Bid for a fab date!

Make sure you get one of these fab dates! Go to www.bidorbuy.co.za and bid on the Matla A Bana Charity Auction (20 - 30 July).

THANK YOU RAMSAYMEDIA

We celebrated Mandela Day with the staff of Ramsaymedia, who packed and donated 150 comfort packs! There were many tears as staff members realised what these packs were going to be used for, but also joy in knowing that they will be helping an abused child.

Thank you Sandy and the Ramsaymedia staff, as well as all the other sponsors who made this project possible. Thank you as well to our SAPS partners who joined us for the handover event.

Today MAB became the first NGO to receive a donation from the SHOUT project. We would like to thank the Shout Ambassadors and trustees for helping us to help victims of crime! These funds will be used to make comfort packs for child-abuse victims who report crimes to the police.

You too can help make a contribution, by purchasing the SHOUT CD from any Pick 'n Pay store. For more info : http://www.shoutsa.com/

One man raises R100 000 for MAB!

Jos Malherbe departed on a cycling journey of nearly 12 000 kms from Cairo to Cape Town to raise funds for MAB. His adventure finally reached a highlight today when he handed over the R100000 to Matla A Bana during an event at the Table Bay Hotel.

We would like to thank everyone who have support this project by emailing, donating and pushing Jos on. Thank you to Sesego Cares who gave the last R10 000 for Jos to reach his target two days before the end of his trip.

Thank you also to Shaun and Sarah at the Table Bay Hotel who sponsored today's event, but also donated a fab 2 night stay worth R 12500 to Jos!

But mostly THANK YOU Jos for doing this for the children of South Africa! Like one posting on the blogsite said - "You are our HERO!".

Daveyton Child Friendly Facility Opened

Waiting area

Assessment room

VIP Guests - Valencia Moleko (Old Mutual), Lizel Van Eeden (MAB), Gen Bester & Gen Taioe (SAPS Gauteng Prov), Col Gumedi (SAPS Daveyton)

This week MAB opened it's 15th Child Friendly Reporting Facility in Gauteng. These facilities are designed to a MAB blueprint and the purpose of these facilities is to minimise the trauma children suffer when they report crimes against them.

This facility is situated in a park home at Daveyton Police Station. This area is a SAPS priority area when it comes to child abuse cases.

We would like to thank SAPS Gauteng Province for supplying the mobile home and Old Mutual for sponsoring the upgrading of this facility.

Gauteng - Child Protection Week Celebrations

Various projects were hosted by the MAB Gauteng office in celebration of Child Protection Week.
Pat & Yvonne Godwin (Christian Hertigate Church)

Marieta Rademeyer busy with training

Melinda & Annemarie (Randburg Dutch Reformed Church)

1. Breakfast for MAB Training partners

Roodepoort Townlodge sponsored the MAB training partners to a wonderfull breakfast. This was just our way to say thank you to them for always assisting and sponsoring our training.

2. Brunch for MAB Adoptive Churches and SAPS Forensic Social Workers

Fourways Mall sponsored a brunch to treat representatives of the all the churches who have adopted FCS Units in Gauteng. Included in this group was also the SAPS Forensic Social Workers.

3. Compassion Fatigue Workshop

Marita Rademeyer (Jelly Beanz) hosted a training session for MAB on Compassion Fatigue. Sixteen social workers were equipped to better service delivery by dealing with the trauma associated with working with traumatised children.

4. Mosaiek Church Outreach

Members of this congregation paid a visit to the Roodepoort Sexual Offences Court to show their support and appreciation for a job well done by the court officials. They treated them to great snacks and hopefully inspired the members to keep on doing such great work!

Thank you to all our sponsors for helping us celebrate Child Protection Week with such great projects!

