overhead and salary costs for organisations targeting children's issues, with no particular programmatic basis for NMCF's engagement with these organisations.

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Funds Distributed

In the ten years of the Fund’s existence it has grown steadily both in range and depth of work with children. The way in which the Fund has responded to children’s needs has developed over the last ten years.

Despite important and unprecedented levels of improvement in terms of service delivery over the last ten years, the problem of social deprivation and exclusion remains huge. This is greater for children than for the poor generally as children are dependent on others. It must, however, be emphasized that most of the problems being faced by children in South Africa do not stem from absence of policy but from policy implementation and inadequate access to service. This context, and our project experience, means that the Fund has an obligation and responsibility to become a greater proactive advocate...

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