East Rand Child Welfare

While the support of children in impoverished circumstances is both a community and government responsibility. I have seen that the minimal government financial support for NGO's delivering the governments statutory services to children in need falls well short of the needs of our local community. The inconsistent and unreliable funding through the Lotto, may from time to time enable such NGO's to establish, repair or replace essential equipment/facilities needed to deliver governments statutory services but cannot be relied on for ongoing operational funding. As such, NGO's have to either limit the numbers of children they provide services to or find another way to fund the services to the level the community needs. I signed this petition in the hope that greater awareness can be created of the plight of NGO's and some thing can be done to assist them in either securing more government funding or providing a mechanism, other than the Lotto, to raise the money they need on a more sustainable basis.