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Some of the awards we have received
● Community Service Award Certificate in 2011 awarded by Latter Days Saints Church
● In 2010 nominated Jet Community Award under ‘We Care’ category
● In 2011 We received L.Ron Hubbard Award People of Goodwill Commendation
● 2017 Ingrid Maredi nominated Vita Basadi Community Builder of the Year Award by Gauteng Legislature
● 2022 Ingrid Maredi ( founder) was awarded Community Builder of the Year by BMF City of Joburg
About Us
Who Are We?
Ratang-Bana, which means love Children in Tswana, is a non-profit organization founded by Ingrid Moloi in 2009. Ratang Bana addresses deep-seated issues that maim the Alexandra township, with a focus on supporting vulnerable children i.e., children living with HIV, child-headed households, children without food, households without food, and children displaced from their homes. The organization since its inception has reached over 10,000 children through various programs offered and has received numerous awards for community work and results achieved. As our main focus being Orphaned, Vulnerable Children (OVC) we are guided by the Children’s Act number 38 of 2005, which makes provision for the right of children to care, the dignity and worth of the child and other psychosocial need of the children. Ratang Bana gives people of Alexandra a chance to upward mobility by providing food in form of food parcels to needy families and children. The children’s act also acknowledges the involvement and responsibility of family in children’s lives and upbringing by advocating stance for family preservation, thus integrating family involvement were possible is pivotal to our success.
Features
What we do to achieve our vision
Education and Training
• Provide education on substance abuse, sex education and HIV Prevention to children
• Empowering the family members to better enable them to provide care and support
• Negotiating exemptions on school fees with principals; fund raising for school fees, uniforms and
books
• Programmes:
- lets talk programme: facilitates conversations between guardians( parents, grandparents, teaches,
etc)
- 2998 children support in 2023 with an aim to reach 10 000 n 2025
- Chomi programme : education outreach at schools for children aged 10 to 14 years
- 4000 children in 2023 , target is to reach 15000 by 2025
- Partners : HIVSA, Alexandre based schools, private sponsors and doners
- Industrial development corporation programme: Develops skillsets that enable employment for the
unemployed youth
- 56 staff members
- Choma programme: Choma is online platform accessed via cellphones for girls and young
women where they can talk about beauty, entertainment, love, health, including sexual
reproductive health. Choma is someone you can trust and confident in, Choma is supportive
and gives you coaching on career guidance, love,sexual education, life health and education.
- Children aged 10 – 18 years
- Partners : Charlize Theron , private sponsors, HIVSA
Prevention of HIV/AIDS
• Social workers and community caregivers allocated to children living with HIV /
AIDS.
• We Provide access to testing, ARVs and counseling, as well as 24-hour support.
• Educate children on living with HIV/preventing HIV infections
Programmes:
• Prevention of HIV among vulnerable programme
• Children supported 3172 children in 2023. Plan to help 10,000 Children by 2025
• Children supported aged 0 years to 17 years
• 34 employees dedicated to the program
• Partners: HIVSA, private sponsors
Social workers and care giving services
• Providing phycosocial support, educational support and health support
• Home and school visits for care, support and check the OVC environment
• Referrals for counseling, Social Security e.g. foster care grants, child support grants and
disability grants
• Providing bereavement counseling and spiritual upliftment
• Progammes:
- Orphans and vulnerable children programme:
Supports 500 children in 2023, aim is to get to 5000 by 2025
Feeding scheme and food parcels
• Food Garden
• Distribution of food parcels to vulnerable households
• Grannies,children, unemployed, people living with HIV/AIDS attended
food gardening training through Dep. of Agriculture.
• Beneficiaries are working at the garden through shifts and they rotate.
• Food preparation and meals for children (after care service)
• Distributing milk and nappies to babies in crisis
• Programme
- Food parcel distribution
- 250 parcels distributed monthly aim is to support 2000 household monthly by
2025
- Garden centre supported by
What we do
Programmes Results
Over the past years we have managed to help and assist a number of children and adults positively within our community.
Meet
Our Management Team
Ingrid (Moloi) Maredi
Calvin Baloyi
Lizzy Mthembu
Idah Pilusha
Idah Rambau
Patience Manxeba
Emmanuel Chindane
Joy Manaka
Matome Mangena
Contact Detail
- Ratang Bana, Cnr Rooseveldt & East Bank Avenue, Alexandra 2090
- info@ratangbana.org
- +27 76 356 2272
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