Imibala Trust in South Africa

The main focus of the Imibala Trust based in Somerset West, Cape Town, South Africa is to help provide a primary education to some of the most needy children in South Africa. Their ‘Sponsor-a-Child programme involves the provision of school uniforms, equipment and other costs for disadvantaged children in the Helderberg and Graaff Reinet regions to enable them to attend school. The Trust is committed to facilitating the education process from selected schools through various curricula and extra curricular enrichment programmes. As part of the Imibala Village the Trust benefits from the patronage of foodies, art lovers, and shoppers at the Imibala Restaurant, Gallery and Retail centres. The Rotary Club of Doncaster St Leger supports the schooling project through its contact with Margaret and Peter Wood who live in Doncaster but have close ties with the project and its pupils. This is both a club initiative and one involving individual sponsorships by a number of club members. Our donations are spent directly on each named child selected as the poorest of the poor. Margaret brings back photographs and updates on the pupils each year. Some 20 children are sponsored as of now. For more information - http://www.imibala.com/