The Melkbos Care Centre is a registered Non-Profit Organisation
050-535-NPO ,  and is also a registered Public Benefit
Organisation 930023847-PBO.

Mission Statement

It is our mission to assist families break the cycle of poverty and abuse in their lives. We believe this can be done by assisting the parents to ensure that their children are given equal opportunity to a good education, spiritual guidance, health facilities and a social environment that is of an acceptable standard.
In essence it is our mission to give these children the opportunity and environment to 'dream big' and so 'achieve big' in their lives.

The Melkbos Care Centre

The Melkbos Care Centre is a non-profit care facility providing for the needs of the underprivileged children residing in the Rietvlei Bush area of Melkbosstrand, Cape Town ...

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Education

We believe education is of utmost importance for these children. To this end we have placed 37 children into good schools in Atlantis and Melkbosstrand ...

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Outings

The children, despite sometimes overwhelming difficulty situations, have grown up in a close social environment with each other and are good friends. As an incentive for school attendance, discipline and improvement, the children are taken out on ...
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Ubunye Sponsor a Child Programme 

The Ubunye Sponsor a Child Programme is dedicated to improving care and educational opportunities for vulnerable children. We achieve our goals primarily though the child sponsorship programme which unites vulnerable children with individual sponsors who wish to address the child's social and educational needs. By becoming a sponsor your will make an immediate difference in a child's life ...
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Wish List

- Passenger vehicle (+-24 seater e.g. Sprinter)
- New Stove
- Sponsorship for one year of nursery school for a 
  pre-schooler/toddler
- Dedicated volunteers (pref Afrikaans speaking)
- Large Fridge
- Trampoline
- Sponsorship of extra-mural activities; art, horse riding etc.
- Childrens clothes and shoes
- New educational toys
- Educational computer games
- Bean bags for a new 'chill zone'
- Bunk beds and mattresses
- Borehole and irrigation system
- Beginners surf board, full wetsuits for age 10 - 13
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