SERVICE OF HOPE AND BLESSING – DURBANVILLE

Judy Bothes (Missing Children SA), Monique Strydom (MAB) and Children Against Crime Group

Old and young tying ribbons to create awareness

his year saw the first Service of Hope and Blessing hosted in the Northern Suburbs. This was hosted in celebration of Child Protection Week and Day on 30 May 2010 by the Durbanville Branch of Vredelust Church.
It turned out to be a very special morning started by a performance of the well-known Kuyasa Kids Choir, followed by the Candle Sermon and special prayers. The first candle and prayer in honour of the children of South Africa was lit by Capt Ruselo (Kraaifontein FCS), the second candle for the protectors and officials was lit by Louise Koen and the third candle for the perpetrators was lit by Col Swart (Commander Durbanville SAPS).
The sermon delivered by Gary Kieswetter had all in tears when he shared how he survived an incident of abuse when he was a small child. The morning was ended off with great cupcakes and a party table for the kids (and adults!!!). All members was asked to tie a green ribbon in their area to make people aware of child protection.
Thank you to Vredelust Church for hosting this, to Gary for his special message, for SAPS and the other charities who attended. We hope to be here again next year!

Child Protection Celebrations

50 FCS detectives attended the Connect workshop on the new Children's Act. Thanx Connect for sponsoring this!

Children Against Crime (Simon Van Der Stel Primary School) hosted a special ceremony to celebrate Child Protection Day. Thank you to Jacques and his kids for creating this awareness.

Cape Town Child-Friendly Reporting facility in the make!

MAB WC - CHILD PROTECTION WEEK ACTIONS

This week is Child Protection Week and MAB WC has a full line up planned!

1. Opening of the Cape Town FCS Child-Friendly Reporting Facility.
To take place on Friday, 28 May in Cape Town.

2. Service of Hope and Blessing
Hosted at Durbanville Conference Centre at 9:30 on Sunday, 31 May.

3. Children's Act training
For 50 SAPS FCS members on 27 May - hosted by Connect Network.

4. Trauma training for Parents with abused children.
5 June - hosted by Jelly Beanz and MAB.

Remember to wear your Green Ribbon this week!

Xtremeforkids - Well done Jos!!!

It took Jos 4 months and nearly 12000 kms to cycle from Cairo to Cape Town. He nearly died in an accident and had to camp in the middle of now where many nights. He did all of this to raise funds for Matla A Bana.

We are happy to announce that Jos raised R100 000 for our charity. Thank you to all of you who have supported - and thank you to Jos for doing this for us.

Here is some of the arrival photos of the Tour D'Afrique, compliments of Yvon Hunt.

MAB & Yad Emmanuel

MAB WC manager, Monique Strydom, together with Ingrid Venter (Radio Tygerberg), founded the Yad Emmanuel Network group. The aim of the group is to connect women working in the charity world, in order for them to share knowledge and resources.

For more info on this visit : http://yademmanuel.blogspot.com

Supporting our Super Fit Police officers

Today, MAB Manager Monique Strydom, paid a visit to the first group of SAPS WC police members doing the "xtreme" boot camp of 6 weeks. She was chosen to inspire this group not to GIVE UP and shared her survival skills and techniques with them! We heard she made a quick departure when she was asked to join them for a cardio session!

Thank you Old Mutual!

Thank you to Old Mutual Foundation for sponsoring R 100 000 towards two Child-Friendly Facilities. One will be implemented in Daveyton Gauteng and the other at Cape Town Central FCS in the Western Cape. We hope to have both implemented by end of May.

Last Vodacom Packs

Lizel and Vodacom volunteers, Shanaaz, Ebrahim (Vodacom Foundation),Elaine (Yebo Hero)

We have managed to stretch the budget for the Vodacom Comfort project and is glad to announce that the last packs were packed last week. Thanx to the sponsorship of Vodacom, MAB managed to supply more than 5000 comfort packs to child-abuse victims in Gauteng and the Western Cape. We would like to thank Vodacom for their support - not only by donating the needed funding, but to all the volunteers who helped with the packing in Gauteng!

MAB faith based volunteer groups will continue to supply comfort packs to the SAPS units adopted by them, until funding is secured for the next year.