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Let's SAVE AMOYO.

WHY does Amoyo need saving?

Amoyo was founded three years ago and forged ahead with making a big impact in the Imizamo Yethu Township, Hout Bay, South Africa from day 1.  Forward three years, funding has always been scarce and under resourced but with an abundance of children needing the support, the sheer talent and determination, the increase in school attendance, academic results, the decrease in poor behaviour and teenage pregnancies, the option to QUIT just wasn't an option for myself, CEO Kim Worrall and my co-founders Mandisa Qwesha and Nandipha Sandlana.

Sadly Amoyo has had two major donor let downs. The most recent donor had pledged to oversee the R80000 minimum monthly budget required to keep the current programme running and less than 5 days ago again confirmed that funds would be transferred on friday 26th April 2018.  The funds were not transferred and the donor, a business man who approached Amoyo after seeing a recent performance has disappeared.  

Having just received a Ministerial Award for Excellence along with our first Grant-In-Aid Funding for dance wear and dance shoes Amoyo is now going global with the plea to help keep the doors open.

R80,000 per month will allow us to maintain our 32 class a week after school programme providing classes to our current 175 attendees in a programme comprising of

• Ballet
• African dance
• Contemporary
• Speech & Drama
• Singing / Musical Theatre
• Pantsula/Gum Boot dancing
• Djembe Drumming
• Mindset & Steps to Success 

1 child costs R400 a month and attends 4- 6 classes a week (depending on age group) This will include an afternoon snack for each child and home counselling support if needed.

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SAVING AMOYO means

• keeping the dreams of dance, acting and singing classes a reality for our children currently registered.
• keeping upto 200 township children engaged and safe after school
• keeping upto 200 township children motivated to make good choices
• keeping these 200 children away from gangs, drug dealers and sexual predators
• monitoring the happiness, development and welfare of these 175 children
• being able to intervene quickly if the welfare of a child seems compromised
• keeping our team, several whom hail from the same community, employed
• keeping our children trained to the calibre required for tertiary performing arts bursaries available
• giving our chlldren the opportunity to travel to different areas of Cape Town, South Africa, the world (!!!) to perform
• Keeping our children educated on sexual and reproductive health, the rights of a child, HIV/Aids & STD education, drug, alcohol, emotional & sexual abuse.
• giving more children the hope and skills to rise out of poverty into a life of success.

A few words from Kim Worrall.

The world is changing, for a while IT took over the face of communication, to the detriment of human interaction, together with 'war in every society' and 'the blame game' that depowers people to victim status.  In my own efforts to build a life of success, through my work as an entrepreneur, as a volunteer in the struggling communities in Hout Bay and Cape Town and being in the corporate sector coaching voice, speech, confidence & the power of effective communication I started recognising patterns emerge of "emotional neglect' stemming back to childhood over and over again.

Developing the emotional intelligence of communication in young to old, rich to poor, uncovered time and time again that most people weren't getting 'encouragement, motivation, words of interest and support' in childhood.  The blocks and fears and self-limiting behaviour was predominantly rooted in self-esteem, self-worth and lacking simple success value systems.  The tranformation I witness through the process of unveiling "you don't know what you don't know" thoughts and developing new skills is literally life changing from one minute to the next.

Amoyo is there to provide this life changing coaching alongside phenomenal performing arts classes to as many youth and their families as possible - to instil new thought and behaviour patterns and to tell them over and over again "You are worth it, we believe in you, you can do it".   It really is as simple as that - a simple reality that should exist in every family but doesn't.  

This is why we are the #Amoyofamily and need to stay open.

Amoyo changes lives.

Yours in gratitude

Kim

 

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