• +27 73 731 1215
  • Pearl@bfaa.co.za

programs offered

  • Women’s program
  • Men’s program
  • Soup Kitchen
  • After-school program
  • Early Childhood Development
  • Resources center
  • Charity Shop
  • Gardening

WHAT WE OFFER THROUGH OUR PROGRAMS

WOMEN’S PROGRAM

We have experienced much change and growth in this project over the years. We currently have 35 women that we minister to weekly. All these women live in the Kya Sands informal settlement. Over the past 11 years that we’ve been active in the community, we have built a good relationship with many of them and gained their trust. We have been able to come alongside them to help when there have been family, health, or personal issues.
Our heart for this group of women is for them to get to a point where they experience the love of God in their lives, find purpose, love themselves, and be responsible for their own lives and for their children.
In this program, we journey with them through our Bible studies and discipleship. We do home visits and teach primary health care and life skills.

KYA MEN’S PROGRAM

Most programs focus on women and children; men are often the last to receive attention and care. We want to change this and reach out to the men in the community. When men are empowered to understand and embrace their role as providers and protectors, this often results in the needs of women and children being taken care of. Kya Sands is a very poor community, most men are unemployed and therefore, as fathers and husbands, they cannot afford to financially support their families. The results of this can be seen in frustration, low self-respect, desperation, and anger. The knock-on effect of this is often an escape into alcoholism, drugs, crime, and neglect of their responsibilities towards their wives and children.

Our goal for this project is to give men hope and to help them find a purpose in life. We do this by journeying with them in weekly Bible studies, and men’s discipleship groups, and using every opportunity to upskill them with life and work skills.
We also help them find part-time work through our “Find a Handy Man” project. This is a platform where we compile a profile for each of our men that includes their training, skills, and talents. Our heart for this project is to see men in the community of Kya Sands take ownership and responsibility for their own lives and to witness their transformation into better husbands and fathers.

KYA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

  1. Soup Kitchen
  2. After-school program
  3. Early Childhood Development
  4. Resources center
  5. Charity Shop
  6. Gardening

Our heart for these Projects is to provide sustainable skills across all our programs. We want the community of Kya Sands to learn to produce their food. We are currently piloting a gardening project where we take “garden tires” into the community. Because there is very little space between shacks, the idea behind garden tires is that individuals can grow and nurture their little vegetable patch in a tire. We provide them with training on how to look after the garden and provide them with seeds. This project will help families grow their own vitamin-rich vegetables, so that children will not need to go to bed hungry.

AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM

Our After-school program caters for Children who go to school, they come to our center every day in the afternoon to do their schoolwork. We have a team that helps them with homework & assignment
We provide access to our Library for these students to undertake research projects. All these children come from homes where most of their parents cannot read or write therefore, they have no one to help with homework and assignment.
The other challenge is the living environment both in and outside their homes doesn’t afford them decent time to do schoolwork. They live in squatter camps mostly in densely populated areas and 1 roomed shacks with parents and siblings

Beauty From Ashes ECD runs five days a week in the Kya Sands informal settlement. Our children come from poor backgrounds and often lack a healthy nutritious diet. Therefore, we have made it a priority to feed all our Kids hot meals twice a day, freshly cooked on-site.

SOUP KITCHEN

We are running a soup Kitchen every Friday for school-going Kids in the community of Kya Sands. The aim is to provide at least a hot meal cooked with love for the Kids. We are currently feeding about 50 children four times a month. We hope to provide these meals every day once we have the financial means.
We have found these programs so beneficial to the kids as some of them stay on the streets almost the whole day, either because the parent has gone away and locked the doors or because the houses are too small for the kids to play inside during the day. All of these homes are one-room shack, that serves as a kitchen, bedroom and bathroom. The space is just too small.

CHARITY SHOP

Clothes are one of the things that we provide across all our programs depending on the needs of individuals, we relieve loads of clothes donations and shoes, blankets, etc from schools, Churches, and individual, and upon arrival, we distribute to those in need. The idea with the charity shop where people come and shop for free is to make it in a more dignified way, clothes will be nicely packed and hung in the shop and people will be allowed to come and shop for free.
These are the only people who are part of the program m, From Men to Kids, this is to maintain order and accountability.

Though the clothes will be free, we will be using a point system, we want everyone to earn points by doing good to others in their daily life. for example: attending the bible study, helping your neighbour, and giving to those in more need than themselves.
1 point is equal to R10. they will accumulate these points to a certain amount, when they are really to redeem the point, we give them a voucher to go to the shop to use their points. this way we encourage them to look out for each other in their everyday life and to earn clothes not just to be handed down to them without effort.

  • Clothes
  • Blankets
  • Shoes

RESOURCE CENTRE

Running a resources center has been one of our biggest dreams and we are so excited that it is now u and running, We have a Library and a Computer lab for the kids in the community.

Kya Sands informal settlement is a poor community, with about 90% unemployment rate, Children in the community attend public schools around the area. Therefore, parents cannot afford to provide study resources, Research resources, and reading resources for their children.
One household has about 5 to 6 family members, this includes siblings and a parent, sometimes you get both parents in the house which is very rare. Most kids are raised by single mothers.

  • It will give literacy students books to practice reading
  • The center will help students do better in school and life.
  • The center will bring new information and knowledge to the community.
  • It will be a quiet and safe place for studying, Reading, and research.
  1. Desktop computers (with monitors)
  2. Educational books
  3. Storybooks
  4. Children’s books
  5. Bookshelves
  6. Internet
  7. Library cards
  8. Information charts for book genres and sections
  9. Newspaper shelves
  10. Chairs
  11. Computer desks
  12. Office chairs for the library committee

COMMUNITY GARDEN

Get in touch with us and ask us what our most urgent needs at the time are

Gardening is another form of developing the community development.At the moment we have a garden at our center that porovides greens ( Morogo ) for the Kids at the ECD and some members of the community. The main goal is to start planting garden in the homes of the members of the community in tires.

We are going to use tires because there’s not much space in their homes therefore tires don’t take much space.
We believe this will provide healthy meals for families and no child will go to bed hungry. We are going to plant, spinach , Tomatoes,Carrots , Anions, green peppers, potatoes, and betroot.
We offer them training on how to maintain the garden and we continuously check on them during our home visits to check the progress of the garden and offer assistance.

  • Seeds or Seedlings
  • Fertilizers
  • Gardening tools
  • Watering Cans and pipes
  • Financial donations
  • Sponsor a child at school
  • Sponsor a teacher
  • Clothing Donations
  • Food Donations
  • Stationary
  • Vegetable seed Donations
  • Fertilizer Donation
  • Volunteer your time