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IMPANDE was established in 2005 as Gamalakhe Development Center’s Support Group. It was started as a response from a simple but concrete request from a local church in South Africa which wanted to help HIV/AIDS affected children and families.

Our focus is to support children’s growth and development in the Ugu district of KwaZulu-Natal. This district has 720,000 inhabitants, where 50% are less than 20 years old. It is the area of South Africa which is most affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Our philosophy is to generate significant and lasting changes with minor resources. We do not provide emergency relief, but we do support grassroots projects built on local foundations. The mainstay of our work is volunteerism.

So far we have delivered 23 projects aimed at giving children and youth a better future. The work is financed through fundraising campaigns, corporate sponsors, foundations, and individual donations.

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Dec 11

Newsletter VII - 2016

Manana says thank you – and charms everybody!

"My name is Manana. As you can see from the picture – I am all right! At home, however, I don’t have much support. I don’t know my father, and my mother is only 18 years old and is studying for A-levels. Therefore I live with my grandmother. My grandmother is tired and lives off her small pension of £ 81 (NOK 870) a month, which is all we three have to live off. Every day I look forward to going to the crèche. There I belong and feel safe and get a hot meal. We play and learn a lot."

(The girl in the picture is for ethical reasons not identical with Manana, but she is one of the charming children in one of the crèches Impande has built)

This prototype of a Manana story is easy to find in these poor areas in the Ugu district in South Africa. When children grow up in poverty and with minimal support in their own family, the crèche takes over the function of the real home!

A gift to «Manana» is probably the most meaningful and effective gift you can give this Christmas.

Newsletter V - 2016

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I: Glimpses from South Africa today

The demanding road to a fairer distribution of South Africa’s resources.

History

South Africa is at the top of the world index that ranks the difference between rich and poor within a country. There are many historic reasons for this.

In 1913 came the law that gave the Europeans the right to 91% of the country’s area. In 1936 this law was adjusted so that the black population got the right to 13% of the area.

During the Apartheid time (1945-94) 10 Bantustans or «Homelands» where established in South Africa. Some also called them «black spots». See the map below, taken from Tore Linne Eriksen’s newly published, and good, book about South Africa’s history.

Several of these 10 Bantustans were not geographically connected. In IMPANDE we work in Transkei, the largest of the Bantustans.

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