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News &
Events
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.
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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...
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01 February 2008
Programmes
Review Report
For the programmes
review to February 2008...
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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...
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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.
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International
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.
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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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