Breadline Africa

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Breadline Africa was established in Cape Town in 1993 and registered as a non-profit organisation in South Africa. It is also registered as a charity in the UK. Breadline Africa recognised that a great deal of grassroots development had to take place as a part of the nation-building process, and that government structures would not be in a position to provide all of the resources to facilitate this process.

Breadline Africa provides infrastructure projects that benefit early childhood development (ECD – providing educational support to children between the ages of one and six years), and children and youth in literacy. Today, Breadline Africa is one of the biggest suppliers of converted shipping containers for poverty relief in South Africa and has delivered more than 320 containers to poverty-stricken communities across the country.

This focus is clustered into three main areas – Early Childhood Development (ECD), libraries and a range of similar container projects to uplift communities. In addition, Breadline Africa also provides initiatives (such as seaside outings, feeding programmes and school stationery support) to uplift the lives of young children – to open imagination and enable futures.