From the Heart of the Karoo
Five Loaves Two Fish is a registered charity (204-694 NPO) that seeks to promote education, recycling and spekboom planting in South Africa. We are based in the little Karoo town of Klipplaat, about 2 hours drive inland from Port Elizabeth, in the Eastern Cape. Here, many people are very poor, under-educated and unemployed. Many adults cannot read. This is where our project began.
Over the years we have developed our own materials, and would like to make them available online so that ordinary people can get out there and start teaching others. Our materials make it easy to make a difference to someone who cannot read.
Throughout the country there is a desperate need for remedial teachers who can help children learn to read. People can do this either by paying others to teach, or they can volunteer their time, and go to a school and help children themselves. Contact us if you would like ideas about how to get started.
We encourage people to make donations to Five Loaves Two Fish, as we need money to pay our remedial teachers and to pay the study fees of the student teachers we support. We are a registered Non-Profit Organisation, with registration number 204-694 NPO.
We raise funds to pay three remedial teachers at the local primary school, where many children need help with learning to read. Five Loaves Two Fish also supports several Klipplaat teachers-in-training who are studying by correspondence.
The Klipplaat and Aberdeen Recycling Project was borne out of a deep desire to help the community by providing a facility that would collect materials that were eligible for recycling and compensate those that collected and brought these materials in.
We are raising funds to plant up to 2000 spekboom trees on the farm Swartrivierdrift in the Klipplaat district to create lasting greenery absorbing carbon for our community. We will fence this camp off for 5 —7 years to keep out all game and allow the spekboom to root and establish.
